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Cathedral, St Mary's (Episcopal), ed. Welcome to the Labyrinth: The gate of the year [at] St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. [Edinburgh]: [St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral], 2002.
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Baker, A. E. Miscellany of Mark's Gate in the parish of Dagenham, nr Romford, Essex. Barking: Barking and Dagenham Libraries Department, 1990.
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Elliot, Elisabeth. Chuan yue rong yao zhi men: Through gates of splendor. Beijing: Zhongguo dian ying chu ban she, 2007.
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Field, Cyrus W. Europe & America: Reports of proceedings at an inauguration banquet given by Mr. Cyrus W. Field, of New York, at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham Gate, London, in commemoration of the renewal by the Atlantic Telegraph Company after a lapse of six years of their efforts to unite Ireland and Newfoundland by means of a submarine telegraph cable ... [London?: s.n., 1987.
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Field, Cyrus W. Europe & America: Reports of proceedings at an inauguration banquet given by Mr. Cyrus W. Field, of New York, at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham Gate, London, in commemoration of the renewal by the Atlantic Telegraph Company after a lapse of six years of their efforts to unite Ireland and Newfoundland by means of a submarine telegraph cable .. [London?: s.n., 1987.
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Gutierrez, Amy. Smarty Marty's got game. 2013.
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Smarty Marty's Got Game: ¡en Español! Cameron + Company, 2017.
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Hoffmann, Veronika, Ulrike Link-Wieczorek, and Christof Mandry, eds. Die Gabe. Verlag Karl Alber, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783495817698.
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Die Gabe hat sich in den letzten Jahren zu einem interdisziplinären Forschungsfeld par excellence entwickelt. Untersucht wurden nicht nur die soziale Struktur und die Ambivalenz des Gebens und Empfangens sowie die Bedeutung von Großzügigkeit, sondern auch anerkennungstheoretische und ethische Problemstellungen. Religionswissenschaftlich und theologisch wurde die Bedeutung der Gabe etwa für ein erneuertes Verständnis des Opferns oder der göttlichen Gnade diskutiert und wurden gabetheoretische Lesarten von Vergebungs- und Konfliktlösungsvorgängen entwickelt. Mit Beiträgen von Christof Auffarth, Christine Büchner, Markus Enders, Daniela Falcioni, Hans-Martin Gutmann, Marcus Held, Veronika Hoffmann, Bo K. Holm, Burkhard Liebsch, Ulrike Link-Wieczorek, Christof Mandry, Joachim Negel, Tobias Weger, Claudia Welz, Knut Wenzel, Jürgen Werbick, Kurt Wolf.
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Elliot, Elisabeth. Through Gates of Splendor. Hovel Audio, 2005.
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Elliot, Elisabeth. Through Gates of Splendor. Tyndale House Publishers, 2015.
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Ahern, Cecelia. Igra v marbls: Roman. 2016.
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Elliot, Elisabeth. Through Gates of Splendor. 2nd ed. Tyndale House Publishers, 2005.
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Elliot, Elisabeth. Through Gates of Splendor. Duke Univ Pr, 1997.
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Elliot, Elisabeth. Through Gates of Splendor. Hendrickson Pub, 2015.
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Gorman, Robert M. Sixty-One In '61: Roger Maris Home Runs Game-By-Game. McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2019.
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Eller, Jonathan R. The Anthology Game. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036293.003.0032.
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This chapter examines Ray Bradbury's failed attempt to publish a mainstream literary anthology of science fiction stories centered on Mars. The development of the Illinois novel was slowed by Bradbury's increased focus on the science fiction stories he was writing and revising with more and more frequency. Despite Don Congdon's influence with a wide range of editors, these stories were still not selling to the major magazines at all. What sustained both his spirit and his reputation during this period was his almost phenomenal success with the premier award anthologies of the day such as the Best American Short Stories annual and the O. Henry Prize Stories. This chapter considers the impact of Bradbury's anthology awards on his writing life by focusing on his membership in the leftist poetry magazine California Quarterly, founded by Dolph Sharp and others. It also discusses Bradbury's idea for an anthology that would consist of twenty-five science fiction stories, a project that he called “The Martian Chronicles. Edited by Ray Bradbury” and never came to fruition.
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Yarrow, Simon. 6. The Blessed Virgin Mary. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199676514.003.0006.
