Books: 'Moment of frictional forces'

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Thom, Françoise. Le moment Gorbatchev. Paris: Hachette, 1991.

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Thom, Françoise. Le moment Gorbatchev. Paris: Hachette, 1989.

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Kemp, Darrel W. A comparitive analysis of frictional forces between self-ligating and conventional Edgewise orthodontic brackets. [Toronto: Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto], 1992.

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Andrew, Lubin, and Stephens Media (Firm), eds. Saluting American valor: Selfless courage at the moment of truth. Las Vegas, Nev: Stephens Press, 2010.

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Peltokorpi, Kaisa-Maria. On elettävä kun koska tahansa voi kuolla: Lottien selviytyminen sodassa 1939-1945 = You have to live for the moment because any moment may be your last one -- how did lottas survive at war in 1939-1945? Rovaniemi: Lapin yliopisto, 2011.

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Maki, B. E. Influence of handrail shape, size and surface texture on the ability of young and elderly users to generate stabilizing forces and moment. Ottawa: Editiorial Office, Division of Electrical Engineering,National Research Council of Canada, 1988.

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Payne, Andrew Howard. The hinged moment at the feet in human movement: A study of the lean-back, braking forces and the hinged momentin human movement using a purpose-built platform system. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1985.

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Financial Management: Audit of the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance for fiscal years 2003 and 2002. Washington, D.C: The Office, 2004.

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Nekrasov, Stanislav. Social dialectics of prehistory. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1078147.

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The author of the monograph, written on the original material, restores the classical scientific social philosophy, which allows the means of dialectical methodology and materialism in sociology to predict the end of the prehistory of antagonistic epochs and the beginning of the true history of a single humanity. The new industrialization at the moment of transition from prehistory to history creates civilizational neo-industrialism as a dialectical synthesis of traditional civilization and progressive formation in the form of new socialism. The global project of neo-industrialism civilizes humanity — saves it from barbarism, wars, social inequality, and the destruction of nature. In historical Russia, civilizing development is realized at the expense of new industrialization and the solution of general democratic tasks with the transition to post-capitalist tasks. Conceptually, civilizational neo-industrialism acts as the fifth world theory, which makes it possible to understand the future of the dialectic of new social forces in the transition from prehistory to history. It is of interest to postgraduates, researchers and a wide range of readers in order to determine the worldview position, clarify the philosophical base of science and search for scientists, understand the dialectics of social existence and social consciousness.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Profile of Navy and Marine Corps financial managers : report to the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller). Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 1998.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Some DOD contractors abuse the federal tax system with little consequence : report to congressional requesters. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington 20013): U.S. General Accounting Office, 2004.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: An overview of finance and accounting activities in DOD : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Defense, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1997.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Implementation of the Cash Management Improvement Act : report to Congress. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1996.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Problems in accounting for Navy transactions impair funds control and financial reporting : report to agency officials. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 1999.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Army conventional ammunition production not effectively accounted for or controlled : report to the Secretary of the Army. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1992.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Coordinated approach needed to address the government's improper payments problems : report to the Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C: United States General Accounting Office, 2002.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Issues to be considered by DOD in developing guidance for disclosing deferred maintenance on aircraft : report to agency officials. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 1997.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Status of the governmentwide efforts to address improper payment problems : report to the Subcommittee on Government Efficiency and Financial Management, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: GAO, 2003.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Sustained efforts needed to achieve FFMIA accountability : report to congressional requesters. Washington, D.C: U.S. General Accounting Office, 2003.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Profile of Defense Finance and Accounting Service financial managers : report to the Director of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 1998.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Differences in Army and Air Force disbursing and accounting records : report to the Honorable Charles E. Grassley, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 2000.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Survey of capitalization threshold and other policies for property, plant, and equipment : report to Agency officials. Washington, D.C: U.S. General Accounting Office, 2002.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Seven DOD initiatives that affect the contract payment process : report to the Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 1998.

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Office, General Accounting. Financial management: Profile of Army financial managers : report to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller). Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013): The Office, 1998.

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Cynthia, Cockburn, and Zarkov Dubravka 1958-, eds. The postwar moment: Militaries, masculinities and international peacekeeping, Bosnia and the Netherlands. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2002.

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Woloch, Isser. The Postwar Moment: Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II. Yale University Press, 2019.

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Entebbe: A Defining Moment in the War on Terrorism--The Jonathan Netanyahu Story. Balfour Books, 2003.

