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Maksurov, Aleksey. Current problems of judicial law. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2052439.

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The monograph examines the main directions of judicial and legal progress in the judicial system of the Russian Federation. The most significant ways to achieve greater judicial and legal progress from the point of view of the norms of substantive and procedural law are highlighted. The author's understanding of the possibilities of judicial instances to create legal norms, the limits and limitations associated with judicial law-making, specific forms of creating legal norms by courts of all levels are presented. The advantages and disadvantages of jury trial in Russian judicial law are noted,

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O'Hara, Alexander. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190858001.003.0001.

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This chapter introduces this book’s main issues and questions. How were hagiographic texts used in the discourse of creating or recreating monastic identities? Was there a change in the social function of monasteries, and how did this come about? What was innovative about Jonas’s Vita Columbani, and how did he seek to establish new concepts of sanctity based on the community rather than on the individual holy man? It broaches these questions while framing the principal characters and subjects of the book—the life and works of Jonas of Bobbio, Columbanus, and the Columbanian monastic network—wi

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Gibbons, William. Playing Chopin. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190265250.003.0010.

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This chapter explores two video games that feature the nineteenth-century pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin as the main character: the Japanese role-playing game Eternal Sonata and the mobile game Frederic: Resurrection of Music. The chapter begins by examining three mythic identities that have shaped audience’s understandings of Chopin and his music and that play a role in Eternal Sonata and Frederic: the salon composer, the Romantic composer, and the Slavic composer. To address the challenges of creating a compelling video game narrative about a real-world composer, both games employ inno

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Ferguson, Sam. Paludes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814535.003.0003.

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Gide’s experimentation with diary-writing continues in Paludes. Like Les Cahiers d’André Walter, it is the diary (journal intime) of a character writing a novel (in this case also entitled ‘Paludes’, creating a structure of mise en abyme). The work’s exploration of diary-writing depends on a dizzying, comical instability in the text’s structure: first, the status of the main narrative (as a diary or some other sort of narrative) is never resolved; secondly, the relation between the main narrative and the narrator’s own literary creation (‘Paludes’) remains unclear. Paludes continues some of th

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Eaton, Alice Knox, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, and Shirley A. Stave, eds. New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496828873.001.0001.

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American Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s 11<sup>th</sup> novel, God Help the Child, released in 2015, set in contemporary times, explores the relationship between a financially successful, beautiful young Black woman with a haunted past and an intelligent disaffected young Black man who is equally alienated from his past. This collection of essays, edited by Morrison scholars Alice Knox Eaton, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, and Shirley A. Stave, and including essays by well-known Morrison critics Evelyn Schreiber, Mar Gallego, Susana Vega, Anissa Wardi, and Justine Tally, explores the novel’s themes

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Fox, Alistair. A Gay Boy Comes to Terms with his Sexuality: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (Stewart Main, 2005). Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429443.003.0014.

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This chapter discusses Stewart Main’s 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous as the first, and to date only, New Zealand fiction feature made for theatrical release that deals with the adolescent experience of a boy who comes to understand that he is gay. Comparing the film with the source novel by Graeme Aitken, the analysis focuses on the gender inversions of the two main characters, the boy protagonist Billy, and his girl cousin Lou, each of who adopt fantasy identities as a character of the opposite sex in the TV show Lost in Space. The discussion also foregrounds both the romanticizing of the hyperma

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Scott, Walter. The Antiquary. Edited by Nicola Watson. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199555710.001.0001.

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‘It was early in a fine summer’s day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to go towards the north-east of Scotland, provided himself with a ticket in one of those public carriages which travel between Edinburgh and the Queensferry...’ So begins Scott’s personal favourite among his novels, in characteristically wry and urbane style, as a mysterious young man calling himself ‘Lovel’ travels idly but fatefully toward the Scottish seaside town of Fairport. Here he is befriended by the antiquary Jonathan Oldbuck, who has taken refuge from

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Ball, Blake Scott. Charlie Brown's America. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190090463.001.0001.

