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Needleman, Jacob. The American soul: Rediscovering the wisdom of the founders. New York: J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002.
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1943-, Bennett William J., ed. Our country's founders: A book of advice for young people. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998.
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TRIPATHI, Prof DIBYENDU, Prof (Dr ). SAURABH KUMAR, and NIDHI SUHAG. THINKING VALUES. KAAV PUBLICATIONS, DELHI, INDIA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52458/9789391842024.2022.eb.asu.
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his book is an opportunity to express our gratitude to the several individuals whose prompt assistance and direction aided in the completion of this project from start to end by expanding our theoretical and practical expertise. It is an honour for us to convey appreciation to the Mrs. Sushma Paul Berlia, Co founder & Chancellor ASU, Mr. Aditya Vijay Berlia, Cofounder & Pro Chancellor ASU, Mr. Nishant V. Berlia, Co founder & Pro Chancellor ASU, Prof. Raj S. Dhankar, Vice Chancellor ASU, SDVA team, stude nts and industry professionals for their direction, suport, and timely assistance, without whom this research work would not have taken shape.
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Emerich, Monica M. Neither Mainstream nor Alternative. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036422.003.0002.
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This chapter examines LOHAS as a bridge between the two poles of the American marketplace—the “alternative” market and the “mainstream” or conventional market. This market-based binary shaped and informed many of the industries now considered part of the domain of LOHAS. These companies and industries once purposefully positioned themselves as alternative. “Alternative” defined their intended consumer base, their company missions, and even, in many cases, the founder's personal values. Today, however, LOHAS organizations regard this alterity as more of a handicap than an advantage. Moreover, the so-called mainstream is actively adding LOHAS products and services to product inventories and marketing materials, blurring the boundaries even further. The chapter historicizes this, following the emergence of The LOHAS Journal, the first truly public and mediated circulation of the word.
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Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus. Epistemic Values. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197529171.001.0001.
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This book collects twenty papers in epistemology by Linda Zagzebski, covering her entire career of more than twenty-five years. She is one of the founders of contemporary epistemology and is well-known for broadening the field and re-focusing it on epistemic virtue and epistemic value. The subject areas of most of epistemology are included in these papers: (1) knowledge and understanding, (2) intellectual virtue, (3) epistemic value, (4) virtue in religious epistemology, (5) intellectual autonomy and authority, and (6) skepticism and the Gettier problem.
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Bennett, William J. Our Country's Founders. Simon Pulse, 2001.
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Bennett, Wiliam J. Our Country's Founders: A Book of Advice for Young People. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1998.
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Needleman, Jacob. The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders. Tarcher, 2003.
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Keeble, Richard Lance. Media Values: Inspired by Bill Porter, Founder of the International Communications Forum. Troubador Publishing Limited, 2010.
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Bethel, Dayle M. Makiguchi the Value Creator: Revolutionary Japanese Educator and Founder of Soka Gakkai. Weatherhill, 1994.
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Soley, Jill, and Todd Wilms. Beyond Product: How Exceptional Founders Embrace Marketing to Create and Capture Value for Their Business. Morgan James Publishing, 2019.
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Nelson, Sophia A. E Pluribus ONE: Reclaiming Our Founders' Vision for a United America. Center Street, 2017.
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E pluribus one: Reclaiming our founders' vision for a united America. Center Street, 2017.
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Lause, Mark A. Father Abraham. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040306.003.0004.
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This chapter examines the elevation of Abraham Lincoln from president to spiritual hero of the Republic, one whom the spiritualists regarded as the embodiment of the spirit of the Union cause. In particular, it considers how the vast majority of active spiritualists came to see Lincoln and his policies as a medium-like conduit to the stated values of the departed founders and a prophet of the nation's future survival. The chapter begins with a discussion of Lincoln's spiritualist proclivities, including his belief that unseen forces shaped our individual destinies, as well as the Lincolns' involvement at the edges of spiritualism in Washington, D.C. It then explores how Lincoln's peculiar leadership as president eased individual spiritualist misgivings about the Civil War and the value of the Union, along with spiritualist' campaigning for Lincoln's reelection in 1864 that also saw the triumph of the Radicals. The chapter concludes with an assessment of Lincoln's assassination in 1865 and his administration's legacy that included the logical possibility of a Radical Republicanism.
