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Mazzon, Gabriella. Historical perspectives on forms of English dialogue. Milano, Italy: FrancoAngeli, 2012.
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Pusat Standardisasi dan Lingkungan (Indonesia). Prosiding workshop REDD+ dan LULUCF dari Bonn menuju Warsawa dan progres di dalam negeri: Workshop/dialogues on policy and technical issues on REDD+ post Durban dan Doha : Jakarta, 2 Juli 2013. Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Standardisasi dan Lingkungan, Kementerian Kehutanan dan Forest Carbon Partnership Facility-World Bank, 2013.
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1913-, Goldschmidt Walter Rochs, ed. Anthropology and public policy: A dialogue. Washington, D.C: American Anthropological Association, 1986.
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Weinberg, David M. Dialogue pour le développement: Le programme israélien d'aide à l'étranger. Westmount, Québec: Comité Canada-Israël, 1987.
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Weinberg, David M. Dialogue for development: Israel's foreign assistance programme. [Toronto]: Canada-Israel Committee, 1986.
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Man'kovskaya, Zoya. English language for technical colleges. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1033835.
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The textbook is designed to develop students ' skills of analytical, viewing and search reading of General scientific texts, retelling texts based on reference signals, as well as to form grammatical and lexical competencies, the ability to participate in a dialogue on the topic studied, extract information to discuss issues related to the history and current state of physics, biology, computer science, innovation and other areas of knowledge necessary for a modern specialist. It includes a basic course, a grammar workshop, lesson tests, and final tests. Current scientific and technical problems that are widely discussed in the world information space are revealed, which allows the student to maintain a dialogue on current topics of modern science and technology.
Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
For first-and second-year students of technical universities of any orientation.
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Jean-Noël, Missa, ed. Species technica: Suivi d'un, Dialogue philosophique autour de Species technica vingt ans plus tard. Paris: Vrin, 2002.
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Weinberg, David M. Dialogue pour le développement: Le programme israélien d'aide à l'etranger. [Canada]: Comité Canada-Israël, 1987.
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Fund, International Monetary, and World Summit for Social Development (1995 : Copenhagen, Denmark), eds. Social dimensions of the IMF's policy dialogue. Washington, D.C: The Fund, 1995.
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Retout, Olivier. The Europe, Asia, Latin America dialogue: Financial and technical cooperation, 1976-1989. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1991.
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Canada/United States Technical Workshop on the Upper Columbia River Basin (1994 Spokane, Wash.). Canada/United States Technical Workshop on the Upper Columbia River Basin: An international dialogue : proceedings from the technical sessions. Pullman, Wash: State of Washington Water Research Center, 1994.
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Ramage, Carl. Independent assessment of the Agricultural Technical Cooperation Working Group and High Level Policy Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology. Singapore: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, 2012.
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Brown, Kathryn. Dialogues with Degas. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350258730.
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Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices. The first in-depth examination of this major artist’s impact on contemporary art, this book explores how contemporary practitioners have used Degas’s creativity as a springboard to engage imaginatively and critically with themes of colonialism, gender, race and class. Individual chapters are devoted to dialogues between Degas’s art and works produced by Frank Auerbach, Cecily Brown, Xinyi Cheng, Ryan Gander, Maggi Hambling, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Chantal Joffe, Leon Kossoff, R.B. Kitaj, Juan Muñoz, Paula Rego, Jenny Saville, Yinka Shonibare, Cy Twombly and Rebecca Warren. Through close analyses of selected paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, Kathryn Brown explores how Degas’s technical and compositional experiments have been extended or challenged in innovative ways. By experimenting with the materials and methods of existing works, contemporary artists generate visual palimpsests that make new demands of the viewer and prompt a reconsideration of ideas that have informed histories of 19th-century French art. The book overturns familiar conceptions of influence by eschewing a genealogical approach and prioritizing, instead, the analysis of non-linear encounters between artworks. This encourages a new conception of the agency of visual artefacts and of the conversations they are capable of entertaining with each other. While this study sheds new light on Degas’s art and that of his interlocutors, it also has methodological significance for the writing of art history.
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Hoxeng, James, Alberto Ochoa, and Valerie Ickis. Tabacundo: Battery Powered Dialogue (Technical Notes). Center for International Education, 1987.
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(Editor), Gerald M. Weinberg, Marie Benesh (Editor), and James Bullock (Editor), eds. Roundtable on Technical leadership: A Shape Forum Dialogue. Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2002.
