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Obuhova, Galina, and Galina Klimova. Fundamentals of public communication skills: practical recommendations. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1090527.
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The textbook discusses the methodological foundations of the preparation and presentation of public speeches in various fields of activity, including business. The factors influencing the skill of the speaker are considered. Recommendations are given on the technique of conducting various types of public speeches and practical techniques of audience ownership are shown. Special attention is paid to the methods of establishing contact between the speaker and the audience and the psychological influence of the speaker on the audience. Practical recommendations and exercises for improving the speaker's speech technique are presented. Special attention is paid to the ways of correcting speech defects.
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It is intended for teachers, lecturers of the educational system, students and postgraduates, managers, lawyers, as well as for managers of various levels who are aware of the importance of verbal communication in their professional field. It can also be useful for a wide range of readers.
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United States. General Accounting Office. Accounting and Information Management Division. Congressional Award Foundation: Continuing attention needed to improve internal controls. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1998.
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Division, United States General Accounting Office Accounting and Information Management. Congressional Award Foundation: Continuing attention needed to improve internal controls. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1998.
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Kortazar, Jon. De la periferia al centro: nuevas escritoras vascas. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-594-0.
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Between late 2018 and early 2020, in a short period of time, two events converged in the Basque literary system, that brought women writers from the periphery to the centre. Firstly, the Euskadi Award of Literature, the most renowned award of the Basque literary system, drew attention to the work of women writers. In 2018, Eider Rodríguez (1977) won the award with her book of short stories Bihotz handiegia. In 2019, Irati Elorrieta (1979) was the winner with her novel Neguko argiak / Luces de invierno. Moreover, the 2020 Award went for Karmele Jaio (1970) and her novel Aitaren etxea. At the same time the aforementioned process was happening, a phenomenon of globalisation and translation of those works, and other works by women writers, was taking place. The translation into Spanish of those works was well received by readers and the book reviewers in magazines and newspapers. Katixa Agirre (1981) published in Spanish her work Las madres in 2019, and has been very well received, with the publication of five editions. In the same year Un corazón demasiado grande by Eider Rodriguez was published, which included a perspective on her work, and in 2020 La casa del padre by Karmele Jaio was brought to light. In addition, children’s poetry by Leire Bilbao won the Award of the Booksellers Association. This volume, conceived and written in 2020, analyses the narrative and sociological keys of the works of the four aforementioned writers. We have added an investigation on the work of Maixa Zugasti L. A. A., because of the treatment of gender violence, and two interviews with Eider Rodriguez and Karmele Jaio that give an inside view into their work.
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Ganeri, Jonardon. Narrative Attention. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198757405.003.0012.
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This chapter argues that attention is that in virtue of which one does not merely live in the present, but is also aware of the past and is situated in a social world with others. So a basic kind of attention is past-directed and autonoetic: it is placed on past events whose properties are retrieved in an act of simulated reliving. In episodic memory, the reliving of experience from one’s personal past, one attends to the past in a particular way but there is no reduction of the phenomenology of temporal experience to the representation of oneself as in the past.
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Ganeri, Jonardon. Attention, Not Self. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198757405.001.0001.
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Attention is of fundamental importance in the philosophy of mind, in epistemology, in action theory, and in ethics. This book presents an account in which attention, not self, explains the experiential and normative situatedness of human beings in the world. Attention consists in an organization of awareness and action at the centre of which there is neither a practical will nor a phenomenological witness. Attention performs two roles in experience, a selective role of placing and a focal role of access. Attention improves our epistemic standing, because it is in the nature of attention to settle on what is real and to shun what is not real. When attention is informed by expertise, it is sufficient for knowledge. That gives attention a reach beyond the perceptual: for attention is a determinable whose determinates include the episodic memory from which our narrative identities are made, the empathy for others that situates us in a social world, and the introspection that makes us self-aware. Empathy is other-directed attention, placed on you and focused on your states of mind; it is akin to listening. Empathetic attention is central to a range of experiences that constitutively require a contrast between oneself and others, all of which involve an awareness of oneself as the object of another’s attention. An analysis of attention as mental action gainsays authorial conceptions of self, because it is the nature of intending itself, effortful attention in action, to settle on what to do and to shun what not to do.
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Cullen, John. Alert, Aware, Attentive: Advent Reflections. Messenger Publications, 2020.
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Geo. R. & G. M. Tremaine (Firm), ed. [Letter]: We beg respectfully to call your attention to the annexed prospectus, you are probably aware of our having been engaged ... in surveying the various counties in the western province for the descriptive maps ... [Toronto?: s.n., 1986.
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Osterhammel, Jürgen. World History. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199225996.003.0006.
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This chapter examines different approaches to global history. Modern world history differs from older universal-historical constructions in that it presupposes an empirical idea of geography and of both the unity and plurality of humanity’s historical experience. After the Second World War, historians paid more attention to the interaction of the nation-state (the local) and the world (the global). The newer global history, while it does not negate the nation-state, strives to understand the reasons for the success of the West, without however reverting to a Eurocentric and essentializing perspective. Aware of the constructedness of history, it nonetheless pays attention to agency in the past, and to the plurality of perspectives and divergent historical paths. It does so by focusing on topics such as the history of migration, the environment, and economic globalization.
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Hackett, Rosalind I. J. Sound. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198729570.013.22.
