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Goyal, Akhil. To look at the arrival of blended media in the UK educational publishing and with what success. London: LCP, 2003.
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What to do until the grownup arrives: The art and science of raising teenagers. Seattle: Hogrefe & Huber, 1993.
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H, Manhoff David, and Ohio. Dept. of Human Services, eds. Emergency medical treatment, children: A handbook of what to do in an emergency to keep a child alive until help arrives. Wilmette, IL: EMT, Inc., 1993.
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Vogel, Stephen N. Emergency medical treatment: Infants : a handbook of what to do in an emergency to keep an infant alive until help arrives. Wilmette, Ill: EMT, Inc., 1989.
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Vogel, Stephen N. Emergency medical treatment, infants: A handbook of what to do in an emergency to keep an infant alive until help arrives. Wilmette, Ill: EMT, Inc., 1989.
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Vogel, Stephen N. Emergency medical treatment: Infants, children, adults : a handbook of what to do in an emergency to keep a infant alive until help arrives. Wilmette, IL: EMT, Inc., 1993.
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Martin, Adrian. Mysteries of Cinema. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462986831.
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The major essays of the distinguished and prolific Australian-born film critic Adrian Martin have long been difficult to access, so this anthology, which collects highlights of his work in one volume, will be welcomed throughout film studies. Martin offers indepth analysis of many genres of films while providing a broad understanding of the history of cinema and the history of film criticism and culture. These vibrant, highly personal essays, written between 1982 and 2016, balance breadth across cinema theory with almost encyclopedic detail, ranging between aesthetics, cinephilia, film genre, criticism, philosophy, and cultural politics. Mysteries of Cinema circumscribes a special cultural period that began with the dream of critique as a form of poetic writing, and today arrives at collaborative experiments in audiovisual essays. Throughout these essays, Martin pursues a particular vision of what cinema has been, what it is, and what it still could be.
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Park, Joonkyu, Nicole Ms Laframboise, Yingke Zhou, and Nkunde Mwase. Revisiting Tourism Flows to the Caribbean: What Is Driving Arrivals? International Monetary Fund, 2014.
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Laframboise, Nicole. Revisiting Tourism Flows to the Caribbean: What Is Driving Arrivals? International Monetary Fund, 2014.
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Park, Joonkyu, Yingke Zhou, Nicole Laframboise, and Nkunde Mwase. Revisiting Tourism Flows to the Caribbean: What Is Driving Arrivals? International Monetary Fund, 2014.
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Smith, Martin. What a Bloody Arrival: A Wartime Story of Survival. Trans-Atlantic Publications, 1997.
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Homeopathy 911: What To Do In An Emergency Before Help Arrives: What to Do in an Emergency Before Help Arrives. Kensington, 2000.
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(Editor), Judith H. Demarest, and Edward A. Casker (Illustrator), eds. The First Minutes: What to Do Until the Ambulance Arrives. Educational Direction, 1988.
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The First Minutes: What to Do Until the Ambulance Arrives. Emergency Training, 1988.
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Myles, Lessie. Second Coming of: What Will He Do When He Arrives? Independently Published, 2019.
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New Student- Life in the UK: What You Need to Know upon Arrival. Independently Published, 2021.
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Din, Abdul Kadir, ed. Tourism research in Malaysia what, which way and so what? UUM Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789675311567.
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This collection offers a sample of contemporary works on tourism and its impact on the Malaysian environment, written by academics from a variety of perspectives. Given the growing body of literature on different aspects of the industry the coverage is by no means representative, let alone exhaustive, of the current discourse.Nonetheless the nineteen chapters cover a range of interests and concerns which have emerged as a consequence of spectacular growth in tourist arrival which currently places Malaysia as one of the most popular destinations in Asia. Recent forecast indicates that the growth trends will continue for at least another decade before the country as a destination approaches maturity.This volume would be a useful reference for students, academic and other researchers who are looking for detailed information to enable them to analyse the impacts and implications of tourism development on the host society.
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Combat First Aid What To Do Before Emergency Medical Help Arrives. Waterford Press, 2010.
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Martin, Graham R. What Drives Bird Senses? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199694532.003.0008.
