Books: 'Heroic structure'

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Zenea, Ildefonso Estrada y. La heroica ciudad de Veracruz. Xalapa, Veracruz, México: Universidad Veracruzana, 1994.

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Pasnik, Mark, Michael Kubo, and Chris Grimley. Heroic: Concrete architecture and the new Boston. New York, NY: The Monacelli Press, 2015.

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Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain), ed. Water: From interfaces to the bulk : Heriot-Watt University, UK, 27-29 August 2008. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2009.

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Criminals as heroes: Structure, power & identity. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1989.

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God, the quest, the hero: Thematic structures in Beckett's fiction. Chapel Hill: U.N.C., Dept. of Romance Languages, 1988.

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The four funerals in Beowulf: And the structure of the poem. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.

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Forth Rail Bridge Centenary Conference (1990 Department of Civil Engineering, Heriot-Watt University). Developments in structural engineering: Proceedings of the Forth Rail Bridge Centenary Conference, held on the 21-23 August 1990 at the Department of Civil Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1990.

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A, Forster, ed. Quaternary engineering geology: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Engineering Group of the Geological Society, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 10-14 September 1989. London: Geological Society, 1991.

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Dziedzic, Stanisław. Skałka: Kościół i Klasztor Paulinów w Krakowie = Skałka Church and Pauline Priory. Kraków: Wydawn. "Czuwajmy", 1999.

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International Conference on Assuring It's Safe: Integrating Structural Integrity, Inspection, and Monitoring into Safety and Risk Assessment (1998 Heriot-Watt University). International conference on assuring it's safe: Integrating structural integrity, inspection, and monitoring into safety and risk assessment : 18-19 May 1998, Heriot-Watt University,Edinburgh, UK. Bury St Edmunds: Professional Engineering Publishing for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1998.

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Palmer-Patel, Charul. Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Palmer-Patel, Charul. Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Palmer-Patel, Charul. Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Palmer-Patel, Charul. Shape of Fantasy: Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Oberle, Isabell, and Dennis Pulina, eds. Heldenhaftes Warten in der Literatur. Rombach Wissenschaft, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783968210179.

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Heroism is usually associated with great deeds, and heroes are regarded as superior and powerful individuals who take action. This opinion has dominated Western tradition since ancient times. At the same, the ability to bide one’s time was and is equally classed as a heroic quality because it is an ‘inner form of action’ (M. Weber). Fabius Cunctator was heroicised for tactically biding his time during the Second Punic War, as were the front-line soldiers during the First World War, who held out for so long in the trenches. Moreover, the Christian notion of salvation, the heroic, eremitical act of waiting in this life for the next, or the prophetic, messianic constellations of the 1920s also spring to mind in this context. The essays collected in this book examine ‘heroic waiting’ as a literary phenomenon. They not only provide in-depth analyses of how biding one’s time is conveyed as a heroic act, but also focus above all on how it is staged. The book’s introduction, which was written by the editors, is based on a collective set of descriptive tools with which ‘heroic waiting’ can be defined and understood in terms of its typological characteristics on the one hand and as a relational structure on the other.

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Gölz, Olmo, and Cornelia Brink, eds. Gewalt und Heldentum. Ergon – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783956508189.

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Heroic tales recount violence, which can be defined as a deliberate assault on the body of another against their will. The act of violence is a culmination of courage, determination, contempt for rules and the power to act; violence appears as a paradigmatic test of the individual. Violence forces those involved to position themselves in relation to it – perpetrators as well as victims, participants as well as bystanders, contemporaries as well as descendants. In this volume, three perspectives on the heroization, endurance and avoidance of violence structure different literary, historical, cultural and sociological approaches to identifying the relationship between the heroic and physical violence. An introductory essay identifies theoretical intersections between violence and heroism. With contributions by Ronald G. Asch, Cornelia Brink, Ulrich Bröckling, Olmo Gölz, Joachim Grage, Felix K. Maier, Vera Marstaller, Christoph Mauntel, Sotirios Mouzakis, Friederike Pannewick, Jan Philipp Reemtsma, Sven Reichardt and Cornel Zwierlein.

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Nuernberg, Susan, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, and Alison Archer. The Valley of the Moon. Edited by Jay Williams. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199315178.013.23.

