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Reid, Gordon McGregor. Developing the research potential of zoos and aquaria: The EAZA research strategy. Edited by European Association of Zoos and Aquaria. Amsterdam: European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, 2008.

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Marie, Demanet, ed. Le parc Léopold, 1850-1950: Le zoo, la cité scientifique et la ville. Bruxelles: Archives dʼarchitecture moderne, 1985.

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ill, Sala Felicita, ed. Joan Procter, dragon doctor: The woman who loved reptiles. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

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Page, Jake. Smithsonians's new zoo. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.

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Carson, Iain. ZOOM. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2007.

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Smithsonians's new zoo. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.

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Page, Jake. Smithsonian's new zoo. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.

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Ernst &. Young. Art Gallery of Ontario, Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario Science Centre, Metropolitan Toronto Zoo: Audience Research Consortium summary of the first year of research. [Toronto]: Ernst & Young, 1990.

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Ernst &. Young. Art Gallery of Ontario, Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario Science Centre, Metropolitan Toronto Zoo: Audience Research Consortium, summary of the second year of research : a report. Toronto: Ernst & Young, 1991.

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1969-, Vaitheeswaran Vijay V., ed. Zoom: The global race to fuel the car of the future. London: Penguin, 2008.

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Zoom: The global race to fuel the car of the future. New York, NY: Twelve, 2007.

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Young, Ernst &. Art Gallery of Ontario, Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario Science Centre, Metropolitan Toronto Zoo: Audience Research Consortium : summary report. [Toronto]: Ernst & Young, 1993.

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The National Zoo of today and tomorrow: An innovative center focused on the care and conservation of the world's species : hearing before the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, held in Washington, DC, April 2, 2014. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2014.

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Gray, Jenny. Zoo Ethics. CSIRO Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486306992.

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Well-run modern zoos and aquariums do important research and conservation work and teach visitors about the challenges of animals in the wild and the people striving to save them. They help visitors to consider their impact and think about how they can make a difference. Yet for many there is a sense of disquiet and a lingering question remains – can modern zoos be ethically justified? Zoo Ethics examines the workings of modern zoos and considers the core ethical challenges that face those who choose to hold and display animals in zoos, aquariums or sanctuaries. Using recognised ethical frameworks and case studies of ‘wicked problems’, this book explores the value of animal life and the impacts of modern zoos, including the costs to animals in terms of welfare and the loss of liberty. It also considers the positive welfare and health outcomes of many animals held in zoos, the increased attention and protection for their species in the wild, and the enjoyment and education of the people who visit zoos. A thoughtfully researched work written in a highly readable style, Zoo Ethics will empower students of animal ethics and veterinary sciences, zoo and aquarium professionals and interested zoo visitors to have an informed view of the challenges of compassionate conservation and to develop their own defendable, ethical position.

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Scientific Foundations of Zoos and Aquariums: Their Role in Conservation and Research. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Scientific Foundations of Zoos and Aquariums: Their Role in Conservation and Research. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Maple, Terry L., Allison B. Kaufman, and Meredith J. Bashaw. Scientific Foundations of Zoos and Aquariums: Their Role in Conservation and Research. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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Key questions in zoo and aquarium studies: a study and revision guide. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789249002.0000.

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Abstract This 229-paged book discussed the role of zoos in a modern, environmentally conscious society. It does this by offering the reader the opportunity to answer 600 multiple-choice questions on a wide range of topics including zoo history, enclosure design, aquarium management, animal behaviour and welfare, zoo research, conservation breeding, zoo visitor behaviour, conservation medicine, zoo legislation and many more.

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Valdez, Patricia. Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2018.

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Valdez, Patricia, and Felicita Sala. Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles. Andersen Press, 2018.

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Valdez, Patricia, and Felicita Sala. Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles. Random House Children's Books, 2023.

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Schwartz, Bennett L., and Michael J. Beran, eds. Primate Cognitive Studies. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108955836.

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Researchers have studied non-human primate cognition along different paths, including social cognition, planning and causal knowledge, spatial cognition and memory, and gestural communication, as well as comparative studies with humans. This volume describes how primate cognition is studied in labs, zoos, sanctuaries, and in the field, bringing together researchers examining similar issues in all of these settings and showing how each benefits from the others. Readers will discover how lab-based concepts play out in the real world of free primates. This book tackles pressing issues such as replicability, research ethics, and open science. With contributors from a broad range of comparative, cognitive, neuroscience, developmental, ecological, and ethological perspectives, the volume provides a state-of-the-art review pointing to new avenues for integrative research.