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Zetzel, James E. G. The Lost Republic. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197626092.001.0001.
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This book is a literary and cultural interpretation of Cicero’s two earliest dialogues, both modeled on Plato. It offers new readings of both De oratore and De re publica, including a reconstruction of the argument of the fragmentary De re publica. It explores Cicero’s highly ambivalent attitude to Plato and to the development of technical rhetoric and philosophy in the Hellenistic period, and at the same time uses the historical settings of the dialogues to re-create the development of Roman attitudes toward Greek thought in the second century BCE. It also examines Cicero’s views about the status and values of rhetorical education and of political experience and his deliberately ambiguous presentation of the settings and speakers of his own dialogues. One of Cicero’s goals, as is also true of other contemporary writers such as Catullus and Lucretius, is to explore Rome’s moral and cultural history in relationship to Greece and in relationship to Rome’s own heritage. The Lost Republic treats Cicero’s first dialogues as masterpieces of literary imagination that present a compelling vision of the intellectual, moral, and historical underpinnings of civil society.
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Joyce, Michael, Robert Preucel, and Rosemary A. Joyce. Dialogue, Narrative and Writing (Social Archaeology). Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002.
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Development through dialogue and training: A conceptual framework. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1988.
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Dereclenne, Émilien. Technics and Enaction. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350507623.
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Providing an innovative approach to conceptualising imagination or creativity, this book offers analternative concept of imagination to the classical internalist and representationalist theory. Émilien Dereclenne argues that contemporary conceptions of imagination and creativity in the field of cognitive science, are guilty of a kind of dualism between mind and technics. Combining enacted, embodied, ecological, extended, embedded (5e) cognitive theories with material anthropology and the French philosophy of technics and imagination, Dereclenne challenges this approach. Instead, he highlights the role of technical and socio-material engagement in imaginative and creative processes. In doing so, he brings enactive philosophers like Lambros Malafouris, Shaun Gallagher and Ezequiel Di Paolo into dialogue with the philosophy of André Leroi Gourhan, Gilbert Simondon and Bernard Stiegler in order to showcase how French philosophers of technics can help 5E cognitive sciences further explore their theories of imagination.
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Manrique Nugent, Manuel Alberto Luis, Julissa Graciela Chávez Cruz, Lizangela Aurelia Hinojosa Yzarra, and Graciela Chela Quispe Gonzales. Technical english book. Universidad Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle (UNE) - Fondo Editorial La Cantuta, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54942/lacantuta.23.
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The strategies of the methodological development of this Book was to use the tools that help to manage the teaching of skills learning techniques, the same ones that will be applied in the development of the topics taught in the chapters of the book, involving a set of activities leading to achieving an Educational development of ESL, English Second Language to improve the traditional forms that cause the barriers of the old techniques of teaching a language, having to use the method in this qualitative research, of a type with a focus more on the result of the surveys elaborated. given to the direct public of the different academies, and Language institutes of the various Public and Private universities of Peru. This teaching approach is an elaboration that will lead to the sustainable and inclusive social and economic support of the community. The objective is to determine the Sustainable Education tool. The book: Technical English Book, 2023 with which it can be seen that thanks to this research it reflects that it will be a potential instrument which is of a Technical type, due to its pedagogical, methodological instrumentation using the relevant indicators of the forms of friendly dialogue, joining the affirmations in sentences, the simple sentences of a yes or a no, looking for a small answer and increasing with greater words of affirmations, pronouncements, using simple present verbs, also using adverbs, corrections spelling errors in example sentences. Bearing in mind that describing and analyzing the situation of the educational market that could be seen from those who teach and learn.
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Schulenberg, David. C. P. E. Bach’s Keyboard Music and the Question of Idiom. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041488.003.0003.
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The keyboard music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, commonly described as being for clavichord or generic “clavier,” reveals great variety of idiom, implying significant changes in players’ technical and interpretive approaches to performance of compositions from across the composer’s sixty-year career. This essay analyzes numerous sonatas, rondos, and fantasias, demonstrating the capabilities of both harpsichord and fortepiano for representing metaphoric speech in instances of instrumental recitative and in compositions that represent dialogues between opposing characters. Only the piano, however, can facilitate romantic effects appropriate to certain pieces through dynamics, legato articulation, and manipulation of dampers. Works that the composer described as “comic” actually juxtapose the serious and the farcical, as in the composer’s famous Empfindungen, a late work realizable only on a dynamic instrument.
