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MD - Duke University Press Decentralizing Knowledges Essays on Distributed
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, there has been a call for decentering knowledge in the social sciences and humanities, bringing to light perspectives from previously ignored or undervalued groups or areas of the world. Feminist epistemologies and postcolonial studies have led this trend. However, there has been less interest in the specific infrastructures and practices that make decentering possible. Drawing from science and technology studies, Decentralizing Knowledges examines how to bring about such change. Contributors explore the multiple practices of knowledge production and circulation that favor and nurture nonhegemonic standpoints in academic fields, disciplines, and institutions-what they call epistemic decentralizing. The contributors combine theoretical and philosophical inquiry with empirical and historical case studies in settings ranging from palliative care in Taiwan, the repatriation of archaeological remains to Peru, and an experimental research platform in Kenya to a center of interdisciplinary ethnography in Ecuador and duck hunting as a knowledge practice of many indigenous SÁmi people. Throughout, the contributors provide an overview of the complex processes required to challenge mainstream epistemology. Contributors: Linda MartÍn Alcoff, ElÍas Barticevic, Johan Henrik Buljo, Ronald Cancino, Cristina Flores, Kim Fortun, Sandra Harding, Line Aimee Kalak, Duygu Kasdogan, Wiebke Keim, Aalok Khandekar, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Wen-Hua Kuo, John Law, Les Levidow, Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Angela Okune, Liv Østmo, Ari Sitas, Maka Suarez, Sharon Traweek, Hebe Vessuri
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F.A. Davis Company Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice
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MU - University of Texas Press The Lives and Deaths of Women in Ancient Pompeii
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Emerald Publishing New Approaches to Creating a Culture of
Book SynopsisIn an era marked by the dominance of a few corporate giants, and the ease of replicating ideas at minimal costs, the imperative for organisations of all sizes to continually innovate has become paramount. Faced with this reality, CEOs increasingly perceive innovation as the key to fostering organic growth and enhancing brand equity. Rather than confining innovation to product or process development, business leaders are pivoting towards innovative business model differentiation as a cornerstone of success.New Approaches to Creating a Culture of Innovation offers fascinating insights into how companies can embrace innovation and make it work for them at both a personal and company level. Drawing on extensive market research, business gurus Fons Trompenaars and Peter Woolliams outline effective innovation strategies that can be implemented at scale.This original work will appeal to specialists in all areas of management and leadership, HR professionals giving support to the development of individuals and teams, leaders involved in changing their corporate culture, employees wanting to exert their creativity, and business studies students at both undergraduate and MBA levels. Purchase of this book includes exclusive access to app-based content, enabling readers to explore the application of specific concepts in further detail.
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MG - Human Kinetics Indoor Rowing Your Complete Guide to Training
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University of Toronto Press Method in Theology Volume 14
Book SynopsisIn Method in Theology, Vol. 14, Lonergan's intention was to provide a set of methods that would guide a collaborative community in the ongoing construction of a theology that would move from recovery of the data through resolution of conflicts to contemporary formulations and applications.Table of ContentsPart 1: Background The Human Good Meaning Religion Functional Specialties Part Two: Foreground Interpretation History History and Historians Dialectic Foundations Doctrines Systematics Communications The Church and the Churches
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MK - Stanford University Press The Open
Book SynopsisIn "The Open", contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the "human" has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether.Trade Review"[The Open] turns to perhaps the most basic distinction of existence: that between human beings and animals. The thin volume provides an impressive historical survey of the problem, offering a dizzying scope of debate over the nature of animality, including expositions of figures as diverse as Thomas Aquinas, Georges Bataille, Heidegger, Alexander Kojève, Benjamin, and the German zoologist Jakob von Uexküll."—Radical Philosophy ReviewTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Translator's Note iii @toc2:1 Theromorphous 00 2 Acephalous 00 3 Snob 00 4 Mysterium disiunctionis 00 5 Physiology of the Blessed 00 6 Cognitio experimentalis 00 7 Taxonomies 00 8 Without Rank 00 9 Anthropological Machine 00 10 Umwelt 00 11 Tick 00 12 Poverty in World 00 13 The Open 00 14 Profound Boredom 00 15 World and Earth 00 16 Animalization 00 17 Anthropogenesis 00 18 Between 00 19 Desuvrement 000 20 Outside of Being 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Philosophical anthropology, Human beings Animal nature
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University of Toronto Press A Concise AngloSaxon Dictionary
Book SynopsisThis classic dictionary deals carefully and exhaustively with all the words which occur in Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose.
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Cornell University Press Standards and Their Stories
Book SynopsisStandardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so pervasive that it is usually taken for granted. However cumbersome, onerous, or simply puzzling certain standards may be, their fundamental purpose in streamlining...Trade Review"Standards and Their Stories is an important, well-written, and extraordinarily provocative examination of a part of the world usually hidden from any sort of public view. The authors show how much of what we take for granted is the result of negotiation, compromise, and occasionally coercion. They do so by inventing a suite of new and innovative research methods. As a result, this book is likely to become not only 'the standard' for studies of this sort but also the starting point for new ways of investigating sociotechnical processes."—Lawrence Busch, Michigan State University"I sat down to read the book, read the first page, and paused while my face broke into a smile and a comfortable warm feeling came over my body. Yup, this was going to be a great book. Further reading confirmed the impression. Standards rule our lives. Yeah, standards, that dull, frustrating, topic studied by 'The Society of People Interested in Boring Things.' But this book proves that far from being dull, the stories behind standards are interesting, insightful, and revealing of the workings of bureaucracy. Standards are essential for different stuff made by different companies in different countries to work well together. Whether it is bananas or chocolate, application forms for terrorist training, or the sizes of people's rear ends (critical for airline seats), standards are essential part of life today (all these are covered in the book). This engaging book serves several purposes. It explains much of the history, rationale, and politics of standards. It shows why they have huge social impact, far beyond what most of us realize, often far beyond what was intended. And best of all, it is fun to read."—Don Norman, Northwestern University, author of The Design of Future Things
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Cornell University Press Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of
Book SynopsisImages from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America translates Aby M. Warburg's seminal study of the "serpent ritual" of the Hopi people, which grew out of a trip to the American Southwest undertaken by Warburg in 1895–1896.Trade ReviewThe text casually titled Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America was originally a lecture intended to prove that its author was sane. Aby Warburg delivered his talk on April 21, 1923, before an audience of inmates, doctors and guests at the Bellevue sanatorium in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. His lecture is fascinating. In it, Warburg recounts his youthful journey to the American West as the story of civilization told in reverse. * New Republic *Table of ContentsPrefatory NoteList of IllustrationsAby M. Warburg, Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North AmericaMichael P. Sternberg, Aby Warburg's Kreuzlingen Lecture: A Reading
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Cornell University Press Narrative Discourse Revisited
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Cornell University Press Mephistopheles
