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MR - University of Notre Dame Press The Afternoon of Christianity
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Baker Publishing Group Body of Proof The 7 Best Reasons to Believe in
Book SynopsisDr. Jeremiah Johnston, an acclaimed apologist and scholar, sets out to prove why Christ's victory over death is central to a believer's faith. Straightforward, accessible, and practical, this book examines the latest archaeological and textual findings and presents seven tangible, fresh proofs that Jesus really rose from the dead--and why it matters today.
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Ohio University Press Cy Young An American Baseball Hero
Book SynopsisCy Young: American Baseball Hero tells the life story of Cy Young, the hardest-throwing pitcher in baseball history, and introduces middle-grade readers to America’s favorite pastime, explaining balls, strikes, and outs in an exciting and easy-to-understand way.Trade Review“A well-rounded portrait of an athletic giant. Recommended for libraries where baseball is popular.” * School Library Journal *“Well researched and illustrated with archival photos, this biography tells a straightforward story with clarity and plenty of human interest, while providing related information in sidebars. Fans will enjoy learning why Major League Baseball’s annual pitching awards honor Young as well as such matters as how the sport’s rules have changed over time. An informative sports biography.” * Booklist *“Young fans of baseball, future pitchers, and the casual reader will be well-served by Scott Longert’s portrait of Cy Young, an exceptional individual who has not been given his due in literature written for young people.”“Hits the mark wonderfully. An educational, and entertaining, lesson for grown-up and youngster alike.” * Cleveland.com *
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Indiana University Press The Jew Within
Book SynopsisThrough in-depth interviews with Jews across the country, the authors, probe beneath the surface to explore the foundations of belief and behaviour among moderately affiliated American Jews. Among their thought-provoking conclusions are that the construction of Jewish meaning in America is personal and private.Trade ReviewBased on quantitative data from national statistical surveys and qualitative data teased out from 45 in-depth interviews, social scientists Cohen and Eisen present the most up-to-date analysis of what being Jewish means to moderately affiliated American Jews, who comprise approximately 50-60 percent of the US Jewish population. The authors conclude that these Jews are engaged in a journey whose guidepost is individual autonomy, whose basic thrust is the quest for a personalized, family-centered, nontheological spirituality, and whose fundamental mode of expression is selective ritual behavior. But the interviewees are inconsistent; notwithstanding their smug, self-satisfied affirmation of total independence, they nevertheless seem desperate to envelop themselves somehow with a sense of Jewish family, past and present, and to link themselves to the tribe. The authors explore both the similarities and discontinuities in Jewish identity between this generation of Jews and those of prior decades, and between the identity formation of these Jews and contemporary US Christians; they ruminate about the implications of these Jewish self-definitions for the Jewish future. Furnishing the survey's questionnaire and the interviewers' personal questions, this book constitutes an intelligent, learned, and engaging start for what is sure to be the next generation of assessments of American Jewish identity. All collections. -- B. Kraut * Choice *This is an important book. . . It illustrates the fact that ideas and perceptions of American society and indeed, the entire postmodern world have seeped into and been embedded into the feelings and expression of being Jewish in America. I strongly recommend this book for all persons interested in contemporary religion and certainly, for all interested in the present and future of American Jewry. 89.3 2001 * American Jewish History *. . . [S]ocial scientists Cohen and Eisen present the most up-to-date analysis of what being Jewish means to moderately affiliated American Jews . . . [T]his book constitutes an intelligent, learned, and engaging start for what is sure to be the next generation of assessments of American Jewish identity. May 2001 * Choice *Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. The Sovereign Self3. All in the Family4. Ritual Options5. Echoes of Tribalism6. The Retreat of Public Judaism7. God and the Synagogue8. ConclusionAppendix A: The Interview GuideAppendix B: The SurveyBibliographyIndex
