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University of Notre Dame Press Óscar Romero and Catholic Social Teaching
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John Wiley & Sons Reading Time The Literate Lives of Urban Secondary Students and Their Families
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Pennsylvania State University Press All About Process The Theory and Discourse of
Book SynopsisA study of the concept of artistic process in the Western tradition of the visual arts. Focuses on modern and contemporary art and analyzes the development of process as a discourse that increasingly locates the primary value of art in the artist’s creative labor. Trade Review“This book is essential for libraries supporting graduate programs in art history or curatorial studies and is recommended for schools of art and design.”—Ian McDermott ARLIS/NA Reviews“This is an elegant, clear text that will serve as an excellent primer for anyone interested in the histories of thinking about making and the artistic process. Art students as well as students of aesthetics and history of art will benefit from its careful, thoughtful synthesis of an array of complex, foundational texts pertaining to the theme of ‘process’ and making.”—Jo Applin,author of Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field“All About Process brings a wealth of art-historical knowledge and perceptive theoretical insight to analyze the crucial but elusive concept of artistic process and makes a powerful argument for its importance, not simply as an indispensable tool for creating more interesting art objects but as part of the essence of art itself. Kim Grant’s book provides a welcome resource for resisting the forces of commodification while closing the gap between art and life.”—Richard Shusterman,author of Thinking Through the Body: Essays in SomaestheticsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Process as ValueChapter One: Conceptualizing the Artist’s Labor Prior to the 19th CenturyChapter Two: Art, Craft, and Industrialization Nineteenth Century Philosophical and Theoretical Views of the Artist’s Process The Arts and Crafts Movement and Artistic Process Photography and Artistic ProcessChapter Three: The Artist’s Process from the Academic to the ModernChapter Four: New Conceptions of the Artist’s Process The Artist’s Labor in Time -- Series and Stages Modern Art and Industrial Processes – Purism Physicality and Matter – The Modern Artistic Process and the Artist’s MediumChapter Five: The Artist’s Process as a Means of Self-RealizationChapter Six: The Artist’s Process at Mid-Century Artistic Process and Amateur Artists Changes in Artists’ EducationChapter Seven: Art and Social ProcessesChapter Eight: Process Art Systems Aesthetics, Series, and Conceptualism The Artist’s Work and the Artist’s Role Process Art and Craft Artists’ Education and Process after 1960Chapter Nine: It’s All about the ProcessNotesBibliographyIndex
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Pennsylvania State University Press Titians Icons
Book SynopsisA reexamination of the career of Titian, the only Renaissance artist credited by contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image. Argues that a major part of the artist's legacy is to be found in his charismatic entrance into the tradition of Christian icon painting.Trade Review“An erudite study of Titian’s small-format paintings of biblical subjects. Through a careful analysis of this group of paintings, and with particular attention to the early modern conflicts between the traditions of devotional images and theorizations of art, Nygren’s book revises our understanding of Titian’s position in the history of early modern sacred art.”—Jodi Cranston,author of Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice“This searching and lucid study tactfully sets Titian’s art into contexts of Christian devotional traditions and reform thought, not to dress the artist in pious robes but to reveal Titian’s blazing pictorial intelligence at work at the very foundations of religious art.”—Alexander Nagel,author of Medieval Modern: Art Out of Time“In this groundbreaking investigation of Titian’s understudied small-scale religious paintings, Christopher Nygren convincingly demonstrates in his rich and erudite analysis that these were high-stakes painterly performances that prompted—even scripted—certain devotional responses from their sophisticated beholders. Provocatively referring to these polyvalent paintings as ‘icons,’ Nygren aligns Titian’s art with early modern understandings about miraculous agency, votive petition, vibrant matter, and spiritual comportment.”