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Ridolfi, Maurizio. Interessi e passioni: Storia dei partiti politici italiani tra l'Europa e il Mediterraneo. Milano: B. Mondadori, 1999.
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Stenke, Karin. Der Einsatz von Zinsterminkontrakten zur Steuerung des Zinsänderungsrisikos eines Kreditinstituts im Rahmen eines Modells für das Aktiv-Passiv-Management. München: VVF, 1993.
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Tranquille, Henri. Entretiens sur la passion de lire. Montréal: Québec/Amérique, 1993.
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Backing U: A business-oriented guide to backing your passion and achieving career success. London: Business & Careers Press, 2009.
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Passing game: Benny Friedman and the transformation of football. New York: PublicAffairs, 2008.
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Vasil'eva, Natal'ya. Mathematical models in the management of copper production: ideas, methods, examples. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1014071.
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Presents the current status in modelling of metallurgical processes considered by the model the mathematical model used in the description of the processes of copper production and their classification. Set out a system of methods and models in the field of mathematical modeling of technological processes, including balance sheet, statistics, optimization models, forecasting models and predictive models. For specific technological processes are developed: the model of the balance of the cycle of pyrometallurgical production of copper, polynomial model for prediction of matte composition on the basis of the passive experiment, predictive model of quantitative estimation of the copper content in the matte based on fuzzy logic.
Of interest to students, postgraduates, teachers of technical universities, engineers and research workers who use mathematical methods for processing of data of laboratory and industrial experiments.
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Collini, Dario, ed. Lettere a Oreste Macrí. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-776-4.
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Con questo libro curato da Dario Collini, che raccoglie il lavoro di giovani ricercatori guidati da Anna Dolfi («GREM» «NGEM») che si sono occupati dei 17.000 pezzi epistolari del Fondo Macrì, si offre uno straordinario strumento di lavoro a chi si interessa di Ermetismo, di critica e poesia del Novecento italiano. Ombre dal fondo o ‘luci intermittenti’ che siano, i bagliori mandati dagli epistolari sono segni della genesi umana della cultura, visto che conservano traccia di quanto è legato al quotidiano che contribuisce alla costruzione della ‘grande’ storia e della progettualità; intellettuale e politica che l’accompagna. Ecco allora che letture, libri, riviste, collaborazioni, amicizie, risentimenti, viaggi, passioni letterarie e private emergono da questi regesti, a dare voce a un’epoca e ai suoi protagonisti.
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Dessì, Giuseppe, and Raffaello Delogu. Lettere 1936-1963. Edited by Monica Graceffa. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-162-1.
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Author of Architettura del medioevo in Sardegna which won him the Premio Nazionale Olivetti in 1956, Raffaello Delogu was an art historian and Commissioner for Antiquities and Monuments in Sardinia, Abruzzo and Sicily. His correspondence with one of the most eminent Italian writers of the second half of the twentieth century, as transcribed and lavishly annotated here by Monica Graceffa, reveals him not only as a committed intellectual devoted to the study of ancient and modern art, but also as a caustic and playful friend. His dialogue with Giuseppe Dessí commenced in their youth, when Dessí was an amateur painter on the way to maturity, who instead rapidly developed into a mature writer and attentive connoisseur of all forms of art. In addition to their studies and mutual friends (including Claudio Varese and Maria Lai), they also shared an interest in painting and in what Dessí was experiencing (his moves, his political passion) and what he was writing (fiction, drama, essays); important in this regard are the letters touching on the collaboration of both on the Sardinian issue of Pietro Calamandrei's «Il Ponte».
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Passioni, interessi, convenzioni: Discussioni settecentesche su virtù e civiltà. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 1992.
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Adam Smith e dintorni: La scienza, le passioni, gli interessi. Napoli: CUEN, 1998.
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Maennig, Wolfgang, and Hans-Jürgen Schulke. Zur Ökonomik von Spitzenleistungen im internationalen Sport. Edited by Martin-Peter Büch. Hamburg University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/hup.hwwi.3.122.
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Sport - in particular high-performance sport - is a fascination that is used as a platform for societal concerns. This is the base for different interests in active and passive sports and the state's interest in top-class sport. In most countries, top-class sport is a national concern: states train their athletes in national training centres, support their sports associations in international competitions or promote applications for major sporting events. The articles in this volume provide a well-founded insight into the organisation of high-performance sport and show the different paths of selected countries.