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Udo, Ganslosser, Hodges J. K, Kaumanns Werner, and Workshop on "Research and Captive Propagation" (1st : 1994 : University of Erlangen), eds. Research and captive propagation. Fürth: Filander Verlag, 1995.

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Hosey, Geoff, and Vicky Melfi, eds. Anthrozoology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753629.001.0001.

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Anthrozoology, the study of human–animal interactions (HAIs), has experienced substantial growth during the past twenty years and it is now timely to synthesise what we know from empirical evidence about our relationships with both domesticated and wild animals. Two principal points of focus have become apparent in much of this research. One is the realisation that the strength of these attachments not only has emotional benefits for people, but confers health benefits as well, such that a whole area has opened up of using companion animals for therapeutic purposes. The other is the recognition that the interactions we have with animals have consequences for their welfare too, and thus impact on their quality of life. Consequently, we now study HAIs in all scenarios in which animals come into contact with humans, whether as pets/companions, farm livestock, laboratory animals, animals in zoos or in the wild. This topical area of study is of growing importance for animals in animal management, animal handling, animal welfare and applied ethology courses, and also for people within psychology, anthropology and human geography at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. It will therefore be of interest to students, researchers and animal managers across the whole spectrum of human–animal contact.

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1941-, Burghardt Gordon M., and Scientists Center for Animal Welfare., eds. The well-being of animals in zoo and aquarium sponsored research. Greenbelt, MD: Scientists Center for Animal Welfare, 1996.

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Vogelnest, Larry, and Graeme Allan. Radiology of Australian Mammals. CSIRO Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643108653.

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Interest in the conservation and welfare of Australian native wildlife continues to grow. Veterinarians are frequently presented with injured, diseased or orphaned animals and there is increasing veterinary involvement in conservation programs. In Australia and overseas, Australian mammals are used in research, kept as pets and are popular display and education animals in zoos and fauna parks. The recognition, diagnosis and treatment of injury and disease in wildlife species present unique challenges for the veterinarian. Radiology is a fundamental diagnostic tool that can be used to further define the nature and extent of injury or disease, guide therapeutic decisions and determine prognosis. An essential aspect of radiology is the recognition and description of abnormal findings. In order to recognise abnormalities, knowledge of normal radioanatomy is necessary. Radiology of Australian Mammals provides a detailed reference on the normal radioanatomy of Australian mammals. A chapter on radiographic technique covers digital radiography of small species, and restraint and positioning to obtain diagnostic images. This is followed by chapters covering the normal radioanatomy of the short-beaked echidna, platypus, macropods, koala, wombats, dasyurids, possums and gliders, bandicoots and the bilby, and bats. Each chapter includes a detailed description of anatomy relevant to radiography and multiple images of normal radiographs with outlines and annotations identifying relevant structures. A chapter on dental radiology discusses and demonstrates normal dental radioanatomy. The final chapter includes selected radiographic pathology case studies providing an appreciation of radiographic findings seen in some common diseases of Australian mammals. A checklist of the mammals of Australia and its territories and a glossary of abbreviations and terms used for annotation of images complete the volume.

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Calculation of distortion parameters for specific normal and zoom cine lenses. 1987.

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Calculation of distortion parameters for specific normal and zoom cine lenses. 1985.

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Vaitheeswaran, Vijay, and Iain Carson. ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. Twelve, 2007.

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Bellosta-López, Pablo, Víctor Doménech-García, Sandra Calvo Carrión, Carolina Jiménez Sánchez, and Julia Blasco-Abadía. Proceedings of the 3rd P4Work Symposium – Work & Pain. Prevent4Work, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.54391/123456789/676.

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The Knowledge Alliance Prevent4Work for Preventing Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders aims at establishing a collaborative network between higher education and research world, work health-related institutions, technology enterprises, and companies from different activity sectors to develop innovative educational programs, high quality evidence-based material and actions that could be implemented in the European Union to improve the prevention and management of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders. The present work compiles the proceedings of the Third P4Work Symposium – Work & Pain. The virtual symposium was organized by Universidad San Jorge and INP Formation in collaboration with the other partners of the "Prevent 4 Work" project and was held on 20 October 2021 via Zoom.