—Megan Holmes,author of The Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence“This book deserves careful attention. It is as much a history of religion in Titian's time as it is a history of his paintings—specifically those that Nygren . . . calls icons, i.e., small, devotional, nontheatrical paintings with a tight focus on one or very few figures.”—J. T. Paoletti Choice“With its penetrating visual analysis and carefully conceived theoretical structure, this book makes a significant and innovative contribution not only to the field of Titian studies, but more broadly to the study of premodern visual culture.”—Giorgio Tagliaferro Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Titian, Charismatic Painter1. Icons and Agency: The San Rocco Christ Carrying the Cross2. Icons and Exegesis in Ferrara: Christ with the Coin and Judith/Salome3. Erasmian Icons: Visualizing the Philosophia Christi4. Icons and Community: Rome and the Network of Ecce Homos5. Rupestrian Icons: Ecce Homo on Slate, Mater Dolorosa on Marble, and the Matter of Devotion6. Explicit Icons: Historicity Between Tradition and Self7. The Twilight of the Icon? Titian’s Pietà in the Gallerie dell’AccademiaEpilogueNotesBibliographIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Professional Capital Transforming Teaching in Every School
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Penn State University The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity 18301937
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Pennsylvania State University Press Aromas of Asia Exchanges Histories Threats
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring the interconnections and disjunctures in Asian cultural histories of scent. Examines how scent functions as a category of social and moral boundary-marking and boundary-breaching within, between, and beyond Asian societies.Trade Review“Aromas of Asia is very much at the cutting edge of the field. Many books on smell engage in a battle with the straw man of ‘smell-as-neglected’ and ‘the West as ocular-centric.’ This book has moved way beyond such simplicities, and through its varied methodologies and diverse topics we emerge with a number of fresh perspectives on smell in Asia.”—James McHugh,author of Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and CultureTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Scents, Sensory Colonialism, and Social Worlds in AsiaGwyn McClelland and Hannah GouldPart I: Poetics and Philosophies1. On a Trail of Incense: Japan and Olfactory ThoughtLorenzo Marinucci2. The Shifting Smellscape of Early Medieval China: Emperor Wu’s Strange AromaticsPeter Romaskiewicz3. The Poetics of Incense in the Lives of Medieval Chinese OfficialsQian JiaPart II: Making Sensory Boundaries4. A Whiff of Southeast Asia: Tasting Durian and KopiGaik Cheng Khoo and Jean Duruz5. The Aroma of a Place in the Sunshine: Breathing in Japanese History Through the Fiction of Endō ShūsakuGwyn McClelland6. Words That Smell: Caste and Odors in Hindi Dalit AutobiographiesShivani Kapoor7. Love Is in the Air: A Study of Johnnie To’s Blind DetectiveAubrey TangPart III: Bodies–Life, Work, Death8. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Smell of Vulnerability in Lombok, IndonesiaSaki Tanada9. Harnessing the Stenches of Waste: Human Bodies as Olfactory Environmental Sensors in Contemporary ChinaAdam Liebman10. The Smell of a Corpse: Olfactory Culture in a Singaporean Funeral ParlorRuth E. ToulsonList of ContributorsIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Creating Solidarity Across Diverse Communities International Perspectives in Education
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Pennsylvania State University Press Actors Carved and Cast Netherlandish Sculpture
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Penn State University Speaking Words of Wisdom
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John Wiley & Sons Teachers Without Borders The Hidden Consequences of International Teachers in U.S. Schools
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University of Texas Press They Die Strangers
Book SynopsisA novella and thirteen short stories by this distinguished Yemeni writer, dealing with the common experiences of Yemenis like himself who are caught between cultures by the displacements of civil war or labor migration.Table of Contents Introduction The Land, Salma The Road to Asmara The Slap The Color of Rain The Saturday Market The Last Class Abu Rupee Nothing New Ya Khabiir A Woman China Road The Ghoul Brother, Are You Going to Fight Them All? They Die Strangers