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Life at the Speed of Passion. Career Press, 2014.
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Greenberg, Murray. Passing Game. PublicAffairs, 2008.
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Passing Game. New York: PublicAffairs, 2009.
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Vital signs: The nature and nurture of passion. 2014.
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Barden, Julia. Finde Deine Berufliche Passion : Karriere Coaching Von Psychologin: Finde Unter Berücksichtigung Deiner Interessen und Stärken Deine Berufliche Passion und eine Karriere, Die Zu Dir Passt. Independently Published, 2021.
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Vital Signs: Discovering and Sustaining Your Passion for Life. TarcherPerigee, 2015.
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Varol, Ozan O. Friends with Benefits. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190626013.003.0006.
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This chapter argues that militaries will tend to support dictatorships when their interests are aligned. Even when the military doesn’t share the dictator’s ideology, military officers may support him if the dictator is willing to protect their interests. Support can be active or passive. The military can actively support an authoritarian government by taking affirmative steps to fend off domestic and foreign threats. Support can also be passive, as when the military merely tolerates the dictatorship and refrains from toppling the regime even though the opportunity presents itself. The military’s loyalty can be purchased. The dictator may shower the armed forces with social and financial perks, such as salary increases, better training, modern equipment, and promotions. Some dictators go beyond simply providing financial and social perks to the military and engage in active social engineering to ensure its loyalty. The military may also remain loyal to a dictatorship where the regime is strong and stable. Militaries rarely stage coups against stable governments. Only when a dictatorship begins to wobble does a coup become a possibility.
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MG, Bridge. Part I International Sales Governed by English Law, 7 Passing of Property and Risk. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198792703.003.0007.
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This chapter looks at the passing of property and the risks involved. The passing of property (or ownership) to the buyer is of vital interest in both domestic law and the international law of sale. The law of sale, as codified by the Sale of Goods Act, is a combination of contract and conveyance. The latter part — the conveyance — is the passing of property. In the Act itself, the passing of property is important in defining the moment when risk is transferred. The significance of risk is that, when transferred to the buyer, it determines the contractual rights of the seller and buyer if there occurs a casualty to the goods for which neither party bears contractual responsibility. However, as the chapter shows, this connection between the property and risk is not as important in the law of international sale as it is in the law of domestic sale.
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Wright, Eve. Life at the Speed of Passion: Create a Life of Intention, Purpose, and Integrity. Red Wheel/Weiser, 2014.
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Backing U Lite A Quickread Guide To Backing Your Passion And Achieving Career Success. Business and Careers Press, 2009.
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Frank, Christy. Stand Out and Succeed: Discover Your Passion, Accelerate Your Career and Become Recession-Proof. ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, 2016.
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Greenberg, Murray. Passing Game: Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football. PublicAffairs, 2008.
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Passion projects for smart people: Turn your intellectual pursuits into fun, profit and recognition. Quill Driver Books, 2017.
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Magdalinski, Tara. Into the Digital Era. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038938.003.0006.
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This chapter discusses the numerous opportunities for incorporating interactive, Internet-based technologies for collaborative learning into sport history pedagogy. These include blogs, wikis, Wikipedia, Twitter, and Facebook, and extend to lesser-known platforms and tools such as Curatr and TED-Ed “Flip this Lesson.” Indeed, as new platforms continue to be developed, and as students—who are already largely digital natives—engage with these, and as pedagogical practice continues to move away from passive receipt of static knowledge toward active engagement in knowledge creation, sport historians themselves need to be “competent and critical users.” The interactive and collaborative potential of many web-based platforms offers possibilities for engagement both within the classroom and with external communities of interest.
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Lennox, Charlotte, and Margaret Anne Doody. The Female Quixote. Edited by Margaret Dalziel. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199540242.001.0001.
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The Female Quixote (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and aristocratic Arabella, whose passion for reading romances leads her into all manner of misunderstandings. Praised by Fielding, Richardson and Samuel Johnson, the book quickly established Charlotte Lennox as a foremost writer of the Novel of Sentiment. With an excellent introduction and full explanatory notes, this edition will be of particular interest to students of women's literature, and of the eighteenth-century novel.
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Francisco, Vincent T. A Crossroads of Disciplines. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190457938.003.0015.