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This essay explores Jack London’s novel The Valley of the Moon, which was originally published in 1912. The novel is structured as a heroic quest for love, land, and a home, and it was written during a period of time when London was consciously experiencing and exploring his own yearnings for love, land, and a home. This essay examines how London used research of small-scale farming and the small towns and cities he wrote about before writing the book. Equally, this essay examines how London reinvented the Heroic Quest by using a female heroine. Finally, the essay examines how London’s wife, Charmian collaborated on female characters and scenes throughout the novel. The Valley of the Moon is the literary rendering of London’s social and economic message to all future generations presented in the form of a quest narrative.

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Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston. The Monacelli Press, 2015.

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King, Daniel. Aretaios of Kappodokia. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810513.003.0003.

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This chapter turns to the neglected author, Aretaios of Kappodokia, and his nosological writings. Aretaios develops an anatomically informed vision of pain perception which employs Aristotelian ideas about perception; he describes these symptoms in a manner which combines specific and formal medical terminology with more quotidian language and metaphors for various pain symptoms. This combination of linguistic registers helps provide a structure for the recognition and diagnosis of different symptoms and their conditions. Aretaios combines these two aspects of his nosology with a vision of the patient and his interaction with them that emphasizes their joint, heroic confrontation of pain and disease. Aretaios stresses, ultimately, the patient’s and doctor’s joint or combined confrontation of pain and disease.

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Scully, Stephen. Hesiodic Poetics. Edited by Alexander C. Loney and Stephen Scully. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190209032.013.10.

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In terms of poetics, the contest between Hesiod and Homer seems simultaneously natural and surprising: natural because both of them composed in the artificial “song dialect” and highly formulaic medium of epea, and surprising because Homer’s long, heroic poetry differed so greatly in voice, theme, length, structure, and style from Hesiod’s much shorter, catalogic narrative poetry or from his didactic poetry. This chapter examines Hesiod’s poetry alongside Homer’s in terms of voice and theme, length and form, and style and genealogical lists. With examples from both singers, I propose that it may be a stylistic feature of catalogic poetry to interweave the personified names in a list with the corresponding lowercase words (nouns, verbs, adjectives) in the surrounding narrative. I also propose that, to a greater extent than Homer, Hesiod, with his fondness for word play and etymological punning, draws attention upon individual words.

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EBS. Heriot Watt BA Structure And Regulation Of Capital Markets Binder/Slipcase. Financial Times Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company), 1999.

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Colin, Bain, and Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain), eds. Water: From interfaces to the bulk : Heriot-Watt University, UK, 27-29 August 2008. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2009.

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Newell, Heather, Máire Noonan, Glyne Piggott, and Lisa deMena Travis, eds. The Structure of Words at the Interfaces. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778264.001.0001.

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This volume contains chapters that treat the question ‘What is a word?’ in various ways. The lens through which this question is asked and answered is coloured by a discussion of where in the grammar wordhood is determined. All of the authors in this work take it as given that structures at, above, and below the ‘word’ are built in the same derivational system; there is no lexicalist grammatical subsystem dedicated to word building. This type of framework foregrounds the difficulty in defining wordhood. Questions like whether there are restrictions on the size of structures that distinguish words from phrases, or whether there are combinatory operations that are specific to one or the other, are central to the debate. The chapters herein do not all agree. Some propose wordhood to be limited to entities defined by syntactic heads, others propose that phrasal structure can be found within words. Some propose that head movement and adjunction (and Morphological Merger, as its mirror image) are the manner in which words are built, while others propose that phrasal movements are crucial to determining the order of morphemes word-internally. All chapters point to the conclusion that the phonological domains that we call words are read off of the morphosyntactic structure in particular ways. It is the study of this interface, between the syntactic and phonological modules of Universal Grammar, that underpins the totality of the discussion in this volume.

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Black, Scott. Henry Fielding and the Progress of Romance. Edited by Alan Downie. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566747.013.012.

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Henry Fielding’s novels fit centrally into recent revisionist accounts of the novel as an international genre defined by translation and adaptation and even by its filiations with romance. Against the standard story of the novel rising as it moves away from romance, Fielding’s novels develop as they approach romance. His art increases in power and sophistication as he more fully explores the possibilities of romance, both structural and modal. As Fielding moves from Jonathan Wild to Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, and Amelia, the productive tension between satire and romance that organizes all his novels is increasingly resolved by integrating the satire into the structures of romance; love is increasingly explored and not just assumed; and the romance heroine becomes increasingly central. Fielding uses the modal forces of romance to address the issues raised by its expansive, dialogic, and intertextual generic structures.