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Many tasks could drive the evolution of bird sensory systems. Key candidates are flight, foraging, predator detection, and reproduction. Comparative analysis of visual fields and retinal structures shows functionally significant differences in the vision of even closely related species. These are best explained by foraging being the primary driver of vision in birds, and this is traded-off against the demands of predator detection. The key task is the control of bill position and timing its arrival at a target. This is achieved by the extraction of information from the optic flow-field which expands symmetrically about the bill when it is travelling towards a target. The provision of such flow-fields is the prime function of binocular vision. Informational demands for flight control are met within constraints determined by those for precise bill control. Other sensory capacities also appear to be driven primarily by the informational demands of foraging.
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Montes-Rojas, Gabriel, and Rafael Barroso. What are the Empirical Determinants of International Tourist Arrivals and Expenditures?: An Empirical Application to the Case of São Tomé and Príncipe. World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-9189.
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Marcus, Bernie, and Steve Gottry. Dead on Arrival: How the Anti-Business Backlash is Destroying Entrepreneurship in Americaâand What We Can Still Do About It! Collins, 2006.
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Brownlie, Michael John Stuart. On the application of tree conflict resolution algorithms to satellite channels, or what to do until the feedback arrives? 1987.
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Manhoff, David H., and Stephen N. Vogel. Emergency Medical Treatment: Children : A Handbook of What to Do in an Emergency to Keep a Child Alive Until Help Arrives. Chronimed Pub, 1991.
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Allegro, Linda, and Andrew Grant Wood. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037665.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter begins by discussing the significant growth in the increased the number of Latin American migrants to the U.S. Heartland (Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa) since the mid-1990s. While many heartlanders have welcomed the new arrivals by establishing community and religious-based initiatives and various partnerships to accommodate them, others less tolerant have crafted exclusionary and restrictive laws that have marginalized immigrants. Stalled reforms at the federal level have also obstructed nearly all legitimate, documented paths to legal residency and potential citizenship. The chapter then offers a portrait of a peoples and their encounters as they enter the United States into the early part of the twenty-first century by drawing on a selection of leading texts in the study of Latin American immigration. This is followed by a discussion of what should be done about undocumented migration and an overview of the subsequent chapters.
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Zaid, Al-Ali. Part 5 Emerging Constitutions in Islamic Countries, 5.8 Constitutional Legitimacy in Iraq: What Role Local Context? Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199759880.003.0034.
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This chapter explores how it can be that, despite the attention of international institutions and experts in a particular constitutional process, and despite the application of international norms relating to democratic processes and fundamental rights, a constitutional process can give rise to a text that is incapable of achieving acceptance within the relevant country's borders. It argues that local context is the most important factor that should be considered if a constitution is to have any chance of acquiring some form of internal legitimacy in the future. The chapter begins by defining constitutional legitimacy and by arguing that although the 2006 Constitution has been endorsed by the international community, it was essentially dead on arrival in Iraq. It presents two case studies, to explain how this situation was brought about. The first shows how the drafters' lack of understanding of Iraq's institutional context led to the collapse of its system of parliamentary oversight under the 2006 Constitution, while the second shows how the constitutional drafters (and the internationals who advised and guided the constitutional process) had misjudged the relative popularity of the parties that were allowed to control the drafting process and that dictated the final text's content. Finally, the chapter attempts define the meaning of “local context” and identify its different components, particularly with a view to encouraging greater attention and understanding of local considerations and interests by all parties involved in a constitutional process in the future.
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Manhoff, David H., and Stephen N. Vogel. Emergency Medical Treatment: Infants, Children, and Adults : A Handbook on What to Do in an Emergency to Keep Someone Alive Until Help Arrives. Beechwood Healthbooks, Inc., 1996.
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Effros, Bonnie, and Isabel Moreira, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234188.001.0001.
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The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabitants of Gaul (what now comprises France, southern Belgium, Luxembourg, Rhineland Germany and part of modern Switzerland), a mix of Gallo-Romans and Germanic arrivals under the political control of the Merovingian dynasty, sought to preserve, use, and reimagine the political, cultural, and religious power of ancient Rome while simultaneously forging the beginnings of what would become medieval European culture and identity. As a result, the Merovingian era is at the heart of historical debates about what happened to western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Yet in these centuries, the inhabitants of the Merovingian kingdoms created a culture that was the product of these traditions and achieved a balance between the world they inherited and the imaginative solutions that they bequeathed to Europe. Situated at the crossroads of Europe, connecting northern Europe with the Mediterranean and the British Isles with the Byzantine empire, Merovingian Gaul also benefitted from the global reach of the late Roman Empire. In this collection of 46 essays by scholars of Merovingian history, archaeology, and art history, we encounter the new perspectives and scientific approaches that shape our changing view of this extraordinary era.