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For the author of this chapter, community psychology has been at the crossroads of several career paths—integrating important themes from a variety of contexts, and combining his scholarly research interests with a passion for making a difference in other people’s lives. This chapter describes a bit of the context for this nexus, offers some reflections on the road thus far, and puts forward some ideas about where to go next with it. The chapter closes with advice for students finding their own way in the world of community research and action.
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Domhoff, G. William. Findings from Studies of Individual Dream Series. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190673420.003.0004.
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Chapter 3 presents findings from the study of individual dream journals as well as the methodological and statistical case for using them. These nonreactive measures (which are called “dream series” in the literature) lend themselves to a variety of quantitative studies. The systematic and replicated findings from such studies reveal that dream content is far more consistent over months, years, and decades than could be realized from lab and non-lab group studies. They also demonstrate that there is continuity between the personal concerns and interests enacted in dream scenarios and the waking personal concerns and interests of the dreamer. This is especially the case in terms of characters, social interactions, and activities (such as a passion for music or sports). However, the chapter also stresses that there is much dream content that is not understood.
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Bunte, Jonas B. Raise the Debt. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190866167.001.0001.
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Governments frequently borrow money. It is often assumed that it is creditors, and creditors alone, who determine what loans developing countries obtain. Yet this is only partially true: the data show that countries with the same credit rating, income levels, and degree of democracy exhibit a remarkable diversity in the types of creditors used. Some borrow from China, while others turn to the United States; some borrow from private investors, while others rely on multilateral institutions. Apparently, developing countries have some choice. Developing countries are not merely passive recipients gobbling up whatever loans they can get, but active agents. This book systematically explains how governments choose among competing loan offers. The argument focuses on societal interest groups in recipient countries and the distributional consequences of external loans. For example, China and the International Monetary Fund might both offer the same loan volume, but the strings attached to the loans differ. As a result, domestic interest groups would benefit from one loan but not the other. Governments then cater to whichever domestic interest group coalition dominates by borrowing from that coalition’s preferred creditor. Interviews with decision-makers in Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia provide strong evidence that domestic politics shape borrowing decisions. A Statistical analyses confirms that borrowing portfolios around the world reflect the relative strength of societal interest groups. Understanding why certain loans are chosen is critical for gaining insights into the effects these loans might have on growth and democracy.
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Birch, Jonathan. The Multicellular Organism as a Social Phenomenon. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733058.003.0007.
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As Hamilton observed, the stability of cooperation within clonal groups of cells is no mystery, since the cells’ inclusive fitness interests are aligned. However, the process of social group transformation, by means of which a social group of cells is transformed into a multicellular individual with a division of labour among multiple cell types, remains mysterious. In both multicellular organisms and eusocial insects, group size and the number of specialized types are closely linked. As Bourke has argued, positive feedback is likely to be crucial in explaining the relationship between size and complexity, and a social perspective on the organism helps us understand this feedback loop. This chapter proposes an expanded feedback loop in which the relationship between group size and specialization is mediated by the degree of redundancy (which may be either passive or active) in task structures.
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Graber, Jennifer. Epilogue. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190279615.003.0009.
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The epilogue traces Kiowa history from 1903 to the present, focusing on communal efforts to stay connected to land and kin. It also follows Protestant and Catholic “friends of the Indian,” who eventually lost interest in Indian missions and turned their attention to marginal populations in sites of American overseas activity, such as the Philippines and Afghanistan. The epilogue ends with Kiowa efforts to carry on their cultural practices, including their religious practices, through their tribal museum, churches, and in celebrations such as those sponsored by the Kiowa Black Leggings Society. This work involves Kiowa elders passing on these practices to children.
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Kuenzler, Adrian. Making Behavioralism Work. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190698577.003.0004.
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This chapter turns to the restoration of consumer sovereignty. It revisits the three recurrent principles set out in Chapter 1 and argues that antitrust and intellectual property laws must understand consumers in their full socially embedded complexity to promote progress. Only in this way can analysts respect, rather than suppress, consumer preferences that evince concern for less proprietary forms of production and distribution in a marketplace which is heavily fixated on consumerism and passive consumption. It points to a number of ingenious recent studies from the cognitive psychological research that demonstrate that revealed preferences and external incentives have been offered as bright line rules for directing the consumer’s attention primarily (and exclusively) to conventional manufacturing and distribution techniques, but that such physical and economic processes scarcely exhaust the universe of choices about which consumers express strong interest.
