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Wong, John B. An introduction to China, with a special section for healthcare professionals. Loma Linda, Calif: Loma Linda University Press, 2004.
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Porter, Jack Nusan. Conflict and conflict resolution: A sociological introduction with updated bibliography and theory section. Lanham: University Press of America, 1987.
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Yang, Ada. Section 1. Introduction. Microchip Technology Incorporated, 2015.
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Aiyappa, Rekha. Section 1. Introduction. Microchip Technology Incorporated, 2015.
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Yang, Ada. PIC32 FRM Section 1. Introduction. Microchip Technology Incorporated, 2015.
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Lee, Jade. PIC32 FRM Section 1. Introduction. Microchip Technology Incorporated, 2014.
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Abbott, Edwin Abbott. Fourfold Gospel; Section I: Introduction. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2021.
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Abbott, Edwin Abbott. Fourfold Gospel; Section I: Introduction. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2021.
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Hutson, Lorna. Introduction. Edited by Lorna Hutson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660889.013.50.
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The Handbook’s Sections divide contents thematically, with chapters by historians, literary critics, and legal historians. Analyses of literary and dramatic works are integrated into accounts of shifts in legal thought. Section I challenges commonplaces about legal and literary learning in the Inns, and Section II revises accounts of the lawyers’ professional identity and politics. Section III surveys the historiography of local government and considers how history plays elicit the audience’s desire for legal and administrative reform. Section IV engages with the extent to which spiritual life eludes jurisdiction. Section V focuses on how legal developments are registered in works of the imagination. Section VI considers how legal and regulatory practices inform interpretation of the politics of censorship and prosecutions for libel. Section VII concerns the emerging ideology of English common law. Section VIII examines literary dimensions of common law ideology relating to colonization of Ireland and America, to England’s title to Scotland, to the rise of international law, and to the legal rights of American colonial emigrants.
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Handbook of Neuropsychology, 2nd Edition : Section 1: Introduction Section 2: Attention. Elsevier Science Pub Co, 2000.
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Boller, F., J. Grafman, and G. Rizzolatti. Handbook of Neuropsychology, 2nd Edition : Section 1: Introduction Section 2: Attention. 2nd ed. Elsevier, 2000.
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Youngner, Stuart J., and Robert M. Arnold. Introduction. Edited by Stuart J. Youngner and Robert M. Arnold. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199974412.013.30.
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This volume explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States. The book comprises six sections. Section I examines how the law has helped shape clinical practice, emphasizing the roles of rights and patient autonomy. Section II focuses on specific clinical issues, including death and dying in children, continuous sedation as a way to relieve suffering at the end of life, and the problem of prognostication in patients who are thought to be dying. Section III considers psychosocial and cultural issues, Section IV discusses death and dying among various vulnerable populations such as the elderly and persons with disabilities, and Section V deals with physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia (lethal injection). Finally, Section VI looks at hospice and palliative care as a way to address the psychosocial and ethical problems of death and dying.
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Hall, Patricia. Introduction. Edited by Patricia Hall. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199733163.013.28.
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This volume is a collection of thirty in-depth studies of music censorship from the eighth century to the present and covers music ranging from Gregorian chant to eighteenth-century opera to contemporary pop music. It includes studies from every continent and consists of six sections. Section I explores religion both as an object of censorship and as a censoring agent; Section II focuses on the censorship of three iconic operas during the Enlightenment in France and Austria: Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and Fidelio; Section III deals with censorship in transitional governments, from nineteenth-century Italy to present-day Taiwan; Section IV examines censorship in totalitarian governments during the twentieth century; Section V discusses censorship in democracies such as the United Kingdom and the United States; and Section VI looks at how censorship intersects with issues of race, gender and sexual orientation.
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Kleespies, Phillip. Introduction. Edited by Phillip M. Kleespies. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352722.013.43.