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Gaskell, Elizabeth. Wives and Daughters. Edited by Angus Easson. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199538263.001.0001.
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Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell’s last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman’s presence he feels she lacks, but until the arrival of Cynthia, her dazzling step-sister, Molly finds her situation hard to accept. Intertwined with the story of the Gibsons is that of Squire Hamley and his two sons; as Molly grows up and falls in love she learns to judge people for what they are, not what they seem. Through Molly’s observations the hierarchies, social values, and social changes of early nineteenth-century English life are made vivid in a novel that is timeless in its representation of human relationships. This edition, the first to be based in the original Cornhill Magazine serialization of 1864–6, draws on a full collation of the manuscript to present the most accurate text so far available.
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Rondinone, Troy. The Discovery of New York. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037375.003.0006.
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This chapter details events following Gaspar's arrival in New York. In the summer of 1954, Nick Corby gave Gaspar a one-way Greyhound bus ticket and five dollars and told him they would meet up in New York City. After three long days and nights, Gaspar arrived in Manhattan. What a sight it was! He'd never seen anything even remotely like it. Long, wide corridors of concrete and glass extended out in every direction, thickly channeled with noisy, car-choked avenues. At a time when Tijuana had around 100,000 residents, Manhattan contained almost 2 million people. Gaspar got out between Eighth Avenue and Broadway and wandered around the station for thirty minutes, looking for his local contact and new trainer, Hipolito “Happy” Rodriguez. The next day, Happy took his new charge to Stillman's Gym to start his real education. Here Gaspar received the biggest shock yet. He was already scheduled to fight at what boxing fans called the Center of the Universe. He had a match in Madison Square Garden in just three weeks.
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Karanja, John. The Cultural Origins of the Anglican Church in Kenya. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199643011.003.0008.
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Adopting a grassroots approach, this chapter argues that in its response to, and appropriation of, missionary teachings, the early Anglican Church in Kenya was heavily indebted to indigenous models and experiences for its impetus, dynamism, and direction. The author’s findings are compared with related studies elsewhere in Africa, especially in Uganda, to ask why the Anglican Church in Kenya was different, and to point to what was distinctly its own. The study focuses on central Kenya because it is inhabited by a relatively homogeneous people. It discusses three elements of central Kenya’s culture that shaped its response to Christianity: its pragmatic nature, its conflict resolution mechanism, and its desire to master and exercise power. The period of study starts with the arrival of the first missionary in 1900 and ends in 1932 with the young Church having overcome its first major crisis.
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Gill, Hannah. The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina, Revised and Expanded Second Edition. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646411.001.0001.
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Now thoroughly updated and revised—with a new chapter on the Dreamer movement and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA)—this book offers North Carolinians a better understanding of their Latino neighbors, illuminating rather than enflaming debates on immigration. In the midst of a tumultuous political environment, North Carolina continues to feature significant in-migration of Mexicans and Latin Americans from both outside and inside the United States. Drawing on the voices of migrants as well as North Carolinians from communities affected by migration, Hannah Gill explains how larger social forces are causing demographic shifts, how the state is facing the challenges and opportunities presented by these changes, and how migrants experience the economic and social realities of their lives. Gill makes connections between our hometowns and the globalization of people, money, technology, and culture by shedding light on the many diverse North Carolina residents who are such a vital part of the state’s population but are often unrecognized in many ways. This book is essential for everyone, including students and teachers, who wants to understand what is at stake for all parties and wants to work toward solutions.
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Williams, Paul D. Entry. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198724544.003.0003.
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This chapter analyses the major developments during AMISOM’s first two years before the withdrawal of the Ethiopian troops from Mogadishu. The first section discusses the initial deployment challenges facing AMISOM and the problems presented by operating in Ethiopia’s shadow. The second section explains Burundi’s arrival as AMISOM’s second troop-contributing country, while the third analyses some of the ways in which AMISOM came to be seen by many local Somalis as a proxy force for nefarious foreign agendas. The fourth section then discusses the 2008 Djibouti peace process as the route by which Ethiopia managed to withdraw its forces. The fifth section discusses the opportunities and challenges presented by the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces in January 2009, while the final section examines what this meant for AMISOM being left alone to take on the leading role of protecting Somalia’s transitional government from al-Shabaab.