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Sounding or listening practices are central to most forms of religious activity, and in some traditions particular spirits or deities, even the universe itself, may be associated with particular sounds. The chapter explores the significance and potential of a sound-based approach to the study of religion using the themes of voice, ritual instruments, and spatiality. Such an approach is timely given the growing attention to the phenomenon of sound, noise, and silence in a range of academic disciplines from ethnomusicology to ecology, and physics to phenomenology. A more sonically aware religious studies provides new analytical insights into forms of religious mediation, expression, and communication, notably in those cultures that do not privilege visuality. Moreover, new forms of technological mediation that have transformed the capacity to amplify, record, transmit, modify, and repurpose religiously or spiritually significant sounds call for our scholarly attention.
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Sharf, Robert H. Is Mindfulness Buddhist? (And Why It Matters). Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190495794.003.0010.
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Modern exponents of mindfulness meditation promote the therapeutic effects of “bare attention”—a sort of non-judgmental, non-discursive attending to the moment-to-moment flow of consciousness. This approach is arguably at odds with more traditional Theravāda Buddhist doctrine and meditative practice, but the cultivation of present-centered awareness is not without precedent in Buddhist history; similar innovations arose in medieval Chinese Zen (Chan) and Tibetan Dzogchen. These movements have several things in common. In each case the reforms were, in part, attempts to render Buddhist practice and insight accessible to laypeople unfamiliar with Buddhist philosophy and/or unwilling to adopt a renunciatory lifestyle. They also promised quick results. And finally, the innovations were met with suspicion and criticism from traditional Buddhist quarters. Those interested in the therapeutic effects of mindfulness and bare attention are often not aware of the existence, much less the content, of the controversies surrounding these practices in Asian Buddhist history.
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Congressional Award Foundation: Continuing attention needed to improve internal controls. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1998.
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Cowey, Alan. TMS and visual awareness. Edited by Charles M. Epstein, Eric M. Wassermann, and Ulf Ziemann. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198568926.013.0027.
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This article describes the ways in which transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can be a means of studying consciousness by interfering with the physical occurrences of the brain. The focus of this article is aspects of consciousness, i.e. being aware or unaware, and their cerebral basis. TMS has been used to demonstrate regional cortical functional specialization. The reasons for the effects caused by TMS are still not fully known. Further work must be done in order to address this problem. TMS can briefly impose (or disrupt) rhythmic discharge in the underlying cortex and some of these rhythms are thought to be important for selective attention and awareness. TMS can disrupt activity in underlying brain tissue with millisecond precision but thus far it is usually used in isolation. When combined with event-related potentials and functional magnetic resonance imaging its usefulness will expand.
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Hyers, Lauri L. Putting it All Together. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190256692.003.0005.
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This chapter discusses the planning and management of a diary study, evaluating a diary study, strengths and weaknesses, and ethical considerations. In order to develop a successful qualitative diary study, researchers will need to (1) have a solid plan for project management, (2) be aware of potential methodological strengths and weaknesses, and (3) pay attention to the special ethical considerations in doing qualitative diary research. The researcher will be invited to review the entire process of a diary study, from the pre-data-collection phase to the post-data collection phase. Next the criteria for evaluating a diary study will be discussed, making connections to the general evaluative criteria applied to qualitative research in general. Special evaluation criteria and ethical considerations will be discussed with regard to the very unique methodological features of qualitative research conducted with diaries.
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Horsfall, Tony. Attentive to God: Being Aware of God's Presence in Daily Life. Graceworks, 2019.
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Brown, Andrew, Christopher T. Flinton, Josh Gibson, Brian Grant, Barrie Greiff, Duane Hagen, Stephen Heidel, et al. Know Your Blind Spots. Edited by Andrew Brown, Christopher T. Flinton, Josh Gibson, Brian Grant, Barrie Greiff, Duane Hagen, Stephen Heidel, et al. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190697068.003.0009.
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This chapter focuses on blind spots, the qualities and behaviors that a manager brings to the workplace of which he or she is not aware. Three case studies are presented of managers who have both strengths and maladaptive work behaviors. Discussion follows about the potential impact of these blind spots before they are brought to the manager’s consciousness. Blind spots change over time, so managing them requires constant attention. Common interpersonal and workplace blind spots include those involved in the psychological contract around the themes of interpersonal predictability, psychological distance, dependency, change, and danger. Useful tools are presented, including the development of introspection, a personal perspective, and a work culture conducive to input from colleagues. While finding blind spots requires personal effort, courage, and determination, doing this psychological work will diminish their potentially destructive impact, will enhance the manager’s overall effectiveness, and will improve the workplace environment.
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Sinnamon, Jennifer. Palestinian Christmas Songs for Peace and Justice in Sacred Place and Politicized Space. Edited by Jonathan Dueck and Suzel Ana Reily. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859993.013.24.
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This chapter describes ways Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem use Christmas music to highlight the contrast between the former peaceful “little town” in the carol and the current situation of its population under Israeli occupation. An annual Christmas event is staged as a protest, but promotes nonviolent resistance to occupying forces. Organizers provide an opportunity for the expression of shared feelings of belonging and loss among local Palestinians, but are keenly aware that such emotivity can generate conflict and aggression. For this reason, the music at the festival is performed rather than participatory, and features lyrics celebrating nonviolence and peace, promoted as both Christian and universal moral values, alongside allusions to lost territories and the restrictions imposed by Israeli authorities. By drawing on repertoires of wide dissemination across the Christian world on a main Christian holiday, the event also draws international attention to the Palestinian cause.
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Hackett, Geoffrey I. The ageing male. Edited by David John Ralph. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199659579.003.0107.