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The Blessed Virgin Mary is pre-eminent among Christian saints. Her giving birth to Jesus the God-man distinguishes her from other women, even as it draws attention to that experience uniquely distinguishing women from men: childbirth. ‘The Blessed Virgin Mary’ shows how this delicate partitioning of empathetic possibilities in the veneration of Mary, intimately grounded in biology and played out through ideas of gender difference, has stimulated profound and sometimes conflicted religious emotions in men and women. St Mary presents a conundrum to Christian theology: a virgin mother, a Jew who became a Christian, a redeemer of humanity from Eve’s sins, a human who gave birth to God, and the Queen of Heaven.
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Through gates of splendor: The event that changed the world, changed a people, and inspired a nation. Peabody, Mass: Hendrickson Publishers Marketing, 2010.
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Surdam, David George. Stability (1954–57). University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037139.003.0006.
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This chapter marks a period of stability and growth for the NBA during the mid-1950s. With the NBA down to eight teams, owners still faced inadequate revenues, although their continued efforts to improve and innovate would eventually lead to the NBA's stabilization. They also continued to grapple with the unattractive aspect of the league's end games, where fouling and rough play were still the tactics of choice. How to reduce the primitive aspects of the game remained a difficult problem, but it was one with an elegant solution—the twenty-four-second shot clock helped transform the pro game into something quite distinct from other basketball games and would eventually prove popular and enduring. In addition, the owners also needed to assess whether television would prove beneficial for the NBA.
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Fuentecilla, Jose V. The War of Words. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037580.003.0009.
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This chapter details the continuous lobbying and organizing efforts of political exiles as well as their efforts to draw attention to their anti-Marcos and anti-martial law rhetoric. Reflecting their bias for a free press and scorn for the controlled press in the Philippines, the major U.S. media consistently gave the exiles favorable coverage. By and large, the exiles had won the media war in the United States against the regime. The generally critical attitude of the U.S. media acutely troubled Mrs. Marcos. She summoned the American ambassador, Michael Armacost, to express her husband's “anxieties about his upcoming [1982] visit to the USA.” The regime countered as best as it could. During the first year of martial law, it ran colorful multipage spreads in influential U.S. business magazines such as Fortune and Business Week. The message: there was a new, much better investment climate in the country, and it was a safe tourist destination.
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Dirks, Whitney. Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England. Amsterdam University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462986671.
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In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins. At two weeks of age, they were kidnapped to be shown for money, and their deaths shortly thereafter gave rise to a four-year legal battle over ownership and income. The Herring twins’ microhistory weaves throughout this book, as the chapter structure alternates between the family’s ordeal and the broader cultural context of how so-called ‘monstrous births’ (a contemporary term for deformed humans and animals) were discussed in cheap print, exhibited in London’s pubs and coffeehouses, examined by the Royal Society, portrayed in visual culture, and litigated in London’s legal courts. This book ties together social and medical history, Disability Studies, and Monster Studies to argue that people discussed unusual bodies in early modern England because they provided newsworthy entertainment, revealed the will of God, and demonstrated the internal workings of Nature.
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Sandkaulen, Birgit, and Michael Quante, eds. Hegel-Studien Band 55. Felix Meiner Verlag, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.28937/978-3-7873-4120-7.
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Aus dem Inhalt: Hegels Moral- und Handlungsphilosophie Armando Manchisi: Die Idee des Guten bei Hegel: Eine metaethische Untersuchung Giulia Battistoni/Thomas Meyer: Handlung, Vorsatz, Schuld: Karl Ludwig Michelet als Interpret der hegelschen Handlungstheorie Stephan Zimmermann: Die „allgemeine Handlungsweise“: Zu Hegels Begriff der Sitte. Der objektive Geist im Kontext von Hegels Philosophie des Geistes Eduardo Assalone: Ethical Mediation in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod: La dialectique de l’homme maître et de la femme esclave: La Phénoménologie de l’esprit à l’aune des manuscrits d’Iéna Emanuele Cafagna: Die Garantie der Freiheit: Hegels Begriff der Korporation als Bestandteil der Verfassung Alberto L. Siani: Von Tragödie und Komödie zum absoluten Geist: Die Funktion der Kunst in Hegels Naturrechtsaufsatz Markus Gante: Freiheit und das Wissen der Freiheit: Absoluter Geist und zweite Natur Martin Walter: Was geschah mit den Restbeständen der 3. Auflage von Hegels Enzyklopädie (1830) Literaturberichte und Kritik Bibliographie
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Garner, Robert. 6. Challenges to the Dominant Ideologies. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198704386.003.0007.