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Rey, Terry. The Priest, the Prophetess, and the Fall of Trou Coffy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625849.003.0007.
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“The Priest, the Prophetess, and the Fall of Trou Coffy” is the climactic chapter of this book because it reveals the nature of the relationship between the priest and the prophetess, Abbé Ouvière and Romaine-la-Prophétesse, and its illumination of events surrounding the fall of the Trou Coffy insurgency, including details on what might be called the Battle of Léogâne. Opening with an explanation of Abbé Ouvière’s enlistment as an adviser to the free colored Confederate Army and the plan he devised with them to pacify the Trou Coffy insurgents and bring them into the Confederate fold, the chapter details the priest’s trip to the prophetess’ lair and his meeting with Romaine, resulting in the treaty that placed the Virgin Mary’s godson in control over Léogane. It concludes with an analysis of a French commander’s arrival with troops to retake the occupied city and eventually defeat the Trou Coffy insurgency.
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Regalado, Samuel O. Transplanted Cherries. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037351.003.0003.
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This chapter documents the formative years of the Japanese in the United States, as well as the initial pioneers of Nikkei who came to prominence during this time. Though many would travel to the United States with optimism on their minds and baseball in their hearts, all of their optimism could not overshadow the depths of resentment Asians faced upon their arrival to North America. Among the many challenges this first generation (Issei) of immigrants faced, the Immigration Act of 1924 proved to be one of the direst. While depleting the Issei of what little rights they had, the Immigration Act also hastened the need to properly train their offspring, the Nisei, to understand and appreciate the trappings of their generation. Yet the Issei in many ways continued to thrive, and there are many among the first and second generations who continue to love baseball.
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Paxman, Andrew. Coming of Age in Tennessee. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190455743.003.0002.
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In 1890s Tennessee, Jenkins came of age in Bedford County, with its small farms and benign race relations, while his future bride Mary Street grew up in neighboring Lincoln County, a place of plantations and social rigidities. This contrast helps explain the Street family’s disdain for Jenkins, whose origins were modest, and it foreshadows the tensions that would fester between William and Mary in Mexico, where he would readily adapt but she would not. This chapter traces the Jenkins family history, from their arrival in Tennessee to William’s adolescence, including what he likely learned about Mexico. Jenkins won a scholarship to Vanderbilt University but dropped out to elope with Mary after her guardians threatened to send her away “for her health.” From San Antonio they visited Monterrey, where they heard that Mexico was a land of opportunity. It was 1901, and Jenkins would never again live in the United States.
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Horne, Gerald. Black Chicago. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037924.003.0006.
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This chapter examines Patterson's arrival in Chicago. After operating semiclandestinely in Europe and coordinating the Scottsboro campaign, being deployed to Chicago almost seemed like a demotion for Patterson. Surely, the Second City was no backwater, and given its steel mills teeming with proletarians, it was more eye-catching for a self-respecting Marxist-Leninist than a relatively less-endowed Manhattan. Still, the abjectly horrible conditions faced by the Negro working class—including many abodes bereft of water or even toilets—were suggestive of the fact that there was much work to do. Indeed, Patterson was dumbfounded by what he found in black Chicago: 60 percent of Negroes were unemployed, which was “reflected in the terribly dilapidated houses, the crowded kitchenettes, the gambling and vice.” Thus, he said, “We need scores of housing projects that exceed the Ida B. Wells project in scope and in provision” since “the Negro ghetto is an eyesore to democracy.”
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Carr, James Revell. “Lascivious Gestures” and “Festive Sports”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038600.003.0002.
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This chapter examines the first musical encounters between Hawaiians and Euro-American sailors, beginning with the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1778. It explains early European and American visions of what Cook called “The Sandwich Islands,” and demonstrates that modern stereotypes of Hawaiian culture had their genesis in the stories of paradise on earth brought back to Europe and the United States by sailors. It shows how Hawaiians used music and dance as a conscious strategy for pacifying and disseminating information about the potentially violent foreigners. The chapter concludes with stories of the earliest recorded performances of hula in North America: in 1792, when two young Hawaiian women traveling with Captain George Vancouver performed at the home of the governor of Alta California in Monterey; and in 1802, when Hawaiian seamen working aboard American ships performed at the Park Theatre in New York and the Federal Street Theatre in Boston in productions of the popular pantomime The Death of Captain Cook.