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For over 40 years, physicians have been aware of the importance of hormonal changes associated with male ageing. As patients now expect to live full and rewarding lives into their eighties and nineties, it has become less acceptable to merely dismiss bothersome symptoms such as excessive tiredness, poor concentration, altered mood, depression, and sexual dysfunction as merely a consequence of the normal ageing process. Androgens are now known to play important roles in cardiometabolic disease, but little attention has been paid to this within current medical and urological education. The wide range of symptoms associated with the hormonal aspects of ageing spans many medical specialities with the result that no single discipline currently deals with these issues. Just as ageing women will remain under the care of gynaecologists, it is likely that the field of andrology must deal with the demands of this growing population of ageing men.
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Mueller, Astrid, James E. Mitchell, and Lisa A. Peterson. Assessment and Treatment of Compulsive Buying. Edited by Jon E. Grant and Marc N. Potenza. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195389715.013.0115.
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Compulsive buying disorder (CBD) affects a significant percentage of those in the general population. However, CBD has not received as much attention with regard to research and training providers in its assessment and treatment as other psychiatric disorders. Formal diagnostic criteria have been put forth, and there are a variety of assessment instruments for evaluating buying behavior using both questionnaire and interview formats. Based on the literature to date, it appears that disorder-specific cognitive-behavioral therapy has been most successful in treating those with CBD. Treatment providers should also be aware that mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and compulsive hoarding often accompany CBD and complicate its treatment, and these disorders should be addressed within the treatment paradigm. Further research is needed to define barriers to motivation for change and treatment compliance among individuals with CBD, as well as factors associated with both positive and negative treatment outcomes.
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Lewis, Orly, Chiara Thumiger, and Philip van der Eijk. Mental and physical gradualism in Graeco-Roman medicine. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198722373.003.0002.
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The aim of this chapter is to explore how ancient medical ideas offer relevant parallels to the modern notions of degree vagueness and combinatorial vagueness with respect to mental health and its management. By closely examining several key examples, this chapter argues that Graeco-Roman physicians recognized physical and mental health as states that admit of gradation and were aware of the nuances, variations, and even the relativity of the distinction between ‘healthy’ and ‘ill’. When it comes to notions of physical and mental health, these nuances are both quantitative and qualitative. One of the characteristics of Graeco-Roman medicine is the consideration given to a body–mind continuum as something that is subject to health and disease and can be the object of medical attention. Section 2 introduces ancient conceptions of physical health and demonstrates the relevance of degree and combinatorial vagueness in this domain. Section 3 focuses on mental health.
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Caps, John. Allegheny River Launch. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036736.003.0002.
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This chapter details the early life of Henry Mancini. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1924 as Enrico Nicola Mancini, the young Henry would grow up just over the Pennsylvania border in the steel town of West Aliquippa, where two great rivers, the Allegheny and the Monongahela, come together to become the Ohio River. The first time Mancini became aware of the music score behind a movie was during a trip to the local movie theater with his father in 1935. Something in the grandiose score to a picture called The Crusaders, composed by Rudolf Kopp, made him pay attention to the role that music was playing in the adventure story. That day Henry decided that he wanted to be a composer, to somehow be involved in music for the movies. On his eighteenth birthday, Mancini circumvent the draft and enlisted. He was sent to Atlantic City for basic training where he met members of the band that Glenn Miller was trying to form.
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Awake: Paying Attention to What Matters Most in a World That's Pulling You Apart. Bethany House Publishers, 2022.
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Paschall, Anjuli. Awake: Paying Attention to What Matters Most in a World That's Pulling You Apart. Bethany House Publishers, 2022.
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Vallar, Giuseppe, and Nadia Bolognini. Unilateral Spatial Neglect. Edited by Anna C. (Kia) Nobre and Sabine Kastner. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675111.013.012.
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Left unilateral spatial neglect is the most frequent and disabling neuropsychological syndrome caused by lesions to the right hemisphere. Over 50% of right-brain-damaged patients show neglect, while right neglect after left-hemispheric damage is less frequent. Neglect patients are unable to orient towards the side contralateral to the lesion, to detect and report sensory events in that portion of space, as well as to explore it by motor action. Neglect is a multicomponent disorder, which may involve the contralesional side of the body or of extra-personal physical or imagined space, different sensory modalities, specific domains (e.g. ‘neglect dyslexia’), and worsen sensorimotor deficits. Neglect is due to higher-order unilateral deficits of spatial attention and representation, so that patients are not aware of contralesional events, which, however, undergo a substantial amount of unconscious processing up to the semantic level. Cross-modal sensory integration is also largely preserved. Neglect is primarily a spatially specific disorder of perceptual consciousness. The responsible lesions involve a network including the fronto-temporo-parietal cortex (particularly the posterior-inferior parietal lobe, at the temporo-parietal junction), their white matter connections, and some subcortical grey nuclei (thalamus, basal ganglia). Damage to primary sensory and motor regions is not associated to neglect. A variety of physiological lateralized and asymmetrical sensory stimulations (vestibular, optokinetic, prism adaptation, motor activation), and transcranial electrical and magnetic stimulations, may temporarily improve or worsen neglect. Different procedures have been successfully developed to rehabilitate neglect, using both ‘top down’ (training the voluntary orientation of attention) and ‘bottom up’ (the above-mentioned stimulations) approaches.
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Hill, Pamela. Environmental Protection. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190223069.001.0001.