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John Wiley & Sons Early Childhood Education for a New Era Leading for Our Profession
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University of Texas Press The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to
Book SynopsisThe first full-length treatment of the emergence of the modern Berber identity movement in North Africa and the Berber diaspora, the challenges it poses to Moroccan and Algerian authorities and to competing Islamist movements, and their responses to it.Trade ReviewA rich historical analysis of the origins of Berber identity, the domination of Berbers by successive colonial rules, and the current struggles of Berber movements for recognition by North African states. * The Eurasia Review *Table of Contents Note on Transcription and Terminology Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Entering History Chapter One. Origins and Conquests: Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, Arabia Chapter Two. The Colonial Era Part II. Independence, Marginalization, and Berber Reimagining Chapter Three. Morocco and Algeria: State Consolidation and Berber "Otherness" Chapter Four. Algerian Strife, Moroccan Homeopathy, and the Emergence of the Amazigh Movement Part III. Reentering History in the New Millennium Chapter Five. Berber Identity and the International Arena Chapter Six. Mohamed VI's Morocco and the Amazigh Movement Chapter Seven. Bouteflika's Algeria and Kabyle Alienation Conclusion: Whither the State, Whither the Berbers? Notes Sources Index
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University of Texas Press The Photographs of Lewis Carroll
Book SynopsisWith nearly 1,000 images, many never before published, this catalogue raisonné presents and describes every surviving photograph taken by Lewis Carroll and confirms his stature as one of the most important amateur photographers of the Victorian era and thTable of Contents Foreword by Elisabeth Mead Acknowledgments Introduction. "Mystic, Awful Was the Process": Charles L. Dodgson, Victorian Photographer Collection Abbreviations and Short Titles Catalogue Raisonné Appendices The Life of C. L. Dodgson: A Chronology Surviving Glass-Plate Negatives Photograph Albums and Handwritten Lists of Contents Cabinet Card Sets Nude Studies C. L. Dodgson and Contemporary Photographers Selected Bibliography Index
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John Wiley & Sons The States of Child Care Building a Better System
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University of Texas Press Speech Genres and Other Late Essays
Book SynopsisSpeech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin''s Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin''s extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in Bakhtin''s later years and thus they bear the stamp of a thinker who has accumulated a huge storehouse of factual material, to which he has devoted a lifetime of analysis, reflection, and reconsideration.Trade Review. . . in many ways the best of Bakhtin. * New York Times Book Review *Table of Contents Note on Translation Introduction by Michael Holquist Response to a Question from the Novy Mir Editorial Staff The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism (Toward a Historical Typology of the Novel) The Problem of Speech Genres The Problem of the Text in Linguistics, Philology, and the Human Sciences: An Experiment in Philosophical Analysis From Notes Made in 1970-71 Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences Index
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University of Wisconsin Press Understanding and Teaching Native American
Book SynopsisWhile the past three decades have seen burgeoning scholarship in Indigenous studies, comparatively little of that has trickled into classrooms. This volume is designed to help teachers effectively integrate Indigenous history and culture into their lessons, providing richly researched content and resources.Table of Contents Introduction Part One: Reflections on Teaching Native American History Chapter One: Learning to Teach Indian History: A Memoir By Theda Perdue Chapter Two: Teaching American Indian History Using the Medicine Way By Donald Fixico Chapter Three: Transnational History and Deep Time: Reflections on Teaching Indigenous History from Australia By Ann McGrath Chapter Four: Being There: Experiential Learning by Living Native American History By Bernard Perley Chapter Five: čwÈ·ˀn