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This book is about behavioral emergencies and the association between interpersonal victimization and subsequent suicidality and/or risk for violence toward others. Section I focuses on the differences between behavioral crises and behavioral emergencies and presents an integrative approach to crisis intervention and emergency intervention. Section II discusses the evaluation of suicide risk, risk of violence, and risk of interpersonal victimization in children and adolescents. Sections III and IV explore behavioral emergencies with adults and the elderly, while Section V deals with certain conditions or behaviors that may either need to be differentiated from a behavioral emergency, or understood as relevant to possibly heightening risk. Section VI describes treatments for patients with recurrent or ongoing risks, and Section VII is devoted to legal, ethical, and psychological risks faced by clinicians who work with patients who might be at risk to themselves or others.
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Cardoso, Adriana. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198723783.003.0001.
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Chapter 1 contextualizes the book, outlines the methodology adopted, and presents the framework that underlies the research. It comprises three main sections. Section 1.1 presents a comprehensive overview of the three studies offered in the book (“Remnant-internal relativization,” “Extraposition of restrictive relative clauses,” and “Appositive relativization”). It includes the goals and results of each chapter and concrete examples of the relevant data. Section 1.2 addresses the main steps involved in the research (data collection and formal analysis) and the conventions used for data presentation. Section 1.3 presents the theoretical framework that underlies the research, considering four main topics: theory of grammar; grammar of relative clauses; information structure; and language change. This section is meant to be relevant and accessible to readers not versed in formal syntax theories.
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A100 Introduction to Aerospace Studies Section 1013. Tichenor Publishing, 2004.
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Guyer, J. Paul. Introduction to Beach-Fill Cross-Section Design. Independently Published, 2018.
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Buchwald, Jed Z., and Robert Fox. Introduction. Edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696253.013.1.
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This Handbook looks at the history of physics since the seventeenth century. It is comprised of four sections, the first of which discusses the place of reason, mathematics, and experiment in the age of the scientific revolution. The first section also covers the contributions of Galileo, René Descartes, and Isaac Newton. The second section deals with the ‘long’ eighteenth century — a period that is often regarded as synonymous with the ‘age of Newton’. The third section encompasses the subcategories of heat, light, electricity, sound, and magnetism, while the fourth and final section takes us into the age of ‘modern physics’, highlighted by landmark achievements such as the discovery of the photoelectric effect in 1887, Max Planck’s work on the quanta of radiation, Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity of 1905, and the elaboration of the various aspects of what became known as quantum physics between 1900 and 1930.
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Cochrane, Alasdair. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789802.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter prepares the ground for the theory that is sketched and defended in the rest of the book by systematically considering the need for it, its assumptions, and broad outline. The chapter is structured around four sections. The first section offers a brief statement of the kind of ‘sentientist politics’ that the book defends: namely, a ‘sentientist cosmopolitan democracy’. The second then provides an overview of the way in which this book’s theory of ‘sentientist politics’ differs from and contributes to existing literature in the area. The third section addresses the issue of ‘feasibility’, asking whether and to what extent it matters that the theory offered throughout the book is radically ambitious. The final section then offers a brief outline of the chapters to follow.
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Colella, Adrienne J., and Eden B. King. Introduction. Edited by Adrienne J. Colella and Eden B. King. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199363643.013.1.
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In the past several decades, research on employment discrimination has been voluminous across a variety of social science disciplines. The intent of this volume on employment discrimination is to provide a review, synthesis, and explanation of research on employment discrimination. Furthermore, the editors and the authors provide insight and direction for future research. This chapter introduces the purpose and general organization of the volume. There are six sections in the volume: “Explanations for Discrimination,” “Targets of Discrimination,” “Manifestations of Discrimination,” “Outcomes of Discrimination,” “Strategies for Reducing Discrimination,” and “Moving Forward.” This introduction provides an overview of each section, along with a brief description of the chapters within each section.
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McAlpine, Kenneth B. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190496098.003.0001.
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This chapter outlines the methodological approach that underpins the book and sets out the broad structure of the storyline that the later chapters explore. It outlines a chronological structure and groups the chapters together into three themed sections. The first explores the roots of chiptunes in 8-bit video games and shows how the specifications and constraints of the hardware shaped both the sound of 8-bit music and the working practices of those who wrote it. The second section discusses how, through a combination of new software interfaces and new musical contexts, chiptune became a defining characteristic of the demoscene, an underground community of digital arts practitioners. Finally, the third section charts the reemergence of chiptune as a live, performative form of music making and shows how, as it grew in popularity, around it grew other aspects of the music industry: online record labels, fandom, and cultural affiliation.
