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John, Campbell, ed. Selected works of our world's best poets. [Sacramento, Calif.]: World of Poetry Press, 1992.
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Hu, Linda. The Chinese-American method: Raising our children with the best of both worlds. [S.l.]: Trafford, 2013.
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Mitchell, Brian, 1933 Jul. 12-, Allan Laurence 1954-, and Allan Laurence 1954-, eds. On the road again: The best years of our lives ; Cradle to the grave. Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 2000.
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Gration, Geoff. The best summer of our lives: A photographic history of the Derbyshire miners' holiday camp. Derby: Breedon Books Pub., 2000.
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Len, Wagg, ed. Chronicle of our time: [the best colour photographs of Nova Scotia from the Chronicle herald]. Halifax, NS: Nimbus Pub., 2005.
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Kānsadǣng Sinlapakam khō̜ng ʻĀčhān Khana Čhittrakam, Pratimākam, læ Phāpphim, Mahāwitthayālai Sinlapākō̜n (26th 2009 Mahāwitthayālai Sinlapākō̜n). Our best recent works & glass art project: 26th Art Exhibition by Members of the Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University. [Bangkok, Thailand]: Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, 2009.
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Levingston, Harold. God's Inspiring Words: God's Best for Our Lives. Independently Published, 2021.
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God's Inspiring Words: God's Best for Our Lives. Independently Published, 2021.
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Our Best Friend Karma: Teaching Kids about the Power of Positive Words, Thoughts, and Actions. Vanderbark Press, 2022.
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O'Brien, Rose Eileen, O'Brien Francis Xavier Jr, Yuna Chan, and Cecille Haggerty O'Brien. Our Humble Best: Cece's Story. O'Brien, Rose, 2023.
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Thrift: A cyclopedia : being an early attempt to assemble the best of what is known from history and literature about one of our most provocative words for those who are not ashamed to think anew about happiness, extravagance, and thriving. West Conshohocken, Pa: Templeton Foundation Press, 2008.
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Vettese, Angela, Walter Grasskamp, Pierluigi Tazzi, Bert Theis, and Christian Bernard. Bert Theis: Some Works. Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2003.
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Country Set: A Celebration of Our Best-Loved Wildlife. Batsford Publishing, 2023.
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Country Set: A Celebration of Our Best-Loved Wildlife. Batsford Publishing, 2023.
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Erspamer, Lisa. Letter to My Cat: Notes to Our Best Friends. Crown/Archetype, 2014.
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The best of New Zealand geographic: Exploring our land & culture. Auckland [N.Z.]: Kowhai Pub., 2009.
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Layton, Robin, Kimi Culp, and Lisa Erspamer. Letter to My Dog: Notes to Our Best Friends. Chronicle Books LLC, 2013.
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Sherden, William A. Best Laid Plans. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400617669.
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This intriguing and informative probe into the dynamics of unintended consequences reveal the real reasons our best laid plans often go askew in our political, business, and personal lives. Historian and author Daniel Boorstin noted, "The unintended consequences of man's enterprises have and will always be more potent, more widespread, and more influential than those he intended." Today, a Google web search for "unintended consequences" summons nearly two million pages citing the unexpected impacts of government policies, new technologies, management decisions, and the actions of individuals. Unfortunate unintended consequences are becoming increasingly problematic as our world becomes globally and electronically interconnected, causing the results of our decisions to resonate across the globe. In Best Laid Plans, the author examines how any action can have cascading impacts across time, place, and sector, explaining the eight social mechanisms of unintended consequences that complicate matters and often defeat best laid plans. This book will be of great interest to managers, analysts, researchers, or other employees working for businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations, as well as general nonfiction readers who delight in learning about how the world works.
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David, Christian, and Christina Temple. Beat Toronto: 50 Of Our City's Most Interesting Restaurants. Stoddart, 1998.
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Alexander, Yonah, ed. Terrorists in Our Midst. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216024552.