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Rouleau, Linda. Organization Theories in the Making. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792024.001.0001.

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Abstract This book aims to demonstrate how, over the past 25 years, the field of organization theories (OTs) has been providing stimulating, thoughtful, and innovative perspectives. Junior researchers and PhD students will find everything they need to know about key academic conversations central to the field today. The book offers a selective immersion in organizational institutionalism, convention analysis, network analysis, knowledge studies, discourse studies, and practice studies. For each of these perspectives, the book explores its different research streams and zooms in on the research communities that give rise to them. In addition, it highlights how these perspectives all intersect with each other to form a mosaic of ideas that define today’s organizations. This book also invites early career researchers and graduate students to learn how recent theories view and portray the organization and, more specifically, to understand current research questions, conceptual resources, and methods. A deep knowledge of recent OTs is key when building a compelling literature review and making meaningful theoretical contributions. This book offers readers the opportunity to develop their theory-building skills and more by taking a deep dive into the complexities and controversies of OTs. The main arguments of each perspective are illustrated by specific exemplars from academic journals. Each chapter contains a synoptic table summarizing the main scholarly components within each perspective and its research substreams.

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Kebede Debela, Bacha, Geert Bouckaert, Berhanu Temesgen Eshetu, Chala Deyessa Fita, Hailu Megersa Tola, Kiflie Worku Angaw, Shumey Berhie Teshome, and Solomon Gebreyohans Gebru, eds. Handbook for Ethiopian Public Administration Program Accreditation. Leuven University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461664679.

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Improving, assuring, and maintaining the quality and relevance of education and training in Public Administration has attracted increasing attention among PA scholars and practitioners worldwide. The Handbook for Ethiopian Public Administration Program Accreditation is a follow-up to the first handbook on Ethiopian Public Administration. The new handbook zooms in on how to improve, assure, and accredit PA education and training programs in Ethiopia. It is consistent with the Pan-Africanism and African Union’s Agenda 2063 and contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDGs 4 and 16. Together with the handbook Public Administration in Ethiopia (2020), the current follow-up volume is a valuable stepping stone for PA teaching and PA research in Ethiopia and therefore essential reading for students, practitioners, and theorists interested in public administration, public policy, and sustainable development.

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Hogg, Carolyn, Samantha Fox, David Pemberton, and Katherine Belov, eds. Saving the Tasmanian Devil. CSIRO Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486307197.

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The Tasmanian devil is threatened by Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD), a transmissible form of cancer that has reduced the population by over 80%. Persecution, extreme climate events, vehicle collision and habitat destruction also put pressure on this endangered species. The recovery effort to save the Tasmanian devil commenced over 15 years ago as a collaborative initiative between the Tasmanian government, the Australian government, the Zoo and Aquarium Association Australasia, and many research institutions. Saving the Tasmanian Devil documents the journey taken by partner organisations in discovering what DFTD is, the effect it has on wild devil populations, and the outcomes achieved through research and management actions. Chapters describe all aspects of devil conservation, including the captive devil populations, applied pathology, immunology and genetic research findings, adaptive management, and the importance of advocacy and partnerships. This book will provide management practitioners and conservation scientists with insight into the complexities of undertaking a program of this scale, and will also be of value to researchers, students and others interested in conservation.

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Carson, Iain. ZOOM: The Global Race To Fuel the Car of the Future. Twelve, 2007.

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Vaitheeswaran, Vijay, and Iain Carson. ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. Grand Central Publishing, 2007.

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Vaitheeswaran, Vijay V., and Iain Carson. Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. Grand Central Publishing, 2007.

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Vaitheeswaran, Vijay, and Iain Carson. ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. Grand Central Publishing, 2007.

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Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. Grand Central Publishing, 2008.

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Vaitheeswaran, Vijay, and Iain Carson. ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. Grand Central Publishing, 2007.

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Vaitheeswaran, Vijay, and Iain Carson. ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. Grand Central Publishing, 2007.

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Dallmeier, Francisco, Adriana Bravo, and Michael Tweddle. Amarakaeri: Connecting Biodiversity | Conectando la Biodiversidad. Open Monographs, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.16847062.