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In 1962, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring sounded an alarm: the natural environment is being dangerously degraded because of human activity. Ever since, environmental protection has been a major societal concern. A robust system of environmental laws has emerged in the United States, commercial activities are increasingly scrutinized for their environmental impact, and communities around the world are becoming aware of the environment as a global issue requiring international attention. The most important evidence comes from the environment itself: the planet is warming, water supplies are at risk, ecosystems are under stress, and species are being lost at an unprecedented rate. Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides accessible information that will help readers navigate this complex and highly relevant subject. It gives background information on the origins and development of environmental protection; introductions to the main elements of environmental protection with concrete examples; the context for understanding current issues; definitions of key terms; scientific, legal, and economic underpinnings; and discussion of hot-button current issues from nanopollution to climate change. The reader will gain familiarity with phenomena like biodiversity, the greenhouse effect, fugitive emissions, and algal blooms while learning about the impact of landmark policy initiatives like the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement.
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Marovich, Beatrice. Reverence, Revision and Creaturely Life: Whitehead’s Political Theology of Enjoyment. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429566.003.0006.
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‘The art of free society’, A.N. Whitehead declares in his essay on symbolism, is fundamentally dual. It consists of both ‘maintenance of the symbolic code’ and a ‘fearlessness of [its] revision’. This tension, on the surface paradoxical, is what Whitehead believes will prevent social decay, anarchy, or ‘the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows’. Bearing in mind Whitehead’s own thoughts on the nature of symbolism, this chapter argues that the figure of the creature has been underappreciated in his work as a symbol. It endeavors to examine and contextualize the symbolic potency of creatureliness in Whitehead’s work, with particular attention directed toward the way the creature helps him to both maintain and revise an older symbolic code. In Process and Reality, ‘creature’ serves as Whitehead’s alternate name for the ‘individual fact’ or the ‘actual entity’—including (perhaps scandalously, for his more orthodox readers) the figure of God. What was Whitehead’s strategic motivation for deploying this superfluous title for an already-named category? In this chapter, it is suggested that his motivation was primarily poetic (Whitehead held the British romantic tradition in some reverence) and so, in this sense, always and already aware of its rich symbolic potency.
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Halpern-Meekin, Sarah. Social Poverty. NYU Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479891214.001.0001.
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Social Poverty draws on 192 interviews with young, low-income, unmarried parents to investigate the concept of social poverty, using the setting of a government-funded relationship education program. While commentators and academics have excoriated such programs for the value system they imply and their intervention results, participants are huge fans of them. Although critics view participants’ financial needs as dominating their social concerns, participants themselves are acutely aware of their relational needs. These needs drive their participation in and enthusiasm for the program. This study illustrates the fundamental importance to policy and poverty studies of properly understanding social poverty. Social poverty means not having adequate high-quality, trusting social relationships to meet core socioemotional needs. Poverty scholars typically focus on the economic use value of social ties—how relationships enable access to job leads, informal loans, or a spare bedroom. While such resources can be essential, this focus ignores the fundamental place of socioemotional needs in our lives and the extent to which avoiding or alleviating social poverty is a central motivation for many. As one young mother says, without her boyfriend she would “probably be the loneliest person on Earth.” Therefore, to accurately assess policy impacts and comprehend individuals’ behaviors, we must pay attention to both material and social hardships.
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Potočnik Topler, Jasna. Rhetoric for Tourism Business: Worksheets. University of Maribor Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18690/978-961-286-526-9.
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Rhetoric is the skill of persuasion. It has accompanied people for millennia, and the foundations of rhetorical theory were laid by the Ancient Greek thinker Aristotle. Through historical periods it has undergone development, rises and also falls. Today we are increasingly aware of the importance of familiarity with this skill in very broad fields of public and private life, for ultimately it contributes to better reading literacy of individuals and society. One of the aims of teaching rhetoric at the Faculty of Tourism of the University of Maribor is to prepare students to analyse and more accurately and precisely formulate arguments and persuasive techniques in everyday life, ranging from personal conversations to the media, study situations and the composition of expert texts. Equally it aims to familiarise students with various discourses, to teach them independent, more self-confident, clear, structured and critical expression of views and to formulate structured short and long texts. The booklet contains work sheets that will serve as support points in aiding rhetoric in business communication, when the focus is on topics such as history, rhetorical genres, canons, persuasion and language. We will also focus attention on the legal aspects of communication. The publication is a translated and supplemented edition of worksheets published in 2018.
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Thompson, Jonathan P. Anaesthesia for vascular surgery. Edited by Philip M. Hopkins. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642045.003.0058.
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Vascular surgical patients are at higher risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality than other surgical patients, and perioperative care remains challenging. However, vascular surgical practice is changing, with the expanding use of endovascular techniques to treat patients with vascular disease, improvements in medical therapy, and the evolution of evidence-based approaches to preoperative assessment. Preoperative assessment should concentrate on identifying and optimizing potentially correctable medical conditions, in particular cardiovascular disease. Successful outcomes depend on good anaesthetic techniques with emphasis on meticulous attention to detail and maintaining cardiovascular function and stability. Good communication with surgical and radiological colleagues is also vital. Anaesthesia for major vascular surgery also requires expertise in managing major haemorrhage, the use of invasive monitoring and cardioactive drugs, and regional anaesthesia. Knowledge and skills in the use of specific techniques for monitoring and protection against organ dysfunction are required. Endovascular surgery may be performed in dedicated operating suites or within the radiology department so the anaesthetist needs to be aware of considerations for anaesthesia in an isolated environment. This chapter details the management of patients presenting for the commonest major vascular procedures. All aspects of perioperative care for patients with abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms, occlusive aortic and peripheral vascular disease, and carotid stenosis are discussed. Anaesthesia for open surgery, endovascular and hybrid procedures, and elective and emergency procedures are included. The benefits of regional and general anaesthetic techniques are considered, where appropriate. The chapter also incorporates the anaesthetic management for less common procedures to treat carotid body tumours, thoracic outlet syndrome, and for thoracoscopic sympathectomy.