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Lower, Michael. The Diversion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744320.003.0004.
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In July 1269, King Louis IX of France was planning a campaign in Egypt or the Holy Land. One year later, his fleet landed on Sardinia, and in a war council held on July 13 Louis declared Tunis the target of the crusade. What happened between July 1269 and July 1270 to send the expedition in this unexpected direction is shrouded in secrecy. By expanding the narrative to incorporate Mediterranean‐wide networks of interaction, this chapter identifies several key turning points: the visit of the Dominican linguist Ramon Martí to Tunis in 1269; the attendance of Tunisian envoys at the baptismal ceremony of a French Jew at Saint‐Denis in October; the arrival of a Mongol embassy in Paris toward the end of the year; and the dispatch of an Angevin envoy to Tunis the following April, a month after Louis had lifted the oriflamme at Saint Denis to launch the campaign.
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Sorensen, Eli Park. Science Fiction Film. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474481847.001.0001.
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Opening a debate about the political dimension of science fiction films, this book uses Carl Schmitt’s thought to provide a new theoretical approach to American cinematic sci-fi since the late 1970s. Drawing on Schmitt’s notion of the state of exception and its basis in the unpredictability of tomorrow, the book looks at the political ramifications when the moment of the future finally arrives. Analyzing films such as Alien, Blade Runner and Minority Report, the book explores how power reconfigures itself to ensure the survival of the state, what ‘society’ means, who ‘we, the people’ are, and whether it will still be possible to retain a sphere of liberal, individual rights after the transformative event of the future.
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Donato, Gerson. Pompa e circunstância. Brazil Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-084-7.
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The following work tries to disclose the obscure happening of 1926 in the city of São Paulo. Obscure because it vanished from the annals of History, but very argued by São Paulo’s newspapers and magazines of the period. There would be two presentations in Teatro Municipal which ended up, because of the success with the public, having two more performances with popular prices. The theatrical show had the purpose of raising funds to build a women’s school, from the Liga das Senhoras Católicas. To write the text the poet and writer Paulo Setúbal was invited, he never published this work and it is not even mentioned in his previous works published for decades by a São Paulo’s publisher. The cast consisted of amateur “actors”, members of São Paulo’s elite, carrying traditional family’s names from the city and some new ones, who had migrants’ surnames. The play is about a party that happens in Paço de São Cristóvão, where the guests talk to the birthday “girl”, the empress, and altogether remember the facts that led them to independence, while waiting for D. Pedro I’s arrival. What is intended from this praise? Glorify the empress? Glorify D. Pedro I’s role? And therefore, glorify the Empire? What was this republican elite intending?
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LaRoche, Cheryl Janifer. Lick Creek, Indiana. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038044.003.0004.
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This chapter examines the relationship of Quakers and free Blacks in Lick Creek to the Underground Railroad. The Lick Creek settlement once existed in the southeast corner of Paoli Township, Orange County, in southern Indiana. In 1817, freeborn African Americans came to the area and purchased land in what later became the Lick Creek settlement. Blacks also came accompanying Quakers fleeing persecution in North Carolina. With the opening of frontier lands for settlement, free Blacks, encouraged by the antislavery provisions of the Northwest Ordinance, joined the country's westward passage to the Northwest Territory. This chapter first provides a background on Quakers and free Blacks at Lick Creek before focusing on William Paul Quinn's arrival in Indiana, where he built AME churches that became an important focal point of the Lick Creek community. It then considers the antislavery efforts of free Blacks, Quakers, and citizens of conscience working on the Underground Railroad on behalf of escaped slaves. It also discusses the participation of Indiana's Blacks in the Civil War.
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Parry, Jonathan. Promised Lands. Princeton University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691181899.001.0001.
