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Book SynopsisA new and provocative reassessment of the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict

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Book SynopsisTell gives us five accounts of the commemoration of the infamous murder of Emmett Till in the Mississippi Delta.

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Book SynopsisThis up-to-date monograph on the doctrine of sin looks at what the Bible teaches about sin, exploring its origin, nature, and consequences, and engages with historical and contemporary movements.

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Book SynopsisAs he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum in Eastern Europe and the US's westward expansion under the banner of Manifest Destiny. Edward Westermann examines the validity, and value, of this claim in this volume.Trade ReviewThis thoughtful, provocative book compares the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe with the United States's conquest of the American West. Its insights and conclusions are sure to stimulate new debates among a broad array of scholars."" - Robert Wooster, author of The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783 - 1900""…this sensitive and incisive book…has set a high standard for future work on mass violence and genocide."" - American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisOffers a critical analysis of the production of a distinct form of twenty-first century celebrity constructed through the exploding coverage of reality television cast members in Us Weekly magazine.Trade Review“Highly engaging and readable, Extraordinarily Ordinary is a clear, in-depth analysis of both the celebrity gossip magazine genre and the nature of fame in the 21st century.” -- Andrea McDonnell * coauthor of Celebrity: A History of Fame *"Erin A. Meyers provides a masterful, lively account of reality TV celebrity. Extraordinarily Ordinary is a must-read for anyone eager to understand the meaning and power of celebrity today." -- Julie Wilson * coauthor of Mothering through Precarity: Women’s Work and Digital Media *“Highly engaging and readable, Extraordinarily Ordinary is a clear, in-depth analysis of both the celebrity gossip magazine genre and the nature of fame in the 21st century.” -- Andrea McDonnell * coauthor of Celebrity: A History of Fame *"Erin A. Meyers provides a masterful, lively account of reality TV celebrity. Extraordinarily Ordinary is a must-read for anyone eager to understand the meaning and power of celebrity today." -- Julie Wilson * coauthor of Mothering through Precarity: Women’s Work and Digital Media *Table of ContentsThe Ordinary and the Extraordinary: Unpacking the Celebrity Image The Labor of Ordinariness: Famous for "Being Yourself" Celebrity Lifestyle Labor: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary Lauren Conrad: Us Weekly and the Extraordinarily Ordinary Celebrity Conclusion: The Future of the Extraordinarily Ordinary Celebrity

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface | xiii 1 Trump’s Family Romance and the Magic of Television | 1 2 Gaslight and the Shock Politics Two-Step | 13 3 The President’s House Is Empty: Inauguration Day | 33 4 He Said, He Said: The Feminization of James Comey | 39 5 The Members-Only President Goes to Alabama | 46 6 An Empire unto Himself? Harvey Weinstein’s Downfall | 52 7 Race and the Revolving Door of (Un)Reality TV | 56 8 They Want Civility, Let’s Give It to Them | 62 9 Stormy Daniels’s #MeToo Moment | 70 10 The Trump Doctrine | 76 11 Jon Stewart and the Limits of Mockery | 81 12 Bullying Canada: An American Presidential Tradition | 86 13 House Renovations: For Christine Blasey Ford | 92 14 No Collision: Opting Out of Catastrophe | 98 15 Epstein, Barr, and the Virus of Civic Fatigue (with Sara Rushing) | 107 16 Mueller, They Wrote | 112 17 Unbelievable: Scenes from a Structure | 117 18 Gothic Girls: Bombshell’s Variation on a Theme | 126 19 Boxed In: Debbie Dingell vs. Donald Trump | 130 20 Mediating Masculinity: Rambo Republicanism and the Long Iran Crisis | 138 21 “13 Angry Democrats”? A Noir Reading of 12 Angry Men | 145 22 In the Streets a Serenade: Siena under Lockdown | 153 23 Isn’t It Ironic? Spitballing in a Pandemic | 157 24 Build That Wall: The Politics of Motherhood in Portland | 163 25 Impenetrable: Gaslighting the 14th Amendment | 171 26 “Hallelujah”: The People Want Their House Back | 178 27 Loose Threads | 184 Acknowledgments | 195 Notes | 199 Credits | 241