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This unique work analyzes for the first time how foreign-affinity terrorism works in a major democratic nation like the United States, and what this country must do to survive the terror challenge, on both conventional and unconventional levels. To date, no definitive study has dealt specifically with the role of American citizens in supporting a foreign political, ideological, and religious illegal agenda. Terrorists in Our Midst: Combating Foreign-Affinity Terrorism in America remedies that as six expert authors discuss the threats of Americans to security interests in the United States and elsewhere, exploring what can and should be done to reduce a risk that may threaten the very survival of the free world. Terrorists in Our Midst focuses not only on foreign nationals operating in the United States, but also on American citizens participating in terror networks at home and abroad. The book presents an overview of both conventional and unconventional terrorism, surveys the terrorist threat in the United States by state and nonstate actors, and analyzes the foreign-affinity links of American operatives in this country and abroad. Most important for the safety and security of the United States, it offers an assessment of what policies worked and what did not work, specifying a "best practices" agenda of recommendations that should be adopted by the United States and the international community.
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Perkins, Agnes Regan, and Alethea K. Helbig. This Land Is Our Land. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216025665.
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How do you select the best recent works of fiction, oral tradition, and poetry about African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, and Native-American Indian experiences and traditions from the profusion of titles being published today? This annotated bibliography of titles for children and young adults published from 1985 through the end of 1993--with 60% published since 1990--provides a one-stop selection tool. Appraisals of 559 titles, as well as information about an additional 188 recent books and 90 earlier ones of importance, are provided. Each entry features a plot summary incorporating themes, critical comments with a judgment of the book's value as an example of its genre, suggestions of other books by that writer, and related books of importance. The authors, who are recognized authorities in children's literature, and an advistory board of librarians and teachers, each of whom specializes in the literature of a particular ethnic group, have provided insightful critical appraisals and expertise and guidance in the selection of titles. Helpful subject, grade-level, author, title, and illustrator indexes are organized for ease of use. Titles in the grade-level and subject indexes are also identified by ethnic group.
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Sobecki, Sebastian. Last Words. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790778.001.0001.
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No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticize them and misjudge the social character of their authors. Instead, most medieval poems and manuscripts presuppose familiarity with their authorial or scribal maker. Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England attempts to recover this familiarity and understand the literary motivation behind some of the most important fifteenth-century texts and authors. Last Words captures the public selves of such social authors when they attempt to extract themselves from the context of a lived life. Driven by archival research and literary inquiry, this book will reveal where John Gower kept the Trentham manuscript in his final years, how John Lydgate wished to be remembered, and why Thomas Hoccleve wrote his best-known work, the Series. This book will include documentary breakthroughs and archival discoveries, and will introduce a new life record for Hoccleve, identify the author of a significant political poem, and reveal the handwriting of John Gower and George Ashby. Through its investments in archival study, book history, and literary criticism, Last Words charts the extent to which medieval English literature was shaped by the social selves of their authors.
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Drucker, Peter F. Our Changing Economic Society: The Best of Drucker's Thinking on Economic and Societal Change--Selections from Published Works. Harpercollins, 1991.
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Mantle, Ben. Best Birthday Present Ever! Pan Macmillan, 2015.
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Winner, Ellen. How Art Works. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863357.003.0016.
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The final chapter of this book briefly summarizes what psychologists have learned about how art works—how we experience art. The key questions and contrasting philosophical positions and commonsense views discussed in each chapter are reviewed, followed by findings from empirical studies on how ordinary people (non-philosophers, and individuals without art or art history training) think about these questions. While philosophers search for the best answer to these questions based on careful reasoning, psychologists look at how ordinary people answer these questions, without raising the question of what is “correct.” The answers that psychologists have revealed as they explore ordinary people’s responses to philosophical questions help us understand how ordinary people experience art.
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Walden, Joshua S. “The Beat Beat Beat of the Tom-Tom”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040092.003.0010.
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This chapter explores the extensive range of musical references in Porter's songs to view the meanings that emerge out of this eclecticism, with particular focus on “Begin the Beguine” and its history of varied interpretations in sound recording and cinema. Throughout Porter's works, the exotic, something one dreams of from home and experiences only on a rare voyage abroad, is a metaphor for the true love that is passionately desired but ultimately elusive. This metaphor appears to reflect an ambivalence that likely characterized Porter's own experience as a gay man in a heterosexual marriage in early and mid-twentieth-century America.
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Ratcliffe, Robert R. Morphology. Edited by Jonathan Owens. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199764136.013.0004.
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This article discusses the study of Arabic morphology. It first considers the root-and-pattern theory, which has become the orthodox approach to Arabic synchronic morphology. It then details the paradigm shift in the mid-1980s, when students of Arabic morphology reached the conclusion that a rigidly reductionist root-and-pattern analysis is fundamentally inadequate as a descriptive tool. This has led to a variety of alternative models, which can be loosely grouped under the rubric of word based or stem based. All such models have in common the idea that many or all morphological regularities in Arabic can be best described in terms of derivational processes operating on words or stems rather than in terms of combinations of roots and patterns.