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Ibrahim, Boulis. Heriot Watt BA Programme of Management Education 2: Structure and Regulation of Capital Markets Text. Financial Times Prentice Hall, 1999.

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Rey, Terry. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625849.003.0011.

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The Priest and the Prophetess concludes with a succinct consideration of the ultimate fates and legacies of Romaine-la-Prophétesse and Abbé Ouvière and of what their brief, yet historically momentous, relationship can tell us about the interconnectedness of peoples, places, ideologies, and faiths in the revolutionary Atlantic world. That the former was likely murdered in Saint-Domingue in 1795 because of his religion, and that the latter died of natural causes as an old, distinguished personage in New York in 1832, speaks volumes about the ways in which race and religion channeled and structured power throughout the revolutionary Atlantic world. A summation lauds each man as visionary, heroic healers, their respective flaws notwithstanding.

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Kooistra, Paul. Criminals As Heroes: Structure, Power and Identity. Bowling Green State Univ Popular Pr, 1988.

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Widiger, Thomas A., Whitney L. Gore, Cristina Crego, Stephanie L. Rojas, and Joshua R. Oltmanns. Five Factor Model and Personality Disorder. Edited by Thomas A. Widiger. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352487.013.4.

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The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the relationship of the Five Factor Model (FFM) to personality disorder. The FFM has traditionally been viewed as a dimensional model of normal personality structure. However, it should probably be viewed as a dimensional model of general personality structure, including maladaptive as well as adaptive personality traits. Discussed herein is the empirical support for the coverage of personality disorders within the FFM; the ability of the FFM to explain the convergence and divergence among personality disorder scales; the relationship of the FFM to the DSM-5 dimensional trait model; the empirical support for maladaptivity within both poles of each FFM domain (focusing in particular on agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness); and the development of scales for the assessment of maladaptive variants of the FFM.

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Keshav, Satish, and Alexandra Kent. Abdominal mass. Edited by Patrick Davey and David Sprigings. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199568741.003.0026.

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Abdominal mass describes a visible or palpable swelling in the abdomen that is abnormal. It may arise from one of the internal organs, such as an enlarged liver or spleen, or from musculoskeletal structures such a floating rib; alternatively, it may be a hernia containing mesenteric or visceral tissue. Abdominal mass is an uncommon presenting complaint, except where patients notice a hernia. Frequently, the herniation is intermittent or minor, and can be missed on examination. Organomegaly and neoplastic masses can be hard to detect until they are large, and the question of whether or not there really is a mass frequently has to be settled by imaging such as ultrasound or CT scanning. This chapter covers the approach to diagnosis, key diagnostic tests, therapies, and prognosis as well as dealing with uncertainty when it comes to the initial diagnosis.

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Forth Rail Bridge Centenary Conference and B. H. V. Topping. Developments in Structural Engineering: Proceedings of the Forth Rail Bridge Centenary Conference, Held on the 21-23 August 1990 at the Department of Civil Engineering, Heriot-Watt. Spon Pr, 1990.

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Hughey, Matthew W., and Emma González-Lesser, eds. Racialized Media. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479811076.001.0001.

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This book examines the design (imagining and producing), delivery (distribution, gatekeeping, and cultural mediation), and decoding (reception, consumption, and debate) of varied genres and styles of contemporary racialized media. In line with what the late great media sociologist Stuart Hall called the “circuit of culture,” the authors herein collectively analyze, first, the production side of imagining and encoding ideological meanings and narratives, the material structures, the people involved, and global political economy of media; second, the arena of distribution in which marketing strategies, gatekeeping traditions, laws and policies, and professional customs structure where and how media is framed; and third, the practices of consumption whereby audience receive, interpret, and debate racialized media. Despite pronouncements that we have reached a “postracial” or “colorblind” society or that racial—and racist—meanings are only the domains of extremist activism and political rhetoric, we demonstrate how dominant racial meanings are deployed, negotiated, and contested in the behind-the-scenes productive activity with, distributive processes regarding, and consumer reactions to racialized media. The chapters highlight the multidirectional influences between media, the racialized climate of politics and culture, reverberations of media meanings in society, and experiences of media consumption along the lines of race, class, and gender positionalities. To analyze these complex relationships, contributing authors utilize various forms of media, including film, television, books, newspapers, social media, video games, and comics, among others.

