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Wolfgang, Eckstein. Sputtering, reflection and range values for plasma edge codes. Garching bei München: Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, 1998.
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Alison, McCrory Patricia, ed. Crustal deformation at the leading edge of the Oregon Coast Range block, offshore Washington (Columbia River to Hoh River). [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. G.P.O., 2002.
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J, Gupta I., Burnside W. D, and Langley Research Center, eds. Design of blended rolled edges for compact range main reflectors. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University, ElectroScience Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1988.
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Nesi, Paolo, and Raffaella Santucci, eds. ECLAP 2012 Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-128-7.
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It has been a long history of Information Technology innovations within the Cultural Heritage areas. The Performing arts has also been enforced with a number of new innovations which unveil a range of synergies and possibilities. Most of the technologies and innovations produced for digital libraries, media entertainment and education can be exploited in the field of performing arts, with adaptation and repurposing. Performing arts offer many interesting challenges and opportunities for research and innovations and exploitation of cutting edge research results from interdisciplinary areas. For these reasons, the ECLAP 2012 can be regarded as a continuation of past conferences such as AXMEDIS and WEDELMUSIC (both pressed by IEEE and FUP). ECLAP is an European Commission project to create a social network and media access service for performing arts institutions in Europe, to create the e-library of performing arts, exploiting innovative solutions coming from the ICT.
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Downs, Alan. The velvet rage: How growing up gay in a straight man's world can lead to destructive anger, or a creative edge. Cambridge, Mass: Da Capo Lifelong, 2006.
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R, Whetstone James, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.), eds. Measurements of coefficients of discharge for concentric flange-tapped square-edged orifice meters in water over the Reynolds number range 600 to 2,700,000. Gaithersburg, MD: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1989.
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Shi kong de chang shou yi liao: 8 ge neng rang ren lei huo dao 250 sui, que you 100% you dao de zheng yi de jiu ming ke ji = Beyond human : how cutting-edge science is extending our lives. Taibei Shi: Cai shi wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, 2017.
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Neely, Nick. Coast Range: A Collection from the Pacific Edge. Counterpoint Press, 2016.
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Coast range: A collection from the Pacific edge. 2016.
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Jaffe, Matthew. The Santa Monica Mountains: Range on the Edge. Angel City Press, 2007.
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Panchuk, Michelle, and Michael Rea, eds. Voices from the Edge. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848844.001.0001.
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Over the past several decades, scholars working in biblical, theological, and religious studies have increasingly attended to the substantive ways that our experiences and understanding of God and God’s relation to the world are structured by our experiences and concepts of race, gender, disability, and sexuality. These personal and social identities and their intersections serve as a hermeneutical lens for our interpretations of God, self, the other, and our religious texts and traditions. However, they have not received nearly the same level of attention from analytic theologians and philosophers of religion, and so a wide range of important issues remain ripe for analytic treatment. The papers in this volume address the various ways in which the aforementioned social identities intersect with, shape, and might be shaped by the questions with which analytic theology and philosophy of religion have typically been concerned, as well as what new questions they suggest to the discipline. We focus on three central areas of analytic theology: methodological principles, the intersection of social identities with religious epistemology, and the connections among eschatology, ante-mortem suffering, and ante-mortem social perceptions of bodies.
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McCrory, Patricia Alison. Crustal Deformation at the Leading Edge of the Oregon Coast Range Block, Offshore Washington (Columbia River to Hoh River (Earthquake Hazards of the Pacific Northwest Coastal and Marine Regions). U S Geological Survey, 2002.
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Granger, Sylviane, ed. Perspectives on the L2 Phrasicon. Multilingual Matters, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21832/grange4856.
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This is the first book to investigate the field of phraseology from a learner corpus perspective. It includes cutting-edge studies which analyse a wide range of multiword units and extensive learner corpus data to provide the reader with a comprehensive theoretical, methodological and applied perspective onto L2 use in a wide range of situations.
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Juvonen, Päivi, and Marie Källkvist, eds. Pedagogical Translanguaging. Multilingual Matters, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21832/juvone7376.
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This book presents cutting-edge qualitative case-study research across a range of educational contexts, as well as theory-oriented chapters by distinguished multilingual education scholars, which take stock of the field of translanguaging in relation to the education of multilingual individuals in today’s globalized world.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Staff. Design of Blended Rolled Edges for Compact Range Main Reflectors. Independently Published, 2018.