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University of Texas Press Henry J. Kaiser Builder in the Modern American
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wealth of archival material never before utilized, Mark Foster paints an evenhanded portrait of a man of driving ambition and integrity, perhaps the ultimate "can-do" capitalist.Table of Contents Foreword by William H. Goetzmann Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Roots 2. Launching a Career 3. Taming the Wilderness—Roads 4. Taming the Wilderness—Dams 5. Patriot in Pinstripes—Shipbuilding 6. Man of Steel 7. Creating an Image 8. Planning for a Postwar World 9. Debacle in Detroit 10. Venturing Abroad 11. Cargo Planes and Government Investigations 12. Light Metals—Heavy Profits 13. Kaiser and the Doctors 14. Boss 15. Global Development and a Pacific Paradise 16. The Sunset Years Conclusion Notes Bibliographic Note Index
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MU - University of Texas Press The Sacred Landscape of the Inca
Book SynopsisBauer synthesizes extensive archaeological survey work with archival research into the Inca social groups of the Cusco region, their land holdings, and the positions of the shrines to offer a comprehensive, empirical description of the ceque system.Trade ReviewA major contribution to Andean studies... Bauer not only provides a grand synthesis of what is known about the ceque system, but also provides new description, fieldwork, and interpretation. The book will have a wide audience." oClark L. Erickson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of PennsylvaniaTable of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Preface 1. Introduction The Shrines and Ceques of Cusco The Organization of Cusco and the Ceque System Studies of the Cusco Ceque System 2. The Original Ceque System Manuscript The Date of the Original Ceque System Manuscript Sixteenth-Century Writings on the Cusco Ceque System 3. Huacas The Huacas of the Cusco Ceque System Identifying Huacas: A Research Method 4. The Social Organization of Cusco and Its Ceque System Collana, Payan, Cayao Kings, Ayllus, and Ceques 5. The Huacas and Ceques of Chinchaysuyu 6. The Huacas and Ceques of Antisuyu 7. The Huacas and Ceques of Collasuyu 8. The Huacas and Ceques of Cuntisuyu 9. Albornoz and the Cusco Ceque System Albornoz and the Huacas of Chinchaysuyu 10. Systems of Huacas and Ceques: Past and Present Evidence of Other Inca Ceques Possible Evidence of Pre-Inca Ceques: The Nazca Lines Modern Ritual Lines in the Andes 11. An Overview of the Cusco Ceque System Appendix 1: Rowe’s (1980) and Zuidema’s (1964) Numbering Systems for the Cusco Ceque System Appendix 2: Account of the shrines of Cuzco (Bernabé Cobo, Historia del Nuevo Mundo, ms. 1653, Book Thirteen, Chapters 13–16). English translation by John H. Rowe Appendix 3: Suggested Glosses of Huaca Names by Margot Beyersdorff Notes Glossary of Aymara, English, Spanish, and Quechua Terms Bibliography Archival Sources Printed Sources General Index Index of Huaca Names Index of Ceques
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MG - Human Kinetics Spinal Manipulations and Mobilization Techniques
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Stanford University Press The Ignorant Schoolmaster Five Lessons in
Book SynopsisThis text examines intellectual emancipation, the method and philosophy of teaching devised by Joseph Jacotot in 1818. The book contains a description and analysis of Jacotot's method, its premises, and implications for understanding both the learning process and the emancipation that results.Trade Review“An extremely provocative, original, and engaging book, it raises questions of great relevance and urgency about the process of cultural selection and canonization.”–Denis Hollier, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsTranslator's introduction; 1. An intellectual adventure; 2. The ignorant one's lesson; 3. Reason between equals; 4. The society of contempt; 5. The emancipator and his monkey; Notes.