neyękwaˀnawèrih: Reflections on Teaching Indigenous History from a Native Student By Taylor Hummel Part Two: Reflections on Invasions, Epidemics, War and Genocide Chapter Six: Before Columbus: Native American History, Archeology, and Resources By Maureen Meyers Chapter Seven: Teaching and Understanding Genocide in Native America By Gray Whaley Chapter Eight: The “Virgin” Soil Thesis Cover-Up: Teaching Indigenous Demographic Collapse By Tai S. Edwards Chapter Nine: Teaching Indian Wars By Mark van de Logt Part Three: Essential Topics in Native American History Chapter Ten: Teaching Indian Slavery: From First Slaves to Early Abolitionists in Four Myths By Denise I. Bossy Chapter Eleven: Teaching the American Revolution from Indian Country By Charles W. Prior Chapter Twelve: Teaching the Broad and Relevant History of American Indian Removal By John Bowes Chapter Thirteen: Teaching and Understanding the History of Allotment By Rose Stremlau Chapter Fourteen: Teaching Federal Indian Law through Literature By N. Bruce Duthu Chapter Fifteen: Nation-to-Nation: Understanding Treaties and Sovereignty By Margaret Huettl Chapter Sixteen: Teaching Indigenous Environmental History By Paul Kelton and James Rice Part Four: Reflections on Identity and Cultural Appropriation Chapter Seventeen: An Appropriate Past: Seminole Indians, Osceola, and Florida State University By Andrew K. Frank Chapter Eighteen: Looking Past the Racial Classification System: Teaching Southeastern Native Survival Using the Peoplehood Model By Marvin Richardson Chapter Nineteen: Teaching Native American Religions and Philosophies in the Classroom By Brady DeSanti Chapter Twenty: Sustenance as Culture and Tradition: Teaching About Indigenous Foodways By Devon A. Mihesuah Chapter Twenty-One: Native American Art 101 By Nancy Marie Mithlo
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John Wiley & Sons First Freire Early Writings in Social Justice Education
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University of California Press Racial Uncertainties Mexican Americans School
Book SynopsisMexican American racial uncertainty has long been a defining feature of US racial understanding. Were Mexican Americans white or nonwhite? In the postcivil rights period, this racial uncertainty took on new meaning as the courts, the federal bureaucracy, local school officials, parents, and community activists sought to turn Mexican American racial identity to their own benefit. This is the first book that examines the pivotal 1973 Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1 Supreme Court ruling, and how debates over Mexican Americans' racial position helped reinforce the emerging tropes of colorblind racial ideology. In the postcivil rights era, when overt racism was no longer socially acceptable, anti-integration voices utilized the indeterminacy of Mexican American racial identity to frame their opposition to school desegregation. That some Mexican Americans adopted these tropes only reinforced the strength of colorblindness in battles against civil rights in the 1970s.Trade Review"This is an important book, and educational, civil rights, and Texas historians will find much within to appreciate and discuss." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Racial Uncertainties explains how racial and ethnic identities are both time and space specific but also how the law works to cement our understanding of identity and eliminate the possibility for fluidity." * The Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • (Un)making Mexican American Racial Identity, 1848–1964 2 • Racial Migrations: The Mile High City in Transition, 1945–1969 3 • Public Schools in Denver’s Racialized Urban Geography 4 • Becoming Minority under the Law 5 • “Not White, Yet Not, in the Old-Style Parlance, ‘Colored’ ” 6 • “American,” Not “Minority”: Mexican Americans and Colorblindness Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Pious Labor
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John Wiley & Sons How to Innovate The Essential Guide for Fearless School Leaders
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Harvard Department of the Classics The Cambridge Songs Carmina Cantabrigiensia
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Songs is the most important anthology of songs from before the thirteenth-century Carmina Burana. It contains panegyrics and dirges, political poems, comic tales, religious and didactic poems, and poetry of spring and love. This edition includes a substantial introduction, the Latin texts and English prose, and extensive commentary.