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Gruber, June, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Positive Emotion and Psychopathology. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190653200.001.0001.
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This book provides an overview of key processes relevant to disturbances in positive valence systems; discusses cutting-edge advances on positive emotion disturbance in key clinical disorders, translational applications, and targeted treatment foci; discusses conceptualizations of psychopathology and models of positive emotion disturbances; and suggests future research to better understand the nature of positive emotion. The book covers cutting-edge scientific work and theoretical perspectives from a renowned group of psychologists. Their expertise spans a diverse array of methodological and theoretical approaches applied to the study of positive valence disturbances across the life span and across a range of psychiatric disorders. In doing so, this book demonstrates how examining populations characterized by positive emotion disturbance enables a better understanding of both psychiatric course and risk factors and informs claims about the basic function of positive emotion.
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A method to design blended rolled edges for compact range reflectors. Hampton, VA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center, 1989.
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Whitworth, Adam, ed. Towards a Spatial Social Policy. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447337904.001.0001.
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The motivation of this edited collection is to shine a light on the fertile, multi-faceted yet largely unexplored links between the concepts, perspectives, knowledges and methodological approaches of human geography and their contributions for what remains a largely aspatial social policy discipline and set of applied policy practices. With contributions from leading experts across the geography-policy divide this edited collection offer a range of original cutting-edge perspectives on the neglected and misunderstood spatialities of social policy thinking and their implications for both its scholarship and applied practice.
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Hammond, Mary, ed. The Edinburgh History of Reading. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474446112.001.0001.
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Modern Readers explores some of the many different places and spaces in which reading has typically taken place between the eighteenth century and the present. Chapters in this volume explore reading in the bedrooms of the English upper classes, in large parts of nineteenth-century Africa, on-board ships and trains travelling the world, and in the libraries and private lives of both famous individuals and people new to reading. Methods range from the empirical to the scientific, from an analysis of crime and accident reports through individual reader testimony to the deconstruction of official propaganda about reading. Material examined includes marginalia, letters, diaries, posters, pamphlets and music texts, images of readers, and data drawn from cutting-edge projects on twenty-first-century reading groups. The volume encompasses a range of genres from science fiction to the classics, music and self-help.
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Sobel, David, Peter Vallentyne, and Steven Wall, eds. Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 5. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841425.001.0001.
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This is the fifth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory. OSPP aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in political philosophy and these closely related subfields. The chapters in this volume address a range of central topics and represent cutting-edge work in the field. They are grouped into two main themes: power and legitimacy; and political, legal, and moral relations.
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Todd, Gillian, and Rhena Branch, eds. Evidence-Based Treatment for Anxiety Disorders and Depression. Cambridge University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108355605.
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Written by internationally recognized experts, this comprehensive CBT clinician's manual provides disorder-specific chapters and accessible pedagogical features. The cutting-edge research, advanced theory, and attention to special adaptations make this an appropriate reference text for qualified CBT practitioners, students in post-graduate CBT courses, and clinical psychology doctorate students. The case examples demonstrate clinical applications of specific interventions and explain how to adapt CBT protocols for a range of diverse populations. It strikes a balance between core, theoretical principles and protocol-based interventions, simulating the experience of private supervision from a top expert in the field.
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Sobel, David, and Steven Wall, eds. Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 8. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192856906.001.0001.
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This is the eighth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s, political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory. OSPP aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in political philosophy and these closely related subfields. This volume features nine chapters that address a range a issues and represent cutting-edge work in the field. Topics discussed include fair compensation, republican political theory, incentives and inequality, toleration and rights to do wrongs, pardons and humanitarian intervention.
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Behrman, Simon, and Avidan Kent, eds. Climate Refugees. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108902991.
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The last few years have witnessed a flurry of activity in global governance and international lawseeking to address the protection gaps for people fleeing the effects of climate change. This book discusses cutting-edge developments in law and policy on climate change and forced displacement, including theories and potential solutions, issues of governance, local and regional concerns, and future challenges. Chapters are written by a range of authors from academics to key figures in intergovernmental organisations, and offer detailed case studies of policy developments in the Americas, Europe, South-East Asia, and the Pacific. This is an ideal resource for graduate students and researchers from a range of disciplines, as well as policymakers working in environmental law, environmental governance, and refugee and migration law. This is one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance.
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Shoemaker, David. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805601.003.0001.