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Wentzel, Jolanda J., Ethan M. Rowland, Peter D. Weinberg, and Robert Krams. Biomechanical theories of atherosclerosis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198755777.003.0012.

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Atherosclerosis, the disease underlying most heart attacks and strokes, occurs predominantly at certain well-defined sites within the arterial system. Its development may therefore depend not only on systemic risk factors but also on locally varying biomechanical forces. There are three inter-related theories explaining the effect of biomechanics on atherosclerosis. In the first theory, a central role is played by lipid transport into the vessel wall, which varies as a result of mechanical forces. In the second theory, haemodynamic wall shear stress-the frictional force per unit area of endothelium arising from the movement of blood-activates signalling pathways that affect endothelial cell properties. In the third, strain-the stretch of the wall arising from changes in blood pressure-is the key biomechanical trigger. All three theories are discussed from historical, molecular, and clinical perspectives.

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Ieda, J., and S. Maekawa. Spinmotive force. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787075.003.0007.

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This chapter begins with Faraday’s law, which states that electromotive forces power everything by virtue of the charge e of an electron, and introduces spinmotive forces which reflect the magnetic moment of an electron. This motive force reflects the energy conservation requirements of the spin-torque transfer process that is at the heart of spintronics. The Stern-Gerlach experiment that used spin-dependent forces established the existence of spin. It is shown here that conservative forces would exist even if an electron was not charged, and do exist for uncharged excitations, such as magnons or phonons. Such forces are especially important in ferromagnetic materials where the spinmotive force commonly drives an electronic charge current due to the higher mobility of the majority electrons.

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D’Errico, Lucia. Reflection. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199351411.003.0003.

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There is no optical space in my experience of music. If I leave aside a spontaneous association of pitches with fields of colour (so flat and vibrant, though, that they acquire almost a haptic quality), the role of sight is relegated to the preliminary and purely intellectual moment of musical notation. The shape that delineates itself when listening to or making music is rather the blind density of my own body. It is a body subjected to forces of different magnitude that act from both inside and outside itself....

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Roessler, Philip, and Harry Verhoeven. Liberation, Counter-Revolution and War. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190611354.003.0002.

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This chapter offers a theoretical framework to account for patterns of political change and regionalized civil war between revolutionary and counter-revolutionary forces in Africa. The analytical structure crafted in this chapter does not account for Africa’s Great War but for the critical events that led up to it: the Rwandan genocide, the subsequent spillover into Zaire and the origins of the Pan-Africanist coalition that united to overthrow Mobutu. This chapter thus sets up the puzzle of Africa’s Great War: if the overthrow of Mobutu marked an “end of history moment” for Africa's neo-liberation regimes—the downfall of the most destabilizing of the neo-colonial relics and the triumph of liberation and neo-liberation forces from Asmara to Kinshasa—why did it all come crashing down?

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Mason, Laura. Thermidor and the Myth of Rupture. Edited by David Andress. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199639748.013.030.

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The defeat of Maximilien Robespierre on 9 Thermidor year II initiated a realignment of political forces within and beyond the National Convention, which is traditionally known as the Thermidorian Reaction (July 1794–October 1795). That moment did not, however, signal the fundamental rupture that the Thermidorians claimed. Although the National Convention repealed restrictive legislation and abandoned the promise of political and social democracy, it also sustained revolutionary government and the Montagnard commitment to strengthen the Convention by challenging extra-legislative competitors. Similarly, as legislators, activists, and journalists invented the notion of a ‘Terror’ that Thermidorians claimed to have defeated, they did so with denunciatory practices elaborated since 1789, revealing important continuities within revolutionary political culture that survived 9 Thermidor.

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Foss, Clive. The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865438.001.0001.

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This book illuminates the founding of the Ottoman Empire by drawing on Turkish, Greek, Arabic, and Latin sources, including coins, buildings, and topographic evidence. It describes the rugged homeland of the founder of the Ottomans, particularly his achievement in the context of the once mighty Byzantine Empire and its terminal stages. It also charts the progress of Osman's son Orhan, until the fateful moment in 1354 when his forces crossed into Europe and began their spectacular conquests. The chapter reviews the obscure origins of the Ottoman Empire, which ruled the Near East, dominated the Mediterranean, and terrorized Europe for centuries. It references scholarly monographs and editions on the history, literature, thought, and material culture of the Byzantine world.