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Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia. It forced the British Empire to try to secure the two routes that a European might use to reach the subcontinent—through Egypt and the Red Sea, and through Baghdad and the Persian Gulf. This book is a panoramic history of this vibrant and explosive age. Charting the development of Britain's political interest in the Middle East from the Napoleonic Wars to the Crimean War in the 1850s, the book examines the various strategies employed by British and Indian officials, describing how they sought influence with local Arabs, Mamluks, Kurds, Christians, and Jews. The book tells a story of commercial and naval power—boosted by the arrival of steamships in the 1830s—and discusses how classical and biblical history fed into British visions of what these lands might become. The region was subject to the Ottoman Empire, yet the sultan's grip on it appeared weak. Should Ottoman claims to sovereignty be recognised and exploited, or ignored and opposed? Could the Sultan's government be made to support British objectives, or would it always favour France or Russia? The book shows how what started as a geopolitical contest became a drama about diplomatic competition, religion, race, and the unforeseen consequences of history.
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Wodziński, Marcin. Leadership. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190631260.003.0003.
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This chapter attempts to add yet another perspective to the already extensive scholarship on the tsadikim, which has been based so far mainly on elitist, rabbinical sources of a normative, rather than a descriptive, nature. It asks what simple pilgrims expected to achieve from their visits to a Hasidic court and how they expressed it. By analyzing a mass source of popular petitions brought to one Hasidic leader by thousands of his followers, the chapter arrives at the conclusion that the simple pilgrims expected from the tsadik mainly intervention in the matters of health, income, and family matters, most typically connected to fertility and business problems. It also shows inroads of a modernizing vision of the world in the way the image of the tsadik and his powers were constructed in the petitions.
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Wagenaar, Hendrik, Helga Amesberger, and Sietske Altink. Understanding the policy field: migration, prostitution, trafficking and exploitation. Policy Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447324249.003.0005.
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Chapter Five proceeds from to the transnational character of prostitution and situates it in an analysis of labour migration and labour exploitation. Instead of projecting on the migrant sex worker the collective images that are driven by radical feminist and anti-immigrant ideology, we argue that is it more effective to take seriously what the sex workers told us over and over again: that the migrant sex worker’s self-understanding of prostitution is work, a discerning occupational choice in a situation in which thousands of female migrants find themselves worldwide. This reframing of prostitution as a legitimate occupation draws attention to the continuity of the situation of sex workers with that of other migrant groups, to the exploitative labour arrangements these new migrants encounter in the arrival country, to the third parties they mobilise to find housing and a work place and navigate immigration law, and to the negative effects – usually a breach of the human rights of (migrant) sex workers-of the very laws and regulations that are intended to support them. The authors explore six positive effects on prostitution policy by adopting a labour exploitation framework.
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O'Connor, Kevin C. The House of Hemp and Butter. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501747687.001.0001.
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Founded as an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state, Riga was Old Livonia's greatest city and its indispensable port. Because the city was situated in what was initially remote and inhospitable territory, surrounded by pagans and coveted by regional powers like Poland, Sweden, and Muscovy, it was also a fortress encased by a wall. This book begins in the twelfth century with the arrival to the eastern Baltic of German priests, traders, and knights, who conquered and converted the indigenous tribes and assumed mastery over their lands. It ends in 1710 with an account of the greatest war Livonia had ever seen, one that was accompanied by mass starvation, a terrible epidemic, and a flood of nearly Biblical proportions that devastated the city and left its survivors in misery. Readers will learn about Riga's people—merchants and clerics, craftsmen and builders, porters and day laborers—about its structures and spaces, its internal conflicts and its unrelenting struggle to maintain its independence against outside threats. The book is an indispensable guide to a quintessentially European city located in one of the continent's more remote corners.
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Flais, Shelly Vaziri. Raising Twins: From Pregnancy to Preschool. American Academy of Pediatrics, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/9781581105384.
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Sage advice from a pediatrician mom of twin boys! Offers tips and strategies for surviving (and enjoying!) the first few years of twins' lives. Even with years working as a pediatrician, Shelly Vaziri Flais, MD, FAAP, was nervous about what lay ahead when she was told she was pregnant with twins. Now, several years into parenting her twin boys, Dr Flais is sharing her wisdom and experience as a mom and her expertise as a doctor to help other parents prepare for and raise multiples with confidence. With insightful stories from her own experiences coupled with important information only a pediatrician can offer, Raising Twins will help parents - Prepare for the arrival of their twins - Survive the first few days and weeks with advice on sleep schedules, feeding choices, and finding support - Develop strategies to help successfully manage (and enjoy!) the first year of their twins' lives - Negotiate the toddler years, including potty training, language development, big-kid beds, budgets, and discipline - Understand the world of their twins as they become preschoolers, including socialization inside and outside the family, encouraging individualism, discipline and sleep issues.