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This introduction to the fourth volume of Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility briefly discusses each of the new essays being published. The essays cover a wide range of topics relevant to agency and responsibility: free will, strength of will, the nature of intentions, practical necessity, shared agency, partial responsibility, criminal attempts, the forward-looking role of blame, responsibility for implicit bias, epistemic skepticism, forgiveness, regret, and protest. Approximately half the essays are on agency, and the other half are on responsibility, with different methodological approaches and emphases in the various essays. They represent some of the best cutting-edge work being done in the field.
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Sobel, David, Peter Vallentyne, and Steven Wall, eds. Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 7. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192897480.001.0001.
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This is the seventh volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political science departments, and just war theory. OSPP aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in political philosophy and these closely related subfields. The chapters in this volume address a range of central topics and represent cutting-edge work in the field: the philosophy of work; political epistemology and social critique; the duty to save; politics, truth, and respect; perfectionist duties; public reason; autonomy-based arguments for democracy; and strict compliance.
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The New Rage: Violence in the Media (Dare 2 Dig Deeper - Life on the Edge). Focus on the Family, 2002.
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Cogliati Dezza, Irene, Eric Schulz, and Charley M. Wu, eds. The Drive for Knowledge. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009026949.
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Humans constantly search for and use information to solve a wide range of problems related to survival, social interactions, and learning. While it is clear that curiosity and the drive for knowledge occupies a central role in defining what being human means to ourselves, where does this desire to know the unknown come from? What is its purpose? And how does it operate? These are some of the core questions this book seeks to answer by showcasing new and exciting research on human information-seeking. The volume brings together perspectives from leading researchers at the cutting edge of the cognitive sciences, working on human brains and behavior within psychology, computer science, and neuroscience. These vital connections between disciplines will continue to lead to further breakthroughs in our understanding of human cognition.
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Brown, Jennifer M., and Miranda A. H. Horvath, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108848916.
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In the decade since the publication of the first edition of The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology, the field has expanded into areas such as social work and education, while maintaining the interest of criminal justice researchers and policy makers. This new edition provides cutting-edge and comprehensive coverage of the key theoretical perspectives, assessment methods, and interventions in forensic psychology. The chapters address substantive topics such as acquisitive crime, domestic violence, mass murder, and sexual violence, while also exploring emerging areas of research such as the expansion of cybercrime, particularly child sexual exploitation, as well as aspects of terrorism and radicalisation. Reflecting the global reach of forensic psychology and its wide range of perspectives, the international team of contributors emphasise diversity and cross-reference between adults, adolescents, and children to deliver a contemporary picture of the discipline.
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Kircher, Ruth, and Lena Zipp, eds. Research Methods in Language Attitudes. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108867788.
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Attitudes towards spoken, signed, and written language are of significant interest to researchers in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, communication studies, and social psychology. This is the first interdisciplinary guide to traditional and cutting-edge methods for the investigation of language attitudes. Written by experts in the field, it provides an introduction to attitude theory, helps readers choose an appropriate method, and guides through research planning and design, data collection, and analysis. The chapters include step-by-step instructions to illustrate and facilitate the use of the different methods as well as case studies from a wide range of linguistic contexts. The book also goes beyond individual methods, offering guidance on how to research attitudes in multilingual communities and in signing communities, based on historical data, with the help of priming, and by means of mixed-methods approaches.
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Fowler, Susannah. "Why Not?" of Education : The Gardens School: Taha o Te Rangi = on the Edge of the Horizon. Zoo, The, 2018.
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Wilson, Christopher R., and Mervyn Cooke, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190945145.001.0001.
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This compendium reflects the latest international research into the many and various uses of music in relation to Shakespeare’s plays and poems, the contributors’ lines of inquiry extending from the Bard’s own time to the present day. The coverage is global in its scope, and includes studies of Shakespeare-related music in countries as diverse as China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, and the Soviet Union, as well as the more familiar Anglophone musical and theatrical traditions of the United Kingdom and the United States. The range of genres surveyed by the book’s team of distinguished authors embraces music for theatre, opera, ballet, musicals, the concert hall, and film, in addition to Shakespeare’s ongoing afterlives in folk music, jazz, and popular music. The authors take a range of diverse approaches: some investigate the evidence for performative practices in the Early Modern and later eras, while others offer detailed analyses of representative case studies, situating these firmly in their cultural contexts, or reflecting on the political and sociological ramifications of the music. As a whole, the volume provides a wide-ranging compendium of cutting-edge scholarship engaging with an extraordinarily rich body of music without parallel in the history of the global arts.