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Book SynopsisAddresses a critical aspect of the occupational therapy practice–the art and science of building effective therapeutic relationships with clients. Renée Taylor has defined a conceptual practice model to identify how the client and the therapist each contribute to the unique interpersonal dynamic that becomes the therapeutic relationship.Table of Contents PART I. Theoretical Foundations and Guidelines for Practice 1. Therapeutic Use of Self in Occupational Therapy: The Importance of Empathy and Intentionality 2. What Defines a Good Therapist? 3. A Model of the Intentional Relationship 4. Knowing Ourselves as Therapists: Introducing the Therapeutic Modes 5. Being Client-Centered: Understanding Interpersonal Characteristics and Mode Preferences 6. Complexities within Client-Therapist Relationships: Inevitable Interpersonal Events of Therapy 7. Uncomplicating the Complicated: The Interpersonal Reasoning Process PART II. Building an Interpersonal Skill Base 8. Therapeutic Communication 9. Establishing Intentional Relationships 10. The Intentional Interview and Strategic Questioning 11. Understanding Families, Social Systems, and Group Dynamics in Occupational Therapy 12. Understanding and Managing Difficult Behavior 13. Resolving Empathic Breaks and Conflicts 14. Professional Behavior, Values, and Ethics 15. On Being Intentional on Fieldwork and in Interprofessional Practice Settings 16. On Becoming a Better Therapist: Self-Care and Developing your Therapeutic Use of Self Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2011 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies, South Asia Council""One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009""This brilliant book does many things well, but two stand out. It is an overview of the art, especially architecture and architectural decoration, of what is now northern India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan from the eighth to the thirteenth centuries--from the arrival of Islam to the eve of the Mongol conquests. It is also a trenchant essay of interpretation, substituting a richly textured consideration of cultural dynamics and cultural change on a theoretical level for the traditional dichotomy of Hindu versus Muslim. . . . Nothing is comparable to this deeply learned, engrossing, and well-written albeit often challenging work, which is full of compelling discussions of important monuments. It deserves a wide readership."---L. Nees, Choice"[A] brilliant, far-ranging study. . . . This book is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the medieval 'Hindu-Muslim' encounter."---John E. Cort, Religious Studies Review"Flood's is an outstanding book and its level of scholarship is far in excess of any other work on medieval Indian history that I am aware of. It is a book that gladdens one's heart as much as it enriches one's mind."---Harbans Mukhia, Medieval History Journal"This book will not only be of interest to scholars of material culture, art and architectural history, religion, and medieval history, but is also entirely relevant to scholars of modern South Asia. In its insistence on mobility--of objects, people, and ideas--and resistance to boundaries, Flood's book is a timely reminder that global mobility is hardly a new phenomenon."---Preeti Chopra, Contemporary South Asia"This book is a most welcomed addition to the still meager though growing number of studies in Islamic art and material culture, which are based on theoretical premises and on a close, comparative scrutiny of multiple visual objects and texts. . . . [D]ue to its rich material and novel ideas, this book is a necessary asset in the library of historians and art historians of the Muslim world and India, and a useful text-book in academic teaching, hard to read but fully rewarding."---Rachel Milstein, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

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Book SynopsisIn this era of "devolution" the American federal government has been increasingly removed from the provision of services and support to vulnerable populations. This book presents a framework for understanding the impact of these developments on the practice of social work.Trade Review"This is an interesting book which covers a wide range of issues relating to what the editors refer to as "devolution." -The British Journal of Social Work