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Lisi, Leonardo F. Nihilism and Boredom in Hedda Gabler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190467876.003.0002.
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This chapter focuses on Hedda’s experience of boredom and its relation to the modern condition of nihilism. While Hedda’s character has traditionally been seen as mysterious and erratic in her motivations, she in fact consistently pursues a project of existential and aesthetic autonomy as a way to overcome the alienation of modern life. In Ibsen’s play, however, her project ultimately founders through the disclosure of an ontological condition that undermines all attempts at establishing human values and meanings, whether relative or absolute.
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Matthew, Spalding, ed. The founders' almanac: A practical guide to the notable events, greatest leaders & most eloquent words of the American founding. Washington: Heritage Foundation, 2001.
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Halpin, Darren R., and Anthony J. Nownes. The New Entrepreneurial Advocacy. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190883003.001.0001.
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The role of business in the American political system has always stirred emotions. Contemporary evidence of the clear and growing disparities in wealth between ordinary citizens and business elites has drawn new attention to this topic. Recently, the canon on the activities of business elites in politics has grown, as we have learned a great deal about how business firms and their ultra-wealthy leaders and investors seek to exert political influence. This book examines one form of business elite activity that has thus far received surprisingly little scholarly attention despite the high-profile political efforts of billionaire businesspeople such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Specifically, the book examines what we call the new entrepreneurial advocacy. Where previous work focuses on a cross section of either the wealthiest Americans or the largest firms in the United States, this book takes a deep dive into the political activities of a single yet pivotal cohort: the founders and CEOs of Silicon Valley firms. Leveraging a vast range of unique data sets—spanning the political donations of firms and their leaders; the local, state, and Washington lobbying of Silicon Valley firms; the social media and media commentary of Silicon Valley CEOs and founders; and the role of elites in supporting and founding new political organizations—this book shines a light on the role of this important set of elites in contemporary American political life.
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Anooshahr, Ali. Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190693565.001.0001.
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It has long been known that the origins of the early modern dynasties of the Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, Mongols, and Shibanids in the sixteenth century go back to “Turco-Mongol” or “Turcophone” war bands. However, too often has this connection been taken at face value, usually along the lines of ethnolinguistic continuity. The connection between a mythologized “Turkestani” or “Turco-Mongol” origin and these dynasties was not simply and objectively present as fact. Rather, much creative energy was unleashed by courtiers and leaders from Bosnia to Bihar (with Bukhara and Badakhshan along the way) in order to manipulate, invent, and in some cases disavow the ancestry of the founders of these dynasties. Essentially, one can even say that Turco-Mongol progenitors did not beget the Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, Mongol, and Shibanid states. Quite the contrary, one can say that historians writing in these empires were the ancestors of the “Turco-Mongol” lineage of their founders. Using one or more specimens of Persian historiography, in a series of five case studies, each focusing on one of these nascent polities, the book intends to show how “Turkestan,” “Central Asia,” and “Turco-Mongol” functioned as literary tropes in the political discourse of the time.
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Amorosa, Paolo. Messianic Visions of the United States. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805878.003.0019.
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After winning with unexpected ease the Spanish–American War of 1898, justified at home as a case of humanitarian intervention, the United States started understanding itself as a world power. This led to a renewed attention to international law, in order to reconcile the new leading role of the country with its democratic tradition. Even the formal colonialism in the Philippines and the tutelage of the newly independent Cuba were recast by the founders of the American Society of International Law as an expression of egalitarian values, American and universal at the same time. This ambiguous nationalist/cosmopolitan identity was based on a narrative of progress: the peak of civilization reached by the United States would expand world-wide through example and benevolent assimilation. This chapter argues that it was a narrative of primarily religious origin that justified the war in the eyes of the American people and underpinned future foreign policy.