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Bonnefoy, Laurent. Yemen and the World. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190922597.001.0001.
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Contemporary Yemen has an image-problem. It has long fascinated travelers and artists, and to many the country embodies both Arab and Muslim authenticity; it stands at important geostrategic and commercial crossroads. Yet, strangely, Yemen is globally perceived as somehow both marginal and passive, while also being dangerous and problematic. The Saudi offensive launched in 2015 has made Yemen a victim of regional power struggles, while the global “war on terror” has labelled it a threat to international security. This perception has had disastrous effects without generating real interest in the country or its people. On the contrary, Yemen's complex political dynamics have been largely ignored by international observers--resulting in problematic, if not counterproductive, international policies. Yemen and the World aims at correcting these misconceptions and omissions, putting aside the nature of the world's interest in Yemen to focus on Yemen's role on the global stage. Laurent Bonnefoy uses six areas of modern international exchange--globalization, diplomacy, trade, migration, culture and militant Islamism--to restore Yemen to its place at the heart of contemporary affairs. To understand Yemen, he argues, is to understand the Middle East as a whole.
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Empson, Laura. Paradoxes of Leading Professionals. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744788.003.0011.
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The theme of paradox has run throughout the book, albeit implicitly. This chapter makes the theme of paradox explicit, by drawing together multiple strands of argument contained in each of the preceding chapters. In recent years, paradox theory has developed into a particularly intriguing and highly influential body of management research. A paradox comprises two or more elements that are inherently contradictory, interrelated, simultaneous, and persistent. Having presented some foundational concepts from paradox theory, this chapter goes on to identify ten paradoxes of professional organizations. These are: (1) autonomy and control, (2) reluctance and ambition, (3) political and apolitical leadership, (4) individual and collective interests, (5) harmony and conflict, (6) insecurity and confidence, (7) commercial and professional priorities, (8) centralized power and distributed leadership, (9) active and passive leadership, and (10) ambiguity and clarity. This chapter concludes with some final reflections for those seeking answers to the questions that remain.
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Wright, Julian, and Allegra Fryxell, eds. Time on a Human Scale. British Academy, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266977.001.0001.
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Assessing the present as a locus of particularly intense reflection in Western Europe, during a period which has often been explored for its passing interest in futurism or alternatively its obsession with decadence, this book establishes the wider intellectual context. It assesses the historiographical, philosophical and sociological interventions of the period under examination for their deepening of the cultural enquiry into the present that was being taken forward across different artforms, political discourses and individual experiences. It argues for a rethinking of the European ‘fin-de-siècle’ and an expanded frame of historical enquiry that traverses the First World War in assessing this vital period in European history.
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Zack, Naomi. How Mixed Race Is Not Constructed. Edited by Naomi Zack. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190236953.013.6.
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American racial identities change over time and place, as all social constructions do, but they are also stable in historical and generational ways, because people in the same family are usually the same race. This is not the case for mixed race, particularly mixed black and white (MBW). People in mixed-race families belong to different races. Motives from self-interest, to lack of racial solidarity, to a sense of justice could motivate choosing mixed-race identity. Passing for the race others think one is not, and conforming or not, to norms for racial identities raise social and moral questions for members of the unconstructed racial group of mixed-race Americans.
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Wolf, Susan. The Ethics of Being a Foodie. Edited by Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199372263.013.36.
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The chapter defines foodies as people who are enthusiasts about food for aesthetic reasons and explores the reasons behind the morally tinged antipathy many people have toward foodies so defined. Setting aside concerns with elitism and snobbishness that pertain to any activity or passion that is associated with privilege, and objections that are based on a negative stereotype that is inessential to foodieism, the chapter considers what criticisms might apply specifically to foodieism in contrast to other bourgeois interests. Criticisms and attitudes based on the (sometimes unexpressed) thought that food is a low or bestial pleasure are discussed and rejected. Thus, the chapter concludes that there need be no tension between ethics and foodieism.
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Radcliffe, Elizabeth S. Motivational Dynamics and Regulation of the Passions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199573295.003.0007.
