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Pennisi, Rosa. Qindīl Umm Hāšim: La lampada di Umm Hāšim con l’autobiografia dell’autore. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-598-8.
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Qindīl Umm Hāšim, ‘The Lamp of Umm Hāšim’, is the title of Yaḥyā Ḥaqqī’s collection of short stories, first published in 1944, that made the author famous. Its enormous success can be traced back to the novella of the same title that opens the collection. The novella, due to its themes and narrative form, perfectly synthesizes the nationalistic spirit and modern ideals that developed in the 1920s around the al-madrasa al-ḥadīṯa movement, ‘The Modern School’, and ranks among the classics of modern Arabic fiction. It is a formally and stylistically mature work that manages to communicate in a linear and concise manner – with a formally perfect style and language that is both symbolic and direct – the spiritual, psychological and cultural complexity of the multidimensional tensions that characterise modern Egyptian reality. In 1975, following numerous reprints, an integrated edition of the collection was published containing Yaḥyā Ḥaqqī’s autobiography, which constitutes a true original essay by the author. In his autobiography Ašǧān ʿuḍw muntasib (Concerns of an affiliated member), Ḥaqqī not only reports the most important events of his life, but also offers a literary manifesto in which he confides his ideological, stylistic and literary concerns to the reader. The autobiographical manifesto emphasises how through writing (and the short story, in particular), Ḥaqqī wants to ‘shake up the Egyptian people’ so that they become aware of the socio-cultural and identity-national values that art plays in the modern era. Both his autobiography and the novella The Lamp of Umm Hāšim complement each other in capturing all the details that make up the style, ideology, innovation and commitment of a modern Egyptian intellectual. The novella – concentrated in a modest narrative space, along with Ḥaqqī’s literary manifesto – indisputably finds its place among the Great Books of Arabic Literature.
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Heilbron, J. L. Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198819264.001.0001.
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Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction covers the life and work of the pioneer of the quantum theory of the atom who ranks with Einstein in importance for the development of modern physics. In addition to his role as a scientist, Bohr was a statesman and Danish cultural icon, who built scientific institutions and pushed for the extension of international cooperation to all nation states. He also had deep interests in philosophy, literature, and humanism. This VSI considers how all of these aspects of Bohr’s personality influenced his ground-breaking work.
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Meyer, Jessica. An Equal Burden. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824169.001.0001.
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An Equal Burden forms the first scholarly study of the Army Medical Services in the First World War to focus on the roles and experiences of the men of the ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). These men, through their work as stretcher-bearers and orderlies, provided a range of labour, both physical and emotional, in aid of the sick and wounded. They were not professional medical caregivers, yet were called upon to provide medical care, however rudimentary; they served in uniform, under military discipline, yet were forbidden, as non-combatants, from carrying weapons. Their service as men in wartime was thus unique. Structured both chronologically and thematically, this study examines the work that RAMC rankers undertook and its importance to the running of the chain of medical evacuation. It additionally explores the gendered status of these men within the medical, military, and cultural hierarchies of a society engaged in total war, locating their service within the context of that of doctors, female nurses, and combatant servicemen. Through close readings of official documents, personal papers, and cultural representations, both verbal and visual, it argues that the ranks of the RAMC formed a space in which non-commissioned servicemen, through their many roles, defined and redefined medical caregiving as men’s work in wartime.
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Tran, Anh Q. Of Gods and Heroes. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190677602.003.0004.
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Chapter 3 analyzes the many religious rites, including the worship of Heaven, nature, spirits, heroes, and religious figures in public cults as well as domestic rituals. It gives an introduction to the cultic life of the Vietnamese and a Christian evaluation of traditional worship. In particular, it describes prominent sacrifices—to Heaven and Earth; to the Divine Farmer and other spirits of nature; to imperial ancestors—as well as some of the important cults in Vietnamese society: the cults of Confucius and the military; of the three ranks of spirits (supreme, middle rank, and lower rank); and of religious figures: Mother Goddess, Lady Buddha of Compassion, and Jade Emperor. From a Christian perspective, these rites challenge the notion of monotheistic worship and display a reluctance on the part of the Christian to completely dismiss these rites.
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Pollock, Linda. The Affective Life in Shakespearean England. Edited by Malcolm Smuts. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660841.013.25.