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Ingram, Paul. Buddhist-Christian Dialogue: Mutual Renewal and Transformation (National Foreign Language Center Technical Reports). University of Hawaii Press, 1986.
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National social dialogue institutions in selected countries of Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus. Geneva: ILO, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54394/plyo3404.
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This Technical Brief examines the institutional frameworks and arrangements of the primary tripartite national social dialogue institutions (NSDIs) in eight countries of Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus. Drawing on a 2022 survey conducted by the ILO, the Brief assesses these institutions' roles and achievements in policymaking.
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Olfert, Christiana. Aristotle on Practical Truth. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190281007.001.0001.
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Aristotle’s theories of truth, practical reasoning, and action are some of the most influential theories in the history of philosophy. It is surprising, then, that so little attention has been given to his notion of practical truth. In Aristotle on Practical Truth, C. M. M. Olfert gives the first book-length treatment of this notion and the role of truth in our practical lives overall. She offers a novel account of practical truth: it is the truth, in the technical Aristotelian sense of “truth,” about what is good simpliciter (haplôs) for a particular person in her particular situation. Olfert argues that, understood in this way, Aristotle’s notion of practical truth is an attractive idea that illuminates the core of his practical philosophy. But it is also an idea that challenges a common view that in practical reasoning, we aim at action or acting well as our primary goals, not at truth and knowledge. Contrary to this common view, Olfert shows that in dialogues such as Charmides, Protagoras, and Republic, Plato describes practical reasoning as being concerned equally with grasping the truth and with acting well. She argues that Aristotle develops this Platonic picture with the notion of practical truth and with a technical notion of rational action as fitting ourselves to the world. Using key texts from the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics, as well as De Anima, Metaphysics, De Interpretatione, and Categories, Olfert demonstrates that practical truth deserves to be treated as a central and plausible Aristotelian idea.
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Ainsworth, Rhys, and Sharon P. Hickey. Constitutions, Customary and Religious Law, and Gender Equality: Reconciling Rights in Constitutional Design Negotiations. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2022.48.
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The participants of the third annual Women Constitution-Makers’ Dialogue explored comparative constitutional design approaches to legal pluralism and reconciling tensions between customary/religious systems and guarantees of gender equality and non-discrimination. In addition to technical issues, the discussion also addressed successes and challenges associated with implementation of constitutional guarantees of gender equality and explored innovative approaches to harmonization, transformation and empowerment.
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Houlihan, Erin C., and Sharon P. Hickey. Constitutional Approaches to Decentralization: Elements, Challenges and Implications. Fourth Women Constitution-Makers’ Dialogue, 2022. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2023.36.
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Whether decentralization, and particularly devolution and federalism, is advantageous or disadvantageous for women is a long-debated issue. The effectiveness of decentralization in promoting gender equality depends on how the system is designed, the quality of implementation planning and the adequacy of resources. Decentralization processes, nevertheless, are particularly fertile ground for enhanced and systematic women’s engagement, with numerous avenues for mobilization and advocacy throughout the long period of interpretation, implementation and enforcement, which can be harnessed by women to shape what decentralization will look like in practical terms. The Fourth Women Constitution-Makers’ Dialogue focused on decentralization from a technical and empirical perspective to support women constitution-makers engaged in constitution-building processes and constitutional implementation through knowledge transfer and comparative experience sharing.
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Ecklund, Elaine Howard, and Christopher P. Scheitle. Beyond Myths, Toward Realities. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190650629.003.0008.
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This chapter summarizes the myths and stereotypes that were dispelled and encourages readers to accept this reality moving forward. Suggestions are provided for scientists, religious people, and all those in between. Productive dialogue is possible, and there are several models of this dialogue already in existence. Scientists and religious communities should attempt to build upon shared concerns, while recognizing that technical disagreements often mask more subtle concerns about meaning and ethics. Both groups should recognize their assumptions about the other and how those assumptions are often incorrect or lack nuance. Faith community leaders can be vital in providing space for members who are scientists to help bridge gaps between the scientific and religious domains.
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Marandiuc, Natalia. Theological Implications from Attachment Theory. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190674502.003.0003.
