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Ciancio, Luca. Autopsie della terra: Illuminismo e geologia in Alberto Fortis (1741-1803). Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1995.
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Luca, Ciancio, ed. Lettere di Alberto Fortis (1741-1803) a Giovanni Fabbroni (1752-1822). Sottomarina di Chioggia: Il leggio, 2010.
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Alberto Fortis nel Regno di Napoli: Naturalismo e antiquaria, 1783-1791. Bari: Cacucci, 2004.
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Putovanja Alberta Fortisa po Hrvatskoj i Sloveniji, 1765-1791. Split: Književni krug, 1996.
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Ricchiardi, Enrico. Le bandiere di Carlo Alberto (1814-1849). Torino: Il punto, 2000.
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Giacometti, Alberto. Alberto Giacometti, dessins, lithograhies, eaux-fortes: Exposition 31 mai-22 août 1986, Galerie Patrick Cramer. Geneve: Galerie Cramer, 1986.
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Cramer, Galerie Patrick, ed. Alberto Giacometti: Dessins, lithographies, eaux-fortes : exposition, 31 mai-22 août 1986, Galerie Patrick Cramer, Genève. Genève: La Galerie, 1986.
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Staton, Inge. The unknown legacy of Albert H. Staton. Amherst, Massachusetts: White Poppy Press, 2015.
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Alpert, Merrick. Morning sun: A story of hope, purpose, and the power of family. Guilford, Conn: Lyons Press, 2010.
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Marshall, Debbie. Give your other vote to the sister: A woman's journey into the Great War. Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 2007.
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Giacometti, Alberto, and Jacques Dupin. Alberto Giacometti (avec trois eaux-fortes d'Alberto Giacometti). Farrago, 1999.
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Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania: The Frontier Forts of Western Pennsylvania / by G.D. Albert. Franklin Classics, 2018.
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Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, and Commission to Locate the Site of the Fro. Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania: The Frontier Forts of Western Pennsylvania / By G.D. Albert. Franklin Classics Trade Press, 2018.
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Commission to Locate the Site of the Fro, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards, and John M. Buckalew. Report Of The Commission To Locate The Site Of The Frontier Forts Of Pennsylvania: The Frontier Forts Of Western Pennsylvania. By G.d. Albert. Franklin Classics, 2018.
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Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, and Commission To Locate The Site Of The Fro. Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania: The Frontier Forts of Western Pennsylvania / by G.D. Albert. Franklin Classics, 2018.
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Commission to Locate the Site of the Fro, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards, and John M. Buckalew. Report Of The Commission To Locate The Site Of The Frontier Forts Of Pennsylvania: The Frontier Forts Of Western Pennsylvania. By G.d. Albert. Arkose Press, 2015.
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Commission to Locate the Site of the Fro, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards, and John M. Buckalew. Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania: The Frontier Forts of Western Pennsylvania. by G. D. Albert. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.
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Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, and Commission to Locate the Site of the Fro. Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania: The Frontier Forts of Western Pennsylvania / by G. D. Albert. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2017.
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Century Of Service: The History Of The South Alberta Light Horse. Robin Brass Studio, 2005.
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Ordóñez Valverde, Jorge. Honor y magia en la vida pandillera. Universidad Icesi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18046/eui/expl.15.2021.
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La gran mayoría de los análisis que se producen sobre la violencia en Colombia dejan la sensación en el lector de que “algo falta”, para poder efectivamente descifrar el sentido complejo de los fenómenos estudiados. Los crímenes y las formas de violencia tienen unas características específicas, sobre todo en lo que tiene que ver con las formas del horror y la sevicia, que difícilmente se pueden interpretar en el marco de los análisis convencionales. Este libro, por el contrario, colma plenamente nuestras exigencias de investigación ya que nos ofrece una respuesta a la pregunta de cómo unos jóvenes de barriada llegan a matar, con base en la configuración de la subjetividad y la pertenencia a grupos de pares, que hacen posible que se pueda desplegar la crueldad, infligir dolor y sufrimiento a las víctimas, sin que la culpa se convierta en un obstáculo para sus victimarios [Alberto Valencia Gutiérrez].
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Vacca, Giuseppe. A Itália em disputa: comunistas e democratas-cristãos no longo pós-guerra (1943-1978). Translated by Luiz Sérgio Henriques. Editora da Unicamp, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7476/9788526815377.