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Mattissen, Johanna. Nivkh. Edited by Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun, and Nicholas Evans. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199683208.013.47.
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Nivkh (Paleosiberian group), spoken on the lower reaches of the Amur River and on Sakhalin island in Siberia by a few hundred speakers in four main varieties, but rapidly dying out, is a polysynthetic head-marking but configurational SOV language, with defective polypersonalism, noun incorporation, verb root serialization, and complex noun forms. Its dominant structural principle and characteristic design is dependent-head-synthesis, with dependents lexically head-marked and still referentially active. Nivkh displays compositional polysynthesis with a mixed internal structure, as the suffixal domain of a word-form may be described by a template, whereas the pre-root domain is scope-ordered due to dependent chaining. The evolutionary path of complex forms is best conceived of as coalescence of formerly adjacent words. Morphophonemic processes at the word-internal morpheme boundaries, especially consonant dissimilation and assimilation, and bound allomorphs prove the wordhood of the complexes. Non-root bound morphemes encode modalities, degree, scalar, and focus operators and phase of action.
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Frank, Arthur W. King Lear. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192846723.001.0001.
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Abstract The consolations of tragedy are dark, but their darkness is what rings true to readers whose lives already share it. In King Lear an enraged old man upends the lives of those around him. It’s a story of loss, forgiveness, and deeper loss. To show how this story can console, Arthur Frank draws upon both the decades he has spent witnessing serious illness and his own experiences of ageing. His reading presents King Lear as a resource for people living lives that are troubled, exemplifying how to find consolation in literature. Shakespeare did not write self-help books, but his plays can help: not by fixing but by making liveable what cannot be fixed. Shakespeare’s Dark Consolations invites readers, including those not already familiar with King Lear, to hear how the play’s words can speak for us when our own words fail, and how its characters can speak to us, becoming our companions. Frank understands tragedy as a form of human relationship: a tragic sharing. Cordelia’s words, ‘We are not the first / Who with the best meaning have incurred the worst’, express the companionship that makes vulnerability liveable. Shakespeare’s Dark Consolations is a companion to those who need the consolation that King Lear can offer.
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Williams, Donald C. The Bugbear of Fate. Edited by A. R. J. Fisher. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810384.003.0013.
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This chapter begins with a critique of David Lewis’s ontology of concrete possible worlds. One argument that has been given in support of such an ontology is that possible worlds are needed to uphold our best analysis of counterfactuals. In response to this argument it is objected that we do not need to postulate possible worlds as truthmakers for counterfactuals. It is further argued that Lewis’s ontology of concrete possible worlds leads to set-theoretic-like paradoxes, and that it fails to explain our motivation to eradicate evil in our world. Nelson Pike’s argument that if God exists our actions are fated is rejected, and Peter Geach’s argument that if time travel is possible we can change the past is refuted. These responses to Pike and Geach constitute a further defense of the pure manifold theory of time.
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Cox, Fiona. Marina Warner. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779889.003.0003.
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Marina Warner is one of Ovid’s best-known and significant critics, and his influence on her work is evident not only in her works of cultural history, such as Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds (2002), but also in her novels. The Leto Bundle (2001) is a novel that retells the Ovidian myth of Leto, showing it in different lights across the centuries, but throughout using it as a means of examining homelessness and the plight of refugees. Warner also pays careful attention to questioning the ways in which the past is packaged for us in the modern world, by evoking the world of museums, and the concerns and practices of those who work in them. Through her fiction Warner asks us to re-evaluate our relationship to the past, and the ways in which that past is transmitted and to whom.
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Purwanto, Bambang, Roel Frakking, Abdul Wahid, Gerry Klinken, Martijn Eickhoff, Yulianti, and Ireen Hoogenboom. Revolutionary Worlds. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463727587.
