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Lorenz, Teresa J. A review of the literature on seed fate in whitebark pine and the life history traits of Clark's nutcracker and pine squirrels. Portland, OR: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2008.

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Purvis, Mary Elizabeth. Mrs. Purvis sees the trains. Bonita, CA: Children's Center Publications of California, 1985.

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W, Awdry, ed. Slide and seek! New York: Golden Books, 2011.

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Choo-choo, peek-a-boo: A Thomas the Tank Engine peek-a-board book. New York: Random House, 1992.

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Kanasaka, Kiyonori. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. GB Folkestone: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9781898823797.

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Isabella Bird’s best-selling book on Japan is republished here, but with a difference: for the first time, it is now fully annotated with supporting commentaries, providing the twenty-first century reader with an enhanced informed view of the new ‘modern Japan’ as Bird experienced it in 1878. Originally published as a two-volume work in 1880, this later abridged version, first published in 1885 and promoted as ‘a tale of travel and adventure’, became one of the best-selling travel books published by John Murray; it was reprinted numerous times and by different publishers. This volume is the original 1885 edition. It is not a facsimile, but has been reprocessed digitally to enable the annotations to be inserted, as well as the 40 copperplate illustrations to be restored to their original quality. The commentaries and notes have been written by Kiyonori Kanasaka, Japan’s leading expert on Isabella Bird who, over the past nearly 30 years, has retraced Isabella Bird’s footsteps in all the parts of the world she visited, and knows her travels in Japan intimately. (See Isabella Bird and Japan: A Reassessment>, Renaissance Books 2017.) This book will be essential reading for all those interested in the Bird legacy, the birth of modern Japan, travel writings of the Far East, the topography of Japan and Japan’s social and political history.

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Sam ŭi kwejŏk: Han'guk ŭi sisŏn ŭro para poda, 1945-1992 = Traces of life : seen through Korean eyes, 1945-1992. Sŏul T'ŭkpyŏlsi: Nunpit, 2012.

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Through the window: The Great Western Railway from Paddington to Penzance, 1924 : 300 miles of English countryside as seen from GWR trains on the Cornish Riviera route. Moretonhampstead: Old House, 2008.

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Working for His Majesty: Research notes on labor mobilization in late Shang China (ca. 1200-1045 B.C.), as seen in the oracle-bone inscriptions, with particular attention to handicraft industries, agriculture, warfare, hunting, construction, and the Shang's legacies. Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2012.

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Kusmenoglu, Ismail. Ascochyta blight of chickpea: Inheritance and relationship to seed size, morphological traits and isozyme variation. 1990.

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Rosbakh, Sergey, Shyam S. Phartyal, Si-Chong Chen, and Peter Poschlod, eds. Functional Seed Ecology: From Single Traits to Plant Distribution Patterns, Community Assembly and Ecosystem Processes. Frontiers Media SA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88976-647-5.

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I. Nikolakakis, E. Bonos, Eleni Kasapidou, A. Kargopoulos, and Paraskevi Mitlianga. Effect of dietary sesame seed hulls on broiler performance, carcass traits and lipid oxidation of the meat. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1399/eps.2014.28.

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A. Kaya, B.A. Yıldırım, H. Kaya, M. Gül, and Ş. Çelebi. The effects of diets supplemented with crushed and extracted grape seed on performance, egg quality parameters, yolk peroxidation and serum traits in laying hens. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1399/eps.2014.59.

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Esler, Karen J., Anna L. Jacobsen, and R. Brandon Pratt. Organisms and their Interactions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739135.003.0003.

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Both animal and plant species exhibit adaptive traits related to features of mediterranean-type ecosystems (MTEs). For plants, the seasonality of the MTC has been an important factor in the evolution of plant phenological traits. Root adaptive traits that improve nutrient extraction from impoverished soils are present within MTC regions, including cluster roots, root nodules, and mycorrhizal symbioses. Fire has been an important driver of plant traits, such as smoke, charate, or heat-induced seed germination or seed release (i.e. serotiny), and post-fire flowering. Adaptive traits in animals include both physiological and behavioural traits. MTC regions have been used in the study of many ecological and evolutionary patterns, particularly as related to organismal adaptations to unique soil and substrates (edaphic communities) and interactions between plants and animals, such as plant–herbivore interactions, plant–pollinator interactions, and plant–seed disperser interactions. These interactions shape many plant and animal characters within MTC regions.