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The chapter places theological anthropologies that focus on the connectedness of the self in dialogue with key findings and claims advanced by attachment theorists. One of the most amply researched and pragmatically employed frameworks in contemporary neuropsychology, attachment theory contends that human subjectivity is the product of human attachments. Attachment figures provide an environment of perceived safety within which and out of which the self can pursue other activities in freedom; should attachment needs remain unmet, human actions would be inhibited. Self-actualization depends upon secure attachments that home the self. In fact, the term “home” is a key technical concept for attachment theory: secure attachments constitute a secure home for the self.
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Beard, Jennifer. Teaching Public Health Writing. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197576465.001.0001.
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Abstract Teaching Public Health Writing argues that public health schools and programs need to make writing practice and mentoring central to the curriculum. Writing is a process that demands patience, humility, and deliberate practice. Write, revise, submit, receive feedback, revise again. All writers develop their confidence, patience, and voice over the course of their lives. Public health students are learning to understand and translate technical content from a wide array of disciplines into clear, concise, engaging documents for vastly different audiences and purposes. It’s a time-consuming, anxiety-inducing, and painstaking process. Yet, many public health professors expect their students to arrive in their graduate and upper-level undergraduate classes already knowing how to write engaging and informative policy briefs, literature reviews, research proposals, and many other types of technical documents. This is an unrealistic expectation that undermines both students and their professors. The author blends composition theory with a multilevel social determinants analysis, the life course, harm reduction, and other public health approaches to offer a new way to think about the place of writing in public health education. This call to action offers recommendations for mentoring student writers, supporting professors, and fostering writing community and dialogue at the institutional level.
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Voss, Christiane, Lorenz Engell, and Tim Othold, eds. Anthropologies of Entanglements. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501375101.
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Media and human modes of existence are always already intertwined and interdependent. The notion of the anthropocene has further stimulated a new examination of ideas about human agency and responsibility. Various approaches all emphasize relational concepts and the situatedness and embodiment of human-and also non-human-existences and experiences. Their common interest has shifted from any so-called ‘human nature’ to the multitude of cultural, topographical, technical, historical, social, discursive, and media formats with which human existences are entangled. This volume brings together a range of thinkers from international backgrounds and puts these important reflections and ideas in the spotlight. More specifically, the volume explores the concept of “anthropomedial entanglements.” It fosters an understanding of human bodies, experiences, and media as being immanently entangled and mutually constituting, prior to any possible distinction between them. The different contributions thus open up a dialogue between empirical case studies and media-historical research on the one hand and the conceptual work of media and cultural philosophies and aesthetics on the other hand.
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Oksanish, John. Vitruvian Man. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696986.001.0001.
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This book offers a new assessment of the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, On Architecture. Once reviled by scholars as a half-witted proletarian, Vitruvius emerges as well read and politically able when read alongside literary coevals through an intertextual lens. No building of Vitruvius’s name survives from antiquity, but his treatise remains a formidable literary construction that partakes of Rome’s vibrant textual culture. The book explores Vitruvius’s portrait of the ideal architect as an imposing “Vitruvian man” at the dawn of Augustus’s empire. In direct dialogue with his republican model, Cicero’s ideal orator, the architect embodies a distinctly imperial civic ethos in which technically skilled partisans supersede old elites as guarantors of Augustan authority. Vitruvius promises to shape not only the emperor’s legacy with architecture, but also the notion of a Roman citizen through the figure of the ideal architect.
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Chandler, Daniel, and Rod Munday. A Dictionary of Media and Communication. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780198841838.001.0001.
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Over 3,600 entries ‘…not only a dictionary of communication and media but also a liberal education that enables users to see interesting relationships between many of the concepts it discusses.’ Professor Arthur Asa Berger, San Francisco State University This authoritative and up-to-date A–Z offers points of connection between communication and media and covers all aspects of interpersonal, mass, and networked communication, including digital and mobile media, advertising, journalism, social media, and nonverbal communication. In this new edition, over 2,000 entries have been revised and more than 500 have been newly added to include current terminology and concepts such as artificial intelligence, cisgender, fake news, hive mind, use theory, and wikiality. It bridges the gap between theory and practice and contains many technical terms that are relevant to the communication industry, including dialogue editing, news aggregator and primary colour correction. Additional material includes a biographical notes appendix, and entries are complemented by approved web links which guide further reading. This is an indispensable guide for undergraduate students of media and communication studies and also for those taking related subjects such as television studies, video production, communication design, visual communication, marketing communications, semiotics, and cultural studies.
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Butterfield, Samuel Hale. U.S. Development Aid—An Historic First. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216028369.