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A história narrada neste livro é excepcional. São 35 anos da vida política italiana após o fascismo e a guerra. Instalada a República, veio em seguida a luta pela reconstrução e pela modernização do país. Com o passar dos anos, alteraram-se sobremaneira as estruturas do país e a sociabilidade dos italianos. Essa grande epopeia se fez por meio de uma dinâmica política marcada pelo embate e, ao mesmo tempo, pelo consenso entre a Democracia Cristã e o Partido Comunista, duas forças populares e opostas. O que dava sustentação ao sistema político não era a oposição entre direita e esquerda, mas uma dupla legitimação: o antifascismo, base do “campo” democrático, e o anticomunismo, imprescindível para governar em tempos de Guerra Fria. Vacca analisa a fase ascendente da democracia italiana, da Liberazione à morte de Aldo Moro, para muitos um marco do seu bloqueio e o início do longo declínio. (Alberto Aggio)
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Deruelle, Nathalie, and Jean-Philippe Uzan. The equivalence principle. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786399.003.0041.
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This chapter recalls several relevant aspects of Newton’s theory of gravity, as well as Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism, to describe the conceptual path that Albert Einstein followed in going from the theory of special relativity to general relativity. Looking at 1907 and beyond, the chapter shows that the ambition of Einstein was to construct a theory in which all reference frames (and therefore none) were privileged. Moreover, there were no longer any inertial forces, no ordering of Newton’s absolute space. Therefore, Einstein’s theory was one in which the laws of physics had the same form in all frames, inertial or not, so that no frame could be regarded as being privileged. In brief, he sought a theory of general relativity.
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Marmysz, John. Cultural Change and Nihilism in the Rollerball Films. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424561.003.0009.
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This chapter contrasts the original, 1975 version of Rollerball with the 2001 remake. Whereas the original version of the film features a hero who dooms himself to a tragic end by actively, yet nihilistically, rebelling against the forces of corporate control, the remake depicts a hero who engages in a successful revolution against the powers that be. In so doing, he promises the establishment of a counter-order that overcomes nihilism. It is argued that while the original version of Rollerball presents a modernist perspective on nihilism, depicting it as a phenomenon that cannot authentically be overcome, the remake presents a postmodernist perspective on nihilism, depicting it as a transitional stage leading from personal despair to ultimate triumph. The ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus and Jean-Francois Lyotard are drawn upon in order to characterize the differences between modernist and postmodernist renderings of the “problem” of nihilism.
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Prusin, Alexander. Collaborationism. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252041068.003.0005.
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Explores the ideological tenets and actions of the main collaborationist groups in Serbia. Albeit functioning within the limits prescribed by the occupier, the Serbian collaborationists enjoyed a certain degree of latitude in internal affairs. Although driven by different personal dispositions and ideological orientations, the”revolutonaries” (associated by Dimitrije Ljotić) and the”conservatives” (associated with the head of the Government of National Salvation Milan Nedić) perceived themselves as the prophets of Serbia’s national regeneration. In hope to win some concessions from the Germans, both displayed substantial energy and initiative, especially in combating the forces they considered inimical to Serbia’s national revival.
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Jeske, Diane. Moral Evasion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190685379.003.0006.
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The case studies of Albert Speer, Charles Colcock Jones, and Franz Stangl illustrate ways in which people can engage in moral evasion. Moral evasion comes in many forms, such as self-deception, wishful thinking, and rationalization. Stangl refused to engage with the full horror of what he was doing by refusing to use his imagination in thinking about hypothetical scenarios, using a highly rule-bound conception of duty, and compartmentalizing his thought. All of Stangl’s strategies are mirrored in those we often use in thinking about our treatment of nonhuman animals. Speer engaged in belief avoidance: by focusing on the demands of his job, he was able to avoid knowing what he could easily have come to know. Jones engaged in wishful compromise: he convinced himself that by becoming a missionary to the slaves he was taking the best route that he could within the confines of an evil institution.
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Jaeckle, Jeff, and Susan Ryan, eds. ReFocus: The Films of Barbara Kopple. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439947.001.0001.