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Keenan, Siobhan. The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625-1642. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854005.001.0001.
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The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625–1642 is the first book-length study of the history, and the political and cultural significance, of the progresses, public processions, and royal entries of Charles I. As well as offering a much fuller account of the king’s progresses and progress entertainments than currently exists, this study throws new light on one of the most vexed topics in early Stuart historiography—the question of Charles I’s accessibility to his subjects and their concerns, and the part that this may, or may not, have played in the conflicts which culminated in the English civil wars and Charles’s overthrow. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book opens with an introduction to the early modern culture of royal progresses and public ceremonial as inherited and practised by Charles I. Part I explores the question of the king’s accessibility and engagement with his subjects further through case studies of Charles’s ‘great’ progresses in 1633, 1634, and 1636. Part II turns attention to royal public ceremonial culture in Caroline London, focusing on Charles’s royal entry on 25 November 1641. More widely travelled than his ancestors, Progresses reveals a monarch who was only too well aware of the value of public ceremonial and who did not eschew it, even if he was not always willing to engage in ceremonial dialogue with his people or able to deploy the power of public display to curry support for his policies as successfully as his Tudor and Stuart predecessors.
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Schiltz, Michael. Accounting for the Fall of Silver. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865025.001.0001.
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Whereas the emergence of the classical gold standard (1870‒1914) has attracted considerable attention in the economic literature, only very few authors have inquired into the protracted confidence crisis of silver. Building on the results of Calomiris, Oppers, and Flandreau, this book explores the evolution of management practice in exchange banks in Asia. Using ‘forensic accounting’, it attempts to show that contemporaries were aware of problems caused by the gyrations of the silver price after 1870, and that they sought to actively remedy their harmful effects on trade between gold and silver using countries. It describes how the experiment with financial instruments, although originally mishaps, eventually led to success. Next, and contrary to the commonly held belief that nineteenth-century bankers did not have a sophisticated understanding of hedging strategies, it shows, in a quantitative way, that hedging strategies existed, impacting banks’ operations in profound ways. More specifically, it uses the mostly unexplored accounting data and archives of the Yokohama Specie Bank (YSB; the world’s third largest exchange bank before World War II) to describe the bank’s wrought management history in the tumultuous years around the turn of the twentieth century. YSB had to come to grips with Japan’s effort at adopting the gold standard (1897), the difficult expansionary ‘postbellum administration’ after the Sino-Japanese War (1894‒5), and the consolidation of the country’s imperialism (after the Russo-Japanese War of 1904‒5)—all events shaping not only the bank’s operations and expansion in Asia, but also affecting the organization of its branch network and management of its flow-of-funds.
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Swick, Bill. Building an Award-Winning Guitar Program. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197609804.001.0001.
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Abstract Building an Award-Winning Guitar Program: A Guide for All Music Educators is a practical guide to assist secondary and post-secondary music educators with the tasks of building an award-winning music program. With the rising interest in, for example, guitar, mariachi, rock band, handbells, bluegrass, and music technology, more and more music educators are being asked to teach innovative music classes. This text is designed to build award-winning music programs from the ground floor by teaching innovative music classes. This guide covers the nuts and bolts of building solid programs that will be long lasting and will capture the attention of others. The book is designed to assist music educators with classroom management, scheduling, structure, organization, fundraising, festivals, travel, and the myriad subjects related to teaching guitar in the classroom. All the principals included may be applied to any music education program. This guide, which assumes that the reader is equipped with the knowledge of how to teach content or where to find content, is designed instead to create a music program that will stand out within your school district as well as in your state; covers the business of teaching; and offers guidance in the day-to-day activities needed to build award-winning music programs.
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United States. General Accounting Office., ed. PROTEST OF AIR FORCE CONTRACT AWARD FOR FACILITY ATTENTION, MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND MINOR CONSTRUCTION... 158652, B-275756... U.S. GAO... M. [S.l: s.n., 1998.
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Pinals, Debra A., ed. Stalking. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195189841.001.0001.
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Over the last two decades, stalking has received increasingly widespread attention. The establishment of anti-stalking legislation has helped to spur interest in stalking research and the forensic assessment of stalkers. Popular representations of stalking have made the public more aware of this phenomenon. It has long been the responsibility of mental health professionals to provide assessments of and treatment for stalkers and their victims, and as criminal cases involving defendants charged with stalking become more common, it is now also the responsibility of legal professionals to be knowledgeable about psychiatric aspects of stalking behavior and the risks that so often must be minimized through legal action or a combination of clinical and legal interventions. This volume provides a thorough overview of current scientific and clinical research about stalking, along with practical guidance and original commentary from the Psychiatry and the Law Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, an organization recognized for its contributions to mental health literature. In addition to covering the most widely discussed scientific topics related to stalking, including classification of stalking behaviors, risk assessment and risk management of stalkers, and the stalking experience from the perspective of victims, this book examines celebrity and special target stalking, cyberstalking, forensic assessment, and juvenile and adolescent stalking. Stalking: Psychiatric Perspectives and Practical Approaches provides a novel and comprehensive contribution to a field in need of an up-to-date text, written from the vantage point of forensic psychiatrists who encounter stalkers and their victims in their distinct roles as treatment providers and forensic evaluators. The prism of stalking and the risks involved continue to fascinate and frighten. In pursuit of rounded coverage, the authors have incorporated findings from numerous studies and analyzed these findings from several theoretical perspectives. Every chapter has been written from the vantage point of a committee of nationally recognized forensic psychiatrists who offer their perspectives on this fascinating but complex topic. Mental health professionals, members of the judiciary, law enforcement professionals, media personnel, and the public will no doubt find this text to be an informative and useful resource.