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<p><b><i>This digital monograph is made available by the publisher. Print copies are available for purchase through our distributor, Penguin Random House and on Amazon.com</i></b></p> <p><em><b> </b></em></p><p>Highlighting the enormous biodiversity of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (ACR) and the critical role this protected area plays in the conservation of Madre de Dios, in southeastern Peru, with more than 1,700 vivid photographs, <i>Amarakaeri: Connecting Biodiversity</i> offers readers a glimpse into the extensive research conducted by scholars from the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute and their Peruvian counterparts. For three years, scientists and local experts had the extraordinary opportunity to collect data at the premontane forests of the ACR to determine potential impacts of an exploratory gas platform on selected animal and plant groups. <i>Amarakaeri</i> also portrays the main threats to the ACR and presents a vision for the region’s future.</p><p>Destacando la enorme biodiversidad de la Reserva Comunal de Amarakaeri (RCA) y el papel crítico que esta área protegida juega en la conservación de Madre de Dios, en el sureste de Perú, <i>Amarakaeri: Conectando la Biodiversidad</i> ofrece a los lectores una mirada rápida a la extensa investigación realizada por académicos del Smithsonian National Zoo y del Conservation Biology Institute junto con sus homólogos peruanos. Durante tres años, los científicos y expertos locales tuvieron la extraordinaria oportunidad de compilar datos en los bosques premontanos de la RCA para determinar los posibles impactos de una plataforma exploratoria de gas en grupos seleccionados de animales y plantas. <i>Amarakaeri</i> además retrata las principales amenazas a la reserva y presenta una visión para el futuro de la región.<br></p><div></div>

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Maier, Emar, and Andreas Stokke, eds. The Language of Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846376.001.0001.

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The Language of Fiction brings together new research on fiction from philosophy and linguistics. Fiction is a topic that has long been studied in philosophy. Yet recently there has been a surge of work on fictional discourse in the intersection between linguistics and philosophy of language. There has been a growing interest in examining long-standing issues concerning fiction from a perspective informed both by philosophy and linguistic theory. The Language of Fiction contains fourteen essays by leading scholars in both fields, as well as a substantial Introduction by the editors. The collection is organized in three parts, each with their own introduction. Part I, “Truth, reference, and imagination”, offers new, interdisciplinary perspectives on some of the central themes from the philosophy of fiction: What is fictional truth? How do fictional names refer? What kind of speech act is involved in telling a fictional story? What is the relation between fiction and imagination? Part II, “Storytelling”, deals with themes originating from the study of narrative: How do we infer a coherent story from a sequence of event descriptions? And how do we interpret the words of impersonal or unreliable narrators? Part III, “Perspective shift”, zooms in on an alleged key characteristic of fictional narratives, viz. the way we get access to the fictional characters’ inner lives, through a variety of literary techniques for representing what they say, think, or see.

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Abdelaaty, Lamis Elmy. Discrimination and Delegation. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197530061.001.0001.

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What explains state responses to the refugees they receive? This book identifies two puzzling patterns: states open their borders to some refugee groups while blocking others (discrimination), and a number of countries have given the United Nations (UN) control of asylum procedures and refugee camps on their territory (delegation). To explain this selective exercise of sovereignty, the book develops a two-part theoretical framework in which policymakers in refugee-receiving countries weigh international and domestic concerns. Internationally, leaders use refugees to reassure allies and exert pressure on rivals. Domestically, policymakers have incentives to favor those refugee groups with whom they share an ethnic identity. When these international and domestic incentives conflict, shifting responsibility to the UN allows policymakers to placate both refugee-sending countries and domestic constituencies. The book then carries out a “three-stage, multi-level” research design in which each successive step corroborates and elaborates the findings of the preceding stage. The first stage involves statistical analysis of asylum admissions worldwide. The second stage presents two country case studies: Egypt (a country that is broadly representative of most refugee recipients) and Turkey (an outlier that has limited the geographic application of the Refugee Convention). The third stage zooms in on sub- or within-country dynamics in Kenya (home to one of the largest refugee populations in the world) through content analysis of parliamentary proceedings. Studying state responses to refugees is instructive because it can help explain why states sometimes assert, and at other times cede, their sovereignty in the face of refugee rights.

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Minett, Mark. Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197523827.001.0001.