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Charles Schulz’s Peanuts was an unexpectedly political comic strip. While many people have come to identify Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, and Snoopy with childhood and innocence, Peanuts regularly commented on the politics and social turmoil of Cold War America. From nuclear testing to the civil rights movement, from the Vietnam War to the feminist revolution, Peanuts was an unlikely medium for Americans of all stripes to debate the hopes and fears of the era. Charlie Brown’s America is the story of how the creation of one Midwestern man became one of the most influential pop-c

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Spiegel, Maura, and Danielle Spencer. Accounts of Self: Exploring Relationality Through Literature. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199360192.003.0002.

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Literature offers the opportunity to study relationality in many different forms and contexts. This chapter discusses relationality in creative works—Colm Toíbín’s “One Minus One”, Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go—in combination with selected criticism and theory, exemplifying one approach to the narrative medicine classroom. In these texts characters offer an account of self in contrasting ways—from the vexed, distrustful address of Dostoevsky’s Underground Man to the richly inviting tapestry of Bechdel’s graphic memoir—provo

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Cynthia, Cravens, ed. Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666989977.

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Through a critical discussion of an array of written and visual texts that feature a writer as a main character, Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture argues for a more nuanced conception of the role of writers in society, their relationships with their reading publics, the portrayals and realities of their labor, and the construction of a “writing” identity. Expounding upon the critical genre of authorship studies, the contributors take on complex issues such as economics, professionalization, gender politics, and writing pedagogy to shape the dia

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Gilmore, James N., and Matthias Stork. Superhero Synergies. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881818685.

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In the age of digital media, superheroes are no longer confined to comic books and graphic novels. Their stories are now featured in films, video games, digital comics, television programs, and more. In a single year alone, films featuring Batman, Spider-Man, and the Avengers have appeared on the big screen. Popular media no longer exists in isolation, but converges into complex multidimensional entities. As a result, traditional ideas about the relationship between varying media have come under striking revision. Although this convergence is apparent in many genres, perhaps nowhere is it more

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Schweik, Susan. Porgy and Dubose. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190458997.003.0015.

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This chapter explores Dubose Heyward’s route toward the creation of his famous character Porgy, in his novel of the same name and in his work with the Gershwins in its musical stage adaptation, “Porgy and Bess.” By recasting his own experiences into those of Porgy’s—writing disability in blackface—offered Heyward created a safe space for exploring the social dynamics of crippling abjection precisely because it also provided a compelling way to affirm disabled masculinity. By focusing on Heyward’s earlier, unpublished writing, this chapter argues that later adaptations abandoned the structures

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Green, Chris E. W., and Steven Félix-Jäger, eds. Spirit and the Screen. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978718371.

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The Spirit and the Screen engages contemporary films from the perspective of pneumatology to give theologies of culture fruitful new perspectives that begin with the Spirit rather than other common theological contact points (Christology, anthropology, theological ethics, creation, eschatology, etc.). This book explores pertinent pneumatological issues that arise in film, as well as literary devices that draw allusions to the Spirit. It offers three main contributions: first, it explores how Christian understandings of the person and work of the Spirit illuminate the nature of film and film-ma

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Feinberg, Melanie. Everyday Adventures with Unruly Data. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14198.001.0001.

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Paired informal and scholarly essays show how everyday events reveal fundamental concepts of data, including its creation, aggregation, management, and use. Whether questioning numbers on a scale, laughing at a misspelling of one's name, or finding ourselves confused in a foreign supermarket, we are engaging with data. The only way to handle data responsibly, says Melanie Feinberg in this incisive work, is to take into account its human character. Though the data she discusses may seem familiar, close scrutiny shows it to be ambiguous, complicated, and uncertain: unruly. Drawing on the tools o

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Friedlander, Jennifer. Melancholia and the Real of the Illusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190676124.003.0009.