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Abate, Michelle Ann, and Gwen Athene Tarbox, eds. Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults. University Press of Mississippi, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496811677.001.0001.
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One of the most significant transformations in literature for children and young adults during the last twenty years has been the resurgence of comics. Educators and librarians extol the benefits of comics reading, and increasingly, children's and young adult comics and comics hybrids have won major prizes, including the Printz Award and the National Book Award. Despite the popularity and influence of children's and young adult graphic novels, the genre has not received adequate scholarly attention. This book offers a critical examination of children's and YA comics. The anthology is divided into five sections: structure and narration; transmedia; pedagogy; gender and sexuality; and identity, that reflect crucial issues and recurring topics in comics scholarship during the twenty-first century. The chapters analyze a variety of contemporary comics, including such highly popular series as Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Lumberjanes; Eisner award-winning graphic novels by Gene Luen Yang, Nate Powell, Mariko Tamaki, and Jillian Tamaki; as well as volumes frequently challenged for use in secondary classrooms, such as Raina Telgemeier's Drama and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
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Manara, Alex, and Samantha Shinde. Neurosurgery. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198719410.003.0016.
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This chapter discusses the anaesthetic management of neurosurgery. It begins with general principles of neurosurgery, including management of intracranial pressure. Surgical procedures covered include craniotomy (including awake craniotomy), insertion of ventriculo-peritoneal shunt, evacuation of traumatic intracranial haematoma, pituitary surgery, posterior fossa surgery, and interventional radiology treatment of intracranial vascular lesions (with particular attention to subarachnoid haemorrhage). The management of venous air embolism is described, along with a discussion of the neurological determination of death and organ retrieval from a beating-heart donor.
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Manara, Alex, and Samantha Shinde. Neurosurgery. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198719410.003.0016_update_001.
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This chapter discusses the anaesthetic management of neurosurgery. It begins with general principles of neurosurgery, including management of intracranial pressure. Surgical procedures covered include craniotomy (including awake craniotomy), insertion of ventriculo-peritoneal shunt, evacuation of traumatic intracranial haematoma, pituitary surgery, posterior fossa surgery, and interventional radiology treatment of intracranial vascular lesions (with particular attention to subarachnoid haemorrhage). The management of venous air embolism is described, along with a discussion of the neurological determination of death and organ retrieval from a beating-heart donor.
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Wilson, Robyn S., Sarah M. McCaffrey, and Eric Toman. Wildfire Communication and Climate Risk Mitigation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.570.
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Throughout the late 19th century and most of the 20th century, risks associated with wildfire were addressed by suppressing fires as quickly as possible. However, by the 1960s, it became clear that fire exclusion policies were having adverse effects on ecological health, as well as contributing to larger and more damaging wildfires over time. Although federal fire policy has changed to allow fire to be used as a management tool on the landscape, this change has been slow to take place, while the number of people living in high-risk wildland–urban interface communities continues to increase. Under a variety of climate scenarios, in particular for states in the western United States, it is expected that the frequency and severity of fires will continue to increase, posing even greater risks to local communities and regional economies.Resource managers and public safety officials are increasingly aware of the need for strategic communication to both encourage appropriate risk mitigation behavior at the household level, as well as build continued public support for the use of fire as a management tool aimed at reducing future wildfire risk. Household decision making encompasses both proactively engaging in risk mitigation activities on private property, as well as taking appropriate action during a wildfire event to protect personal safety. Very little research has directly explored the connection between climate-related beliefs, wildfire risk perception, and action; however, the limited existing research suggests that climate-related beliefs have little direct effect on wildfire-related action. Instead, action appears to depend on understanding the benefits of different mitigation actions and in engaging the public in interactive, participatory communication programs that build trust between the public and natural resource managers. A relatively new line of research focuses on resource managers as critical decision makers in the risk management process, pointing to the need to thoughtfully engage audiences other than the lay public to improve risk management.Ultimately, improving the decision making of both the public and managers charged with mitigating the risks associated with wildfire can be achieved by carefully addressing several common themes from the literature. These themes are to (1) promote increased efficacy through interactive learning, (2) build trust and capacity through social interaction, (3) account for behavioral constraints and barriers to action, and (4) facilitate thoughtful consideration of risk-benefit tradeoffs. Careful attention to these challenges will improve the likelihood of successfully managing the increasing risks that wildfire poses to the public and ecosystems alike in a changing climate.
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Grant, Hanessian. Part V Emergency Arbitrators and Interim Relief, 15 Legal Standards Applicable to Deciding Applications for Interim Relief. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198783206.003.0016.