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Broadwater, Jeff. Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651019.001.0001.
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Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, “Father of the Constitution,” were two of the most important Founders of the United States as well as the closest of political allies. Yet historians have often seen a tension between the idealistic rhetoric of the Declaration and the more pedestrian language of the Constitution. Moreover, to some, the adoption of the Constitution represented a repudiation of the democractic values of the Revolution. In this book, Jeff Broadwater explores the evolution of the constitutional thought of these two seminal American figures, from the beginning of the American Revolution through the adoption of the Bill of Rights. In explaining how the two political compatriots could have produced such seemingly dissimilar documents but then come to a common constitutional ground, Broadwater reveals how their collaboration ---and their disagreements---influenced the full range of constitutional questions during this early period of the American republic.
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Sciberras, Colette. Buddha, Aristotle, and Science. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190456023.003.0002.
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This chapter compares Western philosophical and scientific foundations with Buddhist philosophies on the topic of flourishing in nature. It argues that flourishing is good by querying the purpose of nature, the existence of God and the good. Defining flourishing in terms of Aristotle’s final cause, and questioning some of the assumptions of the founders of modern science, the chapter presents a common quandary—whether science and faith are reconcilable. Through attempting to steer a Middle way between belief in eternal souls, gods and divine purposes, and the depressing conclusions of nihilists and (some) atheists, it suggests that Buddhism can be seen as scientific, if the definition of what counts as an ‘observation’ is widened. Then, by weaving together Buddhism and Aristotle, the chapter makes the case for the positive value of flourishing in nature and among humans.
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Ashforth, Blake E. Organizational, Subunit, and Individual Identities. Edited by Michael G. Pratt, Majken Schultz, Blake E. Ashforth, and Davide Ravasi. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199689576.013.26.
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Although we know much about within-level identity dynamics, it’s the between-level dynamics that offer the greatest promise for developing a systemic understanding of identity in organizations. Collective identities emerge from a process of “I think” (where the founder(s)/leaders espouse and enact their entrepreneurial vision and values) “we think” (where members and other stakeholders experience and enact the incipient identity, fostering consensus and adding breadth and depth to the identity) “it is” (where the identity becomes institutionalized). Collective identities in turn both enable and constrain the identities nested within them. The recursive linkages among levels of identity reflect a meld of processes that are supplementary (fleshing out an identity), complementary (fostering differentiation), and conflicted. The discussion also considers the role of identity cascades, identity drift, and compositional and compilational identity emergence.
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Valley of genius: The uncensored history of Silicon Valley, as told by the hackers, founders, and freaks who made it boom. 2018.
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Matwijkiw, Anja, and Bronik Matwijkiw. M. Cherif Bassiouni (1937–2017). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190923846.003.0002.
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Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni’s death sent shockwaves through the community of legal scholars and practitioners. As an influential figure in the post–World War II era, Bassiouni helped determine the direction of international criminal law and international criminal justice. Bassiouni joined the Editorial Board of The Global Community YILJ in 2001, upon the invitation of its founder and General Editor Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo. Like the United Nations and the various universities, institutes and societies Bassiouni served, the Yearbook is saddened by the loss of a modern master. His contributions cover doctrine, human rights advocacy that accentuates humanistic values, holistic post-conflict justice principles and projects, together with a life-long campaign for fair (global) law-making and (global) law-enforcement. With the death of Bassiouni, the community witnessed the departure of one of the innovative, inspirational and illustrious masterminds in the fight against impunity and realpolitik and for accountability and the rule of law.
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Doak, Brian R. Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190650872.001.0001.