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MG - Human Kinetics NSCAs Guide to Program Design
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Ohio University Press Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of
Book SynopsisJames Madison’s record of the Constitutional Convention traces day by day the debates held from May to September 1787 and presents the only complete picture we have of the strategy, interests, and ideas of the Founders at the convention itself.Trade Review“The one invaluable source for the Federal Convention is, of course, James Madison’s Notes of Debates…. essential for all libraries.” * Harvard Law Review *“An important book…. Certainly this volume should be added to the collection of every library.” * Choice *“In our day when the constitution is often interpreted out of context, or even in an alien context, all who truly revere the Constitution should be conversant with Madison’s Notes, in which are set forth the purposes of the Founding Fathers.” * Journal of Southern History *
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Princeton University Press The Grammar of Ornament A Visual Reference of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Architects, design nerds and hard-core antiquarians may be the natural audience for the reissue of this Victorian-era classic. But if you have wondered--as I have--about the subtle differences between the filigrees featured in Persian, Byzantine and Arabian tilework, The Grammar of Ornament: A Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts (Princeton University Press) is a good book to have on hand. . . . The illustrations are delightful, and perhaps surprisingly, it is easy to pick a page at random and find a bit of tasty decorative information to digest. Summer grazing at its best."---Ted Loos, Introspective Magazine
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Princeton University Press Wildlife of Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Myers (a seasoned specialist who gives bird tour guides with WINGS Birding Tours) presents an easy to use and colorful introduction to the fauna of Southeast Asia. The guide provides a very brief introduction to wildlife viewing skills and etiquette."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 6 Introduction 6 Geographic Coverage 6 Measurements 6 Basic Tips for Visitors 8 Guide to the Best Spots for Viewing Wildlife in Southeast Asia 10 Species Accounts Birds 26 Mammals 174 Reptiles 210 Frogs 226 Invertebrates 230 References 244 Photo Credits 244 Index 249
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John Wiley & Sons Regeneration Through Violence The Mythology of
Book SynopsisOriginally published: Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Harpsichord Owners Guide A Manual for Buyers
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Crossway Books The Meaning of Easter (25–pack RD)
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Duke University Press The Long War on Drugs
Book SynopsisAnne L. Foster provides a comprehensive overview of the war on drugs, its failures and continued appeal, and the international consequences of US drug policy.Trade Review“The Long War on Drugs makes diplomatic history, the interaction between US domestic and regional drug policies, and social and cultural history work together to show how the present has been produced by the past. In beautiful prose, Anne L. Foster explains the diplomatic history of global prohibition and the various national interests it has supposedly served over time. Foster does a great job of bringing the current situation into view.” -- Nancy D. Campbell, author of * OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose *“A smart, compelling, and accessible soup-to-nuts narrative history of US drug wars at home and abroad. It’s a terrific survey for newcomers that also advances the field with fresh insights and synthesis.” -- David Herzberg, author of * White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Meaning of Drugs 1 1. The Many Uses of Drugs 5 Part I. The Battle for Prohibition, 1870–1940 15 2. Identifying the Problem 19 3. Deciding on Prohibition 31 4. International Conferences 42 5. Changing Practice and Policy in Medicine and Public Health 55 Part II. To a Declaration of a War on Drugs, 1940–1980 67 6. Opportunities of World War II and Its Aftermath 71 7. US Laws and International Conventions 82 8. Who Is Using? 96 9. War on Drugs Declared 109 Part III. Blurring the Lines, 1980–Present 123 10. Mandatory Minimums 127 11. Environmental Effects of the War on Drugs 139 12. Marijuana’s Different Path 152 13. New Challenges to the War on Drugs 164 Conclusion. Never-Ending War on Drugs? 175 Glossary 179 Notes 181 Suggestions for Further Reading 193 Index 199
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Baker Publishing Group A Basic Guide to Interpreting the Bible Playing
Book SynopsisThis completely revised edition helps readers identify various biblical genres, understand the meaning of biblical texts, and apply that meaning to contemporary life.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionIntroductionPart 1: The General Rules of Interpretation1. Who Makes Up the Rules? An Introduction to Hermeneutics2. Defining the Rules: A Vocabulary for Interpretation3. Can Anyone Play This Game? The Spirit and Biblical Interpretation4. Different Games in the Same Book: Different Forms of ScripturePart 2: The Specific Rules for the Individual Games5. The Game of Stories: Biblical Narrative6. The Game of Rules: Covenants and Laws7. The Game of Rhythm: Poetry8. The Game of Songs: Psalms9. The Game of Wisdom: Proverbs10. The Game of Prediction: Prophecy11. The Game of Jargon: Idioms12. The Game of Comparison: Parables13. The Game of Exaggeration: Overstatement and Hyperbole14. The Game of Correspondence: Epistles and LettersAppendixesGlossaryIndexes
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Indiana University Press The Phenomenology of Internal TimeConsciousness
Book SynopsisThe ideas presented in The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness were origionally presented as lectures that were given between 1904–1910 during which Husserl explored the terrain of consciousness in light of its temporality.Trade ReviewAs an addition to the small body of Husserl's writings now available in English (Ideas 1931; Meditations, 1960), this book is essential to even a small collection of source works on contemporary philosophy. * Choice *
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Edward Elgar Advanced Introduction to International Humanitar
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SPCK - Crossway ESV Single Column Journaling Bible Artist Series
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Crossway Books Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross
Book SynopsisThis collection of 25 readings, compiled by Nancy Guthrie, features writings and sermons from classic and contemporary theologians and Bible teachers, each encouraging thoughtful contemplation of the cross and resurrection during the Easter season.