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Princeton University Press Scorched Earth
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] sweeping history. . . . Kreike offers a stark corrective and an implicit warning: Humanity is not distinct from nature, and assuming it is can have tragic outcomes. Climate change is one; pandemics are another. In this book, catastrophic warfare is a third. Waiting for the fourth horseman would seem unwise."---Tatiana Schlossberg, New York Times Book Review"Waging war against the Earth is an old business, and this book provides ample—and dispiriting—evidence for it." * Kirkus Reviews *"Might this be the most important topic that most smart, very well educated people have never read a book on? [This] treatment is excellent and engaging."---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"Overall then, Scorched Earth is a thoroughly researched academic book that sits at the intersection of military history and environmental history and especially delivers for readers of the former. A fascinating topic that is by no means light reading."---Leon Vlieger, Inquisitive Biologist"[A] powerful statement of what people often fail to see amid the horrors of war." * Choice Reviews *
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John Wiley & Sons UnLearning Disability Recognizing and Changing Restrictive Views of Student Ability
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Princeton University Press Political Economy for Public Policy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The core of this book is a collection of intellectual theories and mathematical models that ignore many key elements of the modern political process. Abstract models can tell little about the role lobbyists play in shoveling millions of dollars into political campaigns. To his credit, Bueno de Mesquita does an excellent job of explaining these models, which play an important role in political policy today."--ChoiceTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Summary of Contents, pg. vii*Policy Applications, pg. xvii*Preface, pg. xix*Introduction, pg. 1*1. Normative Frameworks, pg. 11*2. Collective Goals, pg. 51*3. Pareto Concepts, pg. 74*Summing Up Normative Foundations, pg. 95*4. Externalities, pg. 97*5. Coordination Problems, pg. 150*6. Commitment Problems, pg. 173*Summing Up Social Dilemmas, pg. 191*7. Strategic Adjustment, pg. 193*8. Dynamic Inconsistency, pg. 218*9. The Need for Information, pg. 244*10. Influence over Elected Officials, pg. 282*11. Institutions, Incentives, and Power, pg. 305*Summing Up Constraints on Good Governance, pg. 328*Concluding Reflections on Politics and Policy, pg. 331*A. Utility, Strategic-Form Games, and Nash Equilibrium, pg. 335*B. Extensive-Form Games, pg. 362*Bibliography, pg. 385*Index of Referenced Authors, pg. 393*General Index, pg. 396
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Princeton University Press Iran Rising The Survival and Future of the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of 20 essential books about the Middle East, compiled by the Middle Eastern Studies community at Anhui University in central China""[A] lucid exposition of the Islamic Republic’s two main ideological and policy axes: the jihadists, embodied by the country’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and the ijtihadists, the more flexible and rational pragmatists, two of whom, Mohammad Khatami and Hassan Rouhani, have been elected president."---John Waterbury, Foreign Affairs"A welcome and discerning primer. . . . It should be studied carefully by all students of Middle Eastern politics and especially by diplomats, military leaders, and political decision-makers who wish to rectify or avoid repeating the current flawed policies toward the Islamic Republic of Iran."---Robert L. Tignor, Michigan War Studies Review"Scholarly portrait of a nation that resists easy categorization—and containment. . . . Useful reading for students of contemporary geopolitics, in which Iran has proven a constant, often destabilizing presence." * Kirkus *"Saikal . . . offers a critical but not unsympathetic perspective on the ‘unique and multi-dimensional, and at times tragic, theopolitical story’ of Iran. . . . Saikal’s convincing bottom line is that open confrontation with Iran is unwise and unlikely to be productive, whereas a policy of careful engagement, while risky, could enable progress on the margins. The author’s careful, analytic approach privileges trade statistics and governmental communiqués over stories of human interest; as such, this is for readers who seek an understanding of strategic considerations, rather than a sense of what daily life is like for the Iranian population." * Publishers Weekly *"Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic is a clearly written, well-researched, and scholarly work that will be of benefit to anyone with a genuine interest in this strong and influential nation."---Robert Fantina, New York Journal of Books"Iran Rising is well written, laid out in a logical format, and well sourced with citations. It is an excellent primer on the country of Iran and offers a look behind the curtain on how the Iranian government is organized and administered. The book also illustrates the multifaceted nature of the elements of national power and that nothing is ever as simple as it seems. I highly recommend this book for all military and nonmilitary audiences because of its insight into one of the lesser understood countries that has been a thorn in the side of the United States for over forty years."---George Hodge, Military Review