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This chapter examines a range of contemporary ideologies which challenge the traditional ones. Contemporary ideologies differ from traditional ideologies in a number of ways. First, they are less optimistic about the ability of ideology to construct an overarching explanation of the world. Second, they respect difference and variety, a product of social and economic change that has eroded the ‘Fordist’ economy, gave rise to a number of powerful identity groups based on gender, culture, and ethnicity, and raised question marks over the environmental sustainability of current industrial practices. The chapter starts with a discussion of Francis Fukuyama's ‘end of history’ thesis that declares the triumph of liberalism. It then considers a number of contemporary ideologies such as postmodernism, feminism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, and religious fundamentalism. It argues that these ideologies represent a challenge to the state.
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Tuk, Tik Tak. Sunglasses & Bloddy Marys: Hangman Puzzles Mini Game Clever Kids 110 Lined Pages 6 X 9 in 15. 24 X 22. 86 Cm Single Player Funny Great Gift. Independently Published, 2019.
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Griffin, Gabriele. A Dictionary of Gender Studies. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780191834837.001.0001.
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Over 430 entriesThis new dictionary provides clear and accessible definitions of a range of terms from within the fast-developing field of Gender Studies. It covers terms which have emerged out of Gender Studies, such as cyber feminism, the double burden, and the male gaze, and gender-focused definitions of more general terms, such as housework, intersectionality, and trolling. It also covers major feminist figures, including Hélène Cixous, bell hooks, and Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as groups and movements from Votes for Women to Reclaim the Night. It is an invaluable reference resource for students taking Gender Studies courses at undergraduate or postgraduate level, and for those applying a gender perspective within other subject areas.
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Samanta, Jo, and Ash Samanta. 3. Consent. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198815204.003.0003.
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Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are looking for, and how to achieve extra marks. This chapter deals with consent as a necessary precondition for medical treatment of competent adults. It provides an overview of the common law basis of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, followed by discussion of issues relating to information disclosure, public policy, and the key case of Montgomery. It considers the statutory provisions for adults who lack capacity, exceptions to the requirement to treat patients who lack capacity in their best interests, and consent involving children under the Children Act 1989. Gillick competence, a concept applied to determine whether a child may give consent, is also explained. Relevant court cases, including Gillick, which gave rise to the concept, are cited where appropriate.
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Maslon, Laurence. A Few of My Favorite Things. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199832538.003.0010.
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The technology to reproduce a film’s soundtrack for home consumption didn’t arrive fully until the early 1950s; it was no surprise that the Capitol soundtrack recording to the 1955 film of Oklahoma! was the biggest seller of its day. Film soundtracks gave home listeners a second chance to hear their favorite scores and often, as in the case of West Side Story, the film soundtrack provided a new opportunity to discover the music (that soundtrack stayed longer at No. 1 than any album in history to this day). The performer who sold more soundtrack albums than anyone else in the 1960s was Julie Andrews, whose simultaneous recordings of the films Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music made her the most ubiquitous singer in pop culture.
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Givón, Tom. Is Polysynthesis a Valid Theoretical Notion? Edited by Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun, and Nicholas Evans. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199683208.013.22.
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While Ute (Numic, Uto-Aztecan) currently has “free” word-order, most of its morphology conforms to a historical OV syntax, with postpositions pronouns, pre-nominal genitive modifiers, and predominantly suffixal verbal morphology,with most exceptions to the latter easily attributed to pre-verbal incorporation of object, instrument, adjective, or adverb stems. Ute also displays an extensive array of complex verbal stems, most commonly two-verb combinations. Of the two combined verbal stems, the second usually loses its original valence, exhibits semantic bleaching, and otherwise bears the traditional marks of grammaticalization. While the process of complex-verb creation is extensive, long-standing, and still ongoing, its diachrony is far from clear. This chapter describes Ute complex verbs, then reviews the potential candidates for the diachronic source-constructions that gave rise to these complex lexemes. While an unambiguous identification of “the” source-construction is not yet possible, the phenomenon as a whole represents a clear trend from syntax to lexis.