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The first comprehensive account of U.S. development aid policies and implementation operations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this work is a unique contribution to world history and to the extensive literature on Third World development. Butterfield begins with the remarkable story of why, in 1949, President Truman surprised Americans with his unprecedented development aid policy. He then describes the major alterations in U.S. development aid strategy and operations from 1950 to 2000. Drawing upon his long experience both in Washington and in country aid missions, Butterfield puts a human face on the story by weaving real world vignettes into his narrative. The survey addresses the role of Congress, important program foundations established in the 1950s, creative initiatives of the 1960s, frustrated promises in Vietnam. It explores the Third World’s unexpected population explosion; America’s evolving technical assistance work in the core sectors such as agriculture, education, health, and administration; and initiatives to reach the rural poor and promote the development role of women. It also comments upon linkages between policy dialogue and financial aid to promote market-oriented policy reforms, Africa’s lagging development, and the decline of U.S. development aid in the 1990s.
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Trakakis, N. N., ed. The Problem of Evil. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821625.001.0001.
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One of those rare questions in philosophy that is not only technically recalcitrant but also engages the hearts and minds of the broad community is the so-called ‘problem of evil’: how can the existence of an absolutely perfect God be reconciled with the existence of suffering and evil? This problem has exercised the finest minds across the centuries, from ancient to modern times. In contemporary philosophy, however, the debate has petrified into a select number of entrenched and defensive strategies. This volume opens the way for a wholesale reconsideration of the problem of evil. Eight prominent philosophers of religion have been invited to engage in critical but friendly dialogue, and to develop and contest both traditional and relatively unorthodox approaches. What emerges from these exchanges is a diversity of fruitful and innovative ways of thinking about God and evil, proving that the problem of evil is far from exhausted.
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Trencsényi, Balázs, Michal Kopeček, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič, Maria Falina, Mónika Baár, and Maciej Janowski. Late State Socialism: Consolidation, Legitimization, and Reform from Above. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829607.003.0001.
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Seeking to consolidate the state socialist framework of government, individual regimes developed, in dialogue with social scientific research, peculiar disciplines of state socialist governance and authoritarian socio-technics. With the help of political economy, socialist jurisprudence, political sociology, or “prognostics,” late socialist regimes tried hard to stabilize their rule. At the same time, knowledge production catalyzed from above gave rise to a critical potential that caused a majority of the experts to endorse wholeheartedly first perestroika and glasnost coming from the Soviet Union and later also the radical break with the state socialist political system. Another effort to boost the failing legitimacy of the regime was a reconfiguration of national communism. Whereas the earlier, “liberalizing” variant was turning to the liberal nationalist tradition for inspiration, linking the cause of individual and national liberty, the later, “homogenizing” version drew more on the romantic nationalist identification of the ethnic Other as the oppressor.
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Ferguson, Rex. Identification Practices in Twentieth-Century Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865568.001.0001.
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The task of identifying the individual has given rise to a number of technical innovations, including fingerprint analysis and DNA profiling. A range of methods has also been created for storing and classifying people’s identities, such as identity cards and digital records. Identification Practices and Twentieth-Century Fiction tests the hypothesis that these techniques and methods, as practised in the UK and US in the long twentieth century, are inherently related to the literary representation of self-identity from the same period. Until now, the question of ‘who one is’ in the sense of formal identification has remained detached from the question of ‘who one is’ in terms of the representation of unique individuality. Placing these two questions in dialogue allows for a re-evaluation of the various ways in which uniqueness has been constructed during the period and for a reassessment of the historical and literary historical context of such construction. In chapters ranging across the development of fingerprinting, the institution of identity cards during the Second World War, DNA profiling and contemporary digital surveillance, and an analysis of writing by authors including Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen, J. G. Ballard, Don DeLillo, and Jennifer Egan, Identification Practices and Twentieth-Century Fiction makes an original contribution to Literary Studies, History, and Cultural Studies.
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Communicating about Vaccine Safety: Guidelines to help health workers communicate with parents, caregivers, and patients. Pan American Health Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37774/9789275122822.