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(Editor), John Greenhalgh, and Elizabeth Russell (Editor), eds. Seek Ye First... (Tracts for Our Times). Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, 1992.

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Watson, James. Where Nobody Sees (Lions Tracks). Tracks, 1989.

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Seen on the packhorse tracks. South Pennine Packhorse Trails Trust, 2002.

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Ramsey, Grant. Trait Bin and Trait Cluster Accounts of Human Nature. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823650.003.0003.

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Conceptions of human nature fall under two broad categories, trait bin accounts and trait cluster accounts. Trait bin accounts take there to be a special bin of traits, one composed of all and only those traits constituting our nature. For those arguing for a trait bin account of human nature, the challenge is to articulate what it is that marks a trait as being inside or outside the bin. I argue that trait bin approaches to human nature are misguided, that there is no good way of dividing human traits into those that are a part of our nature and those that are not. Instead, I argue for a trait cluster account, which sees human nature as the patterns of trait expression within and across human life histories and better aligns the concept of human nature with the human sciences.

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W, Awdry, ed. Thomas and the hide-and-seek animals. New York: Random House, 1991.

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Webb, David M. Genetic mapping of Cuphea lanceolata: Molecular-marker linkage to quantitative-trait loci affecting seed capric acid, seed oil, and embryo development. 1990.

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House, Random. Thomas & Friends: Seek and Find Fun (Growth Chart Coloring Book). Golden Books, 2002.

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Edited. Local Tracks of North America "Quick-Guide" to Commonly Seen Animal Tracks & Scats. Local Birds, Inc., 2006.

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ill, Simon Nan, ed. Choo! choo!: The little engine that could. New York: Platt & Munk/Grosset & Dunlap, 1999.

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Farjeon, J. Jefferson. Ben Sees It Through. HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2016.

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Wilsey, Brian J. Biodiversity of Grasslands. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744511.003.0002.

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Grasslands can be surprisingly diverse and contain many charismatic flora and fauna. Plant species are often combined into functional groups. Three major conceptual models: competitors-stress tolerants-ruderals (CSR); the leaf traits, plant height, seed mass (LHS); and R*, used to classify grassland species are described by the author. There are three distinct groups of mammalian herbivores based on the ways that herbivores harbor cellulose degrading microbes: hindgut fermentation, foregut fermentation, and foregut fermentation with rumination. Grasslands have a smaller number of bird species than forested systems, and the bird species that are endemic to grasslands tend to be specialized to open habitat (e.g., large flightless birds). Abundant insects can gathered into feeding groups. Single-celled organisms are important in grassland nutrient cycling and as mutualists and pathogens and are extremely abundant in soil. Soil pH is a strong predictor of bacterial diversity (as in plants), with diversity higher in neutral than in acidic soils.

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BURAVTSEVA, T. V., I. N. PERCHUK, A. E. SOLOVEVA, M. V. GURKINA, and G. P. EGOROVA. COMMON BEAN (PHASEOLUS VULGARIS L.): ASSESSMENT OF PROTEIN CONTENT IN SEEDS WITH BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF USEFUL AGRONOMIC TRAITS. N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30901/978-5-907145-73-3.

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The catalogue contains the results of protein content assessment in seeds of 216 common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) accessions from the VIR plant genetic resources collection. The data of a long-term study with mean values of characters for each accession are presented. The study of main agronomic characters in the accessions was conducted from 2004 through 2018 in the experimental fields at Astrakhan Experiment Station of VIR. The accessions are described employing eight morphological and agronomic characters important for breeding practice. This catalogue is intended to serve as a tool in source material selection for further breeding process. It may prove helpful for plant breeders and grain legume experts.

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Packard, Winthrop. Florida Trails: As Seen From Jacksonville To Key West And From November To April Inclusive. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Packard, Winthrop. Florida Trails: As Seen From Jacksonville To Key West And From November To April Inclusive. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Conlin, Jennifer. Perfect Parents Handbook: Meet the Neo-Traditional Family and 8 Other Parent Groups You've Seen at the Playground. St. Martin's Press, 2013.