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Critiquing the amount of scholarly attention paid to the body and to intense, overwhelming feelings, this chapter examines how individuals, mainly the landed ranks, experienced and dealt with affect in daily life and relationships. While scholarship emphasizes suppression and disapproval of passion, this chapter views the management of affect as not only the repression of feelings but also as the encouragement and elicitation of them. It examines the available coping strategies for dealing with strong feelings such as anger or grief. It stresses the interconnections between affect and morality. Affect, judgment and conduct constituted a dynamic interchange in Shakespearean England. Feelings involve judgement and evaluation and are intimately connected to thoughts, norms, and culture. Finally, it points to the importance of the performative nature of affect in this period, concluding that culturally mandated or sanctioned emotions were not necessarily less authentic than spontaneous feelings.
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Banting, Keith, and Edward Koning. Just Visiting? The Weakening of Social Protection in a Mobile World. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428231.003.0006.
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Recent scholarship has become increasingly attentive to the way different welfare states include or exclude newcomers. Much of this literature has focused on the access to benefits granted to immigrants with a permanent status. While this emphasis is understandable, it ignores the growing ranks of individuals who do not settle permanently, either because they are only given temporary status or because they choose to move on. This paper helps to fill this gap by comparing four countries that are very different in the way they treat temporary migrants: Sweden, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. We find that migrants on a temporary permit are among the most weakly protected in each of these countries, but that the exclusion is more severe in countries where politicians face considerable political pressure to appear tough on immigration and where there are few institutional protections to protect temporary residents from such pressures. These findings highlight both the fragility of social protection in a world of mobility and the importance of firmly entrenched protections of equal treatment.
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Ceraso, Cecilia, Germán Adolfo Retola, and Juan Manuel Unzaga, eds. La ciudad de las ranas. Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (EDULP), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.35537/10915/69682.
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Desde el Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) creamos los Proyectos de Investigación Orientada (PIO) cuya propuesta de investigación permitiera orientar la investigación hacia la resolución de problemas concretos cuya demanda surgiera de la sociedad misma y no de los propios investigadores. En este contexto se inscribe La Ciudad de las Ranas: El mapa de aldeas, un libro que se origina en uno de esos proyectos orientados específicamente a la Emergencia Hídrica Regional, que tiene como referencia la terrible inundación que afectó a La Plata, Berisso y Ensenada el 2 de abril de 2013. Encontrarán en él elementos fundamentales para entender la problemática regional que incluyen desde la cartografía del territorio, la construcción social de la salud y el acceso a los derechos y políticas públicas. Pero lo más importante es que este libro refleja el camino del diálogo de la comunidad científica y el territorio para construir conocimientos contextualizados, significativos y relevantes para sustentar la transformación de la región. Insumos que se constituyan en herramientas para la toma de decisiones inteligentes por parte de las autoridades y que contemplen el bien de toda la comunidad en su complejidad. Se constituye así en un símbolo de lo que los científicos comprometidos con la realidad de nuestro país pretendemos: la construcción de una sociedad basada en el conocimiento.
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Amann, Edmund, Carlos R. Azzoni, and Werner Baer, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Brazilian Economy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190499983.001.0001.
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Brazil constitutes a globally vital but troubled economy. It accounts for the largest GDP in Latin America and ranks among the world’s largest exporters of critical commodities including iron ore, soya, coffee, and beef. In recent years Brazil’s global economic importance has been magnified by a surge in both outward and inward foreign direct investment. This has served to further internationalize what has been historically a relatively closed economy. The purpose of this Handbook is to offer real insight into the Brazil’s economic development in contemporary context, understanding its most salient characteristics and analyzing its structural features across various dimensions. At a more granular level, this volume accomplishes the following tasks. First, it provides an understanding of the economy’s evolution over time and the connection of its current characteristics to this evolution. Second, it analyzes Brazil’s broader place in the global economy, and considers the ways in which this role has changed, and is likely to change, over coming years. Third, reflecting contemporary concerns, the volume offers an understanding, not only of how one of the world’s key economies has developed and transformed itself, but also of the ways in which this process has yet to be completed. The volume thus analyzes the current challenges facing the Brazilian economy and the kinds of issues that need to be tackled for these to be addressed.
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Kundahl, George G., ed. The Bravest of the Brave. University of North Carolina Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/9780807895702_kundahl.
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Born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, Stephen Dodson Ramseur rose meteorically through the military ranks. Graduating from West Point in 1860, he joined the Confederate army as a captain, and, by the time of his death near the end of the war at the Battle of Cedar Creek, had attained the rank of major general in the Army of Northern Virginia. Ramseur excelled in every assignment and was involved as a senior officer in many of the war's most important conflicts east of the Appalachians. His letters—over 180 of which are collected and transcribed here—provide his incisive observations on these military events, and, at the same time, offer a rare insight into the personal opinions of a high-ranking Civil War officer. Correspondence by Civil War figures is often strictly professional. But in Ramseur's personal letters to his wife, Nellie, and best friend, David Schenk, this book candidly expresses beliefs about the social, military, and political issues of the day. It also shares vivid accounts of battle and daily camp life, providing colorful details on soldiering during the war.