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Palmer, R. R. The Revolutionizing of the Revolution. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161280.003.0017.

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In 1792, the French Revolution became a thing in itself, an uncontrollable force that might eventually spend itself but which no one could direct or guide. The governments set up in Paris in the following years all faced the problem of holding together against forces more revolutionary than themselves. This chapter distinguishes two such forces for analytical purposes. There was a popular upheaval, an upsurge from below, sans-culottisme, which occurred only in France. Second, there was the “international” revolutionary agitation, which was not international in any strict sense, but only concurrent within the boundaries of various states as then organized. From the French point of view these were the “foreign” revolutionaries or sympathizers. The most radical of the “foreign” revolutionaries were seldom more than advanced political democrats. Repeatedly, however, from 1792 to 1799, these two forces tended to converge into one force in opposition to the French government of the moment.

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Sajó, András, and Renáta Uitz. Conditions for a Constitution. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198732174.003.0003.

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This chapter places the idea of the constitution and limited government within political and social conditions where the constitution is meant to endure. The more diverse the people, the trickier it is to govern them under one charter of government which works for all. The chapter starts from the privileged moment of constitution-making and explores the manner in which constitutions engage with the identity (or, more precisely, the identities) of the political community they stand for. The chapter discusses the uneasy relationship between constitutionalism and diversity as pre-conditions as well as challenges to the constitutional order. It examines the precursors of equality (toleration and tolerance), and situates the concept of citizenship in a context rife with opposing forces.

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Touber, Jetze. Conclusion: The Bible Human and Divine. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805007.003.0007.

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The conclusion recapitulates the variegated dynamics at play in the interpretation and use of the Bible in the Dutch Public Church when Spinoza articulated his biblical criticism. Spinoza’s Tractatus theologico-politicus did not suddenly open the eyes of his contemporaries to the technical and philosophical problems of identifying a text with the Word of God. Rather it arrived at an extremely delicate moment, when forces from various directions were already contesting one another over the authority to interpret Scripture in their own ways. These forces had their own momentum when refuting Spinoza’s outlandish appeal to biblical philology, and responded in turn to one another inlight of the new reality. In result, by 1700 the space allowed for exegetical variety within the doctrinal enclosure of the Public Church had gradually widened, but it remained a contested terrain where innovations were easily considered, or branded, harmful to ecclesiastical unity.

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Gallagher, Julie A. On the Shirley Chisholm Trail in the 1960s and 1970s. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036965.003.0006.

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This chapter examines Shirley Chisholm's political career as part of this longer history of African American women in New York City politics. The first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, Chisholm contributed to the breaking down of barriers that kept black women from powerful positions within the federal government. She was a vocal advocate for an activist government to redress economic, social, and political injustices, and she frequently used her national prominence to bring attention to racial, sexual, and class-based inequality. At the same time, she collided into well-established and powerful forces that made it hard to effect change, and she arrived in Congress at the moment when the New Deal coalition began to fall apart. Although her impact as a liberal Democrat would be blunted by the larger political forces surrounding her, Chisholm's influence on the predominantly white women's movement was substantial.

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Velji, Jamel. Apocalyptic Religion and Violence. Edited by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Margo Kitts. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199759996.013.0014.

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This chapter offers a working definition of the apocalyptic, followed by some of the apocalyptic's most important constituent components. Then, it concentrates on associations between these components and violence, illuminating how structures of the apocalyptic can be deployed to serve violent ends. Apocalyptic texts and movements alike demonstrate a tendency to split the world and its contents into absolute good and absolute evil. Dualistic thinking has been noted by many scholars as a quintessential element of religious violence. Furthermore, the chapter examines three interrelated processes connected to duality that aid in the transformation of apocalyptic thinking into violence against others. Apocalyptic duality is deepened through a sense of temporality that envisions all of time having led up to the unique moment in history in which only the elect exclusively possess the truth. Duality and utopia coalesce as motive forces for foreign intervention to “free” those who are “oppressed.”

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Churchill, David. The Urban Police. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797845.003.0002.