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Webber, Jonathan, Chris Schwarz, and Jason Francisco. Rediscovering Traces of Memory. 2nd ed. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786940872.001.0001.

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The present-day traces of the Jewish past in Poland are complex. Jewish life lay in ruins after the Holocaust. Much evidence of ruin remains, but there are also widespread traces that bear witness to the elaborate Jewish culture that once flourished there, even in villages and small towns. One also sees places where Jews were murdered by the Germans in the war: not only in death camps and ghettos, but also in fields, forests, rivers, and cemeteries. After the war, forty years of communism suppressed even the memory of the destroyed Jewish heritage. Today, by contrast, the historic Jewish culture of Poland is increasingly being memorialized, by local Poles as well as by foreign Jews. Synagogues and cemeteries are being renovated, monuments and museums are being set up. There are festivals of Jewish culture, hasidic pilgrims, and Jewish tourists; and local people who rescued Jews during the war are being honoured. In rediscovering the traces of memory one also finds clear signs of a local Jewish revival. This extensively revised second edition includes forty-five new photographs and updated explanatory texts. Together they suggest how to make sense of the past and discover its relevance for the present. This book will appeal to everyone concerned with questions of history, memory, and identity.

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Hogshead, Sally. How the world sees you: Discover your highest value through the science of fascination. 2014.

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Okasha, Samir. Agents and Goals in Evolution. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815082.001.0001.

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In evolutionary biology, there is a mode of thinking which is quite common, and philosophically significant. This is ‘agential thinking’. In its paradigm case, agential thinking involves treating an evolved organism as if it were an agent pursuing a goal, such as survival and reproduction, and treating its phenotypic traits, including its behaviours, as strategies for achieving this goal. Less commonly, the entities that are treated as agent-like are genes or groups, rather than individual organisms. Agential thinking is related to the familiar Darwinian point that organisms’ evolved traits are often adaptive, but it goes beyond this. For it involves deliberately transposing a set of concepts—goals, interests, strategies—whose original application is to rational human agents, to the biological world at large. There are two possible attitudes towards agential thinking in biology. The first sees it as mere anthropomorphism, an instance of the psychological bias which leads humans to see intention and purpose in places where they do not exist. The second sees agential thinking as a natural and justifiable way of describing or reasoning about Darwinian evolution and its products. The truth turns out to lie in between these extremes, for agential thinking is not a monolithic whole. Some forms of agential thinking are problematic, but others admit of a solid justification, and when used carefully, can be a source of insight.

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Srinivas, Krishna Ravi. Intellectual Property Rights and the Politics of Food. Edited by Ronald J. Herring. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195397772.013.34.

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The legal status of plant genetic resources has been subject to numerous international agreements and laws over the centuries. The “common heritage of mankind” approach enabled free access but proved unworkable because of conflicts over intellectual property rights. The Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) recognized sovereign rights of nations over genetic resources within their territory. The Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement under auspices of the World Trade Organization mandated intellectual property protection for plant varieties, but synchronizing such rights has proved problematic. Many developing countries have enacted sui generis regimes to comply with TRIPS requirements. The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants Convention provides models that have changed over time. With the advent of agricultural biotechnology and availability of intellectual property rights for plant components, patents relating to plant genetic resources have increased. As plant genetic resources are subject to many overlapping treaties, the regime governing them is becoming more complex, resulting in inconsistencies and disputes. While the rights of plant breeders and the private seed industry are well protected in formal agreements, the rights of farmers, who have nurtured diversity in plant genetic resources, developed varieties of crops with different traits, and contributed to exchange and conservation of plant genetic resources, are left to the discretion of nation-states. Farmers’ rights are mentioned in many international legal instruments, but no binding treaty or convention mandates protecting and promoting the rights of working farmers.

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Lacy, Frank. Easiy Distracted by Birds a Bird Wathing Journal: Tracks Location, Birds Seen, Behavior and Much More. Independently Published, 2019.

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W, Awdry. Choo-Choo, Peek-A-boo (Peek-a-Board Books(TM)). Random House Books for Young Readers, 1992.