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Building on existing interviews, journal articles, and archival research, The Films of Barbara Kopple assesses Kopple’s entire career to date, paying particular attention historical contexts, technique, critical reception, and ongoing influence. Each chapter blends close analyses of the films with insights drawn from film history and documentary studies to demonstrate that Kopple has consistently and often doggedly pursued projects that document the experiences of the victimized, the voiceless, and those in crisis. The contributors treat the entire scope of Kopple’s career, from her work in the early 1970s as an intern for David and Albert Maysles, to her mid-career experiments with commercial television and fictional projects, and finally to her recent forays into digital streaming platforms such as YouTube. The book also provides cultural contexts for Kopple’s films, including representations of class, gender, sexuality, and race. Finally, it assesses the contours of Kopple’s critical reputation and popularity, including her influence on contemporary filmmakers. In all, the book aims to stir interest in the life and films of Barbara Kopple, reminding readers why her films continue to be culturally significant.
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Lucena, Daniela, and Gisela Laboureau, eds. Modo mata moda. Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (EDULP), 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.35537/10915/63246.
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El collage en vivo, el color, el papel picado, los pelos rabiosos, los trajes cirujeados, las prótesis y el maquillaje componen la imagen relampagueante del underground porteño de 1980, un margen que resguardó, en lo dionisíaco de la fiesta, la posibilidad de crear formas alternativas al poder vigente. Daniela Lucena y Gisela Laboureau componen un encuentro “a viva voz” con estas experiencias. Al oírlas, nos encontramos con la rebeldía como testimonio de aquellos años, y también con el deseo de un espacio que albergó cuerpos inéditos, construidos entre el engrudo y el glamour, entre la estudiantina y el mamarracho, entre la experimentación sexual y los restos de nuestras periferias sudamericanas. Modo mata moda es la frase con la que Daniel Melero sintetizó, en una de las entrevistas aquí reunidas, la singularísima vía que encontraron los miembros de esa comunidad para hacer arte con la vida, con las vidas precarias, incipientes e irradiantes, de aquellos años. <i>(de la contratapa de Irina Garbatzky)</i>
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Luis, Roniger. Surviving Authoritarianism, Contributing to the Agenda of Democratization. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190693961.003.0005.
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Upon democratization, the public spheres of the Southern Cone countries were diversified, with former exiles, expatriates, and migrants deciding whether to return home or stay abroad, or perhaps to join the ranks of sojourners and move back and forth between countries of origin and of residence. Returnees, migrants, and sojourners played important roles in all four countries, albeit in different arenas and with varied short-term and long-term impacts. This chapter addresses the persisting pockets of creativity maintained in Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina during the authoritarian period and the various forms of reinsertion of former exiles and expatriates. It pays attention to the role that returnees among others played in each of the four countries in reconstructing democracy, in shedding some myths, and in reshaping public institutions.
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Wolosky, Shira. The Bible in American Literature. Edited by Paul C. Gutjahr. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190258849.013.34.
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In an America bereft of European institutions, the Bible emerged as the major shared cultural institution. It became a thread linking American history, politics, religion, and literature to each other, in both consensus and conflict; with literature itself never quite shedding its ties to biblical exegesis. American culture thus has a paradigmatic identification with biblical textuality. This begins with the Protestant groups who defined their venture to America through a specific biblical hermeneutic; then was disseminated, often with striking and startling shifts in position and interpretation, through subsequent groups, denominations, and parties, even into the twentieth century, albeit in increasingly pluralized and fractured forms. This impulse to fragmentation becomes in the twentieth century an enactment of plural identities in ways increasingly claimed not only to be legitimate but to define American peoplehood.
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Rasmussen, Joel D. S., Judith Wolfe, and Johannes Zachhuber. Introduction. Edited by Joel D. S. Rasmussen, Judith Wolfe, and Johannes Zachhuber. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198718406.013.41.
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The Introduction sets out the volume’s programmatic aims. While previous scholarship often saw the nineteenth century as a period of secularization, there is increasing evidence that the period was instead one of vivid intellectual engagement with the Christian tradition, albeit often articulated in ways deviating from what had hitherto been accepted as orthodox. This introductory overview therefore combines attention to the abiding influence of the Christian tradition with a recognition of its radical transformation and diversification under the influence of the forces of modernity. It acknowledges that in the nineteenth century, Christian ideas have to be discerned within a broad spectrum of intellectual, political, and artistic expressions that are no longer overtly controlled by institutionalized Christianity, and their study has to draw on the expertise of scholars from various disciplines. The Introduction subsequently gives an overview of how these fundamental considerations play out in the individual sections of the Handbook.