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Hogan, Patrick Colm. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190857790.003.0001.
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The introduction first sets out some preliminary definitions of sex, sexuality, and gender. It then turns from the sexual part of Sexual Identities to the identity part. A great deal of confusion results from failing to distinguish between identity in the sense of a category with which one identifies (categorial identity) and identity in the sense of a set of patterns that characterize one’s cognition, emotion, and behavior (practical identity). The second section gives a brief summary of this difference. The third and fourth sections sketch the relation of the book to social constructionism and queer theory, on the one hand, and evolutionary-cognitive approaches to sex, sexuality, and gender, on the other. The fifth section outlines the value of literature in not only illustrating, but advancing a research program in sex, sexuality, and gender identity. Finally, the introduction provides an overview of the chapters in this volume.
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Lindvall, Johannes. Introduction. Edited by Jon Pierre. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199665679.013.48.
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This chapter introduces the section on Swedish economic policy and political economy. Sweden’s economic policies, labor market institutions, and welfare programs have long fascinated scholars at home and abroad. The introduction discusses the reasons for this fascination, puts the section’s substantive chapters in context, and explains why the topics of these chapters should be particularly interesting to foreign students and scholars who wish to learn more about the Swedish experience. Specifically, the chapters in this section address the iconic “Swedish model” as an ideological construct, how far Swedish economic policies have been exceptional among Western democracies, how Sweden fared in the aftermath of the financial crisis of the 1990s, and what has characterized Sweden’s model of industrial relations over the years.
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Remes, Jacob A. C. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039836.003.0001.
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This book offers a social history of the tension between the state's often bumbling attempts to help and control, on one hand, and citizens' work to receive that help and reject control during disasters, on the other. Focusing on the Salem fire of 1914 and the Halifax explosion of 1917, it examines issues of power and politics that accompanied disaster citizenship during the Progressive Era that saw survivors develop networks of solidarity and obligation to help each other. The book is divided into three sections: the first is about individuals in the first hours and days of each of the Salem and Halifax disasters; the second explores how informal communities like families and neighborhoods responded to the disasters and to the state over the span of weeks and months; and the third section looks at how Salemites and Haligonians created formal, explicit political demands and institutions from the informal and implicit politics of disaster relief and aid. The last section also considers how churches and unions responded to the disasters and to the growth of the state.
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Wieland, Jan Willem, ed. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779667.003.0017.
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This Introduction provides an overview of the current state of the debate on the epistemic condition of moral responsibility. Its main goal is to offer a framework that contextualizes the chapters that follow. Section 1 discusses the main concepts of ‘ignorance’ and ‘responsibility’. Section 2 asks why agents should inform themselves. Section 3 describes what is taken to be the core agreement among the main participants in the debate. Section 4 explains how this agreement invites a regress argument with a revisionist implication. Section 5 provides an overview of the main responses to the regress argument. Section 6 addresses the question of why blameless ignorance excuses. Section 7 describes further issues that are addressed in the book. Section 8 concludes with some discussion of future directions the debate might take.
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LeBuffe, Michael. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190845803.003.0001.
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This introduction begins with the four passages that shape the book and a general thesis: Spinoza’s uses of ‘reason’ (the Latin term is ratio) are systematically related in argument and inform one another. The rest of the introduction is designed to help a variety of readers to understand the arguments that follow. The chapter includes sections on Spinoza’s life and works; on the relation between the Ethics and the Theological Political Treatise; and on positions and passages in each of these works that are important in the book. Each section ends with a footnote offering suggestions for further reading.
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Kjeldgaard-Pedersen, Astrid. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820376.003.0001.
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Chapter 1 first sets the stage by describing, in Section 1.1, the current mainstream approach to the international legal personality of individuals. Section 1.2 then provides a concise outline of the book’s core arguments. Section 1.3 goes on to clarify a number of preliminary caveats, definitions, and assumptions, which form the basis of the analysis in the following chapters. First and foremost, Section 1.3 presents the book’s understanding of the term ‘individuals’, the relationship between international law and domestic law, and the distinction between primary and secondary rules. Lastly, Section 1.4 provides the reader with a guide to the subsequent chapters.