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Schaub, Mirjam. The Affective Experience of Space. Edited by Yael Kaduri. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841547.013.21.

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This article investigates the aesthetic conclusions that the Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller draw from the basic phenomenon of listening—such as the “horizon of simultaneity” of sound and vision—in their own creation of their audio- and video-walks. It describes how their work functions as social experiments in the public sphere. The thesis is that their works “vampirize” sounds and actively assimilate them to natural acoustic tracks and traces, thus becoming affective traps for their pursuers. Cardiff and Miller lead the participants astray in their desire to actually “see” what is “only” to be heard. Thus an uncanny criminology of artificially laid traces is to be predicated on the seductiveness of the disembodied human voice as guiding narrative. Cardiff’s and Miller’s intriguing art form improvises a new way across the ravages of time by inventing new vestiges of the past.

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Hogshead, Sally. How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination. HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.

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Hogshead, Sally. How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination. Harperaudio, 2014.

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Anderson, Robert H., Nigel A. Brown, Simon D. Bamforth, Bill Chaudhry, Deborah J. Henderson, and Timothy J. Mohun. Development of the outflow tract. Edited by José Maria Pérez-Pomares, Robert G. Kelly, Maurice van den Hoff, José Luis de la Pompa, David Sedmera, Cristina Basso, and Deborah Henderson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198757269.003.0023.

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The definitive cardiac outflow tracts have three components: the intra-pericardial arterial trunks, the arterial roots, and the ventricular outflow tracts. Improved correlations between normal development and cardiac malformations can be obtained by analysing the developing outflow tract in tripartite fashion with proximal, intermediate, and distal components. When first seen, the walls of the entire outflow tract express myocardial markers. With ongoing development, the distal border regresses away from the edges of the pericardial cavity. Subsequently, the distal outflow tract becomes the intra-pericardial arterial trunks, with a protrusion from the dorsal wall of the aortic sac forming the aortopulmonary septum. The arterial valves form in the intermediate part of the outflow tract. The proximal part eventually becomes transformed into the ventricular outflow tracts, with muscularization of the proximal cushions producing the right ventricular infundibulum. This approach provides rational explanations for the congenital lesions involving the different parts of the outflow tracts.

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West, John. Dryden and the Cultivation of the Restoration Pindaric Ode. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816409.003.0004.

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This chapter traces Dryden’s responses to the development of the Restoration Pindaric ode. In Renaissance Europe, Pindar’s Greek odes were commonly seen as examples of inspired poetry. Abraham Cowley’s vernacular odes echoed and modified this tradition by presenting irregular Pindaric metre and form as a vehicle for paraphrasing biblical scripture. The chapter sees how Dryden thought through this link between inspiration and the Pindaric in odes including ‘To the Memory of Anne Killigrew’ and ‘An Ode for Secelia’s Day’. The heavenly origins of music and its ability to provoke the passions were central to Dryden’s adaptation of the form’s inspired heritage. Such ideas developed politicized associations with military violence after William III came to the throne in 1689. The chapter argues that Dryden’s late ode ‘Alexander’s Feast’ is engaged in a close, critical conversation with Williamite sublime poetics as practised especially by John Dennis.

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McGinn, Marie. On Rule-Following. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783916.003.0003.

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In Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein raises difficulties for the idea that what comes before my mind when I hear, or suddenly understand, a word can impose any normative constraint on what I go on to do. The conclusion his reflections seem to force on us gives rise to a paradox: there is no such thing as going on to apply an expression in a way that accords with what is meant by it. The paradox can be seen as one horn of a dilemma, the other horn of which is Platonism about meaning. It is generally agreed that resolving the paradox means finding a middle course between the two horns of the dilemma. This chapter looks at three attempts to find the middle course: communitarianism, naturalized Platonism, and quietism. It then considers whether Charles Travis offers a way out of the dilemma which avoids the problems of the other views discussed.

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Through the window: The Great Western Railway from Paddington to Penzance, 1924 (Cornish Riviera route) : 300 miles of English country as seen from the G.W.R. trains. Newton Abbot: Peninsula, 1994.