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John Wiley & Sons Diving in Bill Ayers and the Art of Teaching Into the Contradiction
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Princeton University Press Pagans and Philosophers
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "[An] excellent book... If Marenbon leaves a stone unturned ... I didn't notice it... [He] builds a powerful case."--Peter Adamson, Times Literary Supplement "Fascinating ... Marenbon constantly cuts across the standard discussions at a fresh angle, bringing new connections to light."---Noel Malcolm, Standpoint "This reviewer has been waiting for this book for a long time... [Pagans and Philosophers] is fascinating, exciting, compelling, and well worth the wait."--Choice "Overall this is a magnificent study in the history of ideas, executed with great lucidity and exemplary scholarship."--John Cottingham, The Tablet "Beautifully written, highly interesting (never dry or dull), and deserves a wide readership. It is enthusiastically recommended."--Carole M. Cusack, SpeculumTable of ContentsPreface ix A Note on References and Citations xi Introduction: The Problem of Paganism 1 Part I: The Problem Takes Shape Chapter 1 Prelude: Before Augustine 19 Chapter 2 Augustine 23 Chapter 3 Boethius 42 Part II: From Alcuin to Langland Chapter 4 The Early Middle Ages and the Christianization of Europe 57 Chapter 5 Abelard 73 Chapter 6 John of Salisbury and the Encyclopaedic Tradition 95 Chapter 7 Arabi, Mongolia and Beyond: Contemporary Pagans in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 109 Chapter 8 Aristotelian Wisdom: Unity, Rejection or Relativism 127 Chapter 9 University Theologians on Pagan Virtue and Salvation 160 Chapter 10 Dante and Boccaccio 188 Chapter 11 Langland and Chaucer 214 Part III: The Continuity of the Problem of Paganism, 1400-1700 Chapter 12 Pagan Knowledge, 1400-1700 235 Chapter 13 Pagan Virtue, 1400-1700 263 Chapter 14 The Salvation of Pagans, 1400-1700 281 Epilogue: Leibniz and China 301 General Conclusion 304 Bibliography 307 Index 339
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Princeton University Press Taxing the Rich A History of Fiscal Fairness in
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2016 "These findings run counter to a popular narrative. Recall that in 2012, Mitt Romney said that in a democracy, a candidate who offers tax breaks to the less well-off at the expense of the rich will win mass support 'no matter what.' That claim does not appear to be supported by the historical record."--Robert J. Shiller, New York Times "In its big picture argument the book is convincing: on both the correlation and nature of causality between wars that required the mass of working people to sacrifice not just their labour but also their lives; and on the imposition of higher tax rates on the rich in the 20th century."--Torsten Bell, Prospect "A sweeping look at the history of levies on the wealthy."--Hugo Greenhalgh, Financial Times "[Scheve and Stasavage] flesh out their big picture with a mass of compelling evidence. Overall, an outstanding book."--Bryan Caplan, EconLog "What is surprising about this book is how robustly the authors discount other widely held explanations for the gradual reduction in tax paid by the richest 1% since 1980. The influence of political lobbying, liberalised capital flows and the breakdown of the postwar consensus are, in their view, inadequate answers. What has changed is the focus of 'equality of sacrifice,' which has returned to a debate about fairness."--Zac Tate, Capx "Apart from anything else, the historical data on top tax rates is fascinating."--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist "[A] fine and stimulating book."--Financial Post "More than any other book I've read in the past few years, their arguments have prompted me to review what they wrote and look for other research that supports or counters their points."--David Cay Johnston, Tax Notes "The authors make the force of the compensatory view clear. Judging by the apparent success of the rhetoric during the 2016 U.S. presidential primaries that speaks of a system rigged to favor the rich, the compensatory theory has not gone unnoticed by political strategists."--Michael Keen, Finance & Development Magazine "[A] fine model of social science research."--Richard Cooper, Foreign Affairs "Taxing the Richexplains why the problems of America's poor and angry are unlikely to be solved by redistributive taxation."--Angus Deaton, BloombergTable of ContentsFigures and Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii PART ONE -DEBATING TAXATION 1. Why Might Governments Tax the Rich? 3 2. Treating Citizens as Equals 24 PART TWO -WHEN HAVE GOVERNMENTS TAXED THE RICH? 3. The Income Tax over Two Centuries 53 4. Taxing Inheritance 93 5. Taxes on the Rich in Context 114 PART THREE -WHY HAVE GOVERNMENTS TAXED THE RICH? 6. The Conscription of Wealth 135 7. The Role of War Technology 170 8. Why Taxes on the Rich Declined 185 9. What Future for Taxing the Rich? 206 Notes 219 References 247 Index 261