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Revolutionary Worlds looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) from a local and regional perspective. With seventeen contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the revolutionary world from widely differing perspectives. The authors explain how Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and Eurasian civilians, fighters, farmers and officials experienced and shaped the often volatile period between 1945 and 1950. The book focuses on different ideas of independence, survival strategies, mobilization, minorities, contestation of authority and the use of force against the backdrop of Indonesian and Dutch authorities’ efforts to gain or maintain control. Bringing together two national historiographical traditions which have long remained largely separate, Revolutionary Worlds is the result of a collaboration between the Indonesian research project Proklamasi Kemerdekaan, Revolusi dan Perang di Indonesia ('Proclamation of Independence, Revolution and War in Indonesia', Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta) and the Dutch research group of the Regional Studies project, under the umbrella of the research programme Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950. The authors of this book – Taufik Ahmad, Galuh Ambar Sasi, Maarten van der Bent, Martijn Eickhoff, Farabi Fakih, Roel Frakking, Apriani Harahap, Anne-Lot Hoek, Sarkawi B. Husain, Julianto Ibrahim, Gerry van Klinken, Erniwati, Mawardi Umar, Anne van der Veer, Abdul Wahid, Tri Wahyuning M. Irsyam, and Muhammad Yuanda Zara – work with various universities and research institutes in Indonesia and the Netherlands.
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Mayer, Richard E., and Logan Fiorella, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning. 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108894333.
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Digital and online learning is more prevalent than ever, making multimedia learning a primary objective for many instructors. The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning examines cutting-edge research to guide creative teaching methods in online classrooms and training. Recognized as the field's major reference work, this research-based handbook helps define and shape this area of study. This third edition provides the latest progress report from the world's leading multimedia researchers, with forty-six chapters on how to help people learn from words and pictures, particularly in computer-based environments. The chapters demonstrate what works best and establishes optimized practices. It systematically examines well-researched principles of effective multimedia instruction and pinpoints exactly why certain practices succeed by isolating the boundary conditions. The volume is founded upon research findings in learning theory, giving it an informed perspective in explaining precisely how effective teaching practices achieve their goals or fail to engage.
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Barbour, Charles. Conclusion: Secretions. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424998.003.0006.
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The image is Francesca Woodman’s, a New York artist who worked in the 1970s and early 1980s, until she killed herself at the age of twenty-two. It is a photographic self-portrait. She is a woman holding a mirror up to her face – a fairly common trope in our artistic tradition, and one with which Woodman often engaged and manipulated throughout her tragically brief career. But the reflective side of the mirror is not directed at her, as we often see in such pictures. Rather, it is directed at us, or whoever happens to be looking at the image. In the mirror, we should see our face, or us looking back at ourselves, narcissistically, no doubt, or confidently self-aware. But we do not see ourselves. Rather, we see her back and the back of her head. In other words, and paradoxically, she faces us with her back turned towards us. She looks out at us looking at her refusing to look at us. Or is that the best and most felicitous interpretation? I am not sure. For, obviously, with the back of the mirror pressed up against her nose, she cannot see us either. We look at her not looking at us, facing forward, with her back to us. Or, perhaps, we somehow occupy her position, turning her back on herself, even as she, or we, are still able to watch her do so. We watch her ...
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Caso, Antonio. Existence as Economy and as Charity. Translated by Alexander V. Stehn and Jose G. Rodriguez. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190601294.003.0003.
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Antonio Caso rejects the effort of biologists to reduce life to the organic world, a sphere of existence that is defined by economy and egoism, best summarized in the formula: Life = Minimum Effort x Maximum Gain. The problem is that this cannot explain what he calls “disinterested activity,” such as play, art, and self-sacrifice. His primary example of disinterested or selfless activity is the life of Jesus, which Caso also believes is the height of human dignity. In other words, Caso not only argues that there is more than one order of life or existence; he also argues that selfless activity is ultimately what distinguishes human life, whose best expression is found in the essence of Christianity: to give oneself to others “without fear of exhaustion.” To be human is to be willing to sacrifice oneself, best expressed in the following formula: Sacrifice = Maximum Effort x Minimum Gain.
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Lundbom, Jack R. Jeremiah 1–20. Yale University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780300261325.