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Piatkowski, Marcin. Europe's Growth Champion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789345.001.0001.
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The book is about one of the biggest economic success stories that one has hardly ever heard about. It is about a perennially backward, poor, and peripheral country, which over the last twenty-five years has unexpectedly become Europe’s and a global growth champion and joined the ranks of high-income countries during the life of just one generation. It is about the lessons learned from its remarkable experience for other countries in the world, the conditions that keep countries poor, and challenges that countries need face to grow and become high-income. It is also about a new growth model that this country—Poland—and its peers in Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere need to adopt to continue to grow and catch up with the West for the first time ever. The book emphasizes the importance of the fundamental sources of growth—institutions, culture, ideas, and leaders—in economic development. It argues that a shift from an extractive society, where the few rule for the benefit of the few, to an inclusive society, where many rule for the benefit of many, was the key to Poland’s success. It asserts that a newly emerged inclusive society will support further convergence of Poland and Central and Eastern Europe with the West and help sustain the region’s Golden Age, but moving to the core of the European economy will require further reforms and changes in Poland’s developmental DNA.
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Women and I.T. Careers: Why Women Are Leaving the Ranks of I.T. Careers and Why It's So Important They Stay. Dr Cedric D Alford, 2015.
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Parikh, Ravi B., and Oreofe O. Odejide. Factors Considered Important at the End of Life (DRAFT). Edited by Nathan A. Gray and Thomas W. LeBlanc. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190658618.003.0040.
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The chapter describes the national survey study by Steinhauser and colleagues, which assessed perspectives of seriously ill patients, family members, physicians, and other care providers (i.e., nurses, social workers, and chaplains) regarding the importance of several factors at the end of life. Survey respondents were asked to rate and rank the importance of attributes of quality at the end of life. This chapter highlights attributes that met consensus among all groups of respondents, those that were important to patients but not physicians, and attributes that had broad variation across all groups. It also includes items that were ranked the most important and least important by all groups. This chapter emphasizes areas of agreement as well as areas of diversity in the definition of a “good death” and discusses implications of these findings in providing end-of-life care.
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Berguer, Lionel Thomas. Warning Letter to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, Intended Principally As a Call upon the Middle Ranks at This Important Crisis. HardPress, 2020.
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Skinner, Simon. The British Critic. Edited by Stewart J. Brown, Peter Nockles, and James Pereiro. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199580187.013.21.
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In this chapter the author examines the origins, Tractarian takeover, and ensuing commentary of the British Critic magazine, and the significant controversy which it was to generate. The chapter argues that attention to the Movement’s periodical journalism demonstrates the anxiety of John Henry Newman and others to secure a polemical platform beyond the Tracts for the Times, specifically for the discussion of political and social affairs. It additionally suggests that historians’ long neglect of this journalism has obscured both important contemporary commentary, and the importance of some its traditionally second-rank figures, such as Thomas Mozley, Frederick Oakeley, and W. G. Ward.
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Jablonka, Peter. Troy in Regional and International Context. Edited by Gregory McMahon and Sharon Steadman. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195376142.013.0032.
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This article presents an overview of Troy's place in the larger Aegean/Anatolian world, highlighting the continued important role this settlement played over three millennia. From the point of view of archaeology, Hisarlık–Troy ranks high among important sites of the Anatolian and Aegean Bronze Age. Both its Early and Late Bronze Age architecture, the treasures as well as ceramics and other finds reflecting long-distance contacts, the size of the site, its layout comprising a fortified stronghold surrounded by a larger, outlying settlement, and its strategic position clearly show that Troy served as the center of the surrounding region.
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Cloud, Dana L. The Beginnings and Ends of Union Democracy. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036378.003.0010.
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This chapter assesses the situation of the dissident Machinist movement at Boeing today. There are a number of important and poignant lessons from this struggle for democratic reformers inside unions. These lessons speak to how reformers can push their official leadership while staying focused on the company; prioritize long-term organizing and contract cycle agitation above electoral bids and legal strategies; and recognize that unions—and dissident movements inside of unions—are only democratic and vital to the extent that they involve large numbers of their members and represent their demands. The chapter considers the question of whether one can speak legitimately for the rank and file without their active involvement in the movement from a dissident position any more than one should do so from a business union position. The credentials and, more important, the power of a dissident union movement depend upon taking advantage of critical rank-and-file consciousness to build an organization that restores a balance of power between union leadership and the rank and file in the longer term. Only then can the rank and file become ready, when the time comes, to make their own history.