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This chapter analyses the organization of preventative urban police forces in the nineteenth century. It argues that a ‘reforming impulse’ in police governance—a self-critical, improving mentality of government—took root in the early nineteenth century, during the era of night watch, and persisted thereafter. While this suggests continuity in police governance throughout the nineteenth century, the chapter also reasserts the significance of the transition from ‘old’ to ‘new’ police, as a moment which bred new expectations of urban police to suppress crime and reform popular conduct. By scrutinizing urban police administration across the century, the chapter unearths evidence of both progress (growth in manpower, bureaucratic organization) and stasis (indiscipline and inexperience in the police labour force). Indeed, the self-critical character of nineteenth-century police governance has so fundamentally shaped the historical record that any objective assessment of improvement in police organization is highly problematic.

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Alexander, Bryant Keith. Queer(y)ing Masculinities. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036514.003.0003.

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This chapter tests the limits of understanding what masculinity means or tries to mean. It insists that queer masculinities are those that are not only suspicious, resistant, or out of the ordinary, but are also those that elude while stabilizing meaning. In other words, at the moment we examine the Rocky Horror Picture Show or an online dating site, we establish a set of assumptions regarding who people are; yet, we develop this interplay of subjectivities that presumptively iterates binaries without ever challenging how heterosexuality is nothing more than a construction of the masculine ideal. The chapter beckons us to not get too comfortable with our learned sense that we know what masculinity is. It turns our assumptions regarding masculinity topsy-turvy and forces us to recognize that whether you are a Rasta, rude boy, martial artist, womanizer, athlete, or soldier, masculinities are defined social constructions that vary across culture, context, and community.

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Blower, Brooke L., and Andrew Preston, eds. The Cambridge History of America and the World. Cambridge University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108297530.

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The third volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World covers the volatile period between 1900 and 1945 when the United States emerged as a world power and American engagements abroad flourished in new and consequential ways. Showcasing the most innovative approaches to both traditional topics and emerging themes, leading scholars chart the complex ways in which Americans projected their growing influence across the globe; how others interpreted and constrained those efforts; how Americans disagreed with each other, often fiercely, about foreign relations; and how race, religion, gender, and other factors shaped their worldviews. During the early twentieth century, accelerating forces of global interdependence presented Americans, like others, with a set of urgent challenges from managing borders, humanitarian crises, economic depression, and modern warfare to confronting the radical, new political movements of communism, fascism, and anticolonial nationalism. This volume will set the standard for new understandings of this pivotal moment in the history of America and the world.

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Kwan, SanSan. Love Dances. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197514559.001.0001.

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Our current geopolitical moment is characterized by shockingly aggressive forms of xenophobia and racism. This alarming, though not new, predicament compels us to seek creative modes for resisting hatred and encouraging care across difference. Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration explores the possibilities for global interrelationality in the realm of dance. The book contends that performances of interculturalism in dance offer opportunities for practicing intersubjective connection. Body-to-body engagement in the studio and on the stage carries the potential to shape everyday encounters with difference in the world. Looking specifically at duets, Love Dances examines how pairs of dance artists from unique cultural and aesthetic backgrounds—from Asia, the Asian diaspora, and the West; trained in contemporary dance, hip-hop, flamenco, Thai classical dance, kabuki, and butoh—find ways to co-create, in spite of contention, histories of power, misunderstanding, and mistranslation. Love Dances explores the ethics and politics of intercultural collaboration, acknowledging the forces of dissension, prejudice, and violence present in any contact zone, but ultimately arguing that choreographic invention across difference can be an act of love in the face of loss and serve as a model for difficult, imaginative, compassionate global affiliation.

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Callison, William, and Zachary Manfredi, eds. Mutant Neoliberalism. Fordham University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823285716.001.0001.

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Tales of neoliberalism’s death are serially overstated. Seemingly repudiated by historical events and yet staggering on like an undead cadaver, neoliberalism was proclaimed a “zombie” ideology following the 2008 financial crisis. After the major political shocks of 2016, the global rise of the far right, and the rebirth of democratic socialist politics, commentators declared “the end of neoliberalism” once again. Yet even as new political forces emerge from decades of neoliberal hegemony, it remains far from certain whether they will sound neoliberalism’s death knell or rather propel new movements within its dynamic development. Mutant Neoliberalism brings together leading scholars of neoliberalism from an array of disciplines—political theorists, historians, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists—to reappraise ongoing transformations within our historical moment. Rethinking the shifting relationship between market rule and political rupture, the authors interrogate the decades of neoliberal governance, policy, and depoliticization that created conditions for thriving reactionary forces, while also investigating how recent trends may challenge, reconfigure, or extend neoliberalism’s reach. Facing the challenges of our dystopic present not only requires moving beyond expectations of neoliberalism’s inevitable death, but also grasping its ongoing mutations across spheres of political, economic, and social life. Mutant Neoliberalism recasts the stakes of contemporary debate, asking us to rethink what we know about neoliberalism in order to reorient critique and resistance within a rapidly changing landscape.