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Wojewodzic, Tomasz. Procesy dywestycji i dezagraryzacji w rolnictwie o rozdrobnionej strukturze agrarnej. Publishing House of the University of Agriculture in Krakow, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.15576/978-83-66602-31-1.

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The turn of the 20th and 21st centuries has been a very dynamic period of change in Poland and around the world; also a period of change in thinking about the economy and agriculture. The present work is a study of the decline, divestments and development of agriculture in the areas of fragmented farming structure. The reflections presented herein, upon the processes of the remodelling of agrarian structures, of divestments in farming, and disagrarisation, are mostly anchored in the achievements of the theory of spatial economy (land management), and the microeconomic theories of choice, including the theory of an agricultural holding (farm) and land rent theories. The work focuses on the economic issues of remodelling the agrarian structure, but due to the nature of the issues discussed herein, specifically in relation to family-owned farms, the social and environmental aspects also needed to be taken into account – in response to the need for a heterogeneous approach, which is increasingly stressed in economic sciences today. The main objective of the research was to diagnose and assess the scale and scope of the mechanisms and processes that inform the decline and growth of agricultural holdings in the areas with fragmented farming structure. The study covered the area comprising four regions (provinces) of south-eastern Poland, which – according to the FADN nomenclature – form the macro region of Małopolska and Pogórze. The study of subject literature has been enriched with an analysis of available statistics; data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN); information obtained from the Department of Programming and Reporting at the Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture; and author’s own research conducted among farm owners. The information thus obtained made it possible to: • Determine the theoretical premises for the spatial diversity of agriculture, and the role of small farms in the shaping of agrarian structure. • Adapt the concept of “divestment” for the description and analysis of the phenomena occurring in agriculture. • Indicate the role and importance of the processes of divestment and disagrarisation in the restructuring of agriculture. • Assess the natural, social and economic determinants of the process of restructuring agriculture in areas with fragmented farming structure. • Assess selected aspects of economic efficiency of agriculture in areas with fragmented farming structure, with the focus on small and micro farms. • Carry out an ex ante evaluation of the impact of agricultural policy instruments on the process of restructuring of agriculture in the macro region of Małopolska and Pogórze. • Identify the indicators of decline and fall, and barriers to the liquidation of farms. • Assess the relationship between the level of socio-economic development, the structure of farming, and the quality of agricultural production space in a given territorial unit, versus the intensity of the economic and production disagrarisation processes in agricultural holdings. • Propose targeted solutions conducive to the improvement of the farming structure in areas with a high framentation of agriculture. Observation of the processes occurring in agriculture, and the scientific theories created on the basis thereof, have shown that even the smallest farms have a chance to continue in existence, provided that we are able to positively verify their adaptation to the changing conditions in the environment. Carrying out farming activity is a prerequisite for implementing the economic, social and environmental functions associated with family farms. At the same time, based on the analyses performed, we need to assume that the advanced processes of the production and economic disagrarisation of agricultural holdings are to a greater extent determined by the anatomical features of agriculture, and by the natural conditions, than by the level of socio-economic development of the given territorial unit. In the current economic climate, the remodelling of the agrarian structure is only possible with the active participation of the institutions responsible for the creation of economic growth and agricultural policy development. It is extremely important from the point of view of environmental protection, and the viability of rural areas, to support small farms engaged in agricultural activities, and to introduce such instruments that will enable the replacement of an economic collapse with divestments, carried out in a planned manner, and allowing for thus released agricultural resources to find alternative application in units with a higher development potential. The area of theoretical research requiring further exploration includes the issues such as transactional costs of the liquidation of agricultural holdings, and the assessment of the economic effectiveness of conducting divestments.

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Developments in Structural Engineering: Proceedings of the Forth Rail Bridge Centenary Conference, Held on the 21-23 August 1990 at the Department of Civil Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Taylor & Francis Group, 2003.

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Casteleira, Rodrigo Pedro. (Des)pregamentos e táticas nos cotidianos narrados por travestis: Desalojamentos em espaços prisionais como modos de (r)existências. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-325-1.