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Parties in a dispute sometimes need to obtain relief prior to the final disposition of the case. Such relief-in international arbitration variously termed ‘interim measures of protection’, ‘conservatory measures’, or ‘provisional’, ‘preliminary’, or ‘temporary’ relief-may be necessary to preserve the status quo, to facilitate conduct of arbitral proceedings, or to ensure enforcement of a future award. In recent years, interim relief has received more attention and it has become increasingly possible to identify international standards relevant to applications for interim relief. This chapter considers these emerging standards, with particular emphasis on contributions made by the decisions of investor-state tribunals and emergency arbitrators.
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Molloy, Missy, Mimi Nielsen, and Meryl Shriver-Rice, eds. ReFocus: The Films of Susanne Bier. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428729.001.0001.
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The award-winning Danish director Susanne Bier has become increasingly known for her generic innovations and industrial fluidity, moving confidently between cinema and television at a time where the scarcity of women directors has become a subject of major critical and popular attention. Refocus: The Films of Susanne Bier is a dynamic, scholarly engagement with Bier’s work, and a timely consideration of her impressive authorial achievements. Featuring essays from both recognised and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includes an original interview with Bier, addressing some of the provocative readings of her films advanced by the volume’s contributors.
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Frey, Bruno S., and Jana Gallus. Awards in the Voluntary Sector. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798507.003.0005.
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In the voluntary sector awards play a particularly important role because the respective organizations are often cash constrained, and social recognition is an important motivation for volunteers (which risks being crowded out by monetary pay). There are millions of people who voluntarily contribute to Wikipedia under pseudonyms (i.e. make anonymous contributions), but the number of active editors is on a pronounced decline, particularly among new editors. A field experiment is presented, which shows that a purely symbolic award scheme targeted at newcomers significantly raises their retention rate. The motivational effect persists over an entire year. It can be explained by the enhanced identity with the community, status and reputation concerns, recognition and self-confidence, and attention.
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Gupta, Rajnish K., and Alexandria N. Nickless. Nerve Injuries from Positioning and Regional Blocks. Edited by Matthew D. McEvoy and Cory M. Furse. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190226459.003.0074.
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Peripheral nerve injury in the perioperative period can have a variety of etiologies, including preexisting patient factors and by surgical and anesthetic complications such as intraoperative positioning and nerve blockade. The actual incidence may be difficult to assess, because most nerve injuries resolve with time and frequently require minimal to no intervention. Injuries often manifest more than 48 hours after surgery and have even been noted in patients who undergo awake procedures and in hospitalized patients who never undergo surgery. This should not negate the fact that close attention to detail when positioning patients and performing regional anesthesia may help decrease the overall incidence of nerve injury and should be considered in every anesthesiologist’s perioperative plan. This chapter reviews proper assessment, treatment, and follow-up for peripheral nerve injuries.
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Bank, André. Comparative Area Studies and the Study of Middle East Politics after the Arab Uprisings. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190846374.003.0007.
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The Arab uprisings of 2011 led to the fall of several heads of state, triggered wars in three countries, and threatened the survival of all eight monarchies in the Middle East. In the field of Middle East studies, these processes have led to a fundamental questioning of preexisting theoretical assumptions and methodological approaches. A more self-critical and self-aware research program now exists that seeks to trace the different political trajectories in the region. This chapter argues that comparative area studies (CAS) can further advance the study of the Arab uprisings by employing a broader analytic framework while remaining attentive to the regional context of the Middle East. While qualitative research remains mostly intra-regional, cross-regional comparisons are slowly emerging, utilizing insights from—and comparisons to—the fall of communism and European history. The conclusion considers the promises and pitfalls of CAS in the study of the Middle East and beyond.
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Mauro, Rubino-Sammartano. Part II Understanding the Users of International Arbitration, 5 How Easy is it not to Take Adequate Care of the Proper Expectations of the Parties? Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198783206.003.0006.
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This chapter argues that arbitrators must pay sufficient attention to the legitimate expectations of parties. In line with this, it surveys possible-or even involuntary-breaches of the expectations of the parties. It discusses common problems such as not allowing sufficient time to the proceedings; not allowing the parties to present their case adequately; the temptation to rush; effects of disliking counsel; and lack of a full de novo review. It concludes that the approach of many arbitrators is to render an award which would produce for them respect or even admiration, or the wish, at least in Continental Europe, to write a brilliant intellectual treatise. However, this is not an expectation of the parties. While some parties just wish to always win, in particular when they know they are wrong, the innocent party, the honest man or woman, expects that the arbitrator will decide the dispute with diligence and humanity.
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Walters, Lisa, and Brandie R. Siegfried, eds. Margaret Cavendish. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108780780.
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Margaret Cavendish's prolific and wide-ranging contributions to seventeenth-century intellectual culture are impossible to contain within the discrete confines of modern academic disciplines. Paying attention to the innovative uses of genre through which she enhanced and complicated her writings both within literature and beyond, this collection addresses her oeuvre and offers the most comprehensive and multidisciplinary resource on Cavendish's works to date. The astonishing breadth of her varied intellectual achievements is reflected through elegantly arranged sections on History of Science, Philosophy, Literature, Politics and Reception, and New Directions, together with an Afterword by award-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt. The first book to cover nearly all of Cavendish's major works in a single volume, this collection brings together a variety of expert perspectives to illuminate the remarkable ideas and achievements of one of the most fascinating and prolific figures of the early modern period.
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Vaughn, Sarah E. Engineering Vulnerability. Duke University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478022725.