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von Reden, Sitta, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108265249.
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This is the most comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy available in English. A team of specialists provides in non-technical language cutting edge accounts of a wide range of key themes in economic history, explaining how ancient Greek economies functioned and changed, and why they were stable and successful over long periods of time. Through its wide geographical perspective, reaching from the Aegean and the Black Sea to the Near East and Egypt under Greek rule, it reflects on how economic behaviour and institutions were formed and transformed under different political, ecological and social circumstances, and how they interacted and communicated over large distances. With chapters on climate and the environment, market development, inequality and growth, it encourages comparison with other periods of time and cultures, thus being of interest not just to ancient historians but also to readers concerned with economic cultures and global economic issues.
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Halenko, Nicola, and Jiayi Wang, eds. Pragmatics in English Language Learning. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108894241.
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Written by an international team of experts, this groundbreaking book explores the benefits and challenges of developing pragmatic competence in English as a target language, inside and outside the classroom, and among young and adult learners. The chapters present a range of first language contexts, including China, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico and Norway, to provide international perspectives on how different first languages present varying challenges for developing pragmatic awareness. The book outlines cutting-edge techniques for investigating spoken and written pragmatic competence, and offers practical teaching solutions, both face-to-face and online. It also examines underexplored areas of L2 pragmatics research, such as young learner groups, the effects of textbook materials, study abroad contexts and technology-mediated instruction and assessment. Innovative and comprehensive, this volume is a unique contribution to the field of L2 pragmatics, and will be essential reading for researchers, course developers, language teachers and students.
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Allen, Nicholas, Nick Groom, and Jos Smith, eds. Coastal Works. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795155.001.0001.
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In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland, the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many artists, coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the nation founder; a peripheral space of vestigial wildness, of island retreats and experimental living; a network of diverse localities richly endowed with distinctive forms of cultural heritage; and a dynamically interconnected ecosystem, which is also the historic site of significant developments in fieldwork and natural science. This collection situates these cultures of the Atlantic edge in a series of essays that create new contexts for coastal study in literary history and criticism. The contributors frame their research in response to emerging conversations in archipelagic criticism, the blue humanities, and Island Studies, challenging the reader to reconsider ideas of margin, periphery, and exchange. These twelve case studies establish the coast as a crucial location in the imaginative history of Britain, Ireland, and the north Atlantic edge. Coastal Works will appeal to readers of literature and history with an interest in the sea, the environment, and the archipelago from the eighteenth century to the present. Accessible, innovative, and provocative, Coastal Works establishes the important role the coast plays in our cultural imaginary and suggests a range of methodologies to represent relationships between land, sea, and cultural work.
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Thomas, Christopher R., and William F. Shughart, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199782956.001.0001.
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This Handbook provides students, researchers, practitioners and policymakers with summaries of the cutting-edge approaches to the analysis of the decision-making challenges faced by the managers of for-profit and nonprofit enterprises.The problems addressed run the gamut from cost estimation, product development and promotion, optimal pricing strategies for so-called network industries and make-or-buy decisions, to organizational design, performance pay, corporate governance, strategies for multinational corporations and the social responsibilities of business.By illustrating how a wide range of disciplines can fruitfully be brought to bear in helping to analyze and to understand the incentives and constraints under which business managers operate, the Handbook fills in the gaps between theory and practice. Sometimes technical, but always reader-friendly, no one with an interest in the modern world of business orpublic policies toward it can afford to ignore the analyses and important lessons presented by the contributors to this first handbook on topics in managerial economics.
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Schindler, Samuel, Anna Drożdżowicz, and Karen Brøcker, eds. Linguistic Intuitions. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840558.001.0001.
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In recent years there has been an increased interest in the evidential status and use of linguistic intuitions. This volume provides the most recent cutting-edge contributions from linguists and philosophers working on this topic. The volume is organized around two questions that have been at the heart of this debate: the justification question, which asks about a theoretical rationale for using linguistic intuitions as evidence in the study of language, and the methodology question, which asks whether formal methods of gathering intuitions are epistemically and methodologically superior to informal ones. The first part of the volume addresses the justification question and covers a broad range of novel theoretical contributions that either justify or critically evaluate the evidential use of linguistic intuitions. The second part of the volume presents and critically discusses recent developments in the domain of experimental syntax, where the methodology question has been debated. All chapters seek to shed new light on whether and how linguistic intuitions can be used in theorizing about language.