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Shearer, Karis, and Katrina Anderson. The Novel in English in Canada to 1950. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199609932.003.0009.
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This chapter discusses English-language novels in Canada, focusing on a limited set of texts that exemplify key historical and socio-economic concerns informing the periods of early settler-colonialism, Confederation, and early to late modernism in Canada. The development of the novel in Canada to 1950 is at times a bleak story, albeit one with notable highlights. In telling that story, the chapter eschews a linear trajectory of ‘development’ in favour of a two-pronged approach: adopting an issue-based focus, the chapter employs the categories of empire, race, and gender; the second approach focuses on the historical conditions of the production and circulation of novels. It then looks at the post-1950 era to account for the ways in which the canon of pre-1950s Canadian novels is shaped and/or sustained by contemporary institutional forces such as the New Canadian Library and Editing Modernism in Canada Project.
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Heath, Anthony F., Elisabeth Garratt, Ridhi Kashyap, Yaojun Li, and Lindsay Richards. The Challenge of Social Corrosion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805489.003.0008.
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Has increasing inequality and ethnic diversity served to corrode social cohesion in Britain? The evidence discussed in this chapter suggests that in many respects, such as levels of national pride, social trust, and civic engagement, Britain has not in fact changed all that much since the 1950s and 1960s. Nor is Britain all that out of line with peer countries. However, there are long-standing problems of social division, low trust, and disconnection from politics, albeit sometimes taking new forms. In some respects, then, Britain is not all that cohesive. Moreover, there are some new emerging challenges such as declining election turnout, especially among young people, and declining sense of British identity in Ireland and Scotland. However, these emerging challenges cannot be blamed on inequality and diversity. Instead, the explanations, and the solutions, are more likely to be specific and political.
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Zöller, Mark A., and Robert Esser, eds. Justizielle Medienarbeit im Strafverfahren. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845297255.
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In terms of media relations, judicial authorities are caught in a complex area of activity between the freedom of the press and free media coverage on the one hand and upholding the fundamental rights of the accused and third parties on the other. A further particular and multifaceted constitutional significance can in turn be ascribed to the press, radio, television and the new forms of the media, which derives not only from the fundamental right of the freedom of the press and that of media coverage, as stipulated by Art. 5 I 2 of Germany’s Basic Law, but also from the principle of democracy laid down in Art. 20 I of the same law. The regulatory proposal offered in this study represents a model which is both in keeping with the interests of those involved and practicable, and which in this difficult constitutional context will allow judicial authorities to make an appropriate decision with regard to providing the media and the public with information about ongoing criminal proceedings. With contributions by Prof. Dr. Robert Esser, RA Hanns W. Feigen, RA Prof. Dr. Björn Gercke, PräsLKA a.D. Wolfgang Hertinger, Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung, Dr. Horst Hund, Prof. Dr. Albert Ingold, Prof. Dr. Dieter Kugelmann, RiAG Dr. Markus Mavany, Min Herbert Mertin, Steffen Rittig, Prof. Dr. Josef Ruthig, Prof. Dr. Mark A. Zöller.
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Ross, Anna. Beyond the Barricades. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833826.001.0001.
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Beyond the Barricades is an original study of government after the 1848–9 revolutions. It focuses on a number of conservative ministers in Prussia who sought to learn lessons from their experiences of upheaval and introduce a wave of reforming activity in the 1850s. Using extensive primary research, the work explores Prussia’s entry into the constitutional age, charting initiatives to recast criminal justice, agriculture, industry, communications, urban life, and press management. The reforms of the 1850s strengthened state contact with the Prussian population, making this a classic episode of state-building. But Beyond the Barricades seeks to go further. It makes a case for taking notice of government activity at this particular juncture because the measures endorsed by conservative statesmen in the 1850s were designed to remove the feudal intermediaries that had lingered so long, albeit in significantly weakened forms, into the nineteenth century. In other words, this book recasts the post-revolutionary period as one in which an old world is increasingly replaced with a new one, pivotal to the making of modern Prussia and, ultimately, modern Germany.
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Merlo, Alessandra. Congresos de amor Entrevistas sobre los italianos y el sexo, 1963. Universidad de los Andes, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.30778/2019.17.