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The bodies of a people encode and continually retell the story of their families, cities, and nations. In the Hebrew Bible, the bodies of notable heroic figures—warriors, kings, and cultural founders—not only communicate values on an individual level but they also bear meaning for the fate of the nation. The patriarch Jacob, who takes on the name of the nation, “Israel,” engages in an intense bodily drama by way of securing the family blessing and passing on his identity to the Tribes of Israel. Judges is a deeply bodily book: left-handed, mutilating and mutilated, long haired, and fractured like the nation itself, its warriors revel in bodies and violence. The David and Saul drama, throughout 1–2 Samuel, repeatedly juxtaposes the bodies of the two kings and sets them on a collision course. Saul’s body continues to act in strange and powerful ways beyond his death, and in the final episodes of Saul’s bone movement and reburial, the last heroic body goes underground. Thus, Israel’s heroic national body rises and falls on the bodies of its heroes, and the Hebrew Bible takes up a profound place in the ancient literary landscape in its treatment of heroic and body themes.
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Gal, John, Stefan Köngeter, and Sarah Vicary, eds. The Settlement House Movement Revisited. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447354239.001.0001.
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The Settlement House Movement is perceived as a major influence on the emergence of the social work profession globally. Yet, historical research on this movement in social work, and in particular, the transnational translation of this idea, is very limited. This volume sheds new light on the establishment of settlement houses in diverse societies, the interface between this Movement and other social movements, and the impact that it had on the social work profession, its values, practices and research. The chapters in the book explore the settlement house phenomenon in the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Canada, France, Portugal and Mandatory Palestine and the individuals and groups that played a major role in their establishment. They underscore both the ways in which the international Settlement House Movement developed, the commonalities between settlement houses across the globe, and also the differences that emerged between them. In particular, it seeks to highlight the various motivations and sources of belief and knowledge of settlement founders, the goals that they sought, the contexts in which they worked, the activities they undertook and the populations which they served. The critical and transnational historical perspective adopted by the authors of the case studies in the path-breaking book provides the reader with a more subtle understanding of the complexities of the Settlement House Movement and its impact on the social work profession.
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Smith, William V. Joseph Smith’s Sermons and the Early Mormon Documentary Record. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190274375.003.0008.
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In “Joseph Smith’s Sermons and the Early Mormon Documentary Record,” William V. Smith treats Joseph Smith’s preaching record in chronological fashion. This treatment provides, in part, an explanation of documentary trends in that record and its subsequent place in the Mormon textual value system. The documentary record of Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s preaching expanded with the growing importance attached to that preaching. That growth followed from Smith’s practice of increasingly offering new doctrinal teachings that he often claimed were based on revelation. The record of Smith’s sermons—longhand reports by official clerks and the work of a growing regiment of pew auditors—reached its productive acme in 1844, the final year of his life. Examples show that the complex character of that record and its subsequent evolution as a published authority bar the historian from a simplistic use of Smith’s documented preaching corpus.
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Alderson, Priscilla. Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447354550.001.0001.
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Critical realism, a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend, clarify and validate their work. Critical realism resolves problems and contradictions between quantitative factual research and qualitative interpretive approaches. It draws on their strengths, overcomes their limitations, and helps to connect research to policy and practice. To meet growing demand from researchers and students, the book shows how versatile critical realism can be in research across the life course and around the world, from small studies to large trials. Healthcare, health promotion and heath inequalities are all addressed. This book is based on the course at University College London, first taught by Roy Bhaskar the founder of critical realism, and later convened by the author. The aim is to help readers who are new to critical realism, or are in the fairly early stages, with their research across the whole range of health and illness disciplines and professions. Chapters consider relations between structure and agency, facts and values, and between visible evidence and mainly unseen powerful influences on health and illness. Using clear definitions, diagrams and examples, this book enables readers to understand and apply valuable critical realist concepts to health and illness research.
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Zukin, Sharon. The Innovation Complex. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190083830.001.0001.