Book SynopsisMephistopheles is the fourth and final volume of Jeffrey Burton Russell's critically acclaimed history of the concept of the Devil, continuing in this volume the story from the Reformation to the present.Trade ReviewAn excellent and important intellectual history. * Library Journal *It is more than the history of demonological imagination as it has been displayed for half a millennium in theological controversies, in poetry, novels, paintings, and witch trials: it is the history of European man trying to cope with the terrifying riddle of radical evil.... Both an extremely rich scholarly work and an exiquisite exercise in a topic that is unlikely ever to die off in our civilization. -- Leslek Kolakowski * Journal of Modern History *Jeffrey Burton Russell is not only a conscientious historian, he is also an introspective essayist who acknowledges his own continuing struggle to understand the nature and the source of evil. -- Robert Coles * New York Times Book Review *No few sentences can adequately convey the book's richness of content and seriousness of purpose. Russell has without doubt bequeathed us a magnificent synthesis of Western culture's modern, tortuous grappling with the ideas of radical evil and the devil. -- Brian Easlea * American Historical Review *This book moves with sustained seriousness and brilliance across five centuries, from Luther's time to our own... and, although it has all the virtues of great intellectual history, it is explicitly rooted in a profound moral analysis of our own era. -- M. D. Aeschliman * National Review *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Evil2. The Reformed Devil3. The Devil between Two Worlds4. Satan Expiring5. The Romantic Devil6. The DeviI's Shadow7. The Devil in a Warring World8. God and DevilBibliography Index
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Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Robert Grosvenor
Book SynopsisMonograph of the Grosvenor’s work since 2005
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Cornell University Press The Paradoxes of Delusion
Book SynopsisInsanity—in clinical practice as in the popular imagination—is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do not exist. Most schizophrenics, however, do not act as if they mistake their delusions for reality. In a...Trade ReviewIn this scholarly and well-written book, the author seeks to reinterpret Schreber by means of the following idiosyncratic syllogism: the doctrine of solipsism is central in Wittgenstein; solipsism is an explanation of schizophrenia; solipsism is an explaination of Schreber. * Psychoanalytic Books *
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Baker Publishing Group Imagining the Kingdom How Worship Works
Book SynopsisIn the second of a three-volume theology of culture, a leading Reformed philosopher shows how worship works in shaping us through liturgical practices.Table of ContentsContentsHow to Read This Book For Practitioners For ScholarsIntroduction: A Sentimental Education: On Christian Action The End of Christian Education and/as the End of Worship Situating Intellect: Educating for Action Imagining the KingdomPart 1: Incarnate Significance: The Body as Background1. Erotic Comprehension Perceiving (by) Stories The Geography of Desire: Between Instinct and Intellect My Body, My Horizon Being-in-the-World with Schneider: A Case Study Erotic Comprehension: On Sex, Stories, and Silence The Primacy of Perception2. The Social Body The Critique of Theoretical Reason Habitus as Practical Sense Belief and the Body: The Logic of Practice Incorporation and Initiation: Writing on the BodyPart 2: Sanctified Perception3. "We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live": How Worship Works Imaginative, Narrative Animals The Primacy of Metaphor and the Aesthetics of Human Understanding A General Poetics: Imagination, Metaphor, Narrative The iPhone-ization of Our World(view): Compressed Stories and Micropractices4. Restor(y)ing the World: Christian Formation for Mission Sanctifying Perception: Re-Narration Takes Practice Redeeming Ritual: Form Matters Redeeming Repetition: On Habituation Redeeming Reflection: On Liturgical Catechesis and Christian EducationIndexes
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Haynes Publishing Group HD Sportsters 5985
Book SynopsisSpecific Models Covered:H 59-69; CH 59-69; XLCH 70-80; XLH 70-72, 78-85; XLCR 77-78; XLX 83-85; XLS 80-85; XL 73-77; Covers 53.9 cu in (883cc) and 60.9 cu in (998cc) engines
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University of Pennsylvania Press Maurices Strategikon
Book SynopsisDescribing in detail weaponry and armor, daily life on the march or in camp, clothing, food, medical care, military law, and titles of the Byzantine army of the seventh century, this text offers insights into the Byzantine military ethos. It also provides data for the historian, and even for the ethnologist.Trade Review"The most important Byzantine military text. . . . The standard translation." * Walter Kaegi, University of Chicago *
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Haynes Publishing Group John Deere SRS 670 770 870 9701070
Book SynopsisSpecific Models Covered:Diesel Models: 670, 770, 870, 970, 1070
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Haynes Publishing Group Kawasaki 250 350 400 Triples 72 79
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Duke University Press Paper Knowledge
Book SynopsisPaper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document.Trade Review“Four intriguing essays make up this tantalising and ambitious short book. . . . The strength of this bold volume is in its argument that we can learn a great deal if we focus, not only on what information they contain but what institutional and social function they serve; not what they’re about but what they do.” -- Colin Higgins * Times Higher Education *"In all cases, Gitelman offers a meticulous reconstruction of the historical context of the media changes she foregrounds and in many regards this book is a real Wunderkammer. At the same time, however, the author always scrutinizes the past in order to show what it can mean for us today, and here the political dimension of the book comes to the fore. For Paper Knowledge is also a passionate discussion of what knowing and showing are about, namely the possibility to producing, sharing, debating knowledge in a society to opens this knowledge to all of its members and whose structure, thanks to technology, is no longer determined by those who know and show and those who don't." -- Jan Baetens * Leonardo Reviews *“Gitelman practices a kind of conceptual archeology without obeisance to the master, in an argument that stands well on its own. . . . By the time you reach the book's final chapter, on the rise of PDF, the relationship between the history of ground-level print culture and that of its Ivory Tower analog seem linked in so many suggestive ways that the advent of digital culture seems like just one part of an intricate pattern.” -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *"A well-rounded exploration of publishing technology and how it transforms every aspect of our lives, from the way we are governed to the way we read books and news." -- Alexander von Lünen * Somatosphere *“The proliferation of marriage certificates and death warrants holds few terrors for Lisa Gitelman, who finds richness rather than ennui in them. Her ingenious essay in media archaeology, Paper Knowledge, takes as its central category the document. The document is a material genre; the words matter, but so too does their physical instantiation, which is often accompanied by a baroque flummery of water-marks, seals and signatures. And the document is remarkable as a product of print that does not ask to be read. Instead, documents are used to hold us in place within a web of bureaucratic institutions.” -- Jason Scott-Warren * TLS *“Every chapter in Paper Knowledge stands on its own as a complete history. Each chapter provides the reader with a better understanding of the symbiotic relationship between printed document and the global economy. … Paper Knowledge turns the focus of Media Studies from the Big Cultural Object and applies the same rigor to printed objects that were never designed to be noticed in the first place. And these forgotten objects carry with them the history of how we really understand the richness of media in our lives.” -- John Rodzvilla * Publishing Research Quarterly *“Gitelman’s richly detailed excavation of institutional artifacts that shape material and semiotic processes (such as the ‘job printed’blank form and the PDF file) encourages rhetorical critics to stop flattening media into texts and start fleshing out documents as media with specific histories and utilities, transient technologies that leave a substantial wake in their passage through social worlds.” -- Joan Faber McAlister * Quarterly Journal of Speech *“The history of documents carries great significance, perhaps more than any of us could have realized, and Gitelman’s comprehensive scholarship in this book establishes a new agenda, one that celebrates the past and charts the course of the document. This book provides educational support for researchers in information science, media history, and the digital humanities.” -- Melony Shemberger * Journalism & Mass Communication Educator *“For young scholars navigating the worlds of online and print publishing, and all the meanings and values placed on those outputs, Gitelman’s reflections prove immensely insightful at a defining moment when paper no longer rules.” -- Mél Hogan * Archives and Manuscripts *“Gitelman offers keen insights into the constitutive nature of documents in modern social life. Merging wittiness, casualness, and rigor, she crafts a nuanced picture of the document and some ofits key genres. … A must-read for media studies and digital media; useful for those interested in communication, cultural studies, and sociology. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- W. Alvarez * Choice *"If Paper Knowledge offers one crucial insight to the conversation about print and technology it is that 'print culture' as a category is highly problematic because it presupposes certain kinds of print and leaves too much out." -- Nicole Howard * Technology and Culture *"Lisa Gitelman provides a provocative set of microhistories that expand our conceptualization (and confusion) of the history of physical and electronic documents....The intended reader is not just the historian but everyone thinking about the future of the humanities." -- Jonathan Coopersmith * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction. Paper Knowledge 1 1. A Short History of ________ 21 2. The Typescript Book 53 3. Xerographers of the Mind 83 4. Near Print and Beyond Paper: Knowing by *.pdf 111 Afterword. Amateurs Rush In 136 Notes 151 Works Cited 189 Index 205