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Mazur, Allan. Physiology of Face-to-Face Competition. Edited by Rosemary L. Hopcroft. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190299323.013.24.
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Face-to-face competition for rank in human status hierarchies is similar to “dominance competition” in other primate species, particularly the African apes. Each individual has signs or signals showing that it has or ought to have high or low status. Group members may accept these signs at face value, or one individual may challenge another for high rank. Among apes and humans, such dominance contests are usually nonviolent, often taking the form of an exchange of stressful signals. Eventually, one contestant withdraws or concedes the higher rank, thus lowering the stress level. Serious competition with important stakes is influenced by a physiological substrate of the hormones testosterone and cortisol and the enzyme α-amylase. Among humans, language is an important channel for exchanging dominant and deferent signals. Apart from the physiological substrate, instantaneous stress responses underlie status allocation. These mechanisms are illustrated with recent experimental results.
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Trinet Second 1500 Companies: Who They Are, Where They Are, How Much They Sell, How They're Owned, How They Rank in Importance, 1988. Trinet, 1988.
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Black, Lawrence. The Labour Party. Edited by David Brown, Gordon Pentland, and Robert Crowcroft. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198714897.013.2.
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Whatever happened to labour history? In 2000, the Labour party’s centenary produced some dynamic and cutting-edge contributions to the field. Since then, however, some important historiographical trends, the crisis in the Co-Op, a journal occupied by debate over Communism, and the full force of New Labour have significantly thinned the ranks of self-identifying ‘labour’ historians. A discipline that was once in rude health faces novel challenges as a result. This chapter reflects on the historiographical impact of these major developments. It also assesses the current and likely future fortunes of political histories of the labour movement and the Labour party.
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Rey, Terry. Pierre Bourdieu and the Study of Religion. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.13.
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Although Pierre Bourdieu ranks among the most influential social theorists of all time, scholars of religion have generally been reluctant to employ his work, surely in part because he was an avowed materialist who harbored some measure of disdain for religion and spirituality, which he nonetheless thought to be important “social facts.” Over the last 20 years or so, however, this has been changing, with an increasing number of scholars fruitfully mining Bourdieu’s extraordinary oeuvre to orient their studies of religion, arguably one of the most important of all social forces. This chapter provides a summary of Bourdieu’s own theorization of religion, followed by a review of seven recent books that expertly engage Bourdieu in the study of various forms of religion, toward demonstrating Bourdieu’s utility and limitations for religious studies and related fields.
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Ryan, Eileen. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190673796.003.0001.
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Italian imperialism in the early twentieth century left behind a legacy that is seldom far below the surface in postcolonial Libya. The ability to trace a lineage of resistance conferred political legitimacy in the formation of a national identity. In Italy today the legacies of imperial expansion are less accessible but no less important. The decision to occupy Libya occurred at a pivotal moment in the development of Italian national identity in the decades after Italian unification. Debates over an Italian approach to expansion in Muslim North Africa served as an opportunity to define the nature of religious identity in the nation as Italy attempted to join the ranks of the European imperial powers.
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The Trinet Second 1500 Companies: Who They Are, Where They Are, How Much They Sell, How They're Owned, How They Rank in Importance (Trinet Second 1500 Companies). Trinet, 1987.
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Harrod, Molly, Sanjay Saint, and Robert W. Stock. Why Study Attending Physicians? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190671495.003.0002.
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The hospitalist movement has been a key element in the transformation of American hospitals, aiding in the effort to shorten patients’ stay and reduce costs. The ranks of hospitalists have burgeoned to more than 40,000. They can be found in 70% of hospitals, and hospitalists have played a crucial supporting role in the drive toward higher quality, patient-centered care in the United States. Most of the attending physicians in this study are also hospitalists, specializing in the care of patients within the hospital. Although each attending had his or her own individual style of doctoring and teaching, the authors were able to identify qualities and attributes that they all shared. One of the most important attributes that all of the attendings shared was the conviction that they never stop learning.
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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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Mansfield, Nick. Soldiers as Citizens. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620863.001.0001.