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New York University Press True Sex
Book SynopsisWinner, 2018 U.S. History PROSE AwardThe incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities in the late 1800sIn 1883, Frank Dubois gained national attention for his life in Waupun, Wisconsin. There he was known as a hard-working man, married to a young woman named Gertrude Fuller. What drew national attention to his seemingly unremarkable life was that he was revealed to be anatomically female. Dubois fit so well within the small community that the townspeople only discovered his true sex when his former husband and their two children arrived in the town searching in desperation for their departed wife and mother. At the turn of the twentieth century, trans men were not necessarily urban rebels seeking to overturn stifling gender roles. In fact, they often sought to pass as conventional men, choosing to live in small towns where they led ordinary lives, aligning themselves with the expectations of their communities. They were, in a word, unexceptional. In TruTrade ReviewSkidmore offers a three-fold critique. First, she provides well-drawn and sympathetic profiles of the compelling trans men considered; second, she offers a critical assessment of the press of the day and how it helped foster a new morality . . .and third, she engages in an ongoing critique of her field of study, LGBT scholarship. * New York Journal of Books *In True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century, Emily Skidmore describes how manhood in that day was as much a moral status as a sexual category. . .an especially intriguing . . . analysis. * Inside Higher Education *Dynamic, compelling, and wholly original,True Sexis an invaluable addition to LGBTQ studies. * Foreword Reviews *Afascinating, humanizing look into the lives of trans men at the turn of the 20th century. * Library Journal *Though an influx of bathroom bills would have us believe that disrupting the gender binary is a new phenomenon, trans people have been hereliving, assimilating, and creating families that protected them . . . Youll be engrossed by their lives, and how Skidmore interweaves American history with their decisions. * Bitch Magazine *True Sex is an important addition to queer and gender history and an insightful study of trans men that . . . challenge[s] several prevailing gender and queer theories. This brilliantly written and meticulously researched book should be part of all university gender curriculums. * The Washington Bookreview *A lucid, compelling, and counterintuitive exploration of transmen at the turn of the twentieth century. In showing that many transmen were accepted by their communities, both in life and in death, Skidmore complicates a number of the accepted tenets of queer historiography: that queer people were persecuted, that sexology informed that persecution, and that queer people necessarily flocked to places where they might find community with people like themselves. -- Nicholas Syrett, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of KansasEmily Skidmore's True Sex is an important addition to the literature on transgender history, offering a fresh approach to studying the subject and a wealth of new information that will help to broaden our understanding of sex and gender roles. * Popmatters *In this important account of the 'unexceptional queerness' of transmasculine people living, loving, workingand dying in non-metropolitian locations throughout the United States around the turn of the last century, Emily Skidmore makes brilliant use of the searchable online databases of historical newspapers that have revolutionized our understanding of the past to tell us a newstory about what the world was once like. -- Susan Stryker,founding co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies QuarterlyThe best sort of history surprising and delightful. Emily Skidmores True Sex reveals ordinary American communities at the turn of the twentieth century to have been much queerer than commonly imagined. By reconstructing the lives of trans men whose stories appeared in newspapers between 1870 and 1930, Skidmore makes a major contribution to our knowledge of queer history. -- Rachel Hope Cleves,University of VictoriaTracking revelations of true sex in the decades around the turn of the twentieth-century U.S., Emily Skidmore recovers a history full of surprises: one in which people assigned female at birth lived ordinary lives as men, often in small towns and rural outposts. Newspaper revelations about trans men, Skidmore proposes, invited debate about queer embodiment and the porous boundaries of the gender binary. True Sex contains provocations and insights for queer history, for trans history, and for American history. -- Regina Kunzel,author of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American SexualityTrue Sex is a truly phenomenal book. Expansive in scope and implication, Emily Skidmores meticulously researched study of gender non-conformity in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century United States is all the more impressive for its dogged insistence that local entanglements often mattered more than expert opinion where Americans shifting beliefs about gender and sexual difference were concerned. A major contribution to the study of rural and small-town Americas little explored queer history, and an equally significant contribution to our understanding of rural and small-town Americas crucially important place in the history of queer life in the United States. -- Colin R. Johnson,author of Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural AmericaThe personal accounts are presented in compelling detail and with compassion, living up to the promise of intimacy suggested by the cover photo of trans man Kenneth Lisonbee and his wife Stella Harper from the unlikely year of 1929. * The Gay & Lesbian Review *True Sex explores the varied histories of American trans men long before that designation even existed. Reviewing newspapers and the literature of the field then known as sexology, as well as census data, court records, and trial transcripts, Skidmore weaves a tale of American gender that is far more complex than many might think, one that reveals that [gender]has never been a fixed reality. * Timeline.com *This book is not just lucid and easy to follow but also compelling and eye opening because it shows that our past generations were not only tolerant to non-normative sexual practices but also celebrated sexual inversions and differences. * Sexuality and Culture *
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Crossway Books Whatever Happened to the Human Race
Book SynopsisWhat Happened to the Human Race? challenges readers to think deeply about many of the anti-God and antilife practices that dominate American society. This book is a call to action, encouraging Christians to take a stand against issues such as abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia.