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The Innovation Complex shows how the new urban economy is being shaped by digital technology businesses and organizations, city government, and a tech-financial meritocracy. Looking closely at “innovation” in New York from the city’s fall in the dot-com crash of 2000 to its emergence as the second-largest startup ecosystem of the 2010s, the book examines the emergence of new organizational, geographical, and discursive spaces that literally root digital production in place, molding a tech-competent workforce, public-private-nonprofit partnerships, and a hegemonic, entrepreneurial culture. The Innovation Complex begins by exploring the city’s subculture of hackathons and meetups, describes the careers of New York–based startup founders and venture capitalists, and traces the transformation of the Brooklyn waterfront from industrial wasteland to “innovation coastline.” Analyzing connections between local networks and global capital, it shows how a Silicon Valley model of innovation is urbanized by big cities like New York, where an influential alliance between business, government, and university leaders recalls C. Wright Mills’s potent concept of the power elite. Paradoxically, while the 21st-century economy makes cities more successful, they also become less livable for those who cannot reap tech’s rewards.
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Cave, Terence, and Deirdre Wilson, eds. Reading Beyond the Code. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794776.001.0001.
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This book explores the value for literary studies of relevance theory, an inferential approach to communication in which the expression and recognition of intentions plays a major role. Drawing on a wide range of examples from lyric poetry and the novel, nine of the ten chapters are written by literary specialists and use relevance theory both as an overall framework and as a resource for detailed analysis. The final chapter, written by the co-founder of relevance theory, reviews the issues addressed by the volume and explores their implications for cognitive theories of how communicative acts are interpreted in context. Originally designed to explain how people understand each other in everyday face-to-face exchanges, relevance theory—described in an early review by a literary scholar as ‘the makings of a radically new theory of communication, the first since Aristotle’s’—sheds light on the whole spectrum of human modes of communication, including literature in the broadest sense. Reading Beyond the Code is unique in using relevance theory as a prime resource for literary study, and is also the first to apply the model to a range of phenomena widely seen as supporting an ‘embodied’ conception of cognition and language where sensorimotor processes play a key role. This broadened perspective serves to enhance the value for literary studies of the central claim of relevance theory: that the ‘code model’ is fundamentally inadequate to account for human communication, and in particular for the modes of communication that are proper to literature.
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Fay, Jessica, ed. Collected Letters of Sir George and Lady Beaumont to the Wordsworth Family, 1803-1829. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859531.001.0001.
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This edition presents and contextualizes an archive of letters -- belonging to the Wordsworth Trust -- that reveal the creative and personal significance of the friendship between William Wordsworth and Sir George Beaumont. Beaumont is a key figure in the history of British Art. As well as being a respected amateur landscape painter, he was a prominent patron, collector, and co-founder of the National Gallery. Wordsworth described Beaumont’s friendship as one of the chief blessings of his life, and the letters reveal that the two men became collaborators as well as companions. In addition to documenting unique perspectives on social, political, and cultural events of the early nineteenth century (providing new contexts for reading Wordsworth’s mature poetry) the letters chart the progress of an increasingly intimate inter-familial relationship that included Lady Beaumont and Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth. The picture that emerges is of a coterie that—in influence, creativity, and affection—rivals Wordsworth’s more famous exchange with Coleridge in the 1790s. The edition includes an extended critical study of how Wordsworth and Beaumont helped shape one another’s work, tracing processes of mutual artistic development that involved not only a meeting of aristocratic refinement and rural simplicity, of a socialite and a lover of retirement, of a painter and a poet, but also an aesthetic rapprochement between neoclassical and romantic values, between the impulse to idealize and the desire to particularize.
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Hall, Kersten T. Insulin - The Crooked Timber. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855381.001.0001.