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En el verano de 1963 Pier Paolo Pasolini recorre Italia con un micrófono en la mano. En las plazas de los pueblos, en las playas del norte y del sur, en las discotecas y en los trenes entrevista a la gente y le pregunta sobre el sexo: qué papel tiene en su vida, si para los hombres es igual que para las mujeres, si el matrimonio resuelve o satisface la sexualidad de cada uno. En sus preguntas toca los temas de la virginidad, el machismo, la diversidad, el matrimonio y la prostitución. Lo que nace de ese viaje es un documental, Comizi d’amore, que reflexiona sobre los límites y los tabúes de una sociedad, pero también sobre las formas de hablar de algo íntimo y colectivo a la vez, algo que a veces es censurado, a veces reivindicado, en muchos casos disimulado detrás de lugares comunes. El resultado es una radiografía poética de su entorno que logra dar voz a gente anónima junto con personajes conocidos, como Giuseppe Ungaretti, Alberto Moravia, Camilla Cederna y Oriana Fallaci, entre otros. La película circuló muy poco en Italia y todavía menos en el mundo de habla hispana, a pesar del valor social, cultural y político del experimento de Pasolini. Son justamente esos valores los que la hacen, hoy, todavía más interesante de lo que fue en su momento. Estas entrevistas muestran en efecto el atrevimiento, la libertad de nombrar y también el conservadurismo de una época; pero sobre todo su valor está en preguntarnos dónde estamos nosotros frente a la sexualidad y frente a los temas que en ese ámbito todavía limitan y dividen, contraponen y estigmatizan. ¿Cómo le contestaríamos, nosotros y en nuestra época, a Pasolini? Así, esta edición presenta por primera vez la traducción al español de las entrevistas y del primer argumento (Cien pares de bueyes), con unas fotos de Angelo Novi, que acompañó a Pasolini en su correría por Italia.
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Kirchman, David L. The physical-chemical environment of microbes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789406.003.0003.
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Many physical-chemical properties affecting microbes are familiar to ecologists examining large organisms in our visible world. This chapter starts by reviewing the basics of these properties, such as the importance of water for microbes in soils and temperature in all environments. Another important property, pH, has direct effects on organisms and indirect effects via how hydrogen ions determine the chemical form of key molecules and compounds in nature. Oxygen content is also critical, as it is essential to the survival of all but a few eukaryotes. Light is used as an energy source by phototrophs, but it can have deleterious effects on microbes. In addition to these familiar factors, the small size of microbes sets limits on their physical world. Microbes are said to live in a “low Reynolds number environment”. When the Reynolds number is smaller than about one, viscous forces dominate over inertial forces. For a macroscopic organism like us, moving in a low Reynolds number environment would seem like swimming in molasses. Microbes in both aquatic and terrestrial habitats live in a low Reynolds number world, one of many similarities between the two environments at the microbial scale. Most notably, even soil microbes live in an aqueous world, albeit a thin film of water on soil particles. But the soil environment is much more heterogeneous than water, with profound consequences for biogeochemical processes and interactions among microbes. The chapter ends with a discussion of how the physical-chemical environment of microbes in biofilms is quite different from that of free-living organisms.
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Hofmeister, Georg, Georg Lämmlin, Christiane Luckhardt, Gunther Schendel, and Birgit Sendler-Koschel, eds. Zusammen schaffen wir es! Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748930853.