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John Wiley & Sons The University Next Door What Is a Comprehensive University Who Does It Educate and Can It Survive
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Princeton University Press The Ways of Zen
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Princeton University Press Lewis Carrolls Photography and Modern Childhood
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The best book yet written on Dodgson’s photography. Measured in tone and thickly referenced, it is also refreshingly open to seeing both sides of an argument. In this sense it reads as much like a book written by Carroll as one about him."---Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, V&A Magazine"Diane Waggoner’s comprehensive study, lavishly illustrated with excellent reproductions of Carroll’s albumen prints, alongside letters and sketches, explores how his paintings and photographs helped shape emerging conceptions of childhood in the Victorian age. . . . The book will appeal not just to Carroll aficionados but to anyone with an interest in the development of photography in the 19th century."---Jonathan Harwood, Black & White Photography Magazine"Diane Waggoner’s comprehensive study, lavishly illustrated with excellent reproductions of Carroll’s albumen prints, alongside letters and sketches, explores how his paintings and photographs helped shape emerging conceptions of childhood in the Victorian age."---Jonathan Harwood, Black & White Photography Magazine"Waggoner illuminates the complexity of her subject, bringing to it both fresh context and academic rigor. . . . This is a book to read carefully, as well as to look at, and it will be a vital addition to Carroll scholarship. . . . The result is a descriptive and measured account of the making of photographs whose subjects are familiar to any Carroll scholar, as well as a number that are less well known—which ultimately makes the book something of a corrective in terms of its content and approach. . . . Waggoner’s book is strikingly beautiful but also . . . contributes so significantly to the history of childhood itself."---Jennifer Green-Lewis, H-Net Reviews"The most detailed critical analysis of Dodgson’s photographs to date."---Jan Susina, Victorian Studies
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John Wiley & Sons Closing the School Discipline Gap Equitable Remedies for Excessive Exclusion Disability Equity and Culture Series
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Princeton University Press Einstein Was Right
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Einstein Was Right is a compelling and thought-provoking account of one of the most thrilling scientific discoveries of the modern age travel." * Society for the History of Astronomy Bulletin *"The book is in general well written and the articles are all interesting and informative. In spite of my decades-long acquaintance with the subject, I found much material that I was not familiar with and which was enlightening."---Ajit Kembhavi, Current Science
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Princeton University Press Empire of Salons
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pfeifer’s painstaking analysis of the personalities and careers of her protagonists brings to life the power brokers, the holy men and the social climbers. . . . Backed up by a persuasive bibliography of published and unpublished sources, Empire of Salons presents a definitive picture of this age."---David Chaffetz, Asian Review of Books"This book . . . offers a focused perspective on an institution that, until this time, has been well-known but has not seen a dedicated work that outlines and explains it to this standard."---Gemma Masson, World History Encyclopedia"Highly recommended."---I. Blumi, Choice
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John Wiley & Sons Teaching for Creativity in the Common Core Classroom
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Princeton University Press Outsourcing Empire