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In Engineering Vulnerability Sarah E. Vaughn examines climate adaptation against the backdrop of ongoing processes of settler colonialism and the global climate change initiatives that seek to intervene in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable. Her case study is Guyana in the aftermath of the 2005 catastrophic flooding that ravaged the country’s Atlantic coastal plain. The country’s ensuing engineering projects reveal the contingencies of climate adaptation and the capacity of flooding to shape Guyanese expectations about racial (in)equality. Analyzing the coproduction of race and vulnerability, Vaughn details why climate adaptation has implications for how we understand the past and the continued human settlement of a place. Such understandings become particularly apparent not only through experts’ and ordinary citizens’ disputes over resources but in their attention to the ethical practice of technoscience over time. Approaching climate adaptation this way, Vaughn exposes the generative openings as well as gaps in racial thinking for theorizing climate action, environmental justice, and, more broadly, future life on a warming planet.<br><br>Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
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Poore, Gary CB, Shane T. Ahyong, and Joanne Taylor, eds. Biology of Squat Lobsters. CSIRO Publishing, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643104341.
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Squat lobsters of the superfamilies Chirostyloidea and Galatheoidea are highly visible crustaceans on seamounts, continental margins, shelf environments, hydrothermal vents and coral reefs. About 1000 species are known. They frequently feature in deep-sea images taken by submersibles and are caught in large numbers by benthic dredges. Some species are so locally abundant that they form ‘red tides’. Others support a variety of important fisheries.
The taxonomy of squat lobsters has been intensively studied over the past few decades, making them one of the best known deepwater crustacean groups. As a result, they have attracted the attention of deep-sea ecologists who use them as proxies to test hypotheses about deepwater ecological processes and biogeography. Interest in squat lobsters now extends much more widely than the taxonomic research community and this work is a timely synthesis of what is known about these animals. The Biology of Squat Lobsters provides keys for identification and reviews the current state of knowledge of the taxonomy, evolution, life history, distribution, ecology and fisheries of squat lobsters.
A striking feature of squat lobsters is their vivid coloration, which is revealed in a selection of spectacular images of different species.
2012 Whitley Award Commendation for Invertebrate Natural History.
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Van Leuven, Holly. Ray Bolger. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190639044.001.0001.
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Ray Bolger: More Than a Scarecrow is the first book-length biography of the American eccentric dancer and popular culture figure, best known for his role in the 1939 film musical The Wizard of Oz. The book traces Bolger’s career from repertory and vaudeville into New York movie houses, Broadway, nightclubs, the major film studios, Las Vegas resorts, and television programs. Bolger’s dance lineage is also traced through eccentric dancers like Fred Stone and “Irish prince” soft-shoe dancers like George Primrose and Jack Donahue. Special attention is given to Bolger’s involvement in the nascent United Service Organizations (USO) Camp Shows, including his participation in the first ever camp show unit, which went to the Caribbean in November 1941, and later the first unit to entertain in the South Pacific. An entire chapter is dedicated to the creation and performance of Where’s Charley?, Bolger’s most important show and the one for which he earned a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. The Where’s Charley? material explores Bolger’s collaboration with his wife, Gwendolyn Rickard Bolger, who became the first female producer of a musical comedy on Broadway with her contributions to the production. Bolger’s later life as a political spokesperson, a television guest star, and a pop culture personality are also explored.
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Lester, Joel. Brahms's Violin Sonatas. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190087036.001.0001.
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Brahms’s Violin Sonatas: Style, Structure, and Performance is a companion volume to Joel Lester’s award-winning 1999 study Bach’s Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, and Performance. Using a minimum of technical language and with annotated musical examples illustrating almost every point, Brahms’s Violin Sonatas explores three masterpieces of the concert repertoire in a book designed for performers and music scholars alike. A major focus is how much can be learned by carefully reading Brahms’s artistically nuanced musical notation and by understanding Brahms’s style—especially his music’s deep connections to Classical-Era harmony, phrasing, and form while at the same time using late nineteenth-century harmonies, dissonances, and thematic evolutions, along with the contrapuntal textures that imbue all his works with a uniquely “Brahmsian” sound. The book also explores how these works relate to important events in Brahms’s life. Practical and concrete suggestions on performance arise from many of these discussions, calling performers’ and analysts’ attention to both technical and interpretive matters. The aim of the book is to inspire readers to explore their own individual approaches to Brahms’s music, balancing what they find in the music to how they balance today’s performance and interpretive styles with the ways that Brahms himself and his contemporaries might have played and experienced his creations.
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Schwenkler, John. Anscombe's Intention. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190052027.001.0001.
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This book provides a careful, critical, and appropriately contextualized presentation of the main lines of argument in G.E.M. Anscombe’s seminal book, Intention, at a level appropriate to the advanced undergraduate but also capable of benefiting specialists in action theory, ethics, and the history of analytic philosophy. It begins by situating Anscombe’s project in relation to the controversy she initiated over the decision by the University of Oxford to award an honorary degree to Harry Truman, and the connection she saw between her Oxford colleagues’ willingness to excuse Truman’s murderous actions and the situation of moral philosophy at the time. It also documents many of the ways Anscombe drew on the thought of Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, as well as the points at which her argument engages with the work of then-contemporary authors, especially R.M. Hare and Gilbert Ryle. Against this background, the primary focus of the book is on presenting Anscombe’s arguments and assessing the plausibility and philosophical power of the position she develops. Topics that receive especially close attention include: Anscombe’s argument that the primary role of the concept of intention is in the description of what happens in the world, and not of an agent’s state of mind; her account of action as a teleological unity; the relation between rationalizing explanation and causal explanation; the difference between practical and theoretical reasoning; and the possibility of non-observational self-knowledge of what one intentionally does.