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McDougal, Topher L. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792598.003.0001.
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This chapter serves as an accessible introduction to the issue, divided into five subsections. Section 1.1 describes the principal puzzle driving the research: why do some rural-based rebel groups prey on urban areas, while others do not? Section 1.2 summarizes the thesis: namely, that the structure of the transportation network and the social structure of the trade network jointly inform the outcome. Section 1.3 argues for the importance of this study, contending that understanding the rural–urban relationship will bolster our understanding of economic governance more generally—and the nature of disruptions currently upsetting the scalar consolidation of governance institutions in the early twenty-first century. Section 1.4 discusses the gap in scholarly literature this study fills. Section 1.5 describes the structure of the remaining chapters.
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Duff, David. Introduction. Edited by David Duff. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660896.013.47.
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The Romantic movement transformed the literary culture of Britain, and critical analysis of the nature, causes, and effects of that transformation began in the Romantic period itself. This Handbook analyses recent developments in criticism, synthesizing and extending previous scholarship, identifying emergent research trends, and proposing new lines of enquiry. Divided into ten sections, each containing four or five chapters, the Handbook offers a comprehensivesurvey of British and Irishliterature of the Romantic period; its historical, intellectual, and cultural contexts; and its connections with the literature and thought of other countries and periods. The Introduction explainsthe structure of the volume and the rationale that underpins it, summarizing each chapter and section, pinpointing common themes,and discussing the implications of this ambitious conceptual reorganization of Romantic literary scholarship.
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Sharpe, Marina. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826224.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter begins by presenting the book’s structure in section A. Section B then delineates the book’s contours, outlining four aspects of refugee protection in Africa that are not addressed. Section C provides context, with a contemporary overview of the state of refugee protection in Africa. It also looks at the major aspects of the refugee situations in each of Africa’s principal geographic sub-regions: East Africa (including the Horn of Africa), Central Africa and the Great Lakes, West Africa, Southern Africa, and North Africa. Section D then concludes with an outline of the theoretical approach to regime relationships employed throughout the book.
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Brown, Alexander. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812753.003.0001.
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Section I tries to identify some of the hallmarks of legitimate expectations, as a general concept, and to say something as to how it might be contrasted from the concept of reasonable expectations. Section II outlines key features of the legal doctrine of legitimate expectations, including the ostensible purpose of the doctrine, the distinction between procedural and substantive legitimate expectations, the scope of the doctrine, the circumstances, ways, or modes of legitimate expectations coming into being, the place of reliance, the distinction between intra vires and ultra vires governmental conduct, and the underpinning legal values, ideals, or standards. Section III sets the scene for the Responsibility-Based Account. Section IV introduces the question of remedies for frustrated legitimate expectations, distinguishes between four basic approaches, and defends an approach of liability. Finally, Section V articulates in more detail the idea of normatively supporting or grounding principles of administrative justice.
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Richardson, John, and Claudia Gorbman. Introduction. Edited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199733866.013.0012.
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This article appears in theOxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aestheticsedited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. This introduction frames the book by providing an overview of its authors' work and theorizing new audiovisual aesthetics.1 The first section reviews the current state of research on audiovisuality; it considers how the audiovisual landscape has changed and how new research might respond to these changes. The section attends closely to boundaries, as some of the most fundamental changes are occurring between or at the margins of conventional forms and categories. Immersion, participation, and sensory enrichment are among the core issues discussed in this section. The second section illuminates these observations via two case studies, on audiovisuality in the London 2012 Olympic Games and on the Chinese independent filmThe World. The final section describes fifteen key areas in which research on the audiovisual is currently being pursued.
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Hornblower, Simon, and Giulia Biffis. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198811428.003.0001.