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Jeremiah, long considered one of the most colorful of the ancient Israelite prophets, comes to life in Jack R. Lundbom’s Jeremiah 1-20. From his boyhood call to prophecy in 627 b.c.e., which Jeremiah tried to refuse, to his scathing judgments against the sins and hypocrisy of the people of Israel, Jeremiah charged through life with passion and emotion. He saw his fellow Israelites abandon their one true God, and witnessed the predictable outcome of their disregard for God’s word – their tragic fall to the Babylonians. The first book of a three-volume Anchor Bible commentary, Jack R. Lundbom’s eagerly awaited exegesis of Jeremiah investigates the opening twenty chapters of this Old Testament giant. With considerable skill and erudition, Lundbom leads modern readers through this prophet’s often mysterious oracles, judgments, and visions. He quickly dispels the notion that the life and words of a seventh-century b.c.e. Israelite prophet can have no relevance for the contemporary reader. Clearly, Jeremiah was every bit as concerned as we are with issues like terrorism, hypocrisy, environmental pollution, and social justice. This impressive work of scholarship, essential to any biblical studies curriculum, replaces John Bright’s landmark Anchor Bible commentary on Jeremiah. Like its predecessor, Jeremiah 1-20 draws on the best biblical scholarship to further our understanding of the weeping prophet and his message to the world.
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Lundbom, Jack R. Jeremiah 1–20. Yale University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780300261325.
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Jeremiah, long considered one of the most colorful of the ancient Israelite prophets, comes to life in Jack R. Lundbom’s Jeremiah 1-20. From his boyhood call to prophecy in 627 b.c.e., which Jeremiah tried to refuse, to his scathing judgments against the sins and hypocrisy of the people of Israel, Jeremiah charged through life with passion and emotion. He saw his fellow Israelites abandon their one true God, and witnessed the predictable outcome of their disregard for God’s word – their tragic fall to the Babylonians. The first book of a three-volume Anchor Bible commentary, Jack R. Lundbom’s eagerly awaited exegesis of Jeremiah investigates the opening twenty chapters of this Old Testament giant. With considerable skill and erudition, Lundbom leads modern readers through this prophet’s often mysterious oracles, judgments, and visions. He quickly dispels the notion that the life and words of a seventh-century b.c.e. Israelite prophet can have no relevance for the contemporary reader. Clearly, Jeremiah was every bit as concerned as we are with issues like terrorism, hypocrisy, environmental pollution, and social justice. This impressive work of scholarship, essential to any biblical studies curriculum, replaces John Bright’s landmark Anchor Bible commentary on Jeremiah. Like its predecessor, Jeremiah 1-20 draws on the best biblical scholarship to further our understanding of the weeping prophet and his message to the world.
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Travis, Charles. What Structure Lurks in the Minds of Men? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783916.003.0004.
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An idea of Wittgenstein’s: Given the questions (e.g.) belief ascriptions speak to, there is no reason to expect what they ascribe to correspond in any interesting or significant way with any identifiable intracranial states or happenings. There is a viewpoint from which this seems at best perverse. It is incarnated in something known as the Representational Theory of Mind. After setting out that theory, this chapter works to make Wittgenstein’s idea plausible, or at least reasonable; correspondingly, RTM becomes less plausible, or at least less reasonable. It works in this direction by borrowing, and working out, some ideas of Frege’s—very broadly speaking, ideas on what is, what not, a psychological question; in large part ideas on the generality of thought and the particularity of what thought is about. Later Wittgenstein is generally much indebted to Frege. Here is one area where the debt shows.
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de Raad, Boele, and Boris Mlačić. The Lexical Foundation of the Big Five Factor Model. Edited by Thomas A. Widiger. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352487.013.12.
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A dictionary is the tangible repository of the common stock of words, although dictionaries comprise at best 10% of the full lexicon. Part of the lexicon is made up of the words used to describe what people do and what people are like. The psycholexical approach to personality focuses on this subset of words and on its exploitation, or what can be said to be the glossary of personality. This chapter is concerned with the history of the psycholexical approach to personality description, from ancient history to the more recent efforts, albeit focusing in particular on its modern history. Psycholexical taxonomies from around the world will be considered, as well as taxonomies based on nouns, verbs, adverbs, and their combinations. Ongoing controversies, difficulties, and disputes regarding alternative psycholexical personality structures will be considered, as well as recommendations for future research.
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Sinha, Pramath Raj. Building New Institutions of Excellence in India. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199480654.003.0006.
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This chapter is based on the stories of the author’s personal experiences in building three different institutions and programmes—the Indian School of Business (ISB), Ashoka University, and the Young India Fellowship (part of Ashoka University). The author argues that instead of driving systemic change through policy advocacy or large-scale capacity building, efforts can also be directed towards the building of new institutions that address an unmet need and an unsolved problem in our country, and that aspire to be the best in the world from the word go.