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Ginor, Isabella, and Gideon Remez. The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190693480.001.0001.

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Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet policy and methods of the 1960s and '70s, highlight the topicality of this groundbreaking study, which confirms the USSR's role in shaping Middle Eastern and global history. This book covers the peak of the USSR's direct military involvement in the Egyptian-Israeli conflict. The head-on clash between US-armed Israeli forces and up to 20,000 Soviet servicemen (at a time) with state-of-the-art weaponry turned the Middle East into the hottest front of the Cold War. The Soviets' success in this war of attrition paved the way for their planning and support of Egypt's cross-canal offensive in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Ginor and Remez challenge a series of long-accepted notions as to the scope, timeline and character of the Soviet intervention and overturn the conventional view that détente led to a curtailment of Egyptian ambitions to recapture the land it lost to Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967. Between this analytical rethink and the introduction of an entirely new genre of sources--memoirs and other publications by Soviet veterans themselves---The Soviet-Israeli War paves the way for scholars to revisit this pivotal moment in world history.

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Egreteau, Renaud. Caretaking Democratization. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190620967.001.0001.

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This book examines the political landscape that followed the 2010 elections in Myanmar and the subsequent transition from direct military rule to a semi-civilian, ‘hybrid’ regime. Striking political, social, and economic transformations have indeed taken place in the long-isolated country since the military junta disbanded in March 2011. To better construe – and question – what has routinely been labelled a ‘Burmese Spring’, the book examines the reasons behind the ongoing political transition, as well as the role of the Burmese armed forces in the process. The book draws on in-depth interviews with Burmese political actors, party leaders, parliamentarians, active and retired army officers. It also takes its cue from comparative scholarship on civil-military relations and post-authoritarian politics, looking at the ‘praetorian’ logic to explain the transitional moment. Myanmar’s road to democratic change is, however, paved with obstacles. As the book suggests, the continuing military intervention in domestic politics, the resilience of bureaucratic, economic and political clientelism at all levels of society, the towering presence of Aung San Suu Kyi, the shadowy influence of regional and global powers, and the enduring concerns about interethnic and interreligious relations, all are strong reminders of the series of elemental conundrums which Myanmar will have to deal with in order to achieve democratization, sustainable development and peace.

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Bryant, Jan. Artmaking in the Age of Global Capitalism. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456944.001.0001.

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What strategies are visual artists and filmmakers using to criticise the social and economic conditions shaping our particular historical moment? This question is answered by considering the methods and political implications of artists or filmmakers working in a contemporary western art context today. Leading into extended analyses of works by Frances Barrett, Claire Denis, Angela Brennan, and Alex Monteith, the book considers two forces that have informed contemporary artmaking: the economic conditions that began changing social realities from the 1970s forward; and the current tendency of the political aesthetic to move away from direct political content or didacticism to a concern for the sensate effects of materials. This is framed by Jacques Rancière’s ‘distribution of the sensible’ and Walter Benjamin’s historical materialism. As historical ground for understanding the contemporary condition, Artmaking in the Age of Global Economics pays particular attention to the divisions that opened up between progressive writers, theorists and artists in the late 20^th century. Suggesting an alternative approach to understanding art’s historical antecedents, it avoids received art-historical narratives or canonical figures, refuting both the autonomy of art as well as the separation of artist from the work they produce. It locates, instead, contemporary art in a worldly context of responsibility that opens up to an ethics of practice. [211]

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Wiseman, Sam. Locating the Gothic in British Modernity. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781942954897.001.0001.

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The late-Victorian era has been extensively researched as a period of Gothic literature, and this study seeks to build upon this body of work by connecting the content of such studies to the early decades of the twentieth century. Beginning with the quintessentially urban Gothic space of fin de siècle London, as represented in classic texts such as Dracula and Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan, the study proceeds to ask how the themes and energies which emerge in this moment evolve throughout the early twentieth century. In the ghost stories of authors like M.R. James, the Edwardian era witnesses an uncanny return to the rural English landscape, in which modernity encounters the re-emergence of suppressed fears and forces. After World War One, London again experiences a renewal of Gothic themes, with figures such as D.H. Lawrence and T.S. Eliot representing the city as a stricken and desolate space, haunted by the trauma and ghosts of the recent conflict. That legacy of violence and loss is also evident in rural representations of place in the 1920s and 1930s, along with a renewed interest in supernaturalism and paganism found in authors like Sylvia Townsend Warner and Mary Butts. Ultimately, this study argues, this period of dramatic social and cultural change is shadowed by a corresponding evolution in Gothic literary representation, whether that is expressed through modernist experimentation or more conventional narrative forms.