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Vaccines save between 2 million and 3 million lives each year and protect the entire population from more than a dozen life-threatening diseases. Thanks to vaccination, smallpox was eradicated in 1980, and we are on track to eradicate polio. However, despite great strides in the control of measles, one of the most contagious diseases known, the last few years have unfortunately seen an increase in cases. This is why high vaccination coverage—95% or more—is needed, posing a major technical and communication challenge for health workers. Studies show that telling people about the quality, safety, effectiveness and availability of vaccines is not enough to influence behavior change related to immunization, and in general, doesn´t increase coverage. For this reason, it´s necessary to understand the reasons why people choose not to get vaccinated or not get their children vaccinated, in order to begin a two-way respectful dialogue using the best, most effective messages. Given this context, the main objective of these guidelines is to provide tools for staff working in the field of immunization to support effective communication between health personnel and the general population, with the aim of strengthening, maintaining or recovering trust in vaccines and the immunization programs in the Region of the Americas.
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Mitchell, Neil. Carrie. Liverpool University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906733728.001.0001.
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Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel, Carrie (1976), is one of the defining films of 1970s ‘New Hollywood’ style and a horror classic. The story of a teenage social outcast who discovers she possesses latent psychic powers that allow her to deliver retribution to her peers, teachers, and abusive mother, Carrie was an enormous commercial and critical success and is still one of the finest screen adaptations of a King novel. This book not only breaks the film down into its formal components — its themes, stylistic tropes, technical approaches, uses of colour and sound, dialogue, and visual symbolism — but also considers a multitude of other factors contributing to the work's classic status. The act of adapting King's novel for the big screen, the origins of the novel itself, the place of Carrie in De Palma's oeuvre, the subsequent versions and sequel, and the social, political, and cultural climate of the era (including the influence of second wave feminism, loosening sexual norms, and changing representations of adolescence), as well as the explosion of interest in and the evolution of the horror genre during the decade, are all shown to have played an important part in the film's success and enduring reputation.
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Sherinian, Zoe C., and Sarah L. Morelli, eds. Music and Dance as Everyday South Asia. Oxford University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197566237.001.0001.
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Abstract This book offers an inclusive lens through which to study the music, dance, and allied arts of South Asia, its diasporas, and the people who produce and use these cultural expressions. The authors in this collection—ethnomusicologists, dance scholars, anthropologists, and practitioners—understand music and dance as everyday lived experience. “The everyday” comprises practices of South Asians in multiple countries, whose identities include numerous castes, classes, tribes, genders, sexualities, religions, nationalities, more than twenty languages, and other affiliations. With the goal to de-emphasize an approach that fetishizes analysis of classical form and its technical virtuosity, we instead contextualize the understanding of aesthetic meaning within six sets of themes: place and community; style, genre, coding, and function; intersectional identities of caste, class, and tribe; gender and sexuality; technology, media, and transmission; and diaspora and globalization. The thirty chapters in this collection demonstrate how the arts are meaningful expressions of human identities and relationships, for ordinary people as well as for virtuosic performers. Each author ties their thesis to hands-on, participatory exercises that provide multiple entryways to understand and engage with cultural meaning. In so doing, they empower classroom dialogue that draws from embodied experience as a vital mode of inquiry, supplementing critical textual analysis to cultivate attentive, responsive, and ethical dispositions vis-à-vis the music and dance practices of other humans and their life experiences.
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Flanagan, Owen. A Mirror Is for Reflection. Edited by Jake H. Davis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190499778.001.0001.
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This volume offers a snapshot of the present state of academic investigation into the nature of Buddhist ethics. Over the past decade many scholars have come to think that the project of fitting Buddhist ethical thought into Western philosophical categories may be of limited utility, and the focus of investigation has shifted in a number of new directions. Contributions to these recent investigation from many of the leading figures in the academic study of Buddhist philosophy are collected here alongside exciting new work from a number of early-career scholars. Topics include the nature of Buddhist ethics as a whole as well as the role in Buddhist ethics of karma and rebirth, mindfulness, narrative, intention, personhood, agency, free will, politics, anger, and equanimity, among other areas. The volume offers a rich and accessible introduction to contemporary work on Buddhist thought for students and scholars new to this area of philosophy, as well as chapters taking up more technical philosophical and textual topics. The contributors aim to engage Buddhist traditions in a rigorous, critical, and respectful philosophical dialogue, rather than to document these traditions as historical curiosities. The chapters of this volume stand as contributions to the emerging field of cosmopolitan philosophy, demonstrating by example why considering ethical questions such as how we ought to live, act, and train our minds from a plurality of cultural perspectives is itself an ethical imperative today.
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Wolodzko, Agnieszka. Affect as Contamination. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350333031.