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This book aims to analyze four crossdressers narratives who have been imprisoned for different periods of time in order to raise debates on resistance ways carried out by each one of them. The crossdressers interviewed here were reached by different connections such as friends in common, social media or phone calls, which did not represent a closed and narrowed field but one that it is open and flexible. The issues raised here tried to sketch the crossdresser category through the words by crossdressers writers along with the concepts about themselves and self- determinations, therefore shaping a kind of autobiography even if it is led by a semi- structured script. The existing connections among them, beyond the crossdresser category, lie at first in their access to the prison system and later in finding ways to make it possible to go through life imprisonment. These articulated methods are tactics thought in the space and time web, that is, on a daily basis. This is also one of the book investigation focuses, once it matters to understand not the crossdressers heroic actions, but the ordinary ones, the usual ones, articulated according to educational backgrounds thought as being a less important education.

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Olivelle, Patrick. Orders of Life. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198702603.003.0006.

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This chapter explores the invention and the early history of the system of āśrama (orders of life). Using the newly discovered semantic history of gṛhastha (householder), this study shows that the āśrama system originates from the organization of pāṣaṇḍa religious organization noted by Aśoka, and organizational structure that contained two kinds of members: those who have gone forth as itinerant ascetics (pravrajita) and those who opted to stay at home (gṛhastha). The early formulation of the āśrama system viewed the four orders of Vedic student, married householder, forest hermit, and wandering mendicant as adult vocations chosen by the young adult who has completed his Vedic education. In Manu, we transition to the system where the four are considered four stages of life suitable for young men, adults, and old people.

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Stevenson, Margaret C., and Cynthia J. Najdowski. Criminal Juries in the 21st Century. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190658113.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the goals of the present volume and a preview of the individual chapters herein. Specifically, it reviews research on various understudied and cutting-edge topics related to the intersection of psychological research and criminal jury decision-making. This research is placed in a real-world context by relating it to actual criminal cases that exemplify each topic addressed in the volume. In doing so, the chapter focuses on the common themes that are reflected in all of the chapters of the volume: the need to understand how issues such as societal attitudinal shifts, technological advances, and juror experiences affect the structure, function, and performance of the modern criminal jury; the merits of implementing legal innovations and practices informed by empirical research; and important avenues for future empirical exploration.

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Berliner, Todd. Complexity and Experimentation in the Western. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190658748.003.0012.

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Chapter 12 explains the aesthetic value of increased complexity in genre filmmaking by examining filmmakers’ efforts to continually complicate the figure of the western hero. The chapter studies the appeal, for western cinephiles, of Hollywood’s most complex westerns of the studio era. It also demonstrates how more recent filmmakers have kept the western alive by revitalizing outdated conventions and mining new material from the genre. The western is so solid and reliable that filmmakers found they could sledgehammer its foundational myths without cracking its structure.

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1975-, Li Changqing, and Ling Tok Wang, eds. Advanced applications and structures in XML processing: Label streams, semantics utilization, and data query technologies. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2010.

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Fill-in-the-blank Plotting: A Guide to Outlining a Novel. Crickhollow Books, 2009.

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Siebert, Scott E., and David S. DeGeest. The Five Factor Model of Personality in Business and Industry. Edited by Thomas A. Widiger. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352487.013.1.

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Personality traits have played a central role in industrial/organizational psychology, human resource management, and organizational behavior, the key fields in the application of psychology to business and industry. In the early years, excessive optimism led scholars to unrealistic expectations about the value of personality traits at work. This was followed by a period of profound pessimism regarding the value of personality as an explanatory variable when the unrealistic expectations were inevitably disappointed. More recently, advances in theory and methodology have led scholars to re-examine the role of personality with more realistic expectations. The Five Factor Model (FFM) has predominated as an integrative personality structure for conceptualizing and researching the relationship of personality to workplace outcomes. Five specific domains of research are considered herein: personnel selection; employee motivation, attitudes, and behavior; leadership; teams; and entrepreneurship. The chapter ends with open questions for future research in this domain.

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Cheng, Ning, Susan A. Masino, and Jong M. Rho. Metabolic Therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Comorbidities. Edited by Jong M. Rho. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190497996.003.0014.

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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heretogenous developmental disorder characterized by deficits in sociability and communication and by repetitive and/or restrictive behaviors. Currently, only comorbid manifestations can be alleviated (such as seizures and sleep disturbance) not core behavioral symptoms. Recent studies have increasingly implicated mitochondrial dysfunction as a cause of ASD. Mitochondria play an integral role in many cellular functions and are susceptible to many pathophysiological insults. Derangements in mitochondrial structure and function provide a scientific rationale for experimental therapeutics. Meanwhile, the high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet (KD) has been shown to enhance mitochondrial function through a multiplicity of mechanisms. Reviewed herein is clinical and basic laboratory evidence for the use of metabolism-based therapies such as the KD in the treatment of ASD, as well as emerging comorbid models of epilepsy and autism. Future research directions aimed at validating such therapeutic approaches and identifying novel mechanistic targets are discussed.