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Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accounts of the filmmaker. This re-examination of his seminal work during the “Hollywood Renaissance” or “New Hollywood” period of the early 1970s (including M*A*S*H, Brewster McCloud, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Images, The Long Goodbye, Thieves Like Us, California Split, and Nashville) sheds new light on both the films and the filmmaker, reframing Altman as a complex, pragmatic innovator whose work exceeds, but is also grounded in, the norms of classical Hollywood storytelling rather than someone who rejected those norms in favor of modernist art cinema. Its findings and approach hold important implications for the study of cinematic authorship. Largely avoiding thematic exegesis, it employs a historical poetics approach, robust functionalist frameworks, archival research, and formal and statistical analysis to demystify the essential features of the standard account of Altman’s filmmaking history and profile—lax narrative form, heavy reliance on the zoom, sound design replete with overlapping dialogue, improvisational infidelity to the screenplay, and a desire to subvert based in his time in the training grounds of industrial filmmaking and filmed television. The book provides a clear example of how a filmmaker might work collaboratively and pragmatically within and across media institutions to elaborate on their sanctioned practices and aims. We misunderstand Altman’s work, and the creative work of Hollywood filmmakers in general, when we insist on describing innovation as opposition to institutional norms and on describing those norms as simply assimilating innovation.

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Keyes, Ralph. The Hidden History of Coined Words. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190466763.001.0001.

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How are words coined? That provides the focus of The Hidden History of Coined Words. Based on extensive research, its author, Ralph Keyes, has determined that successful neologisms are as likely to be created by chance as by intention. A remarkable number were coined whimsically, to taunt, even to prank. Miscegenation resulted from a hoax, suffragette to disparage radical suffragists. Wisecracking produced scientist, and crowdsource. More than a few neologisms resulted from happy accidents such as typos, mistranslations, and misheard words (like bigly, and buttonhole). Isaac Asimov introduced robotics in a story without realizing it was his own coinage. Many of the word coiners Keyes writes about come from unlikely quarters. Neologizers (a Thomas Jefferson coinage) include not just learned scholars and literary lions but cartoonists, columnists, children’s authors. Wimp originated in an early 20^th century children’s book series called The Wymps, goop from a series about The Goops. Nerd first appeared in Dr. Seuss’s 1950 book If I Ran the Zoo. South African General Jan Smuts, an architect of what became apartheid, coined the word holism in 1926. Competing claims to have coined terms such as gonzo, affluenza, and yuppie are assessed, as are epic battles fought between new word partisans and those who think we have enough words already. A concluding chapter assesses how words are successfully coined and become part of the lexicon.

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Redstone, Ilana, and John Villasenor. Unassailable Ideas. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190078065.001.0001.

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Colleges and universities in the United States play a profoundly important role in American society. Currently, that role is being hampered by a climate that constrains teaching, research, hiring, and overall discourse. There are three core beliefs that define this climate. First, any initiative framed as an antidote to historical societal ills is automatically deemed meritorious, and thus exempted from objective scrutiny of its potential effectiveness. However, to use a medical analogy, not all proposed cures for a disease are good cures. Second, all differences in group-level outcomes are assumed to be due entirely to discrimination, with little tolerance given to exploring the potential role of factors such as culture or preferences. Third, everything must be interpreted through the lens of identity. Non-identity-centered perspectives, regardless of how worthy they might be, are viewed as less legitimate or even illegitimate. All of these beliefs are well intentioned and have arisen in response to important historical and continuing injustices. However, they are enforced in uncompromising terms through the use of social media, which has gained an ascendant role in shaping the culture of American campuses. The result is a climate that forecloses entire lines of research, entire discussions, and entire ways of conducting classroom teaching. The book explains these three beliefs in detail and provides an extensive list of case studies illustrating how they are impacting education and knowledge creation—and increasingly the world beyond campus. The book also provides a detailed set of recommendations on ways to help foster an environment on American campuses that would be more tolerant of diverse perspectives and open inquiry. A note about Covid-19: While the production of this book was done in spring and summer of 2020, we completed the manuscript in 2019, well before the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered American college campuses in March 2020. To put it mildly, the dynamics of campus discourse are very different when dorms have been largely emptied and instruction has been moved to Zoom. Of course, at present we cannot know when students will be able to return to campus in significant numbers. That said, we are confident that our call for a culture of more open discourse in higher education will remain relevant both during the pandemic and after it has passed.

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