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based life projects of the Yshiro indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco, and the agendas of scholars and activists.Trade Review“This is an important contribution to anthropological efforts to go beyond critical analysis of development towards a deeper understanding of such projects.” - John Gledhill, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“With a sensitivity to the political nature of the politics of representation, the author passionately argues for a dialogue of knowledge in order to make visible the “anomalies” experienced by Yshiro-Ebitoso communities in Paraguay since 1986, and the political consequences from development interventions beyond the Chaco.” - Alberto Arce, The Americas“A timely contribution to the ethnographic record of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, this book … about the Yshiro, also known as Chamacoco, of the Alto Paraguay Chaco constitutes an innovative anti-totalizing text inspired by border theory and postwestern thought... The book strengthens studies on Native American Societies, specifically the stunning resilience of South American Indians, complementing an experience of survival with other socionatures around the world.” - Guillermo Delgado-P., The Canadian Journal of Native Studies“Storytelling Globalization: From the Chaco and Beyond is a creative—and to some lengths courageous—attempt to demonstrate a different kind of ethnography. . . . Blaser is attempting to tell stories of globalization from and with the Yshiro, and the result will prove an important model for practitioners interested in producing knowledge that in a nonreductive register.” - Jeremy M. Campbell, American Anthropologist“Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond is an anthropological tour de force with strong philosophical, political, epistemic, and ontological implications. Mario Blaser shifts the geopolitics of knowing and reasoning by looking at globalization not only from the south but also and mainly through the eyes of those who endure its consequences. In the narratives Blaser presents, border thinking takes on new dimensions and is shown to be an essential aspect of de-colonial thought. Notions about ‘objectivity’ and ‘universal truth’ necessarily give way to a recognition of ontological diversity.”—Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Idea of Latin America“In this instructive and original work, modernity and the drama of globalization offer a historical horizon in relation to which both the activity of the anthropologist and the problems faced by the Yshiro communities in Paraguay are explored. Border dialogue (perhaps even border anthropology) is born precisely in the encounter between modern globalizing tendencies and the opening up of a different global imaginary, one rooted in the reality of there being many epistemic and social worlds.”—Nelson Maldonado-Torres, author of Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity“Mario Blaser’s talented and deeply insightful storytelling opens up paths into the transition from modernity to globality. Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond is a work of depth, scholarship, and hopefulness. Blaser’s years of learning and collaborating with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco have pressed him to ask questions that destabilize much of the taken-for-granted knowledge of the Euromodern academy. With his research interlocutor Don Veneto Vera to prod him into dialogical investigations of relational ontologies in the pluriverse, Blaser brings us, the readers, into places where incisiveness, analysis, and passionate commitment converge. This book demonstrates and enacts the power of strong stories: to change our understandings, to open other worlds, to give us untamed glimpses of substantive alternatives for life on Earth.”—Deborah Bird Rose, author of Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation“When ‘the rest’ meets ‘the West,’ are the modern stories enough? In this deeply disturbing and thought-provoking book, Mario Blaser shows that for the marginalized and exploited, the world is storied and materialized quite differently. Forced to recognize that hegemonic Western knowledges, institutions, and worlds deny those realities, Blaser tells a destabilizing but ultimately affirmative story that is simultaneously analytical, political, and ontological. This superb book will be compulsory reading for all students of anthropology, development studies, postcolonialism, and science and technology studies.”—John Law, author of After Method: Mess in Social Science Research“Storytelling Globalization: From the Chaco and Beyond is a creative—and to some lengths courageous—attempt to demonstrate a different kind of ethnography. . . . Blaser is attempting to tell stories of globalization from and with the Yshiro, and the result will prove an important model for practitioners interested in producing knowledge that in a nonreductive register.” -- Jeremy M. Campbell * American Anthropologist *“A timely contribution to the ethnographic record of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, this book … about the Yshiro, also known as Chamacoco, of the Alto Paraguay Chaco constitutes an innovative anti-totalizing text inspired by border theory and postwestern thought... The book strengthens studies on Native American Societies, specifically the stunning resilience of South American Indians, complementing an experience of survival with other socionatures around the world.” -- Guillermo Delgado-P. * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *“This is an important contribution to anthropological efforts to go beyond critical analysis of development towards a deeper understanding of such projects.” -- John Gledhill * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“With a sensitivity to the political nature of the politics of representation, the author passionately argues for a dialogue of knowledge in order to make visible the “anomalies” experienced by Yshiro-Ebitoso communities in Paraguay since 1986, and the political consequences from development interventions beyond the Chaco.” -- Alberto Arce * The Americas *Table of ContentsAbout the Series viii Map List ix Preface xi Introduction. Globalization and the Struggle for Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise 1 1. Puruhle/Genealogies 1. Laissez-Faire Progress: Invisibilizing the Yrmo 41 2. State-Driven Development: Stabilizing Modernity 63 3. Sustainable Development: Modernity Unravels? 80 2. Porowo/Moralities 4. Enacting the Yrmo 105 5. Taming Differences 126 3. Azle/Translations 6. Translating Neoliberalism 149 7. A World in which Many Worlds (Are Forced to) Fit 171 8. Becoming the Yshiro Nation 188 9. Reality Check 209 Conclusion. Eisheraho/Renewal 227 Acronyms 241 Notes 243 Glossary 257 References 259 Index 283