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University of Minnesota Press Open Your Eyes
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University of Minnesota Press Unfinished System Of Nonknowledge
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University of Minnesota Press Children of the Northlights
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The loveliest book the d’Aulaires have given us . . . a book to own and cherish." —Library Journal"A distinguished book full of color, fun, and the charm of ways that are just different enough to be fascinating." —Horn Book Magazine
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University of Minnesota Press Wildlife in the Anthropocene Conservation after
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Against all-too-human accounts of the Anthropocene, Jamie Lorimer envisions a dynamic cosmopolitics for wildlife. He demonstrates how species ‘conservation’ can somehow proceed as neither mastery nor naturalism but, instead, as necessary experiments in interspecies responsibility."—Stacy Alaimo, author of Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self"Jamie Lorimer has written a very provocative and relevant book about the future of conservation."—CHOICE"An enlightening and very readable introduction to some key concepts."—Human Geography"An important book for anyone engaged in conservation."—Quarterly Review of BiologyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: After the Anthropocene1. Wildlife: Companion Elephants and New Grounds for Multinatural Conservation2. Nonhuman Charisma: Counting Corncrakes and Learning to Be Affected in Multispecies Worlds3. Biodiversity as Biopolitics: Cutting Up Wildlife and Choreographing Conservation in the United Kingdom4. Conservation as Composition: Securing Premodern Ecologies in the Hebrides5. Wild Experiments: Rewilding Future Ecologies at the Oostvaardersplassen6. Wildlife on Screen: The Affective Logics and Micropolitics of Elephant Imagery7. Bringing Wildlife to Market: Flagship Species, Lively Capital, and the Commodification of Interspecies Encounters8. Spaces for Wildlife: Alternative Topologies for Life in Novel EcosystemsConclusion: Cosmopolitics for WildlifeAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press European Others
Book SynopsisConsiders the complications of race, religion, sexuality, and gender in Europeanizing from belowTrade Review "European Others is a ground-breaking study, a theoretical adventure, and a major contribution to the literature on European racisms, queer diaspora, immigration, queer subcultures, and queer of color critique. No other scholar, to put it plainly, has worked on these materials in this way; no other scholar has managed to launch the critique of European nationalisms from the vantage point of queer of color subcultural groups; and no other scholar has been able to weave together the strands of sexuality, gender, race, and resistance in such a daring and compelling way." —Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure"Fatima El-Tayeb’s bold and graceful new book is an electrifying piece of original scholarship on contemporary ‘vernacular’ cultures of community-building in Europe. The world’s leading expert on minoritarian countercultures of art and activism in western Europe today, El-Tayeb sets entirely new standards for intersectional theories of race and sexuality in an age of accelerated transformation. Greater even than the sum of its very incisive parts, El-Tayeb’s European Others focuses on the lived experience of marginalized social groups to craft a new critical idiom for conceptualizing Europe, globalization, diaspora, and marginalization itself." —Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Theorizing Urban Minority Communities in Postnational Europe1. “Stranger in My Own Country”: European Identities, Migration, and Diasporic Soundscapes2. Dimensions of Diaspora: Women of Color Feminism, Black Europe, and Queer Memory Discourses3. Secular Submissions: Muslim Europeans, Female Bodies, and Performative Politics4. “Because It Is Our Stepfatherland”: Queering European Public SpacesConclusion: “An Infinite and Undefinable Movement”NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press From Light to Dark Daylight Illumination and
Book SynopsisA fascinating and unprecedented look at how illumination and darkness shape our experiences across history and spaceTrade Review"Illumination is one of the aspects of life that has become so obvious we have stopped noticing it. In this innovative and illuminating book, Tim Edensor provides an elegant and necessary account of light and dark, their role in the production of everyday life, the stories we tell about them, and the emotions they engender. He has performed a key task of any critical thinker—taking the obvious and making it visible again."—Tim Cresswell, Trinity College"The wealth of sources and documents one finds in From Light to Dark is one of the great merits of the book."—Leonardo"With many such insights and many more examples of the ways in which we may reframe the scholarship of modern perception and sensory experience, From Light to Dark certainly deserve[s] further attention."—Journal of Design HistoryTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Geographies of Light and DarkPart I. Light1. Seeing with Landscape, Seeing with Light2. Under the Dynamic Sky: Living and Creating with LightPart II. Illumination3. Electric Desire: Lighting the Vernacular and Illuminating Nostalgia4. Caught in the Light: Power, Inequality, and Illumination5. Festivals of Illumination: Painting and Playing with Light6. Staging Atmosphere: Public Extravaganzas and Homely DesignsPart III. Dark7. Nocturnes: Changing Meanings of Darkness8. The Re-enchantment of Darkness: The Pleasures of NoirConclusion: The Novelty of Light and the Value of DarknessAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex
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University of Georgia Press The Curious Mister Catesby A Truly Ingenious
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMark Catesby, the English naturalist and artist, as well as his considerable accomplishments, is given new life in this well-written, multiauthored account. Emphasis is placed on Catesby's travels in North America that led to his monumental volumes on the flora and fauna of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahamas. The book is an important addition to the library of the history of natural history of colonial America.- William D. Anderson Jr., Professor of Marine Biology, Grice Marine Biological Laboratory, College of Charleston;""The Curious Mister Catesby is an absorbing blend of early colonial history in the American Southeast and the Bahamas, with the rich fauna and flora the settlers freshly contained. Catesby emerges as one of the first true naturalists of the New World.""- Edward O. Wilson, University Professor Emeritus of Entomology, Harvard University;""A landmark book filled with introspective and concise essays, each developed with a richness of detail, revealing the absorbing portrait of a self-taught artist from Suffolk who had an insatiable curiosity about nature. Wonderfully readable, this classic is an engaging introduction to Catesby's timeless illustrations and to his keen observation of the natural world. Like an investigation by forensic scientists the contemplative and thorough scholarship of these authors reveals new insight into Catesby, his journeys, his peers, and the inexhaustible pursuit of botanical and zoological specimens in an eighteenth-century world.""- Marian Hill, former president of the Garden Club of America;""This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated work . . . will stand for many years as the best critical analysis of [Catesby's] work, and of the groundbreaking natural science that his curiosity inspired.""- Linda Lear Nature;""This remarkable commemorative publication represents the perspectives of two dozen learned contributors representative of a broad spectrum of disciplines, including historians, botanists, zoologists, ornithologists, anthropologists, landscape architects, fine arts authorities, museum specialists and associated fields. Each of the 22 chapters is an essay revealing another of the many layers of Catesby's genius.""- Ben MCC. Moise The Post and Courier;""As if one of Catesby's ivory-billed woodpeckers swooped down before your eyes, this work draws the once-mysterious Catesby out of the shadows and, fittingly, displays him in vibrant living color.""- Robert Salvo Charleston Mercury;""The Curious Mr. Catesby is important for the history of natural history as it offers so much to know and understand about this interesting man and his contributions to natural history.""- Charles Tancin Huntia;""For the book’s top-notch construction and amazing array of colored maps and illustrations, The University of Georgia Press should be commended, reminding us why the physical book is so worthy of praise. This book should find a deserved place on the shelf of both general and academic readers.""- Vaughn Scribner, The Journal for Southern Literature