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The Introduction begins by briefly summarizing the remaining chapters. After a prefatory section, it examines the word nostos and cognates. A long section on nostos in Greek literature and history pays special attention to the Argonauts and to Xenophon’s Ten Thousand, and seeks to fill other gaps in the coverage of the remaining chapters. A section on exile and return from it, and the special vocabulary it attracted, is followed by a Conclusion: were nostoi always happy?
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Wasserman, Ryan. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793335.003.0001.
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Chapter 1 explains the concept of time travel, clarifies the main question to be addressed, and previews the paradoxes to come. Section 1 explains the traditional view of time travel as involving a discrepancy between “personal” and “external” time. Section 2 contrasts this kind of time travel with other, purported examples of time travel. Section 3 distinguishes a number of different questions about time travel, including the question of whether or not time travel is compatible with the laws of metaphysics—particularly those having to do with the nature of time, freedom, causation, and identity. Finally, section 4 provides an outline of the rest of the book by introducing some of the key paradoxes to be addressed. Other topics in this chapter include time, causation, and metaphysical grounding.
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Widiger, Thomas A. Introduction. Edited by Thomas A. Widiger. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352487.013.9.
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This book concerns the Five Factor Model (FFM) of general personality structure. It brings together much of the research literature on the FFM and demonstrates its potential applications across a wide range of disciplines and concerns. The book is organized into four sections: the first section explores the FFM and its domains, the second focuses on matters and issues concerning the construct validity of the FFM, the third discusses applications of the FFM to a variety of social and clinical issues, and the fourth summarizes the book’s interesting points and considers potential implications. Topics range from Neuroticism and Extraversion to Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. The book also considers the universality of the FFM, the factor analytic support, childhood temperament and personality, animal personality, behavior and molecular genetics, personality neuroscience, personality disorders, adult psychopathology, and child psychopathology.
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Garipzanov, Ildar. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815013.003.0001.
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The first section discusses definitions of the graphic sign and its typologies, and provides an overview of relevant academic literature. The second section highlights major historiographic trends in the study of graphic signs in the humanities from the early twentieth century to the present day. The next section outlines the relation of graphic signs to a wider corpus of graphic non-figurative data in the late antique Mediterranean and early medieval Europe with reference to the overarching methodological framework of visual thinking and graphic visualization and the related concept of early graphicacy, focusing particularly on the latter’s general cognitive aspects and intrinsic connection to the late antique and early medieval cultural system of visual representation. The concluding section defines the book’s subject, namely graphic signs of authority, outlines their functional usage in early medieval political culture, and summarizes the content of the following chapters.
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Fulford, K. W. M., Martin Davies, Richard G. T. Gipps, George Graham, John Z. Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, and Tim Thornton. Introduction. Edited by K. W. M. Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard G. T. Gipps, George Graham, John Z. Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, and Tim Thornton. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199579563.013.0034.
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Following on from Section IV on summoning concepts, this section of theHandbookpresents theoretically informed descriptions of psychopathologies. The topics of the chapters range from anxiety, depression, and body image disorders, through emotion and affective disorders, to delusion, thought insertion, and the fragmentation of consciousness. These phenomena call, not only for assessment and diagnosis (see Section VI), but also for understanding on the part of both the engaged clinician and the philosophical commentator. They also provide case studies for general philosophical questions about different levels of description and conceptualisation and the relationships between them, and about the contributions to psychological understanding that are made by phenomenology, clinical expert knowledge, and the sciences of the mind.
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González-Tokman, Daniel, Isaac González-Santoyo, and Alex Córdoba-Aguilar. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797500.003.0001.
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This chapter describes why this book is important and what it is about—an incomparable and modern textbook containing twenty-one chapters that cover the vast field of insect behavior. All chapters are written by leading authorities, with the idea of allowing an easy, yet thorough understanding of the field. The first section contains four mechanism-based chapters on the genetic, hormonal, and nervous machinery behind behavior. The second section involves an ecological and evolutionary approach covered in thirteen chapters. Finally, and unlike most animal behavior books, four chapters are devoted to the applications of insect behavior and the effects of human-driven action on diversity. There is a glossary section at the end of the book.
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Hylen, Susan E. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190237578.003.0001.