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Agostini, Domenico, Samuel Thrope, Shaul Shaked, and Guy Stroumsa. The Bundahišn. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.001.0001.

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The Bundahišn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology and one of the most important of the surviving testaments to Zoroastrian literature and pre-Islamic Iranian culture. Touching on geography, cosmogony, anthropology, zoology, astronomy, medicine, legend, and myth, the Bundahišn can be considered a concise compendium of Zoroastrian knowledge. The Bundahišn is well known in the field as an essential primary source for the study of ancient Iranian history, religions, literature, and languages. It is one of the most important texts composed in Zoroastrian Middle Persian, also known as Zoroastrian Book Pahlavi, in the centuries after the fall of the Sasanian Empire to the invading Arab and Islamic forces in the mid seventh century. The Bundahišn provides scholars with a particularly profitable window on Zoroastrianism’s intellectual and religious history at a crucial transitional moment: centuries after the composition of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred scriptures, and before the transformation of Zoroastrianism into a minority religion within Iran and adherents’ dispersion throughout Central and South Asia. However, the Bundahišn is not only a scholarly tract. It is also a great work of literature in its own right and ranks alongside the creation myths of other ancient traditions: Genesis, the Babylonian Emunah Elish, Hesiod’s Theogony, and others. Informed by the latest research in Iranian Studies, this translation aims to bring to the fore the aesthetic quality, literary style, and complexity of this important work.

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Thomas, Ward. The New Dogs of War. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501758898.001.0001.

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As this book details, militias and paramilitary groups wield greater power than national governments in many countries, while in some war zones private contractors perform missions previously reserved for uniformed troops. Most ominously, terrorist organizations with global reach have come to define the security landscape for even the most powerful nations. Across the first decades of the twenty-first century, we have witnessed a dramatic rise in the use of military force by these nonstate actors in ways that have impacted the international system, leading to the author of this book to undertake this assessment of the state of play at this critical moment. To understand the spread of nonstate violence, the author focuses on the crucial role played by an epochal transformation in international norms. Since the eighteenth century, the Westphalian model of sovereignty has reserved the legitimate use of force to states. The book argues that normative changes in the decades after World War II produced a “crisis of coherence” for formal and informal rules against nonstate violence. In detailed case studies of nonstate militias, transnational terrorist networks, and private military contractors, the book explains how forces contesting state prerogatives exploited this crisis, which in turn reshaped international understandings of who could legitimately use force. By considering for the first time all three purveyors of nonstate violence as aspects of the same phenomenon, the book explains this fundamental shift in the norm that for centuries gave states the monopoly on military force.

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Scheipers, Sibylle. On Small War. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799047.001.0001.

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Carl von Clausewitz is best known as the paradigmatic thinker of major interstate war. However, as this book demonstrates, Clausewitz developed his theory of war on the basis of his analysis of small war. He lived at a ‘watershed’ moment during which the early modern tradition of partisan warfare morphed into the modern practice of people’s war. Both his lectures on small war and his 1812 confession memorandum are evidence that Clausewitz was a keen analyst of both forms of small war. He integrated his insights in small war and people’s war in particular systematically into his magnum opus, On War. According to Clausewitz, the nationalization of war that had resulted from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had irrevocably introduced the option of defensive people’s war into the European strategic context. While people’s war always bore the risk of descending into political upheaval and revolutionary movements, it could also act as a custodian of the balance of power in early nineteenth-century Europe. The book reconstructs Clausewitz’s intellectual development against the backdrop of his contemporary political, philosophical, and cultural context. Understanding Clausewitz’s engagement with German Idealism and Romanticism is vital in order to reconstruct his thought on the role of reason and emotions in war, on military genius, and on the political foundations of war in general and people’s war in particular. However, a contextual interpretation of Clausewitz’s thought also forces us to reconsider to what extent this thought is applicable to strategic problems in the twenty-first century.

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