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John Wiley & Sons A Pedagogy of Kindness
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Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc Communication Sciences and Disorders From Science
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Architecture against Democracy
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University of Toronto Press Leadership is Half the Story
Book SynopsisCan you imagine a choreographer only training one dancer to lead while his or her partner sits in the lobby staring at the wall? Yet we do this all the time in organizations. Half the partnership is missing.Leadership is Half the Story introduces the first model to seamlessly integrate leadership, followership, and partnerships. This research-backed, field-tested book contributes many new ideas and practical advice for everyone in an organization – from CEO to HR director to front-line manager to consultant.All of us lead, not just those with the formal title. All of us follow, not just front-line staff. In great collaborations, one moment we are leading and then we flip to following; in other words, the relationship between leadership and followership is dynamic, context-specific, and ever-evolving. This empowering perspective opens up leadership to everyone, normalizes followership, and enables more productive and innovative collaborations. Candid discTrade Review"This book practically glows with energy and vision! In highly accessible, entertaining portions Sam and Marc Hurwitz have presented us with a forward-thinking, prescient guide to success in business in today's unpredictable market.Build agile, innovative, efficient teams in your organization today for greater success tomorrow!" -- Marshall Goldsmith, top-ranked executive coach; Thinkers 50 Top Ten Global Business Thinker; author or editor of 34 books including the global bestsellers 'MOJO' and 'What Got You Here Won't Get You There' "Samantha and Marc Hurwitz have made leadership whole. Teams need great leaders as well as great followers." -- Razor Suleman, Founder and Chief Achiever, Achievers, Inc. "In this remarkable book, Samantha and Marc Hurwitz radically challenge the conventional wisdom on leadership. Leaders aren't more important than followers, they say. To innovate fast, leaders and followers must be equal partners - together creatingco-flow.'Leadership Is Half the Story'is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how companies, organizations, and governments can adapt, innovate, and thrive in a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world." -- Thomas Homer-Dixon, Chair of Global Systems, Balsillie School of International Affairs; author, 'The Ingenuity Gap' and 'The Upside of Down'Table of ContentsList of Tools Preface: Our Stories and Why We Wrote This Book Acknowledgments SECTION I: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 Why 21st-Century Workplaces Require a Radically Different Approach ... and a Radically Different Approach * Work Is Done in Teams - From Flow to Co-flow* Continuous Relationship Building - Interpersonal Agility Is the Essential Workplace Competency* Introducing the Generative Partnership(R) Model CHAPTER 2 A Fresh Look at the F-Word: Followership CHAPTER 3 A New Kind of Leadership SECTION II: GUIDING PRINCIPLES CHAPTER 4 Principle 1: Partnerships Need Leadership and Followership. They Are Equal, Dynamic, and Different. CHAPTER 5 Principle 2: Leadership Is Setting the Frame. Followership Is Creating Within It. CHAPTER 6 Principle 3: Lean In to Build Connection. CHAPTER 7 Principle 4: Value the Positive, and Build on It. CHAPTER 8 Principle 5: Have Deeply Shared Goals. SECTION III: SKILLS CHAPTER 9 Decision Partnering Skills * Kirk vs. Spock: Whom Would You Entrust with Your Decisions? * Decision Framing: The Leadership Role * Decision Advocating: The Followership Role CHAPTER 10 Relationship Partnering Skills * Relationship Checkmate and How to Avoid a Stalemate * Relationship Framing: The Leadership Role * Relationship Building: The Followership Role CHAPTER 11 Organizational Agility Partnering Skills * Don't Be a Sea Squirt and Eat Your Brain! * Organizational Mentoring: The Leadership Role * Organizational Agility: The Followership Role CHAPTER 12 Communication Partnering Skills * Four-Way Communications, Barriers, Biases, and Blunders * Cascade Communicating: The Leadership Role * Dashboard Communicating: The Followership Role CHAPTER 13 Performance Partnering Skills * Honk if You Like My Driving! * The Commitment and Engagement Agreement * The DNA of Performance * Performance Coaching: The Leadership Role * Peak Performing: The Followership Role CHAPTER 14 Personal, Team, and Organizational Development * Personal Development * Team Development * Organizational Development Notes References Index
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Classic Cattleyas
Book SynopsisIn 1818, William Cattley succeeded in flowering one of the first species of the genus that would bear his name. These first cattleyas are the classic cattleyas, whose form defined the essence of tropical orchids for generations to come. In this helpful and informative book, each classic Cattleya species is described in fascinating detail.