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Bringing the concept of contamination into dialogue with affect theory and bioart, Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko urges us to rethink our relationship with ourselves, each other and other organisms. Thinking through the lens of contamination, this book provides an innovative approach to understanding the leaky, porous and visceral nature of our bodies and their endless interrelationships and, in doing so, uncovers new ways for thinking about embodiment. Affect theory has long been interested in transmission or contagion but, inspired by Spinoza and Deleuze, Affect as Contamination goes further, as contamination is concerned with the materiality of bodies and their affective encounter with other matter. This brings urgency to the notion of affect, not only for bioart that works with risky bodies but also for understanding how to practise our bodies in the age of biotechnological manipulation and governance. Using challenging and transgressive bioart projects as provocative case studies for rethinking affect and bodily practice, Wołodźko follows various ‘contaminants’ from blood, hormones and viruses - including COVID-19 - to food, glitter and plants. This takes the form of both personal accounts of encounters with the contaminations of bioart and critical analyses of aesthetic, material and technical objects, with each one highlighting in different ways the risky and uncertain nature of contamination. Affect as Contamination is an urgent and original meditation on just what it means to be living, and practising our bodies, in an era where biotechnology contaminates all aspects of our lives.
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Phillips, Christina. Religion in the Egyptian Novel. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417068.001.0001.
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Religion has played a major role in the Arabic novel since its inception. From the first forays into realism in the early decades of the twentieth century to the technically sophisticated and experimental works of the late 1960s to the present, the Arabic novel has consistently engaged with religious themes and issues. This book is an original, in-depth study of the intricate and enduring relationship between religion and the Arabic novel in Egypt. Part One addresses questions of form and ideology and explores the role of religion in the Arabic novel as it came of age. It examines religion in a selection of early works in the context of nation formation, modernity and secularism, and develops a concept of religion as the ‘other’, with all the tension and ambivalence that this implies. Part Two explores religious themes and subjects in the Arabic novel from the late 1960s onwards. Through close readings of representative texts, it analyses intertextual dialogues with religion (chapter 5) Sufi dimensions (chapter 6), the Coptic theme (chapter 7) and feminist literary engagements with Islam and Christianity (chapter 8) in the Arabic novel. The essential question underpinning the study is why and how is the Arabic novel, as a modern form which eschews faith and dogma, so heavily involved with religion and what does this reveal about religious, secular and novelistic discourse?
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Bedford, Joseph, ed. How is Architecture Political? Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350263093.
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Chantal Mouffe has transformed the contemporary understanding of politics through her re-reading of political theory inspired by anti-foundationalist philosophy—based on Saussure’s linguistics, Freud’s psychoanalysis and Derrida’s deconstruction. Her writings have challenged the centrist, post-political ideology of the 1990s and presciently diagnosed the emergence of right-wing populism seen today with Trump and Brexit. For Mouffe, such populism is the result of the failed centrist conception of politics reduced to technical management. She has called for a “return to politics” on the view that social antagonisms cannot be reconciled but must be channeled into an agonistic form of institutionally stabilized struggle. This book brings Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic model of politics into direct dialogue with architecture and inquiries into the role that architecture plays constructing the political order of society, either by concealing or revealing its antagonisms and ideological conflicts. In doing so, it asks in what ways architecture operates politically; whether institutionally, in terms of its spaces and its part in forming cities, or as an aesthetic object with mediatic agency. Through this detailed exchange between Mouffe and four of the world’s leading architectural thinkers; Reinhold Martin, Ines Weisman, Pier Vittorio Aureli and Sarah Whiting, a debate unfolds within the book that tests the implications of Mouffe’s agonistic model of politics for architectural practice today. Through this, Bedford explores how architectural history, architectural drawing, the making of spectacular monuments, the design and policies behind housing, and the making of public and private space, all potentially contribute to the formulation of the channeling of social conflict into an agonistic form.
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Gerolemou, Maria, Isabel Ruffell, and Tatiana Bur, eds. Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857552.001.0001.