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Rank and file soldiers were not ‘the scum of the earth’. They included a cross section of working-class men who retained their former civilian culture. While they often exhibited pride in regiment and nation, soldiers could also demonstrate a growing class consciousness and support for political radicalism. The book challenges assumptions that the British army was politically neutral, if privately conservative, by uncovering a rich vein of liberal and radical political thinking among some soldiers, officers and political commentators. This ranges from the Whig ‘militia’ tradition, through radical theories on tactics and army reform, to attempted ultra-radical subversion amongst troops and the involvement of soldiers in riots and risings. Case studies are given of individual 'military radicals', soldiers or ex-soldiers who were reforming and later socialist activists. Popular anti-French feeling of the Napoleonic Wars is examined, alongside examples of rank and file bravery which fostered widespread loyalty and patriotism. This contributed to soldiers being used successfully in strike breaking, and deployed against rioters or Chartist revolts. By the late Victorian period, popular imperialism was an important part of working-class support for Conservatism. The book explores what impact this had on rank and file soldiers, whilst outlining minority support for socialism.
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Military and Naval Recognition Book: A Handbook on the Organization, Insignia of Rank, and Customs of the Service of the World's Important Armies and Navies. Franklin Classics, 2018.
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Bunkley, Joel William. Military and Naval Recognition Book: A Handbook on the Organization, Insignia of Rank, and Customs of the Service of the World's Important Armies and Navies. Franklin Classics Trade Press, 2018.
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Bunkley, Joel William. Military and Naval Recognition Book: A Handbook on the Organization, Insignia of Rank, and Customs of the Service of the World's Important Armies and Navies. Franklin Classics Trade Press, 2018.
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Bunkley, Joel William. Military and Naval Recognition Book, a Handbook on the Organization, Insignia of Rank, and Customs of the Service of the World's Important Armies and Navies. Franklin Classics Trade Press, 2018.
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Delimatsis, Panagiotis. TTIP, CETA, and TiSA Behind Closed Doors. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808893.003.0010.
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Secrecy and informality rather than transparency traditionally reign trade negotiations at the bilateral, regional, and multilateral levels. Yet, transparency ranks among the most basic desiderata in the grammar of global governance and has been regarded as positively related to legitimacy. In the EU’s case, transparent trade diplomacy is quintessential for constitutional—but also for broader political—reasons. First, even if trade matters fall within the EU’s exclusive competence, the EU executive is bound by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) to inform the European Parliament, the EU co-legislator, in regular intervals. Second, transparency at an early stage is important to address public reluctance, suspicion, or even opposition regarding a particular trade deal. This chapter chronicles the quest for and turning moments relating to transparency during the EU trade negotiations with Canada (CETA); the US (TTIP), and various WTO members on services (TiSA).
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Blackorby, Charles, and Walter Bossert. Interpersonal Comparisons of Well‐Being. Edited by Donald A. Wittman and Barry R. Weingast. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548477.003.0023.
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This article provides a short survey of the use of interpersonal comparisons in social evaluation. The focus of this discussion is on the principles for social evaluation that are welfarist, or those principles that use information about individual well-being to rank alternatives. The article reviews some of the most important characterization results for the welfarist social evaluation principles. A basic notation, along with a formal definition of social evaluation functionals, is introduced. The article then formulates some basic axioms for social evaluation orderings, and this is followed by an introduction to information invariance properties. The article also provides an overview of some important results.
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Solanke, Iyiola, ed. On Crime, Society, and Responsibility in the work of Nicola Lacey. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852681.001.0001.
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Few contemporary scholars have done more in their work to develop the idea of responsibility than Nicola Lacey. She ranks alongside HLA Hart and Antony Honore in developing approaches to understanding responsibility. Like these scholars, the influence of her work has spread beyond academia to change the perception of responsibility amongst practitioners. During their lifetime both Hart and Honore had volumes dedicated to their work. This book does the same for Nicola Lacey, marking her ongoing influence and accomplishments in the common law world through a collection of essays by leading international scholars reflecting and interrogating her contribution to understanding criminal responsibility. Each author brings a particular challenge and new ideas to bear on her work, touching upon important aspects of responsibility that are current in the scholarship: categorization, frameworks for understanding criminal responsibility and the relationships between them, women in criminal law, the history of criminal law, blameworthiness and ascriptions of responsibility, moral responsibility, the role of politics and political economy.
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Letters From the Duchess de Crui and Others, on Subjects Moral and Entertaining. Wherein the Character of the Female sex, With Their Rank, Importance, ... The Third Edition Corrected. of 2; Volume 2. Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2018.
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Escudier, Marcel. Turbulent flow. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198719878.003.0018.