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Collins, John, and Tamara Dobler, eds. Reply to Hilary Putnam. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783916.003.0014.

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The replies by Charles Travis develop initial responses to eleven chapters contained in the rest of the volume. The replies have a number of aims. Firstly, they seek to clarify positions previously taken up by Charles Travis on, in particular, the interpretation of Frege, Cook Wilson, Wittgenstein, Austin, and Chomsky. Secondly, they advance some new thoughts on the nature of ‘Travis cases’, logic, and disjunctivism in perception, among other topics. Thirdly, they offer a conspectus of Travis’s latest thinking on how to square objectivity with parochialism across the various domains of language, thought, and perception.

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Campos P., Raúl, Jorge Catalán L., Patricio Elgueta M., Gonzalo Hernández C., Cristian Reyes Riquelme, and Luis Vásquez V. Informe técnico 218. Determinación de las propiedades físicas y mecánicas de tableros OSB fabricados en Chile. INFOR, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.52904/20.500.12220/21573.

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El presente trabajo caracteriza una partida de tableros OSB que se fabrican y comercializan en el país, a través de ensayos físicos y mecánicos que fueron realizados por ingenieros y técnicos del Área de Tecnología y Productos de Madera del Instituto Forestal (INFOR), sede Bio Bio, y del Laboratorio de Tecnología de la Madera y de Adhesivos y Materiales Compuestos de la Universidad del Bio Bio, sede Concepción, en los laboratorios de esta universidad

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Webster, Michael A. Adaptation Aftereffects in the Perception of Faces. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794607.003.0094.

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Most people are adept at recognizing a face they have seen previously, or inferring from the face an individual’s traits. These abilities suggest that some aspects of the visual representation of faces remain stable. Yet, face perception may also involve highly dynamic processes that are continuously recalibrated by the variety of faces to which we are exposed. In particular, the appearance of a face can be rapidly and dramatically changed after viewing—and thus adapting—to a different face. Thus tThe perceived identity or characteristics of a face appears can be strongly biased by the set of faces seen previously. For example, after viewing a narrow face, a normally proportioned face appears too wide. These face aftereffects are similar in form and dynamics to the classic adaptation effects of color, form, and motion but may depend in part on response changes at high and possibly face-specific levels of visual processing.

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Mcbride, Lee A. Insurrectionist Ethics and Racism. Edited by Naomi Zack. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190236953.013.52.

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Insurrectionist ethics is relevant to both racism and the liberation of racially oppressed peoples. Insurrectionist ethics generates moral intuitions, character traits, and specific practices to motivate the liberation of oppressed groups. Accounts of both racism and insurrectionist ethics have been provided in the work of Leonard Harris. The core tenets of insurrectionist ethics can be highlighted through the work of Angela Davis. As a result, insurrectionist ethics and its militant posture of resistance are seen to be crucial to human liberation and social amelioration in the face of racism. This impetus and advocacy are aimed toward creating social and material conditions fundamentally different from the confining and destructive conditions that constrict the freedom of racialized populations.

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Ortbals, Candice, and Lori Poloni-Staudinger. How Gender Intersects With Political Violence and Terrorism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.308.

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Gender influences political violence, which includes, for example, terrorism, genocide, and war. Gender uncovers how women, men, and nonbinary persons act according to feminine, masculine, or fluid expectations of men and women. A gendered interpretation of political violence recognizes that politics and states project masculine power and privilege, with the result that men occupy the dominant social position in politics and women and marginalized men are subordinate. As such, men (associated with masculinity) are typically understood as perpetrators of political violence with power and agency and women (associated with femininity) are seen as passive and as victims of violence. For example, women killed by drone attacks in the U.S. War on Terrorism are seen as the innocent, who, along with children, are collateral damage. Many historical and current examples, however, demonstrate that women have agency, namely that they are active in social groups and state institutions responding to and initiating political violence. Women are victims of political violence in many instances, yet some are also political and social actors who fight for change.Gendercide, which can occur alongside genocide, targets a specific gender, with the result that men, women, or those who identify with a non-heteronormative sexuality are subject to discriminatory killing. Rape in wartime situations is also gendered; often it is an expression of men’s power over women and over men who are feminized and marginalized. Because war is typically seen as a masculine domain, wartime violence is not associated with women, who are viewed as life givers and not life takers. Similarly, few expect women to be terrorists, and when they are, women’s motivations often are assumed to be different from those of men. Whereas some scholars argue that women pursue terrorism for personal (and feminine) reasons, for example to redeem themselves from the reputation of rape or for the loss of a male loved one, other scholars maintain that women act on account of political or religious motivations. Although many cases of women’s involvement in war and terrorism can be documented throughout history, wartime leadership and prominent social positions following political violence have been reserved for men. Leaders with feminine traits seem undesirable during and after political violence, because military leadership and negotiations to end military conflict are associated with men and masculinity. Nevertheless, women’s groups and individual women respond to situations of violence by protesting against violence, testifying at tribunals and truth commissions, and constructing the political memory of violence.