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Sobel, David, Peter Vallentyne, and Steven Wall, eds. Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Volume 3. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801221.001.0001.
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This volume features ten papers in political philosophy, addressing a range of central topics and represent cutting-edge work in the field. Papers in the first part look at equality and justice: Keith Hyams examines the contribution of ex ante equality to ex post fairness; Elizabeth Anderson looks at equality from a political economy perspective; Serena Olsaretti’s paper studies liberal equality and the moral status of parent–child relationships; and George Sher investigates doing justice to desert. In the second part, papers address questions of state legitimacy: Ralf Bader explores counterfactual justifications of the state; David Enoch examines political philosophy and epistemology; and Seth Lazar and Laura Valentini look at proxy battles in just war theory. The final three papers cover social issues that are not easily understood in terms of personal morality, yet which need not centrally involve the state: the moral neglect of negligence (Seana Valentine Shiffrin), the case for collective pensions (Michael Otsuka); and authority and harm (Jonathan Parry).
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Knight, Rachael-Anne, and Jane Setter, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics. Cambridge University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108644198.
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Phonetics - the study and classification of speech sounds - is a major sub-discipline of linguistics. Bringing together a team of internationally renowned phoneticians, this handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the most recent, cutting-edge work in the field, and focuses on the most widely-debated contemporary issues. Chapters are divided into five thematic areas: segmental production, prosodic production, measuring speech, audition and perception, and applications of phonetics. Each chapter presents an historical overview of the area, along with critical issues, current research and advice on the best practice for teaching phonetics to undergraduates. It brings together global perspectives, and includes examples from a wide range of languages, allowing readers to extend their knowledge beyond English. By providing both state-of-the-art research information, and an appreciation of how it can be shared with students, this handbook is essential both for academic phoneticians, and anyone with an interest in this exciting, rapidly developing field.
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Stalmaszczyk, Piotr, ed. The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108698283.
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The philosophy of language is central to the concerns of those working across semantics, pragmatics and cognition, as well as the philosophy of mind and ideas. Bringing together an international team of leading scholars, this handbook provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary investigations into the relationship between language, philosophy, and linguistics. Chapters are grouped into thematic areas and cover a wide range of topics, from key philosophical notions, such as meaning, truth, reference, names and propositions, to characteristics of the most recent research in the field, including logicality of language, vagueness in natural language, value judgments, slurs, deception, proximization in discourse, argumentation theory and linguistic relativity. It also includes chapters that explore selected linguistic theories and their philosophical implications, providing a much-needed interdisciplinary perspective. Showcasing the cutting-edge in research in the field, this book is essential reading for philosophers interested in language and linguistics, and linguists interested in philosophical analyses.
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Pfister, Gertrud, and Mari Kristin Sisjord, eds. Gender and Sport. Changes and Challenges. Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.31244/9783830978732.
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This volume covers current issues, cutting-edge debates and new knowledge on women and sport. The range of topics extends from female coaches and women in sport to sexual harassment, from snowboarders to schoolgirls, and from physical education to football. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the current debates on gender and sport from a women’s perspective, to share new knowledge about important issues, in particular about gender (in)equalities, and to present insights into the causes and effects of the debates and developments in the arena of women’s sport. A special focus in all chapters will be on the perspective of change, and backgrounds, reasons and effects of gender arrangements will be analyzed by scholars who made major contributions to the development of a new gender order in sport and society. Other authors are younger scholars with new perspectives and approaches – who represent the new generation of gender researchers.
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Ling, Johan, Richard Chacon, and Kristian Kristiansen, eds. Trade before Civilization. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009086547.
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Trade before Civilization explores the role that long-distance exchange played in the establishment and/or maintenance of social complexity, and its role in the transformation of societies from egalitarian to non-egalitarian. Bringing together research by an international and methodologically diverse team of scholars, it analyses the relationship between long-distance trade and the rise of inequality. The volume illustrates how elites used exotic prestige goods to enhance and maintain their elevated social positions in society. Global in scope, it offers case studies of early societies and sites in Europe, Asia, Oceania, North America, and Mesoamerica. Deploying a range of inter-disciplinary and cutting-edge theoretical approaches from a cross-cultural framework, the volume offers new insights and enhances our understanding of socio-political evolution. It will appeal to archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, conflict theorists, and ethnohistorians, as well as economists seeking to understand the nexus between imported luxury items and cultural evolution.