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In this chapter the principal characteristics of a turbulent flow are outlined and the way that Reynolds’ time-averaging procedure, applied to the Navier-Stokes equations, leads to a set of equations (RANS) similar to those governing laminar flow but including additional terms which arise from correlations between fluctuating velocity components and velocity-pressure correlations. The complex nature of turbulent motion has led to an empirical methodology based upon the RANS and turbulence-transport equations in which the correlations are modelled. An important aspect of turbulent flows is the wide range of scales involved. It is also shown that treating near-wall turbulent shear flow as a Couette flow leads to the Law of the Wall and the log law. The effect of surface roughness on both the velocity distribution and surface shear stress is discussed. It is shown that the distribution of mean velocity within a turbulent boundary layer can be represented by a linear combination of the near-wall log law and an outer-layer Law of the Wake.
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Lorence, James J. Mobilizing for Mass Action. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037559.003.0005.
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This chapter examines how an important feature of Jencks' encouragement of rank-and-file engagement in union affairs was an ongoing concern about both worker health issues and workplace safety measures. Under Jencks' leadership the union persistently called upon mining management to meet their obligations to men who had “given their entire working lives” to the corporations. Even more important to Jencks and Local 890 leaders was the issue of safety on the job. He and his comrades were scrupulous about monitoring workplace accidents, which occurred all too frequently. The ultimate result was the creation of a permanent Union Safety Committee, which insisted on the right to have their voices heard and the inclusion of Jencks in all future inspection tours.
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Report on Tobacco Control for the Region of the Americas 2022. Pan American Health Organization, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37774/9789275125892.
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The Report on Tobacco Control of the Region of the Americas 2022 presents the progress of the implementation of the MPOWER technical package during the period of 2018-2021. While there has been significant progress noted, the report also highlights the gaps in the acceleration of the tobacco control agenda both at the global and regional levels. Collectively, 26 of the 35 Member States within the Region are implementing at least one measure of the MPOWER technical package at the highest level of application, accounting for 96% of the Region’s population being protected from the harms of tobacco. The report also details how the global COVID-19 pandemic is seen as being one of the most important threats to the tobacco control agenda. The increasing development and accessibility of the category of novel and emerging tobacco and nicotine products add to the challenge of accelerating tobacco control both globally and regionally. Yet, despite these obstacles, the Region of the Americas now ranks the second lowest prevalence of tobacco consumption globally and a 100% smoke-free South America.
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Ranney, Joseph A. A Legal History of Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496822574.001.0001.
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Sixty years ago, one historian described state legal history as a “wasteland,” a neglected but vitally important part of American history. Legal histories of individual states are now beginning to appear. With this book, Mississippi joins their ranks. The book describes the evolution of Mississippi’s legal system and analyses the changes in that system during the state’s first 200 years. The book examines the interaction of law and society during six key periods of change: (1) Mississippi’s colonial and territorial eras and early years of statehood, when the foundations for its legal system were laid; (2) the evolution of Mississippi slavery and slave law during the early nineteenth century; (3) the state’s role as a leader of legal reform during the age of Andrew Jackson; (4) the unfolding of the Mississippi’s legal response to emancipation and wartime economic devastation during the Reconstruction and early Jim Crow eras; (5) Mississippi’s legal evolution during the Progressive Era and its response to the crisis of the Great Depression; and (6) the state’s legal response to the civil rights and cultural revolutions that have unfolded since 1950.
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Agostini, Domenico, Samuel Thrope, Shaul Shaked, and Guy Stroumsa. The Bundahišn. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.001.0001.
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The Bundahišn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology and one of the most important of the surviving testaments to Zoroastrian literature and pre-Islamic Iranian culture. Touching on geography, cosmogony, anthropology, zoology, astronomy, medicine, legend, and myth, the Bundahišn can be considered a concise compendium of Zoroastrian knowledge. The Bundahišn is well known in the field as an essential primary source for the study of ancient Iranian history, religions, literature, and languages. It is one of the most important texts composed in Zoroastrian Middle Persian, also known as Zoroastrian Book Pahlavi, in the centuries after the fall of the Sasanian Empire to the invading Arab and Islamic forces in the mid seventh century. The Bundahišn provides scholars with a particularly profitable window on Zoroastrianism’s intellectual and religious history at a crucial transitional moment: centuries after the composition of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred scriptures, and before the transformation of Zoroastrianism into a minority religion within Iran and adherents’ dispersion throughout Central and South Asia. However, the Bundahišn is not only a scholarly tract. It is also a great work of literature in its own right and ranks alongside the creation myths of other ancient traditions: Genesis, the Babylonian Emunah Elish, Hesiod’s Theogony, and others. Informed by the latest research in Iranian Studies, this translation aims to bring to the fore the aesthetic quality, literary style, and complexity of this important work.