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Lopes, Dominic McIver. Beings for Beauty. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827214.003.0002.

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The main argument for the network theory of aesthetic value is that it better explains the facts about aesthetic activity than does its rival, aesthetic hedonism. Aesthetic activity is not limited to appreciation, and six case studies are presented of aesthetic agents whose expertise covers a range of aesthetic activities. From a survey of the case studies, we see that six facts need explaining. Aesthetic experts disperse into almost all demographic niches, they jointly inhabit the whole aesthetic universe, they specialize by aesthetic domain, they specialize by type of activity, they specialize by activity and domain interact, and their expertise is rooted in relatively stable psychological traits.

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Luraghi, Nino. The Discourse of Tyranny and the Greek Roots of the Bad King. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199394852.003.0002.

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This chapter provides a systematic discussion of the essential attributes of the tyrant in ancient Greece, whence both the term and the concept spread throughout the West. Seen against the background of Greek cultural and moral values, the tyrant emerges as a radically marginal character, a violator of the accepted norms of sociability, a monstrous aberration. Thus, tyranny was perceived and depicted not as a bad political alternative but as a primordial sort of evil: a taboo that cannot be rationalized. Yet, the discourse of tyranny, this chapter argues, underpinned the whole concept of monarchy in Greek culture, to the point that the typical virtues of the ideal ruler were nothing more than a reversal of the negative traits of the tyrant.

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Lombardi, Elena. Bea(ta Lec)trix. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198818960.003.0005.

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This chapter looks at Dante’s great textual invention, Beatrice, as both the empowered beloved turned addressee as discussed in Chapter 2 and a powerful textual construct as seen in Chapter 3. I argue that Beatrice’s unique trait is what I call her ‘lyric irreducibility’—a rather resistant aspect of her character, which follows her all the way to the vision of God. Such a trait is posited already in a figure that lays in the archaeology of Beatrice, the unsteady joining of the lyrical and the doctrinal in Dante’s first and failed rendition of his woman interlocutor: the donna gentile-Lady Philosophy, who complexly negotiates the ending of the Vita Nova and the beginning of the Convivio. The chapter follows Beatrice in her development as a non-silent lyric addressee (in Inferno), as textual construct that talks back (in Purgatorio), and as glossator and lector (in Paradiso).

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Yamaura, Chigusa. Marriage and Marriageability. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750144.001.0001.

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How do the Japanese men and Chinese women who participate in cross-border matchmaking—individuals whose only interaction is often just one brief meeting—come to see one another as potential marriage partners? This book traces the practices of Sino-Japanese matchmaking from transnational marriage agencies in Tokyo to branch offices and language schools in China, from initial meetings to marriage, the visa application processes, and beyond to marital life in Japan. Engaging issues of colonial history, local norms, and the very ability to conceive of another or oneself as marriageable, the book rethinks cross-border marriage not only as a form of gendered migration, but also as a set of practices that constructs marriageable partners and imaginable marriages. The book shows that instead of desiring different others, these transnational marital relations are based on the tactical deployment of socially and historically created conceptions of proximity between Japan and northeast China. Far from seeking to escape local practices, participants in these marriages actively seek to avoid transgressing local norms. By doing so on a transnational scale, they paradoxically reaffirm and attempt to remain within the boundaries of local marital ideologies.

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