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Duke University Press Duress
Book SynopsisHow do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as 'legacies' of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that recognizing 'colonial presence' may have as much to do with how the connections between colonial histories and the present are expected to look as it does with how they are expected to be. In Duress, Stoler considers what methodological renovations might serve to write histories that yield neither to smooth continuities nor to abrupt epochal breaks. Capturing the uneven, recursive qualities of the visions and practices that imperial formations have animated, Stoler works through a set of conceptual and concrete reconsiderations that locate the political effects and practices that imperial projects produce: occluded histories, gradated sovereignties, affective security regimes, 'newTrade Review"Duress: Imperial Durabilities In Our Times is a timely book. It can be read as both a work of postcolonial analysis and a methodological guide to conceptual history. Ann Laura Stoler’s willingness to wrestle uneasy mercurial modern terminologies into valuable approaches to the histories of imperial formations is refreshing and exemplary." -- Ed Jones * LSE Review of Books *"Stoler adds different insights and contexts to much material that is not new. Perhaps one test of the value of this is that it is difficult to read Duress without applying its insights both to the ways we engage in ethnographic enterprises and to current situations. Stoler provides the reader with much to consider and underscores the urgency of doing so." -- James Phillips * American Ethnologist *"Stoler’s book is both timely and innovative. . . . [Duress] takes us on a journey that looks at the genealogy of imperial violence, its traces in the present and its continuous re-shaping of contemporary societies on the one hand, and on the other, how new stories emerge and counterdiscourse shapes imperial violence." -- Olivette Otele * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *"Innovative and thoughtful. . . . Stoler has for a long time now moved between different concepts, disciplines, and subdisciplines with an agility that is inspiring. . . . A pressing and timely book that will be of interest to all concerned with questions on liberation and entrapment." -- Shirin Saeidi * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Stoler casts her net wide and deep and convincingly shows that colonialism is more complex, and more present, than most histories acknowledge." -- Aviva Chomsky * American Historical Review *"A tour de force. Stoler’s encyclopedic knowledge of the literature is impressive and the book might be used as a reference for those hoping to move the needle in postcolonial studies—to advance the agenda of the subfield . . . Stoler has ably demonstrated that Foucault’s work is relevant to locales beyond France. And yet, I am left to ask whether, in a sense, Stoler might simply stand alone, without Foucault, now more than ever as her own theoretical proficiencies are brought to bear on our colonial present." -- Anne-Maria Makhulu * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface ix Appreciations xi Part I. Concept Work: Fragilities and Filiations 1. Critical Incisions: On Concept Work and Colonial Recursions 3 2. Raw Cuts: Palestine, Israel, and (Post)Colonial Studies 37 3. A Deadly Embrace: Of Colony and Camp 68 4. Colonial Aphasia: Disabled histories and Race in France 122 Part II. Recursions in a Colonial Mode 5. On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty 173 6. Reason Aside: Enlightenment Projects and Empire's Security Regimes 205 7. Racial Regimes of Truth 237 Part III. "The Rot Remains" 8. Racist Visions and the Common Sense of France's "Extreme" Right 269 9. Bodily Exposures: Beyond Sex? 305 10. Imperial Debris and Ruination 336 Bibliography 381 Index 419
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University of Minnesota Press The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami
Book SynopsisTrade Review" In a masterful synthesis, Matthew Strecher delves deeply into questions of language, religion, mythology, psychology, and the boundaries between literature and journalism to demonstrate with great clarity and concreteness how Murakami belongs in the company of such writers as Pynchon, Eco, and Rushdie." —Jay Rubin, author of Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words"This guide clearly synthesizes the inner world enshrining Haruki Murakami’s characters."—World Literature Today"Strecher’s latest book is erudite without being overly academic. A lively and engaging read."—The Japan Times"Strecher neatly maps out the impression the young Murakami made on the hidebound world of Japanese literature and its overarching literary guild, one entrenched by respect, routine, and what literature ought to do."—Pop Matters"An original and insightful book—a genuine pleasure to read."—H-Net"Useful for providing frames through which to read Murakami and for a detailed overview of his work."—CHOICE"This well-researched monograph not only contributes to deepening our understanding of Murakami’s work, but, more importantly, Strecher reaffirms the bottomless possibilities to enjoy reading this author’s stories."—Asian Studies Review"Like its subject, Strecher’s book does not offer an overall master map to this world but rather presents us with a variety of intriguing ideas to ponder and to provoke us toward our own interpretations of this tantalizing, multifaceted author."—Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Power of the “Story” 1. New Words, New Worlds2. Into the Mad, Metaphysical Realm3. Gods and Oracles, Fate and Mythology4. Murakami Haruki as Literary Journalist5. Forbidden Dreams from “Over There”Epilogue: The Roads Not TakenNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Reading With Clarice Lispector
Book SynopsisThe texts that comprise this volume were selected from Cixous' seminars on the work of Clarice Lispector. They reflect Cixous' meditations on the art of reading, writing and related themes such as giving and loving as well as trace the influence of Lispector on Cixous' own development.Table of Contents"Sunday, before falling asleep" - a primal scene; "Agua Viva" - how to follow a trinket of water; "The Apple in the Dark" - the temptation of understanding; "The Egg and the Chicken" - love is not having; "Felicidade Clandestina" - the promise of having what one will have; "The Hour of the Star" - how does one desire wealth or poverty?
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Weldon Owen Grandmother's Memories: A Keepsake Box and
Book SynopsisThis unique keepsake box and journal set is destined to become a treasured gift that any grandmother will be delighted to share with her beloved grandchildren.The perfect gift for both grandmother and grandchild, this keepsake box and journal set is an ideal way to capture treasured memories, stories, photos and other keepsakes. The set includes: • Keepsake cigar-style box with velvet lined box interior to protect and preserve treasured keepsakes or jewelry. • Beautifully illustrated and designed 144-page Memories Journal designed to capture and preserve a grandmother's unique life story. • Coordinating 32-page Treasures Notebook with space to capture the stories and significance of keepsakes store in the box. • Archival paper envelope to store documents and photos.
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F&W Publications Inc Creating Textured Landscapes with Pen Ink and Wat
Book SynopsisWith the help of reference photos and field sketches, this title lets readers learn to create realistic and colourful painting of landscapes ranging from expansive mountain vistas to intimate vignettes such as tree-shaded streams.
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Out of Print Clothing Read Like a Girl Tote Bag
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World Wonders 1 Grammar Book
Book SynopsisSuitable for 9-11 year olds, this title features an adventure cartoon story for Levels 1 & 2.
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Crossway Books Church Planting Is for Wimps
Book SynopsisThe story of a church's revitalization counters a common misconception that a church's size determines its healthpointing pastors to the faithful ministry of God's Word.