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In the Evangelical Church multi- and inter-professional forms of work are becoming more and more important. Multi-professional co-working is being progressively embedded into the structures of the member churches of the Evangelical Church in Germany. The spectrum of this concept ranges from optional pilot projects to the establishment of an inter-professional culture or to the extensive and obligatory implementation of interdisciplinary work groups that share pastoral management tasks. The articles in this volume, which stem from a symposium hosted by the VRK Academy in March 2021 (initiated by the publishers), discuss the relevance of multi- and inter-professional co-working in the context of the current transformation processes in central European churches. With contributions by Gero Albert, Dr. Joerg Augenstein, Prof. Dr. Frank Austermann, Nicholas Baines, Cindy Brandes, Dorrit Brandstetter, Roland Braune, Cornelia Ewald, Prof. Dr. Lutz Friedrichs, Prof. Dr. Christian Grethlein, Gabriele Groß, Angela Heidler, Beate Hofmann, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ilg, Prof. Dr. Claudia Janssen, Ute Kaisinger-Carli, Astrid Kampmeier, Heiko Kampmeier, Heinz Karrer, Dr. Hanna Kasparick, Prof. Dr. Heidrun Keßler, Tilman Kingreen, Birgit Krome-Mühlenmeier, Prof. Dr. Georg Lämmlin, Monika Lehmann-Etzelmueller, Wolfgang Loest, Christiane Luckhardt, Jens-Martin Ludwig, Heinrich Mühlenmeier, Prof. Dr. Uta Pohl-Paterlong, Guntram Rixecker, Eckehard Rossberg, Matthias Rumm, Dr. Susanne Schatz, Thomas Schaufelberger, Dr. Gunther Schendel, Conny Schneider, Prof. Dr. Thomas Schlag, Steffen Schramm, Dr. Birgit Sendler-Koschel, Prof. Dr. Regina Sommer, Annemarie Steinebrunner, Werner Volkert, Sylvia Wagenaar, Prof. Dr. Ursula Walkenhorst, Christiane Wolf, Veronika Zieske and Andreas Zuch.
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Williams, Mark, Jan Zalasiewicz, and Anne-Sophie Milon. The Cosmic Oasis. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845874.001.0001.
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Abstract This title explores the abundance and complexity of life on Earth, which—as we discover more of other planets—appears as a true oasis in the cosmos. Despite its diversity, life forms little more than a veneer on the planet, albeit one that has hugely influenced its climate and environment. Earth and its biosphere have profoundly changed through more than four billion years of time, undergoing a succession of transformations. Now, we are living through the latest of these, in which humans have become extraordinarily numerous at the expense of other living creatures, not least our kindred ape species that are in severe decline. A critical development is the technology upon which advanced human societies utterly depend, from which has emerged a technosphere that now rivals the biosphere in scale and power, and that is evolving with terrific speed. Among its unwanted side-effects are enormous and ongoing changes to the atmosphere, climate, land, and cycling of key elements for life. The biosphere is on the cusp of another transformation, and this book concludes by exploring ways in which we can influence this process for the better.
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Marshall, Debbie. Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: A Woman's Journey into the Great War. University of Calgary Press, 2007.
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Marshall, Debbie. Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: A Woman's Journey into the Great War. University of Calgary Press, 2007.
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Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: A Womans Journey into the Great War (Legacies Shared). Michigan State University Press, 2007.
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Tushnet, Mark, and Bojan Bugaric. Power to the People. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197606711.001.0001.
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Self-described populist leaders around the world are dismantling their nation’s constitutions. This has led to a widespread view that populism as such is inconsistent with constitutionalism. We disagree. Some forms of populism are inconsistent with constitutionalism, others aren’t. Context and detail matter. We begin with a thin definition of constitutionalism that people from the progressive left to the conservative right should be able to agree on even if they would supplement the thin definition with other more partisan ideas. We follow with a similarly thin definition of populism. Comparing the two, we argue that one facet of populism—its suspicion of institutions that are strongly entrenched against change by political majorities—is sometimes inconsistent with constitutionalism thinly understood. We then provide a series of case studies, some organized by nation, others by topic, to identify more precisely when and how populist programs are inconsistent with constitutionalism—and, importantly, when and how they are not. The book concludes with a discussion of the possibilities for a deeper and, we insist, populist democracy. After examining some recent challenges to the idea that democracy is a good form of government, we explore some possibilities for new, albeit revisable institutions that can determine and implement a majority’s views without always threatening constitutionalism.
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Ledgeway, Adam, John Charles Smith, and Nigel Vincent, eds. Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198870807.001.0001.
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This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters draw on data from across the Romance language family, including standard and regional varieties and dialects. The relation between periphrasis and inflexion raises questions for both syntax and morphology, and understanding the phenomena involved requires cooperation across these subdomains. For example, the components that express many periphrases can be interrupted by other words in a way that is common in syntax but not in morphology, and in some contexts, a periphrastic form may be semantically equivalent to a single-word inflected form, with which it arguably forms part of a paradigmatic set. Patterns of this kind are found across Romance, albeit with significant local differences. Moreover, diachrony is essential in understanding these phenomena, and the rich historical documentation available for Romance allows an in-depth exploration of the changes and variation involved, as different members of the family may instantiate different stages of development. Studying these changes also raises important questions about the relation between attested and reconstructed patterns. Although the empirical focus of the volume is on the Romance languages, the analyses and conclusions presented shed light on the development and nature of similar structures in other language families and provide valuable insights relevant to linguistic theory more broadly.