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Wiek, Till. Sunglasses & Bloddy Marys: 110 Game Sheets - 660 Tic-Tac-Toe Blank Games - Soft Cover Book for Kids for Traveling & Summer Vacations - Mini Game - Clever Kids - 110 Lined Pages - 6 X 9 in - 15. 24 X 22. 86 Cm - Single Player - Funny Great Gift. Independently Published, 2019.
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Hickey, Helen M. Capturing Christ’s Tears. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802648.003.0005.
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This chapter investigates the historiography of the cult of the Holy Tear of Christ, La Sainte Larme, and explores the materiality and affective life of the relic. The apocryphal narrative tells that an angel caught the tears Christ shed on hearing about Lazarus’ death and gave them to Mary Magdalene for safekeeping. Around 1040, Geoffrey Martel received the relic of the Holy Tear as a reward for his military efforts. Enshrined at the Abbey of La Trinité, Vendôme, France, the Holy Tear enjoyed a robust devotion during the Middle Ages, attracting pilgrims from all over Europe. The end point for La Sainte Larme’s fame is the French Revolution, when the relic disappears. Christ’s Tear provides an exemplary case for emotion studies and material culture because it encapsulates religious piety and feeling, but, as an ephemeral bodily excretion, it presents interpretive challenges as an object.
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Simpson, Andrew RC. ‘Cleare as Is the Summers Sunne’? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199670055.003.0004.
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In sixteenth-century Europe, laws of royal succession were frequently presented as virtually inviolable. Attempts to alter them or interpret them in novel ways provoked fierce legal debate. For example, Scottish lawyers questioned an apparent attempt to exclude Mary, Queen of Scots from the English royal succession. In so doing, these lawyers made reference to eclectic sources of legal authority, including Roman law and canon law, but also English law and the positive laws of other nations. Arguably, they regarded all of those sources as potential repositories of legal learning. They also seemed to indicate that that intrinsic learning gave the laws a rather general force in helping to resolve disputes in many different jurisdictions. Here it is argued that this is not to be explained in terms of a nascent ius inter gentes, but rather with reference to the fundamental assumptions these lawyers held concerning the nature of legal authority.
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Bungenberg, Marc, and August Reinisch, eds. CETA Investment Law. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748902133.
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The Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) has been called a game-changer. In the investment chapter, CETA has introduced a number of key innovations, including the investment court system with an appellate tribunal guidelines on third party funding transparency and information sharing modern versions of standards of protection detailed provisions on reservations and exceptions Considering that the new dispute resolution provisions in this chapter have also passed the scrutiny of the Court of Justice of the European Union, it is expected that CETA’s investment chapter will serve as a blueprint for future EU investment agreements. This article-by-article commentary will be a key resource for practitioners and academics in the field of EU investment protection law. <b>With contributions by</b> Afolabi Adekemi, Andrés E. Alvarado Garzón, Freya Baetens, Crina Baltag, Jens Benninghofen, Christina Binder, Gabriel Bottini, Colin Brown, Marc Bungenberg, Markus Burgstaller, N. Jansen Calamita, Armand de Mestral, Arnaud de Nanteuil, Lori Di Pierdomenico, Patrick Dumberry, Katia Fach Gómez, Richard Happ, Angshuman Hazarika, Stephan Hobe, Frank Hoffmeister, Anna Holzer, Mattijs Kempynck, Panos Koutrakos, Ursula Kriebaum, Céline Lévesque, Irmgard Marboe, Lars Markert, Patricia Nacimiento, Erman Özgür, August Reinisch, Stefanie Schacherer, Julian Scheu, Christoph Schreuer, Lukas Stifter, Johannes Tropper, Güneş Ünüvar, Lukas Vanhonnaeker and Herman Verbist.
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Paxman, Andrew. How to Get Rich in a Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190455743.003.0004.
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While the Revolution gave Jenkins a few scares, including almost being shot by a firing squad, it allowed him to quintuple his fortune. When rebels loyal to Emiliano Zapata withdrew from Puebla, they briefly used Jenkins’s mill as a fort. Charged with complicity, Jenkins was hauled off by federal troops, but Álvaro Obregón intervened to save him. The incident heightened Jenkins’s disdain for the Revolution, and he dispatched Mary to California. But he kept his mills running and was one of the first textile barons to give his company joint-stock, limited-liability status. His chief wartime success was in property trading. He converted his dollars into the devalued peso and snapped up assets for a song. His success illustrates how a new entrepreneurial class used the era’s turmoil to their advantage. Helping make such purchases possible was Jenkins’s ability to ingratiate himself with certain Puebla elites and his willingness to bribe officials.