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Hamm, Jonathan Christopher. Genre in Modern Chinese Fiction. Edited by Carlos Rojas and Andrea Bachner. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199383313.013.27.

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This chapter explores the place of genre in modern Chinese fiction through a reading of Xiang Kairan’s martial arts novelRighteous Heroes of Modern Times, considered one of the foundational works of modern martial arts fiction. The novel’s narrative centers on the question of the transmission of China’s martial arts. In a self-reflexive turn, it establishes connections between the transmission of the martial arts and of narrative—both the transitivity of the narrative act and the transmission of particular bodies of narrative material. The tale involves a modernization of the mode of transmission, thus probing the tension between continuity and change inherent in the logic of transmission—of martial arts traditions as well as of the generic structures of martial arts fiction. This allows for a reflection on the laws of genre itself, since a genre work succeeds in part by varying or violating the material that it inherits.

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Atakav, Eylem. Feminism and Women’s Film History in 1980s Turkey. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039683.003.0010.

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This chapter explores the relationship between feminism and women's film history in the context of 1980s Turkey. In discussing women's film history, the chapter includes not only the history of women filmmakers and the films they have made but also the link between the history of Turkish film industry and feminism. It begins with a historical overview of the feminist movement in Turkey and then examines its visible traces in film texts produced during the 1980s in order to argue that those films can be most productively understood as explorations of gendered power relations. The chapter then considers how the enforced depoliticization introduced in Turkey after the 1980 coup opened up a space for feminist concerns to be expressed within commercial cinema. It also shows how this political context gave rise to the newly humanized, more independent heroine that characterized Turkish cinema during the period, but suggests that the films were nevertheless made largely within the structures of a patriarchal commercial cinema.

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Garrison, Alysia. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423632.003.0014.

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Though more studies have been dedicated to the place of Kant in Agamben’s oeuvre, Hegel – that other major Enlightenment philosopher indispensable to modernity – holds an equally formative, if perhaps more subtle, place in his work. From the very earliest to the latest texts, Agamben’s work seeks to surpass the horizon of Western metaphysics through a philological engagement with the negative, formed in large part through a complex confrontation with Hegel. Agamben’s grappling with the dialectic in search of its idling is not merely strategic, but as he puts it, ‘one of the most urgent tasks today’ for a Marxist philosophy shored on its wreckage (IH 39). In ‘The Discreet Taste of the Dialectic’, Antonio Negri claims that the work of Agamben enables a ‘discreet dialectical rediscovery’ typifying left Hegelianism and the young Marx, resulting not in ‘the triumph of the Aufhebung‘, but in ‘the heroism of the negative’.1 Rather than valorising the negative, however, as Agamben painstakingly argues in his early text Language and Death, it is precisely the negative structure of the Voice, or, in Hegel’s terms, the ‘bad infinity’ predicted on division, that Agamben’s thought seeks to absolve (LD 100).

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Mariani, Giorgio. War, Fiction, and Truth. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039751.003.0008.

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This chapter examines the correlation between the Vietnam War and literary postmodernism in Tim O'Brien's “How to Tell a True War Story,” one of the short stories in the collection The Things They Carried. It considers the main structural weakness in O'Brien's narrative utopia as well as the paradoxes of war in the story. It shows how O'Brien's search for “truth” allows him to explore in a meandering though compelling way many of the rhetorical and moral dilemmas of the would-be anti-war writer. It argues that the story occupies an uncomfortable position between a postmodernist uneasiness with “truth,” on the one hand, and a rational commitment to rules for distinguishing between truth and falsehood, on the other. It suggests that O'Brien's imagination is a cognitive resource and, therefore, ultimately a political tool capable of unveiling the cowardice hidden behind what many call heroism, as well as the way even love can feed the monster of war.

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Arft, Justin. Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847805.001.0001.