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A study of conflicting passions in Hume’s theory reveals that several psychological principles explain how these passions interact, often making the dominant passion even stronger. Hume’s distinction between violent passions and causally strong ones, and between calm passions and causally weak ones, is essential to his theory of motivation; however, it introduces questions about our ability to moderate emotional upheaval. The person most likely to find true happiness has “strength of mind”: the prevalence of calm passions over violent ones, such as concern for long-term good over intensely-felt interest in short-term good. Several principles emerge from Hume’s discussion of passionate dynamics to explain how a person deficient in this virtue might develop it. Self-moderation of the passions is possible, contrary to the warnings of the early modern rationalists, although within certain limits.
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Wierzbicki, James. The Classical Music Mainstream. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040078.003.0008.
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This chapter looks at how the American Symphony Orchestra League reported that thirty million people in the U.S. are actively interested in concert music. This does not mean jazz, popular ditties, hillbilly dance-bands, hymn singing, or wedding marches, but classical music. Writer Virgil Thomson noted in his column that whereas during the previous year ticket buyers had spent $40 million on baseball, patrons of classical music had spent $45 million. This passion for what Thomson called “serious music” had been stirred even as World War II was in progress, and by the end of the Fifties it was still going strong. Never before has there been such an interest in music in America. The changed atmosphere had been apparent even just a few years after the war's end. For composers, this made the future seem very promising.
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Stokes, Leah Cardamore. Short Circuiting Policy. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190074258.001.0001.
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Short Circuiting Policy examines clean energy policies to understand why US states are not on track to meet the climate crisis. After two decades of leadership, American states are slipping in their commitment to transition away from dirty fossil fuels toward cleaner energy sources, including wind and solar. The author argues that organized combat between advocate and opponent interest groups is central to explaining why US states have stopped expanding and even started weakening their renewable energy policies. Fossil fuel companies and electric utilities played a key role in spreading climate denial. Now, they have turned to climate delay, working to block clean energy policies from passing or being implemented and driving retrenchment. Clean energy advocates typically lack sufficient power to overcome electric utilities’ opposition to climate policy. Short Circuiting Policy builds on policy feedback theory, showing the conditions under which retrenchment is more likely. Depending on their relative political influence, interest groups will work to drive retrenchment either directly by working with legislators, their staff, and regulators or indirectly through the parties, the public, and the courts. Also, the likely effects of policies are not easy to predict—an effect termed “the fog of enactment.” But over time, federated interest groups can learn to anticipate policies’ consequences through networks that cross state lines. Examining US energy policy over the past century, and Texas’s, Kansas’s, Arizona’s, and Ohio’s clean energy laws in the twenty-first century, the author shows how opponents have thwarted progress on climate policy.
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Musgrave, Toby. The Multifarious Mr. Banks. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300223835.001.0001.
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As official botanist on James Cook's first circumnavigation, the longest-serving president of the Royal Society, advisor to King George III, the “father of Australia,” and the man who established Kew as the world's leading botanical garden, Sir Joseph Banks was integral to the English Enlightenment. Yet he has not received the recognition that his multifarious achievements deserve. This book reveals the true extent of Banks's contributions to science and Britain. From an early age Banks pursued his passion for natural history through study and extensive travel, most famously on the HMS Endeavour. He went on to become a pivotal figure in the advancement of British scientific, economic, and colonial interests. With his enquiring, enterprising mind and extensive network of correspondents, Banks's reputation and influence were global. Drawing widely on Banks's writings, the book sheds light on his profound impact on British science and empire in an age of rapid advancement.
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Shapiro, Lawrence A. Embodied Cognition. Edited by Eric Margolis, Richard Samuels, and Stephen P. Stich. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195309799.013.0006.
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The article explains the history, core concepts, methodological practices, and future prospects of embodied cognition. Cognitivism treats cognition, including perception, as a constructive process in which computational operations transform a static representation into a goal state. Cognition begins with an input representation so that the psychological subject can be conceived as a passive receptor of information. The cognitivist's primary concern is the discovery of algorithms by which inputs such as those representing shading are transformed into outputs such as those representing shape. The experimental methods need to provide an environment that isolates the stimuli that will be relevant to an investigation of the mental process of interest. Gibson's theory of perception explains that information in the optic array sufficed to specify opportunities for action, thus providing observers with an ability to perceive. Gibson explains that perception is the detection of information that, with no further embellishment, suffices to specify features of an observer's world. The active observer could, by collecting and sampling the wealth of information contained within the optic array, know its world in terms relative to its needs. Embodied cognition researchers conceive of themselves as offering a new framework for studying the mind.