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MP-HVD Harvard Education Pre Culturally Responsive School Leadership
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New York University Press Classical Arabic Literature
Book SynopsisPresents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose, from pre-Islamic times until the 18th century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative endnotes and bibliography for advanced scholars.Trade ReviewRanges over more than seven centuries, and flows with surprises and delights, aching love poems and weird, cruel fables, and Thomas Browneian reflections on the nature of Flies, or the relations between mystics and elephants, all beguilingly rendered and scrupulously commented. -- Marina Warner * Times Literary Supplement *Van Gelder's translations are pleasant and clear, which is no small feat, especially with poetry... A work that will be enjoyed by many scholars and lay readers. -- Letizia Osti * Middle East Literatures *The perfect collection to launch the Library of Arabic Literatureof interest to the scholar, the student, and the general reader. Its coverage is excellent, both in terms of historical sweep and generic variety. -- Richard Sieburth, Professor of Comparative Literature, New York UniversityThe translations of this volume are a marvel, and often a tour de forceprecise, highly readable and evocative, with the benefit of well-honed use of iambic and other rhythmic devices. Though Van Gelder reminds us that he is not a native English speaker, his English strikes me as no less superlative than, say, Nabokovs mastery of the language * The National *Van Gelder succeeds in maintaining a high standard for literary translation This anthology is remarkable in its attention to the intricate patterns of meter and rhyme in Arabic poetry and in its combination of familiar and unfamiliar texts. Highly recommended. * Choice *Promises to be an invaluable mine of knowledge for scholars and general readers who need an introduction to the universal appeal and validity of the enlightening and enlightened literary heritage of the Arabic-Islamic intellectual tradition. * Journal of Islamic Studies *By and large, this volume, and indeed the entire series, promises to be an invaluable mine of knowledge for scholars and general readers who need an introduction to the universal appeal and validity of the enlightening and enlightened literary heritage of the Arabic-Islamic intellectual tradition. * Journal of Islamic Studies *Table of ContentsLetter from the General EditorAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Notes to the Introduction Verse ProseNotes Chronology Glossary of Names and TermsBibliography Further Reading Index About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute About the Typefaces About the Translator
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Wild Dog Dreaming
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Duke University Press Surrealism at Play
Book SynopsisIn Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, play took a consistent role in their aesthetic as they worked in, with, and against a post-World War Iworld increasingly dominated by technology and functionalism. Whether through exquisite-corpse drawings, Man Ray’s rayographs, or Joan Miró’s visual puns, surrealists became adept at developing techniques and processes designed to guarantee aleatory outcomes. In embracing chance as the means to produce unforeseeable ends, they shifted emphasis from final product to process, challenging the disciplinary structures of industrial modernism. As Laxton demonstrates, play became a primary method through which surrealism refashioned artistic practice, everyday experience, and the nature of subjectivity.Trade Review"This volume adds another layer of interpretation and visual analysis to the mass of recent scholarship on surrealism during its heyday. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -- W. S. Bradley * Choice *"Surrealism at Play is a major contribution to the study of surrealism: Laxton balances a close reading of artwork with theoretical analysis. Every art school and college that covers surrealism in its curriculum and every museum with surrealist works in its collection should acquire this work." -- Stephen Bury * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"This book, without doubt, will take its rightful place alongside the best works in art history and literary criticism. Very well written, extensively researched, and breaking new ground in the understanding of surrealism." -- Robert Maddox-Harle * Leonardo Reviews *"Surrealism at Play passionately traces how a particular art movement envisioned and articulated its own transformative potential. . . . Laxton helps us understand the Surrealists’ insistence on irrationality not as a sport, but rather as an attempt to engage in the political debates of their time." -- Ela Bittencourt * Hyperallergic *"Laxton’s project is a major accomplishment, matching extensive imagination with scholarly rigor." -- Natalie Dupêcher * CAA Reviews *“Laxton’s elegantly written book engages with the topical question of play and points to future research on avant-garde and contemporary art along ludic critical lines.” -- Xiaofan Amy Li * French Studies *“Laxton’s sharp, well-informed, and incisive study offers a rich exploration of the serious business of surrealist play.” -- Johanna Malt * Modernism/modernity *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. A Modern Critical Ludic 1 1. Blur 29 2. Drift 72 3. System 137 4. Pun 185 5. Postlude 246 Notes 273 Bibliography 331 Index 351