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Gosine, Andil. Nature's Wild. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478021889.
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In Nature's Wild, Andil Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean. Surveying colonial law, visual art practices, and contemporary activism, Gosine shows how the very concept of homosexuality in the Caribbean (and in the Americas more broadly) has been overdetermined by a colonially influenced human/animal divide. Gosine refutes this presupposed binary and embraces animality through a series of case studies: a homoerotic game called puhngah, the institution of gender-based dress codes in Guyana, and efforts toward the decriminalization of sodomy in Trinidad and Tobago—including the work of famed activist Colin Robinson, paintings of human animality by Guadeloupean artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary, and Gosine's own artistic practice. In so doing, he troubles the ways in which individual and collective anxieties about “wild natures” have shaped the existence of Caribbean people while calling for a reassessment of what political liberation might look like. >Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
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Vernallis, Carol. Music Video’s Second Aesthetic? Edited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199733866.013.0016.
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This article appears in theOxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aestheticsedited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. MTV’s launch happened thirty years ago. Since then music video has undergone shifts in technologies and platforms, financial booms and busts, and changing levels of audience engagement. While music videos hit a low point at the start of the millennium, they have reemerged as a key driver of popular culture. This resurgence resembles MTV’s first moment: it’s again worth asking what music video can do and where it fits. A variety of styles, genres, and tropes marks both the eighties and today. The traditional definition of music video - a record-company product that puts images to a pop record in order to sell the song — has become too narrow. Instead we might describe music videos as containing heightened sound/image relations we recognize as such. Today's videos can reflect great technical proficiency. But in the eighties an attempt at an audiovisual connection often left a trace of the performers’ and director’s efforts. This gave videos a special charm. Today’s videos, however, may also reflect a full flowering of the genre. Many directors have labored in the industry and weathered its transitions: their experiences inform today’s music videos. This chapter looks at what this thirty-year history might add up to.
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Katz, Hélèna. Cold Cases. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400627927.
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This book explicitly chronicles 40 cases of unsolved murders and disappearances over a period of more than 160 years, tracing the evolution of criminal investigation and forensic techniques. Murders and other violent crimes often leave an indelible mark on society. The 18th-century murder of "Beautiful Cigar Girl" Mary Rogers helped the then newly emerging tabloid papers become a fixture in the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration was spurred into requiring electronic screening of passengers and carry-on luggage by a series of highly-publicized hijackings. Abductions of youth gave birth to Amber Alerts and advertising missing children on milk cartons. And popular TV shows like Law and Order, CSI, and Cold Case document our fascination with police investigations, heinous criminals, and the complicated aftermath of their actions. This book examines 40 well-known cases of unsolved murders and suspected abductions over a period of over 160 years. Cases are organized chronologically to give readers insight into the evolution of criminal investigation techniques and forensics in the last century and a half. Later chapters detail how modern forensics were used in attempts to solve old cold cases or helped generate new leads.
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Treggiari, Susan. Servilia and her Family. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829348.001.0001.
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Servilia is often cited as one of the most influential women of the late Roman Republic. Though she was a high-born patrician, her grandfather died disgraced and her controversial father was killed before he could stand for the consulship. She married twice, but both husbands, Marcus Iunius Brutus and Decimus Iunius Silanus, were mediocre. Her position in society and (it may be conjectured) her contacts, personality, ability, and charm gave her influence. It is likely that she masterminded the distinguished marriages of her one son, Brutus, and her three daughters. During her second marriage she entered on an affair with C. Iulius Caesar, which probably lasted for the rest of his life, a fact which also suggests her charm and her exceptional intelligence. The patchiness of the sources means that a full biography is impossible, though in suggesting connexions between the evidence and the possibilities open to women of similar status this volume aims to reconstruct her life and position as a member of the senatorial nobility and within her extended and nuclear family. The best attested period of Servilia’s life, for which the chief source is Cicero’s letters, follows the murder of Caesar by her son and her son-in-law, Cassius, who were leaders among the crowd of conspirators in the Senate-house on the Ides of March 44 BC. We find her working to protect the assassins’ interests and defending her grandchildren (by the Caesarian Lepidus) when he was a public enemy and his property threatened with confiscation.