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Phillips and Sharman’s achievement is to pull together myriad literatures over three centuries and most of the globe, to find patterns only a synthetic treatment can reveal. . . . Lucid, sweeping, and economical"---David Armitage, Times Literary Supplement"Outsourcing Empire serves as an up-to-date survey of an essentialtopic for world historians." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A welcome addition to a fast-growing literature on the corporate origins of Europeanempire in the early modern world. . . . Outsourcing Empire is a highly accessible work of scholarship that will appeal particularly to students of international history."---David Veevers, Journal of British Studies"Outsourcing Empire provides a solid contribution to the typically Eurocentric-focused scholarship of international politics."---Daniel Blumlo, World History Connected
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Princeton University Press Firepower How the NRA Turned Gun Owners into a
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Firepower is the best scholarly analysis of the National Rifle Association (NRA) yet published …. [Lacombe] effectively argues that the NRA has long been political, but that the form of its politics changed from its "quasi-governmental phase" (pre-1970s) to its "partisan phase" (1970s onward) …. Anyone interested in the NRA and gun politics today should read this book." * Choice *"Lacombe’s book is a worthy read because it provides a new lens through which to view the NRA and the development of the gun rights movement more broadly. Its reorientation of the discussion from material and partisan to psychological processes makes Firepower an important addition to any syllabus on gun politics and interest group politics."---Alexandra Filindra, Perspectives on Politics
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John Wiley & Sons Civic Education in the Elementary Grades Promoting Engagement in an Era of Accountability
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Princeton University Press The CityState of Boston
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the James P. Hanlan Book Prize, New England Historical Association"
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John Wiley & Sons ShoptalkLessons in Teaching from an African American Hair Salon
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Princeton University Press The Hebrew Bible
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This collection provides a rich introduction to the Hebrew Bible for general readers, and is an invaluable companion for students and scholars." * Publishers Weekly *"A solid guide for students of the Hebrew Bible. Filled with insightful overviews of important literature and introducing important perspectives from which to understand the significance of the texts, this ‘critical companion,' together with other more classical introductions, will surely motivate, encourage and enable serious study in the future."---Donn Morgan, Theology Journal"A compelling analysis of the document that embraces all phases of biblical scholarship, from every conceivable point of view."---John Mulryan, Cithara"The book is attractive and an easy read. Written by a group of contemporary scholars, the book will be a great aid to any student of the Old Testament."---Ralph Lee Scott, ARBA
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Princeton University Press From Development to Democracy The
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John Wiley & Sons Impactful Practitioner Inquiry The Ripple Effect on Classrooms Schools and Teacher Professionalism
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Princeton University Press The GoodEnough Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Financial Times FT Critics' Book of the Year""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""This book found me at just the right time. . . . [The Good-Enough Life] offers a bit of an antidote or a countercultural approach to designing communities and systems. . . [It’s a] philosophical, semi-political, pro-social, contemplative approach to designing a new way forward."---Alyson Stoner, New York Magazine"[Alpert’s] vision of a good-enough world is energizing."---Lily Meyer, The Atlantic"The Good-Enough Life leaves no meritocracy standing. . . . [A] jolt of reorientation."---Emily Ogden, Los Angeles Review of Books"[W]e should bestow social recognition . . . .on common moral qualities, not on uncommon talent. It should be good enough just to be good enough . . . . [This is] Alpert’s case, and he makes it well."---Andrew Stark, Times Literary Supplement"Read this book, breathe a sigh of relief, and then go take a nap."---Rana Foroohar, Financial Times"This is an amazing and deeply inspiring book. Alpert employs a prose style that is wrought like fine gold jewelry. There is scarcely a page from which this reader does not wish to quote and share Alpert's wisdom with others." * Choice *
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Princeton University Press The Human Condition An Ecological and Historical
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