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Magnusson, Lynne. Shakespearean Tragedy and the Language of Lament. Edited by Michael Neill and David Schalkwyk. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198724193.013.8.
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This chapter identifies the passionate lament as one of the characteristic speech genres of tragedy. It suggests that Shakespeare’s exploratory engagement with the rhetoric of grief is as important as his interest in the soliloquy, the speech genre more usually cast as the typifying linguistic innovation of his tragedies. Five aspects of this rhetoric of grief are addressed in turn by means of examples drawn from Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Hamlet, and the Quarto Lear: that is, (1) the lament as grandiloquent set speech developing conventions from Seneca and Elizabethan dramatic tradition, (2) as occasion for copious variation and oratorical persuasion developing the educational capital of grammar-school rhetorical training, (3) as dialogic interaction exploring a potentially transformative pragmatics of pity or sympathetic identification, (4) as imitated passion of classical predecessors creating effects of individuated subjectivity, and (5) as transaction with the theatre audience.
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Holberton, Edward. Empire and Natural Law in Dryden’s Heroic Drama. Edited by Lorna Hutson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660889.013.43.
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Dryden’s early heroic plays find dramatic potential in early modern natural law debates about sovereignty, and explore the language of contract central to these debates. The Indian Emperour interrogates the context of Spain’s claims to empire in the new world, reflecting the historical moment of England’s growing colonial ambitions. The Conquest of Granada shows how natural law’s metaphors of contract can destabilize an empire from within, as Dryden’s hero Almanzor employs them to contest and divide. Almanzor’s claims connect to an earlier critical exchange between Davenant and Hobbes on the cultural influence of epic romance and theatre in relation to political instability. Dryden’s play, however, works to redeem romance from its association with the misinterpretation of passion and interest in Hobbes’s writing. In The Conquest of Granada, romance and theatre become part of the process of refined law-making, providing a culture of propriety and discrimination which supports the artifice of empire.
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Heitsch, Dorothea. Montaigne on Health and Death. Edited by Philippe Desan. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190215330.013.44.
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The Essays contain a number of well-known gems with regard to early modern medical knowledge (II, 37), healthy living (III, 13), and death and dying (I, 20). That Montaigne treats notions concerning health, sickness, and potential cures as interpretable opinions and considers all medical belief as dependent on individual corporeal and mental givens has been less discussed. That these givens are grounded in notions of a material soul and a thinking body, due to a reversal of hierarchies that is prevalent in the essayist’s writing, is less known. This chapter shows how Montaigne assesses personal health and sickness and the means he suggests to preserve good health. The essayist’s interest in one particularly common medical practice–purging–is reviewed within the context of humoral theory. A discussion of death and dying, as exemplified in the passing of family members and the author’s best friend Étienne de La Boétie, ending in Montaigne’s thoughts concerning suicide, the afterlife, and his own approaching end, ensues.
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Greenwood, David Neal. Julian and Christianity. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501755477.001.0001.
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The Roman emperor Julian is a figure of ongoing interest and the subject of this book. This unique examination of Julian as the last pagan emperor and anti-Christian polemicist revolves around his drive and status as a ruler. The book outlines the dramatic impact of Julian's short-lived regime on the course of history, with a particular emphasis on his relationship with Christianity. Julian has experienced a wide-ranging reception throughout history, shaped by both adulation and vitriol, along with controversies and rumors that question his sanity and passive ruling. His connections to Christianity, however, are rooted in his regime's open hostility, which the book shows is outlined explicitly in Oration 7: To the Cynic Heracleios. A close reading of Oration 7 highlights not only Julian's extensive anti-Christian religious program and decided rejection of Christianity but also his brilliant, calculated use of that same religion. These attributes were inextricably tied to Julian's relationship with Christianity — and how he appropriated certain theological elements from the religion for his own religious framework, from texts to deities. The book brings together ancient history, Neoplatonist philosophy, and patristic theology to what is a deeply immersive look at Julian's life, one that considers his multifaceted rule and the deliberate maneuvers he made on behalf of political ascendancy.
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Westfahl, Gary. Journey to the Future. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037801.003.0002.