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FitzGerald, Brian. Inspiration and Authority in the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808244.001.0001.
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Inspiration and Authority rethinks the role of prophecy in the Middle Ages by examining how professional theologians responded to new assertions of divine inspiration. The book argues that the task of defining prophetic authority became a crucial intellectual and cultural enterprise as university-trained theologians confronted prophetic claims from lay mystics, radical Franciscans, and other unprecedented visionaries. In the process, these theologians redescribed their own activities as prophetic by locating inspiration not in special predictions or ecstatic visions but in natural forms of understanding and in the daily work of ecclesiastical teaching and ministry. Instead of containing the spread of prophetic privilege, however, scholastic assessments of prophecy from Peter Lombard and Thomas Aquinas to Peter John Olivi and Nicholas Trevet opened space for claims of divine insight to proliferate beyond the control of theologians. The book ends with the examination of an early fourteenth-century debate in Padua between a Dominican theologian and the lay Italian humanist Albertino Mussato regarding the nature of poetry, prophecy, and sacred authority. This debate, the first of many similar ones over the course of that century, shows how the promotion of a more natural form of prophecy helped lay humanists on the cusp of the Renaissance stake their claims to prophetic inspiration on their intellectual powers and literary practices. These conflicts reveal medieval clerics, scholars, and reformers reshaping the contours of religious authority, the boundaries of sanctity and sacred texts, and the relationship of tradition to the new voices of the Late Middle Ages.
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Siraganian, Lisa. Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868873.001.0001.
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Long before the U.S. Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely “speak” with money in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the Court elaborated the legal fiction of American corporate personhood in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886). Yet endowing a non-human entity with certain rights exposed a fundamental philosophical question about the possibility of collective intention. That question extended beyond the law and became essential to modern American literature. This book offers the first multidisciplinary intellectual history of this story of corporate personhood. The possibility that large collective organizations might mean to act like us, like persons, animated a diverse set of American writers, artists, and theorists of the corporation in the first half of the twentieth century, stimulating a revolution of thought on intention. The ambiguous status of corporate intention provoked conflicting theories of meaning—on the relevance (or not) of authorial intention and the interpretation of collective signs or social forms—still debated today. As law struggled with opposing arguments (corporate intention, pro versus con), modernist creative writers and artists grappled with interrelated questions, albeit under different guises and formal procedures. Combining legal analysis of law reviews, treatises, and case law with literary interpretation of short stories, novels, and poems, the chapters analyze legal philosophers including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Frederic Maitland, Harold Laski, Maurice Wormser, and creative writers such as Theodore Dreiser, Muriel Rukeyser, Gertrude Stein, Charles Reznikoff, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and George Schuyler.
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Magcamit, Michael. Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847751.001.0001.
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Abstract Departing from the mainstream practice and conventional wisdom of materialist and rationalist accounts of internal and intrastate conflicts, the book demonstrates how and why emotions, symbolic predispositions, and perceptions are just as powerful and useful in understanding and explaining these phenomena. By uncovering the invisible albeit concrete emotive, symbolic, and perceptual causal mechanisms underpinning ethnoreligious otherings and the resulting violent protracted conflicts, the book aims to help address the incongruence between how the actual actors operating within these contexts think and act and the existing theories and models of how they are expected to behave. Accordingly, the book has three main goals. First, to highlight the centrality of emotions, symbolic predispositions, and perceptions in providing a more holistic and realistic understanding of otherings and conflicts. Second, to illustrate how the ethnoreligious othering framework developed and applied in the study bolsters and advances process tracing explanations by systematically incorporating context-specific intersubjective meanings into causal accounts of the events under investigation. And third, to emphasize the importance of recognizing religion and nationalism as legitimate constituents and instruments of contemporary realpolitik by underlining their enduring security utility and essence at individual, group, and state levels. As argued and established throughout the book, because the causal mechanisms driving ethnoreligious otherings and passionate conflicts are simultaneously emitting and are propelled by deeply entrenched emotions, symbolic predispositions, and perceptions, achieving durable peace settlement requires reconciliation initiatives and regulation strategies that directly and unapologetically incorporate and address these neglected “immaterial” and “irrational” forces.