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This chapter introduces the subject matter of the book and sources of historical evidence. The first section provides questions and tools needed to approach the study of ancient women. Although “women” can seem easy to identify in history, it is difficult to explore this ancient category without importing contemporary notions of sex and gender. The “one-sex” theory is an ancient understanding of gender that differs strongly from modern notions. This section argues that the one-sex model is useful but not sufficient to understand ancient women’s lives. It should be supplemented with evidence of how gender was performed in a specific place and time. The second section introduces readers to the complexity and scope of the “New Testament world.” It outlines the time frame, geographic scope, and some important cultural influences in the context of the New Testament. The third section describes the evidence available to study women’s lives in this period. Literary sources, inscriptions, and papyrus fragments each offer different kinds of insights and challenges for this task.
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Mason, Emma. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198723691.003.0001.
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This chapter locates Rossetti in the context of the book’s ecotheological argument, which traces an ecological love command in her writing through her engagement with Tractarianism, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Church Fathers, and Francis of Assisi. It establishes her Anglo-Catholic imagining of the cosmos as a fabric of participation and communal experience embodied in Christ. The first section reads Rossetti in the context of current Victorian ecocriticism, which underplays the role of Christianity in the development of nineteenth-century environmentalism. The next sections question critical readings of Rossetti as a reclusive thinker and argue instead for an educated and politicized Christian for whom indifference to the spiritual is complicit with an environmental crisis in which the weak and vulnerable suffer most. This introduction also refers to the wider field of Rossetti studies and introduces her reading of grace and apocalypse as a major contribution to the intradiscipline of Christianity and ecology.
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Retallack, James. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199668786.003.0001.
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This Introduction explains what the book hopes to achieve, its central thesis, and the related arguments it puts forward. It explains how the book throws new light on the reciprocal relationship between political modernization and authoritarian governance in Germany over six decades. The first section differentiates between social and political aspects of democratization and outlines two kinds of election battles fought in Imperial Germany—over suffrage laws and during election campaigns. Both can be appraised in terms of the values, norms, and concepts that link a society to the act of voting. The second section outlines the book’s contribution to histories of Social Democracy and the German bourgeoisie. Section three asks: Why Saxony? It argues that regional history works best as a critical tool to reassess larger questions of German history over the longue durée.
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Humbert, Marc. Introduction. Edited by Marc Humbert. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198784906.003.0573.
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Davis, Jake H. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190499778.003.0019.
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This introduction offers a brief overview of the academic study of Buddhist ethics. Employing an analogy drawn from the P?li Buddhist texts, the first section discusses how the study of Buddhist texts on ethics can serve as a means of reflection on our actions and on our ways of thinking, both in traditional contexts and in the modern world. The second section briefly surveys some key principles of Buddhist ethical thought and their historical context. The third section offers an overview of the volume, its parts and individual chapters, drawing out key connections between the topics discussed. The introduction concludes with a discussion of the continuing legacy of colonialism in the academic study of Buddhist ethics, arguing that engaging (also) with non-Western systems of ethical thought—in a rigorous, critical, and respectful way—is itself an ethical imperative today.
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Fulford, K. W. M., Martin Davies, Richard G. T. Gipps, George Graham, John Z. Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, and Tim Thornton. Introduction. Edited by K. W. M. Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard G. T. Gipps, George Graham, John Z. Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, and Tim Thornton. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199579563.013.0043.
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In this introduction to Section VI, the thrust of the component chapters is described. The classification and diagnosis of mental disorders collects a number of philosophical challenges to the field that call for responses from a variety of philosophical resources: hermeneutics, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, narrative theory, philosophy of science, epistemology-to name a few. The authors in this section address the general challenges in the classification of psychopathology, as well as address particular kinds of mental disorders, including autism, dementia, mania, psychotic disorders, and personality disorders.
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Cureton, Adam, and Thomas E. Hill, Jr. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812876.003.0001.