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This chapter describes William Gibson's early years based on his autobiographical sketch, “Since 1948,” first posted to his blog on November 6, 2002. There, he relates the generally familiar story of how he was born in South Carolina and, as a child, frequently moved with his parents because of his father's various jobs. In these early years, the major influence on Gibson's life was television. This chapter first considers Gibson's childhood and adolescence before discussing how he discovered science fiction literature, which became his passion. It then considers the change in Gibson's perception of science fiction beginning in 1962, which he often attributes to his chance discovery of William S. Burroughs and, through him, other Beat Generation writers. It also looks at Gibson's publication of fanzines, his enthusiasm about Fritz Leiber, and how he developed an interest in science fiction poetry and later in nonfiction. Finally, the chapter documents the turbulent events of Gibson's first two decades of his life and notes that since the 1980s, his life has been remarkably uneventful.
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Eller, Jonathan R. From the Nursery to the Library. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036293.003.0002.
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This chapter discusses Ray Bradbury's early life, from his birth up to the time he developed a passion for reading in the libraries and his arrival in Los Angeles in 1934. In his autobiographical anecdotes, Bradbury claims to remember the trauma of birth, the sensation of breastfeeding, the pain of circumcision, and infant nightmares about being born. This chapter begins with a discussion of Bradbury's memories of his birth —which he believed were were the result of heightened development of his senses —before turning to some of the challenges he encountered as a child. It then considers Bradbury's trips to the Waukegan Public Library and his subsequent library pilgrimages; his instinctive approach to the library; the books that drew his interest the most, including the science fiction and fantasy stories of Edmond Hamilton and Jack Williamson; and the influence of the pioneering genre pulps on his early professional writing. The chapter also examines Bradbury's education and how his sense of authorship developed and concludes with an overview of his life in California.
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Madden, Anthony P. Informatics and technology for anaesthesia. Edited by Philip M. Hopkins. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642045.003.0034.
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Health informatics is concerned with the structure, acquisition, and use of health information. Its origins can be traced back to the publication of Bills of Mortality by the parishes of London in the sixteenth century. Interest in health information accelerated during the late nineteenth century with the development of an internationally recognized classification of the causes of death. Further work on the classification of diseases and causes of death has resulted in the ICD-10, while SNOMED CT provides an international thesaurus of medical terms suitable for use in computerized medical record systems. In 1932, Tovell and Dunn described the systematic collection of data about anaesthetics with the aim of identifying areas for improvement. The improvement of healthcare is the main driver for the implementation of electronic patient record systems in hospitals. A natural corollary is the implementation of computerized anaesthetic information management systems. Computerized record systems can automatically store the output of physiological monitors and reduce errors with active and passive decision support. Although the recording and processing of health information in the twenty-first century almost always involves the use of computers, this can give rise to problems with security and inter-operability. Computer technology also has other uses in modern anaesthetic practice. The modelling of physiological processes and the use of simulators in the training of anaesthetists are good examples.
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Chong, Wu-Ling. Chinese Indonesians in Post-Suharto Indonesia. Hong Kong University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888455997.001.0001.
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This book examines the complex situation of ethnic Chinese Indonesians in post-Suharto Indonesia, focusing on Chinese in two of the largest Indonesian cities, Medan and Surabaya. The fall of Suharto in May 1998 led to the opening up of a democratic and liberal space to include a diversity of political actors and ideals in the political process. However, due to the absence of an effective, genuinely reformist party or political coalition, predatory politico-business interests nurtured under the New Order managed to capture the new political and economic regimes. As a result, corruption and internal mismanagement continue to plague the bureaucracy in the country. The indigenous Indonesian population generally still perceives the Chinese minority as an alien minority who are wealthy, selfish, insular and opportunistic; this is partially due to the role some Chinese have played in perpetuating corrupt business practices. As targets of extortion and corruption by bureaucratic officials and youth/crime organisations, the Chinese are neither merely passive bystanders of the democratisation process in Indonesia nor powerless victims of corrupt practices. By focusing on the important interconnected aspects of the role Chinese play in post-Suharto Indonesia, via business, politics and civil society, this book argues, through a combination of Anthony Giddens’s structure-agency theory as well as Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of habitus and field, that although the Chinese are constrained by various conditions, they also have played an active role in shaping these conditions.