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Duke University Press Code
Book SynopsisIn Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray. His analysis casts light on how media-practical research forged common epistemic cause in programs that stretched from 1930s interwar computing at MIT and eugenics to the proliferation of seminars and laboratories in 1960s Paris. This mobilization ushered forth new fields of study such as structural anthropology, family therapy, and literary semiology while forming enduring intellectual affinities between the humanities and informatics. With Code, Geoghegan offers a new history of French theory and the digital humanities as transcontinental and political endeavors linking interwar colonial ethnography in Trade Review“Straying away from the familiar itineraries of intellectual history, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan invites us to take a path less trodden: a detour that allows the reader to revisit famous milestones in the development of cybernetics and digital media, and to connect them to scholarly debates stemming from fields of study as distant as structural anthropology, family therapy, and literary semiology." * The Duke Reader *“Bernard Geoghegan’s Code presents a strong history of how the humanities of the 20th century worked in close connection with communication and information sciences … a rich and insightful analysis.” -- Jussi Parikka * Leonardo Reviews *"Anyone interested in the political and ethical dimensions of cybernetics and contemporary social networking will be fascinated by Geoghegan's rich historical and interpretive account of these important and timely subjects. Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty. Students in two-year technical programs." -- J. W. Dauben * Choice *"Geoghegan’s rich and surprising account of the common inheritance shared by information theory and French Theory in the era of liberal technocracy, industrial capitalism, and colonial crisis will change how we think about the nature, risks, and possibilities of data analytics, critical theory, and the digital humanities now and for years to come." -- Carolyn Pedwell * Theory, Culture & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Codification 1 1. Foundations for Informatics: Technocracy, Philanthropy, and Communications Sciences 21 2. Pattern Recognition: Data Capture in Colonies, Clinics, and Suburbs 53 3. Poeticizing Cybernetics: An Informatic Infrastructure for Structural Linguistics 85 4. Theory for Administrators: The Ambivalent Technocracy of Claude Lévi-Strauss 107 5. Learning to Code: Cybernetics and French Theory 133 Conclusion. Coding Today: Toward an Analysis of Cultural Analytics 169 Notes 181 Bibliography 221 Index 245
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Human Kinetics Publishers Hockey Tough
Book Synopsis Learn the focus, emotional control, and mental-preparation skills to excel in the tough and physically challenging sport of hockey. The book includes insights from the game’s top players, coaches, and scouts and is loaded with mental-coaching techniques, examples, and exercises from one of hockey’s most experienced sport psychologists. Trade Review“Improving mental skills is often the best way to enhance on-ice performance. This book will show you how.” Barry Trotz-- Head Coach Washington Capitals “To perform at the highest level, it is imperative to sharpen your mental game. Hockey Tough is a must-read as you prepare to play with more focus and control.”Jim Nill-- General Manager Dallas Stars, Former NHL Player “The sharper the mental game, the better the play. Hockey Tough has a winning formula and lots of great advice for sharpening your mental game.” Scott Bradley-- Assistant General Manager Boston Bruins, Veteran NHL scout “Hockey Tough describes an often-forgotten component of success in sports. The mental game is critical not only for preparing but also for building and sustaining maximum performance. The book is well written and very applicable.” Rick Carriere-- Head of Player Development Edmonton Oilers “Hockey Tough helped our players with their mental approach to the game. Saul has done an unbelievable job highlighting how some elite players overcome those challenges. A terrific resource for any dedicated player.”Norm M. Bazin-- Head Coach University of Massachusetts at Lowell “Hockey Tough is a game-changing resource that walks coaches and players through a clear step-by-step approach to building a winning mental game.”Larry Huras-- Veteran European Hockey Coach “Hockey Tough has clear advice and valuable daily exercises for players wanting to improve their mental game. It’s a great coaching aid to enhance focus, emotional control, and on-ice performance. Plus it has given me some great ideas for handling challenging situations.” Michael C. Schafer-- Head Coach Cornell University “Hockey Tough will help you get your game and your life to the next level. This stuff works.”Cliff Ronning-- NHL Veteran and Hockey Dad “The Hockey Tough approach helped us win a championship. It generated the focus and emotion necessary for winning night after night. Saul’s brand of sport psychology really works. Reading the book can make you a better player or a better coach.” Lars Leuenberger-- Swiss Hockey Coach “Mind-set is a key aspect of hockey—and life. Dr. Miller’s Hockey Tough simplifies the process and techniques for developing the mind-set and the edge to become a better player and a better person.” Jason Lammers-- Head Coach and General Manager USHL Dubuque Fighting Saints “I worked with Saul for over 15 years as an NHL player and later as a coach. The work has been invaluable to me. He understands the game. In Hockey Tough he describes the mentality for excelling as a player or coach.” Rick Lanz-- Veteran NHL Player and Scout “Hockey Tough can help any player maximize their true potential if they are willing to do the work. I believe winning as an individual or as a team is a choice. This book describes the focus, attitude, and mental preparation that will make it happen.”John Fust-- Swiss Hockey Coach “To accelerate your development in reaching your potential, you need mental skills. Hockey Tough gives you the tools to prepare, focus, and enjoy your journey towards excellence.” Ville Peltonen-- Veteran of NHL, Finnish, KHL, and Swiss Leagues, Current European Coach “Elevating your level of play is as much mental as it is physical. Hockey Tough does a great job addressing the mental processes involved in being a successful athlete.” Dallas Ferguson-- Head Coach University of Alaska at Fairbanks “Mental toughness is a highly desirable quality for dealing with physically hard, stressful competition. Reading Hockey Tough will help you to know what to do as well as when and how.”Ron Delorme-- Former NHL Player, NHL Senior Scout Vancouver Canucks “Dr. Miller has developed an excellent resource thanks to his years of experience dealing with hockey players and coaches. He has simplified the mental approach players need for performing well.” Marc Crawford-- Veteran NHL and Swiss Hockey Coach “Working with the Hockey Tough program will improve your preparation, focus, and emotional control and help you compete at the highest level.” Mark Holick-- Veteran WHL and AHL Head Coach “Everyone goes through ups and downs in their career. No player is born with confidence. It is a skill which needs to be worked on daily. Hockey Tough is a good guide to practice.” Jiri Fischer-- Director of Player Development Detroit Red Wings, Former NHL Player “Besides the obvious physical skills needed for hockey, successful players have the best mental skills. They need to manage the game’s many challenges on a shift-to-shift basis. Hockey Tough is loaded with exercises and advice to help you gain the mental skills so your physical skills have the proper impact on the game.”Kevin Constantine-- Veteran NHL, AHL, and WHL Coach Table of Contents Chapter 1 The Mental Game Chapter 2 Goal Setting Chapter 3 Power Thinking Chapter 4 Imagery Chapter 5 Emotional Control Chapter 6 Changing Channels Chapter 7 Commitment Chapter 8 Confidence Chapter 9 Identity Chapter 10 Achieving Success Chapter 11 Team First Chapter 12 Personality Differences Chapter 13 Game Readiness Chapter 14 Scoring Chapter 15 Defense Chapter 16 Checking Tough Chapter 17 Goaltending Chapter 18 Injury and Recovery
£17.99
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc Introduction to 12Lead ECG The Art of Interpre
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The University of Chicago Press Sidereus Nuncius or The Sidereal Messenger
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The University of Chicago Press Patterns in Nature Why the Natural World Looks