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Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes was an inevitable death sentence. Little wonder then that when insulin was first used to treat patients in the early 1920s, diabetes specialist Elliott Joslin likened its power to the ‘Vision of Ezekiel’, the Old Testament prophet who is said to have seen a valley of dry bones rise up and be restored to life. Despite its life-saving power, however, little was known about the chemical nature of insulin, with one clinician describing it as being simply ‘thick brown muck’. Just over half a century later, insulin was again causing excitement when it became the first pharmaceutical to be produced using genetic engineering, making biotech company Genentech founders multimillionaires after a spectacular flotation on Wall Street. This book tells the stories of those involved in this act of modern-day alchemy. What emerges are sometimes monstrous egos, toxic career rivalries, and a few unsung heroes, such as the two little-known scientists whose work on wool fibres proved to be crucial not only in unravelling insulin but also in ushering in a revolution in biology. Perhaps most importantly of all, with science having become so prominent in all our lives during the past year, the story of insulin has lessons for us all about what technology can—and perhaps more importantly—cannot do for us.
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Eyre, Anne, and Pam Dix. Collective Conviction. Liverpool University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781781381236.001.0001.
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This book tells the story of Disaster Action, a small charity founded in 1991 by survivors and bereaved people from the disasters of the late 1980s, including Zeebrugge, King's Cross, Clapham, Lockerbie, Hillsborough and the Marchioness. The aims were to create a health and safety culture in which disasters were less likely to occur and to support others affected by similar events. The founders could not have anticipated the degree to which they would influence emergency planning and management and the way people are treated after disasters. Aware of the value of lessons learned over 22 years, the trustees felt that this corporate memory should be captured. The book encapsulates that memory, so that it can be called upon by survivors, the bereaved, governments and others for years to come. The book sets out the chronology of Disaster Action's history, with first-person accounts and case studies of disasters interweaved with chapters on the needs and rights of individuals, the treatment of bereaved and survivors, inquests and inquiries, the law, the media, memorials and commemorations, and the importance of corporate memory. Additionally, it contains guidance notes for survivors and bereaved on dealing with a disaster, and best practice guidance for responders and the media. This book is essential reading for those in a wide range of disciplines with an interest in planning for, responding to, reporting on and dealing with the aftermath of disaster. And importantly, people affected by disaster should find solace and support in the personal stories of others.
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Puccini, Beatriz Cicala. Consciência política e humanização do parto a luta pelo direito à formação de obstetrizes na Universidade de São Paulo. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-345-9.
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In today's globalized world, violence is structural and connected to the still unmet demands of society. Brazil has one of the highest violence rates, aided by the chronic socio-economic inequality which our political model insists on reproducing and deepening. Violence against women has pride of place in this picture. In the Europe of XVIII century, women's vocation for motherhood was praised, aligned with philosophical values and discourses of the time, giving rise to unconditional love as a true myth founder of the ideology in the bourgeois economy of early capitalism. The idea of a paradigmatic body is anchored in a dualism that is both physiological and anatomic and in which ethical, moral, psychological and socio-cultural aspects will unveil. The transition from home childbirth to hospital childbirth initiates the phase of maternity and childhood protective public policies. A consequence, however, was shutting out feminine participation, preventing its main role in childbirth and resulting in us boasting one of the highest indexes of unnecessary C-sections in the world. The modern woman has gained a lot in autonomy. She has freed herself from moral, social and legal ties, nevertheless she is and always will be the owner of the biological body that is capable of generating a new life and guarantee the preservation of human species. The humanization of birth and the health of mother and child is pressing in the country, along with international reference organizations in this area, as the author of the present work defends and proves.
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Allison, Juliann Emmons. Ecofeminism and Global Environmental Politics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.158.