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Princeton University Press Ibn Khaldun
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the Financial Times' Best Books of the Year: Critics' Picks""One of Asian Review of Books' Books of the Year (Biography & Memoir)""In Robert Irwin, Ibn Khaldun has finally found a biographer and interpreter almost as versatile and learned as he was himself."---Eric Ormsby, Wall Street Journal"A compelling new account of the 14th-century Arab historian and polymath. . . . Irwin has produced an exemplary work."---Gavin Jacobson, Financial Times"As an introduction to Ibn Khaldun’s fascinating life and times, his ideas, and how they have been understood and misunderstood over the centuries, you could hardly wish for something better."---Thomas Small, Times Literary Supplement"Irwin wears his immense erudition lightly and gives an often very funny account of how orientalists, historians and modern Arab nationalist have interpreted Ibn Khaldun’s most famous work. . . . Irwin offers his readers a superb work of intellectual recovery, one which presents Ibn Khaldun as a creature of his time. . . . He has resurrected for us the medieval Muslim mind."---Francis Ghilès, The Spectator"Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography is both an introduction to his work and an intervention into Ibn Khaldun studies."---Sameer Rahim, Prospect"The great merit of Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography is that it encourages us to treat the intellectual history of the Islamic world not as a battleground for contemporary ideological struggles but as a subject worthy of investigation in its own right."---Fitzroy Morrissey, Standpoint"Irwin’s book lives up to its name. . . . [It is] a work that will be of interest not only to students of Islamic intellectual history, but also to students of historiography, sociology, and anthropology. Irwin’s writing is accessible to all levels of readership. Well suited for seminar discussions, as it offers much to debate."---T.M. May, Choice"Irwin’s portrait of the philosopher is beautifully written, intriguing, stimulating and movingly intimate."---Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society"In his highly readable appraisal of Ibn Khaldun’s life and work, Robert Irwin sets out to demythologize and, at the same time, remystify a man whose mind was formed far from the seminar rooms of 20th-century social science. . . . [C]oncise and compelling."---Nile Green, Los Angeles Review of Books"I did enjoy this style of biography as Irwin brought the mind of Ibn Khaldun into focus and showed the genius that [is] worthy of standing with other ‘well-regarded’ thinkers of the past."---Gaele Hince, I am, Indeed blog"The book is entertaining and thought-provoking in itself; it is not the last word but provides a fascinating guide to further reading."---Patrick Manning, Connections"Irwin's book is very informative and well-argued in addressing the life and works of Ibn Khaldun in both historical and intellectual contexts."---Fadi Zatari, Insight Turkey"This book engages the mind in a positive way and provides an academic but highly accessible introduction to a complex topic."---Abdullah Drury, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations"A noteworthy contribution to this ever-growing literature about Ibn Khaldun’s life, ideas and scholarly influence."---Prof Dr Oktay F. Tanrisever, Rest Journal"Irwin’s book is useful, engaging, commendable, and important. Given how Ibn Khaldun used to be misread, Irwin’s is a necessary book."---Ephraim Nissan, Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei
£22.50
Stanford University Press The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Book SynopsisThis major philosophic work by one of the most important Muslim and Western religious philosophers of the 20th century continues to exert an important literary, religious, and political influence today.Trade Review"Given Iqbal's indisputable significance as a modern Muslim thinker, the Stanford edition of his Reconstruction will introduce his thought to a wide audience both in academe and among the general public in the West. It bids fair to become a milestone in the history of Iqbal studies."—Mustansir Mir, Youngstown State University
£17.99