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The most beautiful book of 2016."--Publishers Weekly "This cofee-table book showcases the spots, stripes, spirals, and fractals and other intricate patterns found in the natural world."--Live Science "This captivating book is a collection of stunning photographs that capture frequently repeating mathematical patterns in nature. These images depict patterns in living things, from pollen to animals, and in non-living things, from lightning to landscapes. Images are accompanied by brief, but clear, explanations for how these patterns can be generated by Fibonacci ratios, suggesting they result from simple self-organization. Excellent coffee table companion to the author's earlier Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts series, which describe in detail how physics and chemistry influence and interweave with evolution (biology) to create patterns and symmetry in nature. This book is a visual feast that can serve as a source of wonder and inspiration for artists and naturalists as well as scientists." --Forbes "Acclaimed English science writer Ball curates a visually striking, riotously colorful photographic display of the most dramatic examples of the 'sheer splendor' of physical patterns in the natural world. He lightly ties the work together with snippets of scientific history, using bits of physics, chemistry, and mathematics to show that although patterns in living beings can offer clear, functional evolutionary advantages, the small set of design elements that we can see--symmetries, branching fractals, spirals, flowing swirls, spots, and stripes--come from a basic set of organizing properties of growth and equilibrium seeking. . . . This is formidable eye candy for the I-love-science crowd, sure to spark a sense of impressed wonder at the beauty of our universe and our ability to photograph it." --Publishers Weekly "From tigers' stripes to the hexagons that make up honeycombs to the ripples in windblown sand, the natural world is full of order and regularity. Science writer Ball investigates the phenomenon in his new book, Patterns in Nature, with 250 photographs of snowflakes, shells, and more. Nature's patterns follow basic principles of mathematics and physics, leading to similarities in the stripes, spirals, branches and fractals around us. 'There's an abundance of detail in nature that we can't see," he says. "Even in what seems unstructured, there's pattern.'" --Wall Street Journal
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Indiana University Press Russias Steppe Frontier
Book SynopsisA comprehensive history of the transformation of Russia's southern steppes from border territories to Empire.Trade ReviewThis innovative and fascinating book examines the relationship between Russia and its neighbors on the Eurasian steppe, which stretches from the northern Caucasus area into the Central Asian region of present-day Kazakhstan, from about 1500 to 1800. During these formative years, Russia's continual southern expansion into the borderlands helped transform it from a fragmented and weak frontier society into a formidable colonial empire. Kohdarkovsky (Loyola Univ.) considers the complex relationship between the Russian state and the indigenous nomadic and seminomadic societies that inhabited the steppe, emphasizing their fundamental differences in social organization, political and economic structures, and values. The author argues that Russia's southward expansion was, contrary to commonly accepted views, a deliberate process designed to colonize the new regions and to subdue their inhabitants. However, Russia's policies gradually changed during these three centuries from defending its vulnerable frontier against nomadic incursions to deliberate colonization by means of pacifying, settling, and converting the new subjects to Orthodox Christianity. Recommended for advanced undergraduates and above.September 2002 -- N. M. Brooks * New Mexico State University *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Sociology of the Frontier, or Why Peace Was Impossible2. Frontier Concepts and Policies in Muscovy3. Taming the "Wild Steppe," 1480-1600s4. From Steppe Frontier to Imperial Borderlands, 1600-18005. Concepts and Policies in the Imperial Borderlands, 1690s-1800ConclusionGlossaryList of AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Texas Press Barren Lives
Book SynopsisA vivid novel about the solitary life of a peasant family in a harsh and unforgiving land, austerely told by a classic Brazilian writer.Trade ReviewGraciliano Ramos is of the naturalistic tradition in the literature of Brazil, but this novel is not mere social protest. The author has a keen visual sense, and the reader becomes one with the part of the earth where Fabiano’s life unfolds.... Barren Lives is a moving novel, one to ponder on. * Library Journal *Table of Contents Introduction 1. A New Home 2. Fabiano 3. Jail 4. Vitória 5. The Younger Boy 6. The Older Boy 7. Winter 8. Feast Day 9. The Dog 10. Accounts 11. The Policeman in Khaki 12. The Birds 13. Flight
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Indiana University Press Sabertooth
Book SynopsisA glorious wedding of science and art that celebrates the remarkable diversity of the life of the not-so-distant past.Trade ReviewThis book provides a unique review of the many unusual and nearly worldwide occurrences of sabertooths and their relatives over more than 50 million years. Though geared to the general public, it is also useful for professional paleontologists. . . . In sum, a useful survey of the literature and introduction to the overall biology of these dynamic animals. * Choice *Mauricio Antón is well known in the paleontological community for his amazing artwork, and his new book Sabertooth certainly doesn't disappoint. . . . This book not only features awe-inspiring paleoart, it is also a scholarly review of the primary literature that can be used as a professional reference. However, this should not dissuade the amateur paleontologist from reading this book, because Antón does a great job of explaining difficult concepts and making this material accessible to a broad audience.Table of ContentsPreface1. What is a Sabertooth?2. The Ecology of Sabertooths3. A "Who's Who" of Sabertooths4. Sabertooths as Living Predators5. ExtinctionsSuggested ReadingIndex
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Indiana University Press Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics
Book SynopsisA crucial work for understanding a major turning point in Heidegger's thought.Trade ReviewWhoever thought that Heidegger . . . has no surprises left in him had better read this new volume. If its rhetoric is "hard and heavy" its thought is even harder and essentially more daring than Heideggerians ever imagined Heidegger could be. -- David Farrell Krell * DePaul University *This authoritative translation is essential to any Heidegger collection. * Choice *In this text, which is crucial to understanding the transition from Heidegger's earlier to his later thinking, readers will find a helpful overview of Heidegger's conception of metaphysics . . . a brilliant phenomenological analysis of boredom . . . an investigation of the essence of life and animality . . . and an analysis of the structure of the propositional statement . . . * Review of Metaphysics *
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Indiana University Press Four Seminars Studies in Continental Thought
Book SynopsisA crucial work for understanding the full maturity of Heidegger's thoughtTrade ReviewThis highly influential collection of four seminars conducted between 1966 and 1973 was first published in French transcription in 1976, the year Heidegger died. Their influence on French philosophy and thinking during the late 1970s and 1980s cannot be exaggerated, for, at the moment when the work of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, and others was first coming to prominence, it now had access to Heidegger's clearest articulations of his later thinking. Much of deconstruction and poststructuralist thought bears the formative imprint of these seminars. Heidegger himself oversaw their German translation (published in 1977 and again in 1986, in a collected edition), from which this long-awaited English translation by Mitchell and Raffoul has been made. Their brilliant translation will prove indispensable for theory and criticism in English. Heidegger breathes new life into the ancient Greek meaning of presencing, which is the keynote of his call for the abandonment of all modern realisms, idealisms, and materialisms and for a return to an experience of consciousness that sees itself as part of phenomenal presencing, rather than as something separate and detached from the world. On Kant, Marx, and the meaning of technology, these seminars contain some of Heidegger's most thoughtful insights and arguments. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; lower-level undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *Overall Four Seminars is essentially a glimpse into Heidegger's way of working with students. Its pages recount his effortless command of the sweep of the history of Western philosophy from Anaximander to Husserl and Wittgenstein, his modesty about the accomplishments of Being and Time fifty years after writing the book, his conviction about the fundamental philosophical importance of phenomenological method . . . . Genuine teaching, then, is the demonstration of listening and thinking, not the presentation of content.26.1 2005 * Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal *[This] brilliant translation will prove indispensable for theory and criticism in English. . . . On Kant, Marx, and the meaning of technology, these seminars contain some of Heidegger's most thoughtful insights and arguments. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: Translators' ForewordSeminar in Le Thor 1966Seminar in Le Thor 1968Seminar in Le Thor 1969Seminar in Zähringen 1973German Translator's Afterword to Vier SeminareMartin Heidegger, "The Provenance of Thinking"Martin Heidegger, "Parmenides..."German Editor's Afterword to Collected Works, volume 15Endnotes on the TranslationGlossary German-English English-German
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Human Kinetics Publishers The Swim Coaching Bible Volume II