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This chapter explores Lars von Trier’s 2012 film, Melancholia, which tells the story of a profoundly depressed woman on the brink of the apocalypse. The film ends with its main characters huddled in terror as Earth is destroyed via a collision with rogue planet, Melancholia. It examines the film in terms of von Trier’s surprising statement that Melancholia contains the “happiest ending he’s ever made” and Slavoj Žižek’s declaration of Melancholia as a “profoundly optimistic” film. This chapter makes sense of these comments by arguing that the film offers insight into ways of living ethically i

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Clarke, Katherine. Depth and Resonance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820437.003.0004.

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In this chapter Herodotus’ world is explored as a resonant landscape in three main ways. First, through the human emotions of admiration and wonder generated by Herodotus both in his authorial voice and through characters in the narrative in response to both natural and man-made marvels. Here the multiple focalizations bring complexity through their range of responses. Secondly, depth is brought by the dimension of time, as mythological associations of the landscape are revealed, particularly by the progress of the Persian army through locations famous from myth and epic. Finally, additional r

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Hobbs, Priscilla. Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666995602.

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The publication of the Harry Potter series in the United States coincided with the coming-of-age of its main target audience, the millennial generation. Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials: Identity, Reception, and Politics takes an interdisciplinary view of Harry Potter, as a series and a phenomenon, to uncover how the appeal of Harry became a lifestyle, a moral compass, and a guiding light in an era fraught with turbulence and disharmony. As a new phenomenon at the time, Harry Potter provided comfort through the heroism of the main characters, showing that perseverance and “constant vig

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Cronin, Bruce. Treaty Law: New Trends. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.355.

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Treaties are agreements between sovereign states, and occasionally between states and international organizations. Treaties can include conventions, covenants, charters, and statutes, all of which are legally binding under international law. There are two main types of treaties: bilateral and multilateral. Bilateral agreements are concluded by a limited number of states (usually two), and typically address a narrow set of issues that are unique to specific parties and particular circumstances. Multilateral treaties, on the other hand, establish generalized principles of conduct that apply to a

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Arrhenius, Gustaf, Krister Bykvist, Tim Campbell, and Elizabeth Finneron-Burns, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190907686.001.0001.

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This handbook presents up-to-date theoretical analyses of problems associated with the moral standing of future people in current decision-making. Future people pose an especially hard problem for our current decision-making, since their number and their identities are not fixed but depend on the choices the present generation makes. Do we make the world better by creating more people with good lives? What do we owe future generations in terms of justice? Such questions are not only philosophically difficult and important, but also directly relevant to many practical decisions and policy issue

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Arrhenius, Gustaf, Krister Bykvist, Tim Campbell, and Elizabeth Finneron-Burns, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190907686.001.0001.

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This handbook presents up-to-date theoretical analyses of problems associated with the moral standing of future people in current decision-making. Future people pose an especially hard problem for our current decision-making, since their number and their identities are not fixed but depend on the choices the present generation makes. Do we make the world better by creating more people with good lives? What do we owe future generations in terms of justice? Such questions are not only philosophically difficult and important, but also directly relevant to many practical decisions and policy issue

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Friedrich, Alexander, Petra Gehring, Christoph Hubig, Andreas Kaminski, and Alfred Nordmann, eds. Steuern und Regeln. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845296548.

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In the traditional philosophy of technology, the two main modus operandi found in conventional technology are categorised and described under the terms ‘control’ and ‘regulation’ as a way of differentiating between them. This occurs for two reasons: on the one hand, in order to specify the difference between the forms of technology that have been developed by since the Neolithic revolution and the ‘accidental’ technology (as discussed by Ortega y Gasset) of higher species or prehistoric man, and on the other to reveal the relationship between technology and (natural) science more precisely. In

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Cadden, Mike. At Arm's Length. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496834584.001.0001.

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At Arm’s Length is a study of the ways that authors manipulate character in children’s and young adult literature in order to create more or less sympathy in the reader. Authors can push character representation and development into several directions: characters can be pushed along a continuum between the sympathetic and the awe-inspiring; characters can be pushed between the sympathetic and pitiful or the ridiculous; last, characters can also be pushed between the awe-inspiring and the pitiful. Authors manipulate character in order to elicit a change in emotional response from the reader tow

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Duncan, Randy, and Matthew Smith, eds. Icons of the American Comic Book. Greenwood, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400668043.