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McMahon, Gregory, and Sharon Steadman, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195376142.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia is a unique blend of comprehensive overviews on archaeological, philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in the twenty-first century. Anatolia is home to early complex societies and great empires, and was the destination of many migrants, visitors, and invaders. The offerings in this book bring this reality to life, as the articles unfold nearly 10,000 years (ca. 10,000–323 BCE) of peoples, languages, and diverse cultures who lived in or traversed Anatolia over these millennia. They combine descriptions of current scholarship on important discussion and debates in Anatolian studies with new and cutting-edge research for future directions of study. The fifty-four articles are presented in five separate parts that range in topic from chronological and geographical overviews to anthropologically based issues of culture contact and imperial structures, and from historical settings of entire millennia to crucial data from key sites across the region.
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Corrigan, John, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780190456160.001.0001.
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Over 110 scholarly articlesThis encyclopedia is a groundbreaking collection of detailed scholarly articles that address a wide range of topics in American religious history and culture, all written by experts in their fields. It is not an amalgam of articles on the traditionally invoked topics that have directed thinking about religion in America. Rather, it is organized in a way that utilizes the most recent categories of scholarly research to identify the crucial themes, events, people, places, and ideas that have constituted the rich history of religion in America. It is arranged in five sections: Space, Religious Ideas, Race and Ethnicity, Public Life, and Empire. In each section, a range of articles address the religious lives of Americans and the institutions, theologies, and social forces that have influenced those lives and given shape to a broad cultural landscape of religion in America.The articles in each section draw upon scholarship from an assortment of fields. As a result, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America is fully interdisciplinary in its approach to religion in America. It is informative about cutting-edge debates not only in the fields of religion and history, but in sociology, geography, philosophy, ethnic studies, literature, and a number of other fields as well. The articles are interconnected in various ways. There are common themes as defined by the section headings, such as space, race, and religious ideas. There are also mutually reinforcing articles on specific topics such as a particular denomination, a distinctive intellectual tradition, gender, class, economics, and immigration. The encyclopedia accordingly is best engaged as a tool that can be read both through and across the categories that organize it. It offers multiple insightful takes on a range of topics and represents the history and culture of religion in America in ways that will both resonate with and challenge the perspectives of readers.
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Dryzek, John S., Richard B. Norgaard, and David Schlosberg. Climate-Challenged Society. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199660100.001.0001.
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This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic, political, and philosophical issues surrounding climate change. The treatment is introductory, but the book is written "with attitude", for nobody has yet charted in coherent, integrative, and effective fashion a way to move societies beyond their current paralysis as they face the challenges of climate change. The coverage begins with an examination of science, public opinion, and policy making, with special attention to organized climate change denial. The book then moves to economic analysis and its limits; different kinds of policies; climate justice; governance at all levels from the local to the global; and the challenge of an emerging "Anthropocene" in which the mostly unintended consequences of human action drive the earth system into a more chaotic and unstable era. The conclusion considers the prospects for fundamental transition in ideas, movements, economics, and governance.
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Fedden, Sebastian, Jenny Audring, and Greville G. Corbett, eds. Non-Canonical Gender Systems. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795438.001.0001.
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Grammatical gender is famously the most puzzling of the grammatical categories. Despite our solid knowledge about the typology of gender systems, exciting and unexpected patterns keep turning up which defy easy classification and straightforward analysis. Some of these question, stretch, or even threaten to cross the outer boundaries of the category. These regions are largely unexplored, yet are essential for our understanding of gender, besides being interesting in their own right. The purpose of this book is to explore the outer boundaries of the category of gender and discuss their theoretical significance. Canonical Typology, a cutting-edge approach already successfully applied to a range of linguistic phenomena, provides the ideal framework for this endeavour. In this approach, a linguistic phenomenon—for example, a morphosyntactic feature like gender—is established in terms of a canonical ideal: the clearest instance of the phenomenon. The canonical ideal is a clustering of properties that serves as a baseline from which to measure the actual examples that are found. This approach allows us to analyse any gender system and determine for each of its component properties whether it is more or less canonical. The languages discussed in this volume all diverge from the canonical ideal in interesting ways. Each language is assessed by international experts, who approach their work from a typological perspective. The book explores a wide range of typologically different languages drawn from all over the world, from South America to Melanesia, from an Italo-Romance dialect of Central Italy to Mawng of Northern Australia.