Book Synopsis In The Swim Coaching Bible, Volume II, 27 of the world’s leading coaches cover the keys to a successful swim program—from establishing priorities and leading a program to its full potential to teaching technique and training for optimal performance. This is the ideal guide to competitive swimming for coaches and swimmers alike. Trade Review “The Swim Coaching Bible, Volume II, offers essential tactics to make training sessions more successful. It should be on every coach’s desk.” Gregg Troy-- Head Swimming and Diving Coach, University of Florida, U.S. Men’s 2012 Olympic Swimming Coach "Dick Hannula and Nort Thornton are two of the most thought-provoking coaches of our time. In The Swim Coaching Bible, Volume II, they have secured a cast of authors second to none to provide an ideal resource for improving swimmers’ performance.” John Leonard-- Executive Director, American Swimming Coaches Association Table of ContentsPart I Establishing Priorities Chapter 1 Developmental Stages of Competitive Swimmers John Leonard Chapter 2 From Youth to Senior in Competitive Swimming Bill Sweetenham Chapter 3 Putting the We in Team Jack Bauerle Chapter 4 Mastering Swimming Through the Years Bob Miller Chapter 5 Building a Team in a Disadvantaged Area Jim Ellis Part II Leading Your Program to Its Full Potential Chapter 6 Applying Science to Your Coaching Jan Prins Chapter 7 The X Factor Revisited George Block Chapter 8 Planning for Success Stephan Widmer Chapter 9 Making Your Program Fun for Swimmers Bob Steele Part III Teaching Stroke Technique Chapter 10 Trends and Techniques in Freestyle Mike Bottom Chapter 11 Trends and Techniques in Backstroke Teri McKeever Chapter 12 Trends and Techniques in Butterfly Bob Bowman Chapter 13 Trends and Techniques in Breaststroke Nort Thornton Chapter 14 The Fifth Stroke: Underwater Kicking Bob Gillett Chapter 15 Better Starts, Turns, and Finishes Dick Hannula Part IV Training for Optimal Performance Chapter 16 The Art of Training Sprinters David Marsh and Bill Pilczuk Chapter 17 Middle Distance Training for All Strokes Jon Urbanchek Chapter 18 Freestyle Distance Training Bill Rose With Mike Lewis Chapter 19 Training for Open Water Sid Cassidy Chapter 20 Individual Medley Training Gregg Troy Chapter 21 Training for Relays David Durden Chapter 22 Dryland Training Vern Gambetta Chapter 23 Power Training in the Pool Dick Shoulberg Part V Final Touches for Peak Performance Chapter 24 Positive Communication, Positive Results Lanny Landtroop Chapter 25 Mind Over Body in Competition Brett Hawke
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Cornell University Press Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt
Book SynopsisOsiris, Horus, Isis, Thoth, Anubis - the many strange and compelling figures of the Egyptian gods and goddesses seem to possess endless fascination. The renowned Egyptologist Erik Hornung here studies the ancient Egyptians' conceptions of god, basing his account on a thorough reappraisal of the primary sources. His book, now available in...Trade ReviewAfter surveying the approaches to Egyptian religion from antiquity through twentieth-century scholarship, Hornung... considers aspects of divinity, the iconography and characteristics of the gods, and the relationship between gods and believers.... A masterly, scrupulously documented work that combines close attention to textual and artifactual evidence with penetrating theological insights. * Library Journal *An excellent historical overview of the gods... It is a recommended necessary reading for those studing Ancient Egyptian religion. * Frankie's Reviews in Egyptology *Hornung asks usually neglected questions concerning what the Egyptians themselves thought about their gods, thus meeting these people on their own terms. Along the way he carefully examines evidence that has been marshaled in favor of monotheism or monotheistic tendencies within what appears to be a vast Egyptian pantheon. Adding to the pleasure and usefulness of this work is the fine translation by John Baines.... Containing a full index, a glossary of gods, and appropriate illustrations, this is a significant volume. * Choice *It is not often that an introduction to the thorny topic of ancient Egyptian religion can be recommended unreservedly.... Over the past thirty-five years the acceptable introductions to Egyptian religion can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and all are from the pens of scholars trained in a Germanic tradition! The present work by Erik Hornung maintains this excellent, though rare, standard. * American Historical Review *
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Stanford University Press Transforming Relationships for High Performance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Inviting and inspiring! Gittell masterfully weaves together academic insights and the voices of change agents to create a compelling guidebook. Each page of this book reveals something critical about the relational dynamics needed for our health care system to function better." -- Kathryn McDonald, Senior Scholar and Executive Director * Stanford Health Policy (CHP/PCOR) *"Positive sustained change in firms happens through relationships. This book is an inspired and substantive account of how relational coordination enables excellence in team and organizational performance. It offers a powerful framework, useful tools, and clear examples that will help readers to create impactful change." -- Jane E. Dutton * University of Michigan *"Jody Hoffer Gittell is one those rare individuals who has successfully translated 'what works' in industry for health care settings. Her relational coordination framework, implementation guide, and case studies provide a coherent approach for moving beyond fragmented efforts to improve teamwork. With this book, you can create organization-wide change based on shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect." -- Don Goldmann, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer * Institute for Healthcare Improvement *"Transforming organizations requires courage, perseverance, and vision. Anyone considering this challenge will find it easier and more doable with the evidence, cases, and tools that Jody Hoffer Gittell provides. This book is a beacon based on her pioneering work on positive relationships that drive and sustain innovation. Let's do it!" -- Thomas A. Kochan * MIT Sloan School of Management and Institute for Work and Employment Research *"We are entering the age of relationships. This book makes a good argument for how effective work relationships will enable us to manage the tough problems which complex cross-cultural interdependent work will increasingly confront us." -- Edgar H. Schein * MIT Sloan School of Management and author of Humble Inquiry and Humble Consulting *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Meeting Performance Pressures with a Relational Response chapter abstractOrganizations in virtually every industry are facing pressures to do more with less. Whether these pressures come from customers, supply chain partners, policy makers or regulators, organizations feel compelled to provide better, higher-quality outcomes, more rapidly, and at lower cost. As always when facing performance pressures, there are critical choices to be made. Namely, will we pursue low-road strategies that rely primarily on the reduction of pay and the degradation of working conditions? Or will we instead pursue the high-road strategies that produce positive outcomes for a broader range of stakeholders? High-road approaches to high performance are fundamentally relational, requiring not just human capital but social capital to integrate across difference, thus creating new value rather than simply redistributing it. 2How Relational Coordination Drives High Performance chapter abstractRelational coordination is simply coordinating work through relationships of shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect. Together, these relational dimensions reinforce communication that is sufficiently frequent, timely, accurate, and problem-solving rather than blaming when things go wrong. Relational coordination is extremely practical, supporting a wide range of positive performance outcomes—efficiency, financial performance, quality, safety, client engagement, worker engagement—as well as the ability for organizations to learn, innovate, and adapt. Relational coordination works especially well under the challenging conditions of uncertainty, interdependence, and time constraints. 3Engaging Clients in Relational Coproduction chapter abstractRelational coproduction happens when workers and their clients produce desired outcomes together by engaging in high-quality communication supported by relationships of shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect. Rather than workers telling clients what they need, relational coproduction involves reciprocal interrelating between workers and clients regarding what should be done and how best to do it. Obstacles to relational coproduction include lack of accountability, lack of knowledge, and excessive attachment to professional autonomy. Traditional professional-client relationships may not even consider the possibility that clients have knowledge enabling them to contribute in a fundamental way to the achievement of desired outcomes. This chapter proposes a new model of professionalism based on "power with" rather than "power over." 4Engaging Co-Workers in Relational Leadership chapter abstractWe know from decades of research that leadership is instrumental for achieving organizational change, whether through the exercise of power or through the exercise of influence. In this chapter we explore relational leadership as an alternative to hierarchy, based on "power with" rather than "power over." More specifically, relational leadership is a process of reciprocal interrelating between leaders and those they lead. Relational leaders create influence in two ways: by developing shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect with others—and by developing shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect among others. Relational leadership requires that leaders have the courage to move beyond the divide-and-conquer strategy to purposely build connections among others. 