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This book explores how the heroes and villains of popular comic books—and the creators of these icons of our culture—reflect the American experience out of which they sprang, and how they have achieved relevance by adapting to, and perhaps influencing, the evolving American character. Multiple generations have thrilled to the exploits of the heroes and villains of American comic books. These imaginary characters permeate our culture—even Americans who have never read a comic book grasp what the most well-known examples represent. But these comic book characters, and their creators, do more tha

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Soghomonyan, Amalya. Historical and Real Time in the Novels of Khaled Hosseini. YSU press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/ysuph/9785808426382.

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The book features novels by contemporary Afghan-American novelist Khaled Hosseini. The main goal of the work is to show the significance of Hosseini’s literary heritage in the context of emigrant literature. The work includes the author’s novels “The Kite Runner”, “And the Mountains Echoed,” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns”. The monograph can be useful both to literary scholars and a wide range of readers. Khaled Hosseini manages to use his talent and create three heartbreaking novels at once. Hosseini's novels are as beautiful as they are tragic. They are, of course, sentimental, but the reader

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Stoecklein, Mary. Native American Mystery Writing. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978724556.

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Though mystery, crime, and detective fiction are some of the most popular genres in the world, little scholarship currently exists regarding Native American writers and how they add new dimensions to this widely read literary form. Rather, the majority of scholarship examines the depiction of Native characters from the perspective of non-Native authors. Native American Mystery Writing: Indigenous Investigations analyzes how Native authors use the genre to foreground centuries of settler-colonial crimes and comment upon the ways in which these acts continue to impact Native individuals and comm

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Bouët, Antoine, Sunday Pierre Odjo, and Chahir Zaki, eds. 2022 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM). AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54067/9781737916437.

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Agricultural trade and global food security have been dramatically affected by a series of events. While the global economy is recovering in 2022 from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked new and challenging problems. In a context where agricultural prices were recovering from a generalized surge throughout the pandemic, the war reversed these trends and opened an new episode of rising food prices, general inflationary pressures, and increased volatility. The combination of these shocks affects agricultural trade and food security throughout Africa, especially in

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Crespo Miguel, Mario. Automatic corpus-based translation of a spanish framenet medical glossary. 2020th ed. Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/9788447230051.

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Computational linguistics is the scientific study of language from a computational perspective. It aims is to provide computational models of natural language processing (NLP) and incorporate them into practical applications such as speech synthesis, speech recognition, automatic translation and many others where automatic processing of language is required. The use of good linguistic resources is crucial for the development of computational linguistics systems. Real world applications need resources which systematize the way linguistic information is structured in a certain language. There is

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Balyshev, Marat. Astronomical research in Kharkiv at the end of the 19th century – the first half of the 20th century. “Naukova Dumka”, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/978-966-00-1863-1.

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The main milestones of the formation and development of astronomical science in Kharkiv during 1883–1945 are reconstructed on the example of the activities of the astronomical observatory of Kharkiv University. During this period, the outstanding worldview science in Kharkiv has achieved significant success: the works of Kharkiv astronomers have received world recognition; a well-known scientific planetary school has been established at the Observatory; the scientific community highly appreciated the research on the physics and chemistry of the Moon, the giant and small planets of the Solar Sy

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Johansen, Bruce, and Adebowale Akande, eds. Nationalism: Past as Prologue. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52305/aief3847.

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Nationalism: Past as Prologue began as a single volume being compiled by Ad Akande, a scholar from South Africa, who proposed it to me as co-author about two years ago. The original idea was to examine how the damaging roots of nationalism have been corroding political systems around the world, and creating dangerous obstacles for necessary international cooperation. Since I (Bruce E. Johansen) has written profusely about climate change (global warming, a.k.a. infrared forcing), I suggested a concerted effort in that direction. This is a worldwide existential threat that affects every living t

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