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Butt, Gavin. No Machos or Pop Stars. Duke University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478023234.
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After punk’s arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to the Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these artists-turned-musicians challenged the limits of what was deemed possible in rock and pop music. Taking avant-garde ideas to the record-buying public, they created Situationist antirock and art punk, penned deconstructed pop ditties about Jacques Derrida, and took the aesthetics of collage and shock to dark, brooding electro-dance music. In No Machos or Pop Stars Gavin Butt tells the fascinating story of the post-punk scene in Leeds, showing how England’s state-funded education policy brought together art students from different social classes to create a fertile ground for musical experimentation. Drawing on extensive interviews with band members, their associates, and teachers, Butt details the groups who wanted to dismantle both art world and music industry hierarchies by making it possible to dance to their art. Their stories reveal the subversive influence of art school in a regional music scene of lasting international significance.
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Brontë, Charlotte, and Juliette Atkinson. Jane Eyre. Edited by Margaret Smith. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198804970.001.0001.
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Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!’ Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of Jane’s new life at Thornfield Hall is broken up by the arrival of her peculiar and changeful employer, Mr Rochester. Routine at the mansion is further disrupted by mysterious incidents that draw the pair closer together but which, once explained, threaten Jane’s happiness and integrity. A flagship of Victorian fiction, Jane Eyre draws the reader in by the vigour of Jane’s voice and the novel’s forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion. The emotional charge of Jane’s story is as strong today as it was more than 150 years ago, as she seeks dignity and freedom on her own terms. In this new edition, Juliette Atkinson explores the power of narrative voice and looks at the striking physicality of the novel, which is both shocking and romantic.
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Turner, Peter. The Blair Witch Project. Liverpool University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906733841.001.0001.
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Few films have had the influence and impact of The Blair Witch Project (1999). Its arrival was a horror cinema palette cleanser after a decade of serial killers and postmodern intertextuality, a bare bones ‘found footage’ trendsetter. The Blair Witch Project was the tenth biggest box office earner of 1999. Even with strong competition in the horror genre, the film managed to stand out from the rest. It was arguably a product of its time more than any other film of the 1990s, heralding the advent of digital filmmaking. Backed up by an internet marketing campaign, The Blair Witch Project became a glowing example of what could be achieved with cheap emerging technology, imagination, and a ‘less is more’ approach. By the year 2000, and due to the influx of digital video cameras, there were far more independent features being made than ever before. This book explores the aesthetics of The Blair Witch Project, how identification is encouraged in the film, and the way it successfully creates fear in contemporary audiences. The book tells the story of the film from his conception and production, and then provides a unique analysis of the techniques used, their appeal to audiences and the themes that helped make the film such an international hit, including the pioneering internet marketing.
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Durham, William H. Exuberant Life. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197531518.001.0001.
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Why is Galápagos so endlessly fascinating, whether to read about, to visit, or both? Reasons include its menagerie of truly unusual organisms (like tree daisies, marine iguanas, and flightless cormorants), its relatively low human impact (most of its endemic biodiversity is still extant), and its unrivalled role in the history of science ever since Charles Darwin. Exuberant Life offers a contemporary synthesis of what is known about the evolution of the curiously wonderful organisms of Galápagos, of how they are faring in the tumultuous world of human-induced change, and how evolution can guide efforts today for their conservation. In eight case-study chapters, the book looks at each organism’s ancestry, at how and when it came to Galápagos, and how and why it changed since its arrival, all with an eye to its conservation today. Such analysis often provides surprises and suggestions not previously considered, like the potential benefits to joint conservation efforts with tree daisies and tree finches, for example, or ways that a new explanation for peculiar behaviors in Nazca and blue-footed boobies can benefit both species today. In each chapter, a social-ecological systems framework is used, because human influence is always present, and because it allows an explicit link to evolution. We see how the evolutionary fitnesses of Galápagos organisms are now a product of both ecological conditions and human impact, including climate change. Historically, Galápagos has played a central role in the understanding of evolution; what it now offers to teach us about conservation may well prove indispensable for the future of the planet.