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Radcliffe, Ann, and Terry Castle. The Mysteries of Udolpho. Edited by Bonamy Dobrée. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199537419.001.0001.
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‘Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.’ Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert – the orphaned heroine of Ann Radcliffe’s 1794 gothic Classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho – finds herself after Count Montoni, her evil guardian, imprisions her in his gloomy medieval fortress in the Appenines. Terror is the order of the day inside the walls of Udolpho, as Emily struggles against Montoni’s rapacious schemes and the threat of her own psychological disintegration. A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Walpole, Poe, and other writers of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of Udolpho remains one of the most important works in the history of European fiction. As the same time, with its dream-like plot and hallucinatory rendering of its characters’ psychological states, it often seems strangely modern: ‘permanently avant-garde’ in Terry Castle’s words, and a profound and fascinating challenge to contemporary readers.
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Biela, Katarzyna, Aleksandra Kamińska, Alicja Lasak, Kinga Latała, and Sabina Sosin, eds. Faces of Crisis in 20th- and 21st- Century Prose. An Anthology of Criticism. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/k7170.125/20.20.15534.
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In one way or another, crisis has always been a part of our lives and it is still a central aspect of contemporary world, ridden by recurring economic, environmental, and health threats. Faces of Crisis in 20th- and 21st-Century Prose. An Anthology of Criticism offers a unique overview of the motif of crisis tackled by 20th- and 1st-century writers. The main value of this anthology lies in its unique array of perspectives. The contributors focus on literary works which may have been analysed by other scholars, but never before have they been examined from the perspective of crisis and its different forms. Many of the discussed works were written, or rediscovered, in the last two decades. To the best of my knowledge, there is no other study like this volume. From the review by Professor Aleksandra Kędzierska, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin
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Longridge, Nicholas, Pete Clarke, Raheel Aftab, and Tariq Ali. Oxford Assess and Progress: Clinical Dentistry. Edited by Katharine Boursicot and David Sales. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825173.001.0001.
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Oxford Assess and Progress: Clinical Dentistry features over 270 Single Best Answer questions. Written and peer-reviewed by clinicians working within each specialty and mapped to dental school curricula, this is an authoritative guide for dental students providing a wealth of revision. Organised by specialties, chapter introductions unlock difficult subjects with hints and tips. Each question is accompanied by detailed answers explaining the rationale behind right and wrong answers. Cross-references to the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Dentistry and further reading resources, expand your revision further. A four star rating system indicating question difficulty to monitor your progress as you learn. Key words also help highlight specific clues or words that can assist with recall. Oxford Assess and Progress: Clinical Dentistry is your prescription for exam succcess.
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DeJonge, Michael P. The Directly Political Word of the Church. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824176.003.0008.
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This chapter continues the examination of Bonhoeffer’s first phase of resistance through exposition of “The Church and the Jewish Question,” presenting the second kind of word-resistance, the directly political word of the church (type 4). It is this type of resistance that Bonhoeffer describes as “jam[ming] a spoke in the wheel itself” or “seiz[ing] the wheel itself.” The necessity for this directly political word arises when the state “unscrupulously” governs with “too little” or “too much” order. The logic of this word is best captured by what Bonhoeffer elsewhere calls a concrete commandment. This is the church’s temporary intervention into the political exercise of the law, which under normal conditions would fall under the authority of the properly functioning state.
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Solomon, Norman. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199687350.003.0001.
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The Introduction outlines why it is so important to consider the question of what Judaism is from a non-Christian, non-Western perspective. This perspective might lead someone to ask: what do Jews believe about Jesus? What is more important in Judaism, faith or works? Judaism is best studied from within, rather than from without. Judaism does not define itself around Jesus, nor does it assume that faith and works are opposing concepts. Who are the Jews? Despite all the suffering and persecutions and forced migrations Jewish people have been through, the spirit has flourished.
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Reese, Ruth Anne. 2 Peter and Jude. William B. Eerdmans, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/bci-001c.
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In this volume Ruth Anne Reese explores the theological and literary meaning of 2 Peter and Jude with an emphasis on theology for the church today. She seeks to meld together the best tools derived from the disciplines of both biblical studies and theology. Reese's 2 Peter and Jude begins with a general introduction to the two books and proceeds to look at each text, exploring the meaning of particular words and illuminating the text with elements of history, sociology, and literary study. The themes of each book -- and how they are played out throughout the biblical canon -- are examined from an explicitly theological angle. Reese brings together insights from the best of biblical scholarship with the work of theologians, both contemporary and ancient. The combination of disciplines leads to new insights on such issues as judgment, community living, and the relationship between faith and ethics.