5How Structures Support—or Undermine—the Three Relational Dynamics chapter abstractManagers and frontline workers often develop relationships at work that enable them to get their jobs done. But these personal ties are not sufficiently reliable to achieve the performance outcomes that are at stake for their organizations, especially organizations that must deliver promised outcomes to multiple stakeholders without missing a beat, whether or not a particular individual happens to be present. Structures are needed to enable reliable performance outcomes, yet existing structures tend to be bureaucratic, creating strong ties within one's area of expertise and weak ties at critical handoffs. This chapter introduces organizational structures that range from selecting and training for teamwork, to shared protocols and shared information systems, designed to reinforce and strengthen relationships across the boundaries where they tend to be weak. 6A Relational Model of Organizational Change chapter abstractA Relational Model of Organizational Change proposes that three types of interventions—relational, work process, and structural—are needed to transform role relationships in a positive and sustainable way. Relational interventions enable participants to transform the way they see themselves and their role within their organization. Relational interventions include building a safe space within which to experiment with new ways of interrelating. To achieve positive sustainable changes in relationships, work process interventions are needed to apply the new dynamics to the work itself, enabling participants to visualize the work they are engaged in and identify opportunities to redesign that work to achieve the desired state. Even this is not sufficient however. Structural interventions are also needed to redesign existing structures to support and sustain the new ways of working together. 7Relational Coordination at Group Health chapter abstractGroup Health Cooperative gives us a chance to explore, up close, efforts to enhance relational coordination for the purpose of achieving high quality performance outcomes more efficiently. In the face of financial and system-level leadership challenges, Group Health's primary care leadership team decided to build on previous successes with lean process improvement by measuring and strengthening relational coordination among frontline care workers. Even though frontline workers and frontline leaders embraced these efforts, the challenges they faced were many, and successes were mixed with failures. 8Relational Coproduction in Varde Municipality chapter abstractPromoting health and wellness in the community means moving away from a narrow focus on treating illness to a broader focus on fostering wellness. It is both more holistic and smarter from the standpoint of shifting investment from downstream consequences to upstream causes. But investing upstream creates a need for relational coordination and coproduction across a greater number of sectors. Varde Municipality of Denmark provides an opportunity to explore efforts to build relational coordination across multiple sectors as well as relational coproduction with citizens themselves. With leadership support from the mayor and the municipal CEO, and a focus on leadership development at the frontline, this change effort was on a path to achieving sustainable positive outcomes. 9Relational Leadership at Dartmouth-Hitchcock chapter abstractThe Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system in central New Hampshire has long enjoyed a sterling reputation for healthcare delivery and innovation. Despite its impressive resources and accomplishments, there were some challenges as well. The Department of Surgery was facing tremendous performance pressures due in part to the shift toward accountable care. To respond to these challenges, the chair of surgery proposed two distinct change initiatives—building relational leadership among his surgical chiefs, and building relational coordination among frontline staff. We follow their journey closely, learning from its successes and its limitations. 10Bringing It All Together at Billings Clinic chapter abstractWhat does it look like to build relational coordination among workers and relational coproduction with your customers, while supported by relational leadership throughout your organization? While no one organization can perfectly exemplify this integrated approach, Billings Clinic was moving in this direction with strong leadership support from frontline workers, unit leaders, middle managers and the CEO. In addition to assessing and feeding back relational coordination metrics, this change initiative used positive deviance and games of positive recognition such as RC Bingo. We observe frontline efforts to redesign structures including payment models, team meetings, and information systems. After starting in an area of existing strength, this change initiative begins spreading to other parts of the system through positive contagion. 11Relational Interventions to Create New Ways of Relating chapter abstractRelational interventions are informed by process consultation, organizational development, and positive psychology. The underlying philosophy is that participants can assume a proactive role in transforming their role relationships with each other, their clients and their leaders, and that ultimate responsibility for change rests in their hands. In this chapter, we learn about relational interventions and the tools associated with them, such as safe spaces, relational mapping, the relational coordination survey, and facilitated dialogue. Interventions informed by relational coordination improve participants' capacity to self-manage their interdependence: to understand their common goals, to understand how their individual work fits into the larger work process, and to carry out their work with a mindfulness of how their actions affect the work of others. 12Work Process Interventions to Create New Ways of Working chapter abstractWhile relational interventions are focused on transforming relationships among those doing the work, work process interventions are focused on transforming the work itself. Process improvement and relational coordination are often seen as competing approaches. For decades, however, sociotechnical systems designers have seen the two as complementary approaches for organizational change. This chapter introduces tools from popular methodologies, such as lean, and microsystems for carrying out work process interventions in three phases: assessing the current state, envisioning the desired state, then experimenting to achieve the desired state. Once participants use relational interventions to begin changing the way they communicate and relate across key boundaries, they are better able to use these tools to change the work itself. 13Structural Interventions to Support and Sustain the New Dynamics chapter abstractStructural interventions are new structures introduced to support and sustain shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect between workers, with their clients, and with their leaders—such as new forms of team meetings, or protocols to clarify roles and the connections between them, or boundary spanners whose role is to coordinate work, or hiring and training for teamwork, or revised structures for accountability and rewards, or newly designed supervisory roles, or shared conflict resolution practices, or shared information systems. While these new structures can support new relational dynamics, they cannot create these dynamics. When participants' sense of self is defined by the old relational dynamics, these new structures will feel unwelcome. These new structures are implemented successfully only when participants themselves see the need for them and participate in their design and implementation, having understood the principles of relational coordination, relational coproduction, and relational leadership through their own direct experience. 14Bringing It All Together in Your Own Organization—and Beyond chapter abstractWith the Relational Model of Organizational Change we have identified three types of interventions that together support sustained positive relational change: relational interventions to give birth to new patterns of interaction, work process interventions to diagnose and improve the work itself, and structural intervention to reinforce and sustain the new ways of working together. We have learned that these three types of interventions are quite synergistic. Given that they come from different "thought worlds," however, it is easy for change agents to become siloed. Perhaps the most powerful learning from this book is the critical role that change agents play in creating organizational change through small actions that have cumulative and transformative effects. The key is to carry out these small actions with intention, with awareness of one's power, as well as deliberate planning with others to create collective impact for positive change.
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