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Newbery, John. Letters on the Most Common, as Well as Important Occasions in Life. By Cicero, Pliny, ... Rome, Sevigne, and Other Writers ... With Proper Directions ... Persons of Rank ... The Sixth Edition. Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2018.
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Walker, Mary. Letters From the Duchess de Crui and Others, on Subjects Moral and Entertaining, Wherein the Character of the Female sex, With Their Rank, Importance, ... Duties in Life are Enforced ed 2 v 3 of 5. Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2018.
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Letters from the Duchess de Crui and others, on subjects moral and entertaining, wherein the character of the female sex, with their rank, importance, ... duties in life are enforced ed 2 v 2 of 5. Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010.
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Pleskac, Timothy J., Adele Diederich, and Thomas S. Wallsten. Models of Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty. Edited by Jerome R. Busemeyer, Zheng Wang, James T. Townsend, and Ami Eidels. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199957996.013.10.
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Formal models have a long and important history in the study of human decision-making. They have served as normative standards against which to compare real choices, as well as precise descriptions of actual choice behavior. This chapter begins with an overview of the historical development of decision theory and rational choice theory and then reviews how models have been used in their normative and descriptive capacities. Models covered include prospect theory, rank- and sign-dependent utility theories and their descendants, as well as cognitive models of human decision-making like Decision Field Theory and the Leaky Competing Accumulator Model, which are based on basic psychological principles rather than assumptions of rationality.
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Eck, Werner. The Emperor, the Law and Imperial Administration. Edited by Paul J. du Plessis, Clifford Ando, and Kaius Tuori. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198728689.013.8.
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The political space and administrative apparatus of the Imperial government were legally stipulated and enclosed. Politics and administration had to follow the rules of the ius publicum. This was true for traditional magistrates and promagistrates as well as non-senatorial office holders, the praesidial and financial procurators of equestrian rank. The chapter surveys the potential means by which Augustus and his successors might settle problems of society or of general administration or address them for the future through new legal enactments. During the first century AD, lawmaking through one of the people’s assemblies became less frequent, while decisions of the senate became more prominent. In addition, other forms of Imperial decision, by passing legally constituted corporate bodies, achieved ever greater importance, including edicts, systematic rules and ad hoc letters to officials in the provinces, to cities or to individuals, and especially decreta, so-called constitutions, Imperial legal decisions to individuals.
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Buchler, Justin. Voter Preferences over Bundles of Roll Call Votes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865580.003.0002.
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Legislators do not adopt locations in the policy space with a single action. Instead, they cast roll call votes. Thus, rational voters should evaluate legislative candidates, not based on their locations in the policy space, but based on the bundles of roll call votes implied by those locations. Voters with single-peaked, symmetric preferences over policy can prefer a distant candidate to a more proximate candidate when they rank legislative candidates based on the bundles of roll call votes implied by their locations. When the most substantively important votes on the legislative agenda are the votes that divide the party factions cleanly, extreme incumbents from both parties can defeat moderate challengers from the opposing party given the same legislative agenda.
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Fedosov, Dmitry, ed. Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries 1635-1699. Aberdeen University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.57132/book6.
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Professor Robert Frost writes: the sixth and final volume of The Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries is in some ways the most significant of all. It covers the vital period in which Peter the Great launched his challenge to the traditional Russian system and set Russia on the path to great power status. Gordon played a central role in two of the great dramas of these years: the successful siege and defence of Azov, which firmly established Russian power on the Caspian Sea, and the crushing of the Revolt of the Streltsy, the most dangerous early challenge to Peter’s reforms. Gordon’s diary gives unparalleled insight into these dramatic events and adds much to our knowledge of one of the most significant and charismatic rulers in Russian history. Gordon tells the story with characteristic detachment and a wealthof detail. As a diarist he ranks with Samuel Pepys, and the publication of Volume VI marks the completion of a project for which Dmitry Fedosov and Paul Dukes deserve to be congratulated. After three centuries, the original text of a hugely important historical work, and what can also be seen to be a significant literary achievement, is fully available for the first time.
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Fedosov, Dmitry, ed. Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries 1635-1699. Aberdeen University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.57132/book6.