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Esler, Karen J., Anna L. Jacobsen, and R. Brandon Pratt. The Biology of Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739135.001.0001.
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The world’s mediterranean-type climate regions (including areas within the Mediterranean, South Africa, Australia, California, and Chile) have long been of interest to biologists by virtue of their extraordinary biodiversity and the appearance of evolutionary convergence between these disparate regions. Comparisons between mediterranean-type climate regions have provided important insights into questions at the cutting edge of ecological, ecophysiological and evolutionary research. These regions, dominated by evergreen shrubland communities, contain many rare and endemic species. Their mild climate makes them appealing places to live and visit and this has resulted in numerous threats to the species and communities that occupy them. Threats include a wide range of factors such as habitat loss due to development and agriculture, disturbance, invasive species, and climate change. As a result, they continue to attract far more attention than their limited geographic area might suggest. This book provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to mediterranean-type ecosystems. As with other books in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis in this book is on the organisms that dominate these regions although their management, conservation, and restoration are also considered.
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Bayor, Ronald H., ed. The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766031.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity explores how Americans think of themselves and how science, religion, period of migration, gender, education, politics, intermarriage, and occupational mobility shape both this image and American life. Since the 1965 Immigration Act opened the gates to newer groups, historical writing on immigration and ethnicity has evolved over the years to include numerous immigrant sources and to provide trenchant analyses of American immigration and ethnicity. For the first time, this handbook brings together twenty-nine leading scholars in the field to make sense of all the themes, methodologies, and trends that characterize the debate on American immigration. They examine a wide range of topics, including panethnicity, whiteness, intermarriage, bilingualism, religion, museum ethnic displays, naturalization, regional mobility, immigration legislation and its reception, ethnicity-related crime and gang formation, and the forms of communication with the homeland. The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity focuses on the cutting-edge issues and questions of the field. What are scholars studying, how has the field diverged from earlier works, and where is the field heading? These original essays will set the themes, agendas, and topics for new research.
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Barfield, Woodrow, and Thomas A. Furness, eds. Virtual Environments and Advanced Interface Design. Oxford University Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195075557.001.0001.
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This sweeping introduction to the science of virtual environment technology masterfully integrates research and practical applications culled from a range of disciplines, including psychology, engineering, and computer science. With contributions from the field's foremost researchers and theorists, the book focuses in particular on how virtual technology and interface design can better accommodate human cognitive, motor, and perceptual capabilities. Throughout, it brings the reader up-to-date with the latest design strategies and cutting-edge virtual environments, and points to promising avenues for future development. The book is divided into three parts. The first part introduces the reader to the subject by defining basic terms, identifying key components of the virtual environment, and reviewing the origins and elements of virtual environments. The second part focuses of current technologies used to present visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic information. The book concludes with an in-depth analysis of how environments and human perception are integrated to create effective virtual systems. Comprehensive and splendidly written, Virtual Environments and Advanced Interface Design will be the "bible" on the subject for years to come. Students and researchers in computer science, psychology, and cognitive science will all want to have a copy on their shelves.
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Bargu, Banu, ed. Turkey's Necropolitical Laboratory. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474450263.001.0001.
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Turkey’s democratic regime and its vicissitudes are dependent on a necropolitical undercurrent. This book presents a bold collection of essays that evaluate Turkey’s recent history from the perspective of the necropolitical underpinnings of its precarious democracy. Combining cutting edge research and a diverse range of approaches from multiple disciplines, including political theory, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, international relations, and gender and sexuality studies, the book examines the multiple ways in which lives are brought into the fold of power and analyses how they are subjected to mechanisms of death and destruction, as well as modalities of infrastructural violence, strategic neglect and exposure. Focusing on themes such as martyrdom, counterinsurgency warfare, enforced disappearances and conscientious objection; sites such as emergency zones, cemeteries, monuments and borderlands; and institutions such as prisons, courts and the army, the collection offers a sobering and original analysis of contemporary Turkey and, thus indirectly, of the changing political dynamics of the Middle East. It points to the emergence of new forms of impoverishment, inequality and disposability. It provides a new and rich lexicon that makes a sophisticated contribution to the growing research program on violence in the critical humanities.