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Abstract Arete and the Odyssey’s Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale “poetics of interrogation” used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus’ kleos (epic renown). Arete’s interrogation of Odysseus has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-European, Orphic, and Greek epigrammatic corpora shows that the “stranger’s interrogation” is a formula that demands performance and negotiation of status. Within the Odyssey, this interrogation is part of an intraformular network used to generate kleos, and the queen’s question initiates the longest and most complex negotiation of Odysseus’ status in epic and memory. Arete’s role as interrogator not only explains her strange authority and resonance with both Penelope and comparative afterlife figures, but also establishes a gendered, agonistic tension between her and her husband Alkinoos that influences the structure, genre, and narratology of performances across the Phaeacian episode. This book reinterprets the Odyssey’s central episode and challenges several assumptions about Nausikaa and Alkinoos’ famed hospitality, even demonstrating how the Apologue is organized as a response to competing inquiries into Odysseus’ fundamental status in tradition. The Odyssey ultimately navigates away from Odysseus’ public reputation and roots his status in private memories, and Arete’s carefully arranged interventions signal the larger process by which the Odyssey immortalizes Odysseus in poetry as a nostos hero. The queen and her question invite new applications of oral poetics that shed light on the structure, composition, and reperformance of the Odyssey.

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Kasatkina, Tatyana A., ed. Dostoevsky’s Novel The Adolescent: Current State of Research. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0677-2.

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The third book in the series Dostoevsky’s Novels: Current State of Research is dedicated to the novel The Adolescent and it is published in collaboration with scholars from different countries; the first book was devoted to the novel The Idiot (Moscow, Naslediye Publ., 2001), the second to the novel The Brothers Karamazov (Moscow, Nauka Publ., 2007). The book analyses the problems of a personality experiencing the process of formation, and the narrative structure of the novel that enables the author to express his complex philosophical and theological ideas through the speech of the adolescent hero; it explores the relationship of drafts to the published text, the system of allusions, reminiscences, direct and latent quotations which introduces sacred, literary, pictorial, and musical texts of European and Russian culture in Dostoevsky’s text; it provides an analysis of different performances of the novel, etc. Analytical reviews of research on the novel in the 20th and 21st centuries in Russia and abroad are published. The book is meant for readers who love Dostoevsky, as well as philologists, philosophers, and theologians.

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Ashe, Laura. Killing the King. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795148.003.0004.

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This chapter argues from the premise that ‘romance’ is a mode of thought, a discourse structuring narrative expectations, which interacts with all the competing discourses surrounding it. It considers the historical accounts of King John’s death, examining the late-thirteenth-century appearance of a new story, clearly derived from oral tradition and structured by the conventions of romance, which has John righteously poisoned for his crimes against the people. It is argued that the expectations of romance enable the Prose Brut chronicler to present the poisoner as a self-sacrificing hero for the English people, in a manner which exposes the possibility of the rightful destruction of a ruling king. Comparisons are drawn with the account in a monastic Latin chronicle, and in the Short English Metrical Chronicle in the Auchinleck manuscript, as well as with the romance of Havelok. It is argued that romance is an inherently political and politicizing discourse.

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Magoulick, Mary J. The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496837066.001.0001.

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Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, break through these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince “hopepunk. ” They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.

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Brownstein, Michael. The Implicit Mind. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190633721.001.0001.

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Heroes are often admired for their ability to act without having “one thought too many,” as Bernard Williams put it. Likewise, the unhesitating decisions of masterful athletes and artists are part of their fascination. Examples like these make clear that spontaneity can represent an ideal. However, recent literature in empirical psychology has shown how vulnerable our spontaneous inclinations can be to bias, shortsightedness, and irrationality. How can we make sense of these different roles that spontaneity plays in our lives? The central contention of this book is that understanding these two faces of spontaneity—its virtues and vices—requires understanding the “implicit mind.” In turn, understanding the implicit mind requires considering three sets of questions. The first set focuses on the architecture of the implicit mind itself. What kinds of mental states make up the implicit mind? Are both “virtue” and “vice” cases of spontaneity products of one and the same mental system? What kind of cognitive structure do these states have, if so? The second set of questions focuses on the relationship between the implicit mind and the self. How should we relate to our spontaneous inclinations and dispositions? Are they “ours,” in the sense that they reflect on our character or identity? Are we responsible for them? The third set focuses on the ethics of spontaneity. What can research on self-regulation teach us about how to improve the ethics of our implicit mind? How can we enjoy the virtues of spontaneity without succumbing to its vices?

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