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Hill, Mark J. Actors and Spectators: Rousseau’s Contribution to the Eighteenth-century Debate on Self-interest. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422857.003.0005.
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A debate between virtuous self-interest and social morality emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The historical narrative of these ideas has been touched on by others – such as Albert O. Hirschman, Pierre Force, and Eric MacGilvray – with nuance and detail, but broadly one can recognize two camps: those who saw public utility in self-interest through the positive externalities of commerce, and those who had serious concerns over the political outcomes of the entanglement of commerce and virtue. This chapter follows these studies and attempts to locate Rousseau (primarily) and Smith (secondarily) within this debate. By looking at how their particular moral philosophies interact with their political thought it is argued that Rousseau is distinct from Smith in an important, but often confused, way: while some have argued that Rousseau is a moralist and Smith a philosopher of the political and social value of self-interest, it will be argued here that the opposite may be true. That is, despite Rousseau's “general will” and Smith's “impartial spectator” having been identified as similar moral tools used to overcome the negative aspects of self-interest through externalized self-reflection, it is argued that Rousseau is a moral rationalist who is skeptical of reason as a moral motivator, and thus dismisses the general will as a tool which can encourage personal moral action, while Smith is a moral realist, but a particularly soft one in regard to the motivational force of morality, and instead turns to rationality – through the impartial spectator – as a source of moral action. The upshot of this distinction being, Rousseau does not deny the power of commerce and self-interest as motivational forces, simply their social utility; social institutions like English coffeehouses – centres of politeness and doux commerce – should exist, and self-interest should motivate, but both need to be cleansed of the vice of commerce. That is, this chapter argues that Smith is moral realist who relies on reason – specifically that one must be a spectator who can impartially and rationally reflect on situations in order to will moral ends – and Rousseau is a moral rationalist who relies on sentiment – one must have an interest in situations if they are to be a moral actor.
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Esteban Salvador, María Luisa, Gonca Güngör Göksu, Tiziana Di Cimbrini, and Emilia Fernandes. Multidisciplinary perspectives on equality and diversity in sports 2022. Universidad de Zaragoza, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/uz.978-84-18321-44-3.
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Albeit some exceptions, athletes, practitioners, decision and policymakers, and sports spectators are predominantly men. In this sense, gender segregation and discrimination are present in multiple aspects of sports, and are socially normalised and accepted through a discourse that essentialises the embodied sexual differences between genders. This gender discourse legitimises the exclusion of women in some sports modalities considered masculine and traped them to those considered as predominantly feminine and feminized It traps female bodies in socio-cultural constructions as less able to exercise and engage in sport or as the second and weaker version of the ideal masculine body. Sports and its management continue to be a field where men and masculinity strongly prevail. The International Congress on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity in Sport (ICMPEDS) aimed to investigate the complexities of the following questions: What does gender openness mean in the context of sport in the 21st century? What persists as gender closure in the same context? What are the gender cultures that signify sport continuing to be defined by regimes that resort to dominant masculinity embodied in a strong and male athletic body? Which factors are assessed as the driving forces of these gender cultures that reveal male dominance in the sports field? However, there are significant signs that the context of sport may be changing. The European Union and some national governments have efforted to promote gender equality and diversity by fostering the adoption of gender equality codes/policies in various modalities, and international and local sports organizations. These new policies aim to increase female participation and recognition in sports, their access to leadership positions and involvement in the decision-making in sport structures. Additionally, the number of women practising non-competitive sports and as sports spectators have started growing. This improvement leads to new representations of sports and challenges the roles of women in such a context. Different body constructions and the emergence of alternative embodied femininities and masculinities are also challenging how athletes of both genders experience their bodies and sports practice. Nevertheless, the research on the impacts of these changes/challenges in sports is scarce. This book focuses on mapping gender relations in sports and its management by considering the different modalities, contexts, institutional policies, organizational structures and actors. It treats sports and its management as one avenue where gender segregation and inequality occur, but it also adopts such a space that presents an opportunity for change and a widely applicable topic whose traits and culture are reflected in organizations and work more broadly.
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Baker, Brynn. Tuskegee Airmen: Freedom Flyers of World War II. Capstone, 2015.
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Baker, Brynn. Tuskegee Airmen: Freedom Flyers of World War II. Capstone, 2019.
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