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Wilson, Mark. Physics Avoidance. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803478.001.0001.
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“Physics avoidance” refers to the fact that we frequently cannot reason about nature in the straightforward manner we anticipate, but must seek alternate policies to address the questions we want answered in a tractable way. Within both science and everyday life, we find ourselves tacitly relying upon thought processes that reach useful answers in opaque and roundabout manners. Conceptual innovators are often puzzled by the techniques they develop, when they stumble across reasoning patterns that are easy to implement but difficult to justify. But simple techniques frequently rest upon complex foundations—a young magician learns how to execute a card guessing trick without understanding how its progressive steps squeeze in on a correct answer. As we collectively improve our inferential skills in this evolving manner, we often wander into unfamiliar explanatory landscapes in which simple words encode physical information in complex and unanticipated ways. We have learned how to reach better conclusions, but we have become baffled by our successes. At its best, philosophical reflection illuminates the natural developmental processes that generate these confusions. But a number of widely shared methodological presumptions currently operate to opposite effect—they obscure the very tactics that advance our descriptive capacities. To correct these misapprehensions, sharper diagnostic tools are wanted. The nine new essays within this collection illustrate this need for finer discriminations through a range of informative cases of historical and contemporary significance.
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Perone, James E., ed. Listen to Movie Musicals! ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400679797.
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Listen to Movie Musicals! includes an overview of musical theatre and movie musicals in the United States. The 50 movies chosen for critical analysis include many of the best-known film musicals of the past and present; however, the list also includes several important movie musicals that were popular successes that are not necessarily on the “best-of” lists in other books. This volume also includes a greater focus on the actual music of movie musicals than do most other books, making it a stand-out title on the topic for high school and college readers. Like the other books in this series, this volume includes a background chapter followed by a chapter that contains 50 important essays on must-hear movie musicals of approximately 1,500 words each. Chapters on the impact of movie musicals on popular culture and the legacy of movie musicals further explain the impact of both the movies and their songs.
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Foote, John H. Clint Eastwood. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400627590.
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Now a two-time Academy Award winner for best director, twice winner of the Directors Guild of America Award for best director, and recipient of countless other critics prizes and nominations in multiple capacities, Clint Eastwood stands alongside Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg as one of the finest directors working in modern cinema. Here, John Foote examines the long, impressive, and unlikely film career of a man who fought against expectations to forge his own way and become one of this generation's finest filmmakers. Each chapter examines a different film, beginning with Play Misty for Me (1971) and High Plains Drifter (1973) and extending to his 21st-century films Space Cowboys (2000), Blood Work (2002), Mystic River (2003), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), and Changeling (2008). This book is, in the author's own words, a study of how Eastwood managed to quietly get to this level—and a celebration of his gifts as an artist. Eastwood has evolved not only as a director, but also as an actor, a screenwriter, a producer, and a score composer, to become one of the most revered figures in Hollywood. Perhaps it is because he started out in Hollywood with such little influence on the final product that he now demonstrates such a strong desire to collaborate with others and provide help wherever he can. In addition to casting off his reputation as a hack and accumulating two Oscar nominations for Best Actor over the past 15 years, he has guided other actors to no less than three Academy Award wins. The executives love him because he has made them money over the years—occasionally even making one for them in exchange for financial backing on other projects. Critics love him because of the care he takes in creating his films. Audiences love him because he has never lost his sense of entertainment, even as his artistry has matured.
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Welsh, Mary Sue. Cajoling and Seducing Composers. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037368.003.0014.
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This chapter details events following Stokowski's departure from the Philadelphia Orchestra. With Ormandy completely in charge, the Philadelphia players carried on as the professionals they were, still committed to performing at the highest levels and still proud to be members of a great orchestra. In addition to her orchestral duties, Phillips took on another project at this time. Over the years, she had grown frustrated by the scarcity of works written for the harp, especially when she performed as a soloist with the orchestra and found that the number of suitable works she had to choose from was limited. Finally, in 1940, she decided to do something about the problem. With her husband's generous support, she set out to expand the repertoire by commissioning new works for the harp from the best composers she could find. But finding and pinning down those composers turned out to be much harder than she had imagined.