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Towlson, Jon. Candyman. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325543.001.0001.
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When Candyman was released in 1992, Roger Ebert gave it his thumbs up, remarking that the film was “scaring him with ideas and gore, rather than just gore.” Indeed, Candyman is almost unique in 1990s horror cinema in that it tackles its sociopolitical themes head on. As critic Kirsten Moana Thompson has remarked, Candyman is “the return of the repressed as national allegory”: the film's hook-handed killer of urban legend embodies a history of racism, miscegenation, lynching, and slavery, “the taboo secrets of America's past and present.” This book considers how Candyman might be read both as a “return of the repressed” during the George H. W. Bush era, and as an example of 1990s neoconservative horror. It traces the project's development from its origins as a Clive Barker short story (The Forbidden); discusses the importance of its gritty real-life Cabrini-Green setting; and analyzes the film's appropriation (and interrogation) of urban myth. The two official sequels (Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh [1995] and Candyman: Day of the Dead [1999]) are also considered, plus a number of other urban myth-inspired horror movies such as Bloody Mary (2006) and films in the Urban Legend franchise. The book features an in-depth interview with Candyman's writer-director Bernard Rose.
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Breslauer, George W. The Rise and Demise of World Communism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579671.001.0001.
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Sixteen states came to be ruled by communist parties during the twentieth century. Only five of them remain in power today. This book explores the nature of communist regimes—what they share in common, how they differ from each other, and how they differentially evolved over time. The book finds that these regimes all came to power in the context of warfare or its aftermath, followed by the consolidation of power by a revolutionary elite that came to value “revolutionary violence” as the preferred means to an end, based upon Marx’s vision of apocalyptic revolution and Lenin’s conception of party organization. All these regimes went on to “build socialism” according to a Stalinist template, and were initially dedicated to “anti-imperialist struggle” as members of a “world communist movement.” But their common features gave way to diversity, difference, and defiance after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. For many reasons, and in many ways, those differences soon blew apart the world communist movement. They eventually led to the collapse of European communism. The remains of communism in China, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, and Cuba were made possible by the first three transforming their economic systems, opening to the capitalist international order, and abandoning “anti-imperialist struggle.” North Korea and Cuba have hung on due to the elites avoiding splits visible to the public. Analytically, the book explores, throughout, the interaction among the internal features of communist regimes (ideology and organization), the interactions among them within the world communist movement, and the interaction of communist states with the broader international order of capitalist powers.
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Hutton, Patrick H., Beate Dignas, Gerald Schwedler, Marek Tamm, Patrick H. Hutton, Susan A. Crane, Stefan Berger, Alessandro Ancangeli, and William Niven, eds. A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474206761.
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The Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century places in sharp relief the contrast between inspiring ideas that heralded an auspicious future and immemorial traditions that cherished a vanishing past. Waxing large during that era was the European Enlightenment, with its projects for reform and optimistic forecasts about the prospect of making a better world. Heritage was reframed, as martyrs for the cause of religious liberty and heroes for the promotion of the arts and sciences were enshrined in a new pantheon. They served as icons marking a pathway toward a presumed destiny, amid high hopes that reason would triumph over superstition to guide the course of human affairs. Such sentiments gave reformers a new sense of collective identity as an imagined community acting in the name of progress. Against this backdrop, this volume addresses a variety of themes in memory’s multi-faceted domain, among them mnemonic schemes in the transition from theist to scientific cosmologies; memory remodeled in the making of print culture; memory’s newfound resources for introspection; politics reimagined for the modern age; the nature of tradition reconceived; the aesthetics of nostalgia for an aristocracy clinging to a tenuous identity; the lure of far-away places; trauma in an age of revolution; and the emerging divide between history and collective memory. Along the way, contributors address such topics as the idea of nation in early modern politics; the aesthetic vision of Hubert Robert in his garden landscapes; the transforming effects of the interaction between mind and its mnemonic satellites in print media; Shakespeare remembered and commemorated; the role of memory in the redesign of historiography; the mediation of high and popular culture through literature; soul-searching in female autobiography; and commemorative practices during the French Revolution.
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Kemper, Jakko. Frictionlessness. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798765104439.