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Ecofeminism can be described as both an ecological philosophy and a social movement that draws on environmental studies, critiques of modernity and science, and feminist critical analyses and activism to explicate connections between women and nature, and the implications of these relationships for environmental politics. Feminist writer Françoise d’Eaubonne is widely credited to be the founder of ecofeminism in the early 1970s. Ecofeminists embrace a wide range of views concerning the causal role of Western dualistic thinking, patriarchal structures of power, and capitalism in ecological degradation, and the oppression of women and other subjugated peoples. Collectively, they find value in extending feminist analyses to the simultaneous interrogation of the domination of both nature and women. The history of ecofeminism may be divided into four decade-long periods. Ecofeminism emerged in the early 1970s, coincident with a significant upturn in the contemporary women’s and environmental movements. In the 1980s, ecofeminism entered the academy as ecofeminist activists and scholars focused their attention on the exploitation of natural resources and women, particularly in the developing world. They criticized government and cultural institutions that constrained women’s reproductive and productive roles in society, and argued that environmental protection ultimately depends on increasing women’s socioeconomic and political power. In the current postfeminist and postenvironmentalist world, ecofeminists are less concerned with theoretical labels than with effective women’s activism to achieve ecological sustainability.
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Newell, Quincy D. Your Sister in the Gospel. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199338665.001.0001.
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In this biography of Jane Elizabeth Manning James, Quincy D. Newell traces the life of a free African American woman who converted to Mormonism in the early 1840s and remained a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS, or Mormon, Church) for the rest of her life. James worked as a servant for LDS founder Joseph Smith and his successor Brigham Young. She traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the church and lived there until her death in 1908. In the last decades of her life, James persistently requested permission to perform the temple rituals that would ensure that she reached the highest degree of glory after death, but church leaders denied her requests because she was black. Nevertheless, they created a ritual just for her: a master–servant sealing that allowed her to be a servant in Joseph Smith’s household for eternity. James’s life provides a different angle on the development of the LDS Church than the experiences of white, male Mormons, whose perspective dominates the narrative of Mormon history. Her story is an important addition to the history of African American religion, American women’s history, the history of the American West, and the history of the LDS Church.
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Артемьев, Владимир Иванович, Хулио Бендезу-Сармиенто, Рафаэль Бисциони, Бобомуллоев Саидмурод, Али Акбар Вахдати, Наталья Матвеевна Виноградова, Гарегин Суренович Вртанесян, et al. Труды Маргианской археологической экспедиции. Том 8. Исследования Гонур-депе в 2015–2019 годах. Старый сад, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.33876/978-5-89930-165-0-1-428.
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Данный выпуск Трудов включает значительный мемориальный раздел, посвященный ушедшим из жизни коллегам, основателям данной серии и друзьям Маргианской экспедиции — П.М. Кожину, М.Ф. Косареву и О. Леконту. Публикуется ряд неизвестных ранее работ П.М. Кожина. Приводится информация о раскопках 2015–¬2019 гг. на Гонуре и в музеях Туркменистана, дается архитектурный анализ ряда сооружений Гонура и описываются особенности технологии изготовления керамики, а также анализируются остеологические данные. Публикуются результаты изучения могильников в Восточном Иране и на территории Пенджикентского района Таджикистана, а также сведения о распространении разных форм мечей на территории Древнего Востока и долины р. Инд. Завершает книгу раздел о гордости Туркменистана – ахалтекинских скакунах. Издание предназначено для археологов, антропологов и историков архитектуры. This issue of Transaction includes a large memorial section dedicated to the deceased colleagues, founders of this series and friends of the Margiana expedition – Pavel M. Kozhin, Michael F. Kosarev and Olivier Lecomte. A number of previously unknown works by Pavel M. Kozhin is publishing. Information on excavations in 2015–2019 is provided at Gonur and in museums of Turkmenistan, an architectural analysis of a number of structures of Gonur is given and the features of the technology of pottery making as well as osteological data are described. The results of the study of burial grounds in Eastern Iran and on the territory of the Pendjikent region of Tajikistan are published as well as information about the distribution of different forms of swords on the territory of the Ancient East and the valley of the river Indus. A section about the pride of Turkmenistan - Akhal-Teke horses ends the book . The issue is intended for archaeologists, anthropologists and historians of architecture.
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Webb, Robert C. Case Against Mormonism: A Plain Discussion and Analysis of the Stock Allegations and Arguments Against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Its Founder, Joseph Smith, with the Intention of Determining Their Evidential Value, Also Their. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.