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Professor Robert Frost writes: the sixth and final volume of The Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries is in some ways the most significant of all. It covers the vital period in which Peter the Great launched his challenge to the traditional Russian system and set Russia on the path to great power status. Gordon played a central role in two of the great dramas of these years: the successful siege and defence of Azov, which firmly established Russian power on the Caspian Sea, and the crushing of the Revolt of the Streltsy, the most dangerous early challenge to Peter’s reforms. Gordon’s diary gives unparalleled insight into these dramatic events and adds much to our knowledge of one of the most significant and charismatic rulers in Russian history. Gordon tells the story with characteristic detachment and a wealthof detail. As a diarist he ranks with Samuel Pepys, and the publication of Volume VI marks the completion of a project for which Dmitry Fedosov and Paul Dukes deserve to be congratulated. After three centuries, the original text of a hugely important historical work, and what can also be seen to be a significant literary achievement, is fully available for the first time.
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Fedosov, Dmitry, ed. Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries 1635-1699. Aberdeen University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.57132/book6.
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Professor Robert Frost writes: the sixth and final volume of The Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries is in some ways the most significant of all. It covers the vital period in which Peter the Great launched his challenge to the traditional Russian system and set Russia on the path to great power status. Gordon played a central role in two of the great dramas of these years: the successful siege and defence of Azov, which firmly established Russian power on the Caspian Sea, and the crushing of the Revolt of the Streltsy, the most dangerous early challenge to Peter’s reforms. Gordon’s diary gives unparalleled insight into these dramatic events and adds much to our knowledge of one of the most significant and charismatic rulers in Russian history. Gordon tells the story with characteristic detachment and a wealthof detail. As a diarist he ranks with Samuel Pepys, and the publication of Volume VI marks the completion of a project for which Dmitry Fedosov and Paul Dukes deserve to be congratulated. After three centuries, the original text of a hugely important historical work, and what can also be seen to be a significant literary achievement, is fully available for the first time.
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Fedosov, Dmitry, ed. Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries 1635-1699. Aberdeen University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.57132/book6.
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Professor Robert Frost writes: the sixth and final volume of The Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries is in some ways the most significant of all. It covers the vital period in which Peter the Great launched his challenge to the traditional Russian system and set Russia on the path to great power status. Gordon played a central role in two of the great dramas of these years: the successful siege and defence of Azov, which firmly established Russian power on the Caspian Sea, and the crushing of the Revolt of the Streltsy, the most dangerous early challenge to Peter’s reforms. Gordon’s diary gives unparalleled insight into these dramatic events and adds much to our knowledge of one of the most significant and charismatic rulers in Russian history. Gordon tells the story with characteristic detachment and a wealthof detail. As a diarist he ranks with Samuel Pepys, and the publication of Volume VI marks the completion of a project for which Dmitry Fedosov and Paul Dukes deserve to be congratulated. After three centuries, the original text of a hugely important historical work, and what can also be seen to be a significant literary achievement, is fully available for the first time.
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Fedosov, Dmitry, ed. Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries 1635-1699. Aberdeen University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.57132/book6.
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Professor Robert Frost writes: the sixth and final volume of The Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries is in some ways the most significant of all. It covers the vital period in which Peter the Great launched his challenge to the traditional Russian system and set Russia on the path to great power status. Gordon played a central role in two of the great dramas of these years: the successful siege and defence of Azov, which firmly established Russian power on the Caspian Sea, and the crushing of the Revolt of the Streltsy, the most dangerous early challenge to Peter’s reforms. Gordon’s diary gives unparalleled insight into these dramatic events and adds much to our knowledge of one of the most significant and charismatic rulers in Russian history. Gordon tells the story with characteristic detachment and a wealthof detail. As a diarist he ranks with Samuel Pepys, and the publication of Volume VI marks the completion of a project for which Dmitry Fedosov and Paul Dukes deserve to be congratulated. After three centuries, the original text of a hugely important historical work, and what can also be seen to be a significant literary achievement, is fully available for the first time.
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Fedosov, Dmitry, ed. Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries 1635-1699. Aberdeen University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.57132/book6.
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Professor Robert Frost writes: the sixth and final volume of The Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries is in some ways the most significant of all. It covers the vital period in which Peter the Great launched his challenge to the traditional Russian system and set Russia on the path to great power status. Gordon played a central role in two of the great dramas of these years: the successful siege and defence of Azov, which firmly established Russian power on the Caspian Sea, and the crushing of the Revolt of the Streltsy, the most dangerous early challenge to Peter’s reforms. Gordon’s diary gives unparalleled insight into these dramatic events and adds much to our knowledge of one of the most significant and charismatic rulers in Russian history. Gordon tells the story with characteristic detachment and a wealthof detail. As a diarist he ranks with Samuel Pepys, and the publication of Volume VI marks the completion of a project for which Dmitry Fedosov and Paul Dukes deserve to be congratulated. After three centuries, the original text of a hugely important historical work, and what can also be seen to be a significant literary achievement, is fully available for the first time.