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Frictionlessness provides an examination of the environmentally destructive digital design philosophy of "frictionlessness" and the critical significance of a technological aesthetic of imperfection. If there is one thing that defines digital consumer technologies today, it is that they are designed to feel frictionless. From smart technologies to cloud computing, from from one-click shopping to the promise of seamless streaming—digital technology is framed to host ever-faster operations while receding increasingly into the background of perception. The environmental costs of this fetishization of frictionlessness are enormous and unevenly distributed; the frictionless experience of the end user tends to be supported by opaque networks of exploited labor and extracted resources that disproportionately impact the Global South. This situation marks an urgent need for alternate, less destructive aesthetic relations to technology. As such, this book examines imperfection, as an aesthetic concept that highlights existential conditions of finitude and fragility, as a particularly powerful counterweight to the dominant digital design philosophy of frictionlessness. While frictionlessnessaims to draw the user’s perception away from the exploitative and destructive conditions of digital production, imperfection forms an aesthetic source of friction that alerts users to the fragile nature of technology and the finite resources on which it relies. These arguments are elaborated through a close reading of three technological objects—a video game that was programmed to expire, an audiovisual performance that laments the fate of disused technology and a collection of music albums that dramatize a techno-cultural logic of relentless consumerism. Together, these case studies underline the value of technological aesthetics of imperfection and point to the need for a renewed ethics of care in relation to technology.
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Zuber, Mike A. Spiritual Alchemy. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190073046.001.0001.
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This book reclaims the problematic term “spiritual alchemy” as a precisely definable category for historical research and documents for the first time that there was a continuous tradition of spiritual alchemy from around 1600 to 1910. At the turn of the seventeenth century, the confluence of two important currents—German mysticism and alchemical Paracelsianism—led to a new spiritual alchemy of rebirth that entailed the formation of a subtle body within born-again believers that provided the basis for their subsequent resurrection at the Last Judgment. Embryonic forms of spiritual alchemy in pseudepigraphic writings attributed to Valentin Weigel inspired Jacob Boehme’s description of rebirth. Although he initially knew little about alchemy, Boehme developed his own spiritual alchemy in a number of works written between 1619 and 1622. According to Boehme’s understanding, laboratory alchemy was but a lesser, grossly material reflection of spiritual alchemy. All of the later key figures—Abraham von Franckenberg, Georg Lorenz Seidenbecher, Friedrich Breckling, Dionysius Andreas Freher, Mary Anne Atwood (née South)—drew on Boehme’s spiritual alchemy and communicated it to their contemporaries. Drawing extensively on the manuscript record, this book shows that Boehme’s spiritual alchemy came to shape Mrs. Atwood’s Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery and thus had a decisive impact on modern conceptions, such as those of C. G. Jung and Mircea Eliade. Ultimately, spiritual alchemy gave rise to a bewildering variety of spiritual interpretations of alchemy.
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Besse, Jacques. The Great Easter. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11772.001.0001.
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A hallucinating, insomniac, and increasingly fragile flaneur wanders the streets of Paris over the long Easter weekend of 1960. Paris, Easter weekend 1960. The French composer Jacques Besse sets out on a marathon stroll through the city that begins on Good Friday, when he leaves his brother's house on rue de Turbigo, and ends on Easter Monday, when, having declared himself Mars, the god of war, to mystified restaurant-goers, he ambles back toward Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The Great Easter—a memoir in the form of a novella, or perhaps a novella in the form of a memoir—is the first-person account of a hallucinating, insomniac, and increasingly fragile flaneur's unending ambulation. The Great Easter was first published in French in 1969 and became famous a few years later when in their milestone work Anti-Oedipus Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari referred to Besse's walk as the quintessential “double stroll of the schizo.” (Besse was a patient at Guattari's psychiatric clinic La Borde.) Besse's stroll purées past and present, real and not-real: a rendezvous with a prostitute intersects with Sergei Eisenstein and his entourage, a bellowed song about the sea is overwhelmed by “memories” of the 1830 July Revolution, and the entire universe gathers itself up into a bubble above Gare d'Austerlitz. He is seized by anxiety, released by joy; he announces his cosmic celebrity via a huge (imaginary) television while freezing in the night and calling out for bread. A cult favorite in France, The Great Easter is an engrossing, surreal road movie of a book