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Webb, Robert C. Case Against Mormonism: A Plain Discussion and Analysis of the Stock Allegations and Arguments Against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Its Founder, Joseph Smith, with the Intention of Determining Their Evidential Value, Also Their. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.
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Lehdonvirta, Vili. Cloud Empires. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14219.001.0001.
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The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs, users, and workers. The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who made buying or selling anything online risky business. Then Amazon, eBay, Upwork, and Apple established secure digital platforms for selling physical goods, crowdsourcing labor, and downloading apps. These tech giants have gone on to rule the Internet like autocrats. How did this happen? How did users and workers become the hapless subjects of online economic empires? The Internet was supposed to liberate us from powerful institutions. In Cloud Empires, digital economy expert Vili Lehdonvirta explores the rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over our lives and proposes a new way forward. Digital platforms create new marketplaces and prosperity on the Internet, Lehdonvirta explains, but they are ruled by Silicon Valley despots with little or no accountability. Neither workers nor users can “vote with their feet” and find another platform because in most cases there isn't one. And yet using antitrust law and decentralization to rein in the big tech companies has proven difficult. Lehdonvirta tells the stories of pioneers who helped create—or resist—the new social order established by digital platform companies. The protagonists include the usual suspects—Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Travis Kalanick of Uber, and Bitcoin's inventor Satoshi Nakamoto—as well as Kristy Milland, labor organizer of Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and GoFundMe, a crowdfunding platform that has emerged as an ersatz stand-in for the welfare state. Only if we understand digital platforms for what they are—institutions as powerful as the state—can we begin the work of democratizing them.
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Hopke, Jill E., and Luis E. Hestres. Communicating about Fossil Fuel Divestment. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.566.
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Divestment is a socially responsible investing tactic to remove assets from a sector or industry based on moral objections to its business practices. It has historical roots in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. The early-21st-century fossil fuel divestment movement began with climate activist and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben’s Rolling Stone article, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math.” McKibben’s argument centers on three numbers. The first is 2°C, the international target for limiting global warming that was agreed upon at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2009 Copenhagen conference of parties (COP). The second is 565 Gigatons, the estimated upper limit of carbon dioxide that the world population can put into the atmosphere and reasonably expect to stay below 2°C. The third number is 2,795 Gigatons, which is the amount of proven fossil fuel reserves. That the amount of proven reserves is five times that which is allowable within the 2°C limit forms the basis for calls to divest.The aggregation of individual divestment campaigns constitutes a movement with shared goals. Divestment can also function as “tactic” to indirectly apply pressure to targets of a movement, such as in the case of the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline in the United States. Since 2012, the fossil fuel divestment movement has been gaining traction, first in the United States and United Kingdom, with student-led organizing focused on pressuring universities to divest endowment assets on moral grounds.In partnership with 350.org, The Guardian launched its Keep it in the Ground campaign in March 2015 at the behest of outgoing editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger. Within its first year, the digital campaign garnered support from more than a quarter-million online petitioners and won a “campaign of the year” award in the Press Gazette’s British Journalism Awards. Since the launch of The Guardian’s campaign, “keep it in the ground” has become a dominant frame used by fossil fuel divestment activists.Divestment campaigns seek to stigmatize the fossil fuel industry. The rationale for divestment rests on the idea that fossil fuel companies are financially valued based on their resource reserves and will not be able to extract these reserves with a 2°C or lower climate target. Thus, their valuation will be reduced and the financial holdings become “stranded assets.” Critics of divestment have cited the costs and risks to institutional endowments that divestment would entail, arguing that to divest would go against their fiduciary responsibility. Critics have also argued that divesting from fossil fuel assets would have little or no impact on the industry. Some higher education institutions, including Princeton and Harvard, have objected to divestment as a politicization of their endowments. Divestment advocates have responded to this concern by pointing out that not divesting is not a politically neutral act—it is, in fact, choosing the side of fossil fuel corporations.