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This introduction explains the main themes of the collection and briefly summarizes the chapters. The essays in the ‘Attitudes and Relationships’ section discuss the attitudes that we can have towards people with disabilities, ourselves included, as we engage in personal relationships of various kinds, including friendship, care-giving, and more casual interactions with strangers. The essays in the ‘Attitudes and Policy’ section focus on the implications of moral attitudes, such as respect and love, for social policies, including reproductive decisions, research to find “cures” for disabilities, and physicians’ assessments of the decision-making capacities of newly disabled patients to accept or reject life-sustaining support. And, the essays in the ‘Justifying Frameworks’ section consider what frameworks are appropriate for justifying and assessing particular relationships and policies. Basic moral attitudes are shown to be relevant in practice but also in how we justify our practices and debate about the scope of our moral consideration.
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Garrard, Greg. Introduction. Edited by Greg Garrard. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199742929.013.035.
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Ecocriticism began as an environmentalist literary movement that challenged Marxists and New Historicists over the meaning and significance of British Romanticism. An important component of the environmental humanities, ecocriticism has been characterized using the metaphor of waves. “First-wave” ecocriticism is inclined to celebrate nature rather than query “nature” as a concept and to derive inspiration as directly as possible from wilderness preservation and environmentalist movements. “Second-wave” ecocriticism is linked to social ecological movements and maintains a more skeptical relationship with the natural sciences. The contributions to the book, which encompass both “waves”, are organized in a widening spiral, from critical historicizations of “nature” in predominantly Euro-American literature in the first section to a series of surveys of work in ecocriticism’s “emerging markets” – Japan, China, India and Germany – in the last. The “Theory” section includes essays adopting perspectives from Latourian science studies, queer theory, deconstruction, animal studies, ecofeminism and postcolonialism. The “Genre” section demonstrates the diverse applications of ecocriticism with topics ranging from British literary fiction, Old Time music, environmental humour, climate change nonfiction.
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Holmberg, Sören, and Henrik Oscarsson. Introduction. Edited by Jon Pierre. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199665679.013.44.
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This chapter introduces a section consisting of four studies of Swedish exceptionalism which focus on aspects of elections and voting behavior. A study of voter turnout shows that Swedes are exceptionally participatory. The second chapter in the section, which presents an analysis of class voting, indicates that Swedes are exceptionally old-fashioned and still vote according to the occupational class they belong to. An examination of ideological voting suggests that Swedes are exceptionally influenced by the classic left–right divide. And the final chapter takes as its subject involvement in election campaigns, and finds that Swedes are in exceptionally little personal contact with parties and candidates.
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Dahlström, Carl. Introduction. Edited by Jon Pierre. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199665679.013.50.
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This chapter introduces the section on policy-making in Sweden. It starts from the observation that, at least for outside observers, Swedish policy-making has been portrayed as a rational process. Two features of Swedish policy-making have been particularly important for the emerging of the idea of a consensual and rational process. The first, and most well known, is the corporatist policy-making style, and the second feature is the commissions of inquiry and referral systems. Two other important characteristics of the Swedish policy process concern coordination and the creation of party-political support. The chapters in this section describe these four features of the Swedish policy-making process and pay special attention to changes over time.
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Fulford, K. W. M., Martin Davies, Richard G. T. Gipps, George Graham, John Z. Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, and Tim Thornton. Introduction. Edited by K. W. M. Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard G. T. Gipps, George Graham, John Z. Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, and Tim Thornton. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199579563.013.0002.
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In the editorial introduction the stage is set for the chapters in the section by a brief discussion of the relationship between the disciplines of philosophy and psychiatry. Then each chapter briefly is summarized or highlighted.
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Moyar, Dean. Introduction. Edited by Dean Moyar. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199355228.013.1.
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This Introduction to the Oxford Handbook of Hegel briefly discusses the layout of the Handbook, sketches the most important debates within the current scholarship, and fills in some of the main omissions from the Handbook. The debate over the metaphysical character of Hegel’s system is introduced, with overviews of the Kantian, Spinozist and Aristotelian readings of Hegel’s metaphysics. Hegel’s theory of action and his theory of mutual recognition are also discussed. The second section presents Hegel’s early biography and development up to the point at which Hegel arrived in Jena and connects that early development to Hegel’s mature thought. The concluding section gives the outlines of two essential episodes in the story of Hegel’s reception – the ‘young Hegelians’ and ‘British Idealists.’