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Abstract The desire to animate inanimate objects has been a recurring theme in European culture dating back to Greco-Roman times. This volume aims to establish, for the first time, the significance of this aspiration and its practical realization within Greek and Roman societies. While certain aspects have been explored previously, such as the role of automata in myth or their use in philosophical thought experiments, this study places technological animation as a phenomenon front and centre by examining technological devices across various media and their roles in diverse contexts. The study delves into the reciprocal relationship between technological and material realities, investigating how they influenced the concept of animation and vice versa—a cultural dialogue that has long been neglected. Foregrounding technological animation not only provides a new understanding of the processes behind animation, but also lends a fresh perspective to the discourse of the animated artifact. Whereas ancient animated artifacts are often explained away as a perceptual error induced by rhetoric, magic, theurgy or divine intervention, this study takes technological animation seriously by focussing on a subset of artificial animation produced solely through technical procedures. Together, the papers in the volume explore how various motive forces, such as water and air, pulleys, and other instruments, actively contributed to giving objects agency and impacting their viewers. Further, it examines how the material conditions of the artifacts themselves played a role in the process of technological animation, whether through the distinctive materiality of bronze or the design of a statuette’s hinge.
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Ronin, Marguerite, and Cosima Möller, eds. Instandhaltung und Renovierung von Straßen und Wasserleitungen von der Zeit der römischen Republik bis zur Spätantike. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748900269.
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Roads, bridges, aqueducts and canals are amongst the physical infrastructures that allowed Roman dominance over the Empire, while meeting economic, social and strategic needs. Due to their structural role in the management and control of a territory, they must be examined in view of the “longue durée”, which necessarily raises the issue of their regular maintenance and occasional restoration. By studying the interactions between different political and administrative authorities, but also the involvement of private individuals, be they users or riverside occupants, the papers gathered in this volume highlight the rehabilitation procedures of road and hydraulic facilities, but also the prevention strategies against potentially irreversible damages. To understand the overall legal framework, along with the technical constraints and socio-political modalities of these interventions, a multidisciplinary approach was adopted to foster the dialogue between history, archaeology and Roman law. With contributions by Cosima Möller, Marguerite Ronin: Einleitung/Introduction Johannes Michael Rainer: Die Interdikte zum Schutze von Strassen und Wasserwegen im römischen Recht Christer Bruun: Die Bedeutung der Flüsse für den Verkehr und für die ländliche Wasserversorgung nach den Ansichten der römischen Juristen und Kaiser Ignacio Czeguhn: Kontinuität von Rechtsregelungen über Fragen des Wasserrechts auf der iberischen Halbinsel Charles Davoine: La restauration des infrastructures routières dans l’Occident romain. L’apport des inscriptions Marguerite Ronin: L’entretien des réseaux d’adduction privés et la gestion du risque de pénurie dans l’Empire romain. L’apport des sources juridiques Yasmina Benferhat: Die kurzlebigen Brücken Hélène Dessales, Julie Carlut, Francesca Filocamo: L’entretien d’un aqueduc face aux risques géologiques. Le cas du Serino, Italie Laetitia Borau: Entretien et restauration des aqueducs: quels indices archéologiques? L’exemple de la Gaule romaine Nicolas Lamare: Lacum uetustate conlabsum restituere: restaurations et transformations des fontaines monumentales d’Afrique tardive Michel Tarpin: Territorialisation des corvées et de la fiscalité: le rôle des pagi dans l’entretien et l’utilisation des voies et cours d’eau
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Fraser, Kenny. Maggie’s Lanarkshire. University of Edinburgh, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ed.9781836450122.
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The project is an enclosed walled garden for the Maggie’s Centre at Lanarkshire Hospital in Airdrie. Maggie’s Centres provide the physical space for practical, emotional and social support to people with cancer, their family and friends. The garden has several distinct components comprising an entrance courtyard, a woodland garden, and a series of four small external courts which are embedded within the building plan, all of which are enclosed and linked seamlessly and cohesively to the building by a finely articulated perimeter wall of Danish bricks which also embraces two detached stands of mature lime trees. Fraser’s practice-based research over 4 years involved all stages of the design and construction of the project. It enhances knowledge associated with designing outdoor environments to improve human well-being in a cancer caring environment via design team, client and stakeholder engagement, design development and iteration. The research also establishes a model for future centres by emphasising the relationship of building and walled garden (internal and external spaces) as a cohesive overall environment in contrast to many of the earlier centres, in which building and garden remained detached from one another. The research contributes further knowledge to the delivery of projects via the technical resolution of the walled garden/hortus conclusus concept which allowed the retention of the existing mature trees despite the associated boundary wall foundations on a site with Japanese knotweed present. Both the wall and the presence of Japanese knotweed would typically require the removal of the mature trees and the dilution of the concept. The retention of these trees suggests a dialogue between them, the series of enclosed gardens and the building itself. Significance has been recognised by a wide variety of awards, reviews, publications and peer reviewed website and exhibition inclusion. The project was also shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2015.