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Book SynopsisDSM-5-TR is the most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to today's mental health clinicians and researchers. With contributions from over 200 subject matter experts, this must-have updated volume boasts the most current text updates based on the current literature.Table of ContentsDSM-5-TR ClassificationPreface Section I: DSM-5-TR Basics IntroductionUse of the ManualCautionary Statement for Forensic Use of DSM-5-TR Section II: Diagnostic Criteria and Codes Neurodevelopmental DisordersSchizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic DisordersBipolar and Related DisordersDepressive DisordersAnxiety DisordersObsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersTrauma- and Stressor-Related DisordersDissociative DisordersSomatic Symptom and Related DisordersFeeding and Eating DisordersElimination DisordersSleep-Wake DisordersSexual DysfunctionsGender DysphoriaDisruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct DisordersSubstance-Related and Addictive DisordersNeurocognitive DisordersPersonality DisordersParaphilic DisordersOther Mental DisordersMedication-Induced Movement Disorders and Other Adverse Effects of MedicationOther Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention Section III: Emerging Measures and Models Assessment MeasuresCulture and Psychiatric DiagnosesAlternative DSM-5 Model for Personality DisordersConditions for Further StudyAppendixAlphabetical Listing of DSM-5-TR Diagnoses and Codes (ICD-10-CM)Numerical Listing of DSM-5-TR Diagnoses and Codes (ICD-10-CM)DSM-5 Advisors and Other ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents topics in probability theory covered during a first-year graduate course given at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA. The necessary background material in measure theory is developed, including all the standard topics.Table of ContentsMeasure theory; Weak convergence; Independent sums; Dependent random variables; Martingales; Stationary stochastic processes; Dynamic programming and filtering; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisFeatures writings on contemporary art and culture by the author, a painter and feminist art theorist. Mixing theory and practice, the personal and the political, this book tackles questions about the place of feminism in art and political discourse, and the aesthetics and values of contemporary painting.Trade Review“Mira Schor reminds us that some of the best, and most eye-opening, writing on art has always been made by artists themselves. The essays in A Decade of Negative Thinking demolish countless widely held assumptions about contemporary art, and do so with a compelling blend of skepticism and passion.”—Raphael Rubinstein, author of Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism, 1990–2002“This collection of essays by one of the most engaging writers of contemporary art critically excavates and redefines the enduring questions in aesthetics and politics with extraordinary verve and urgency.”—Gunalan Nadarajan, Vice Provost for Research, Maryland Institute College of Art"An excellent new book. . . .” -- Holland Cotter * New York Times *“Witty and lucid, showing that she’s a believer in art’s power, despite all the naysaying.” -- David O’Neill * Bookforum *“Schor is both an artist and a writer, maybe the perfect person to consider in this search for uncorrupt, valuable criticism. In her excellent book A Decade of Negative Thinking, she describes anonymous online commenting as the worst possible type of criticism, because it almost always falls into what she calls the ‘sucks/bullshit’ mode. (Ah, yup.) If you're looking for the opposite of that, pick up the book.” -- Jen Graves * The Stranger *“Schor stakes out her own distinctive critical territory at the intersections of imagination and practice, concept and craft, anger and hope, humor and gravity. . . . It’s refreshing to accompany Schor as she look sat and opines on the state of culture. As she concludes in the book’s final essay, two qualities an artist can use to escape the trap of recipe art are ‘necessity , and having something to say with an investment in the formal means you use to say it.’ Schor has both.” -- Kathleen Rooney * Bitch *“The essays collected in A Decade of Negative Thinking present lucid, highly engaged and engaging reflections on the politics, rhetoric and political economy of artistic practice.” -- Matt Davies * Visual Studies *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part 1:She Said, She Said: Feminist Debates, 1971–2009 The ism that dare not speak its name Anonymity as a Political Tactic: Art Blogs, Feminism, Writing, and Politics Generation 2.5 Email to a Young Woman Artist The Womanhouse Films Miss Elizabeth Bennett Goes to Feminist Boot Camp Part 2:Painting Some Notes on Women and Abstraction and a Curious Case History: Alice Neel as a Great Abstract Painter Like a Veneer Modest Painting Blurring Richter Off the Grid: Weather Conditions in Lower Manhattan, September 11, 2001 to October 2, 2001 Part 3:Trite Tropes Trite Tropes, Clichés, or the Persistence of Styles Recipe Art Work and Play New Tales of Scheherazade Appendix: Work document: Grey Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays on the everyday workings of language and how language shapes our social and political existence.Trade Review“Denise Riley writes a poet’s prose, and her theoretical originality more than matches the engaging quality of her writing. She breathes life into the claim that the ‘I’ is an effect of language and draws her reader in both for the sake of her brilliant unpacking of existential idioms and for her renewal of the theoretical questions of where and how language locates us and how and with what effect we can relocate ourselves.”—Ellen Rooney, Brown University“Denise Riley’s splendor as a writer is unclassifiable: she is language philosopher, phenomenologist, poet, feminist theorist, and cultural critic all bound into one. In addition to the gorgeous thinking and language, Impersonal Passion offers singular takes on common conundrums that most of us don’t think deeply about let alone get to the bottom of. This book is a rarity: a work of philosophy that one can’t put down.”—Wendy Brown, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Malediction 9 2. "What I Want Back Is What I Was": Consolation's Retrospect 29 3. The Right to be Lonely 49 4. Why WHYs and why mes 59 5. Linguistic Inhibition as a Cause of Pregnancy 71 6. "Lying" When You Aren't 85 7. All Mouth and No Trousers: Linguistic Embarrassments 97 8. "But Then I Wouldn't Be Here" 105 9. Your Name Which Isn't Yours 115 Notes 129

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Book SynopsisContaining over one hundred selections ranging from songs, artwork, and poetry, to journalism, oral history, and scholarship—most published in English for the first time—The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multi-layered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present.Trade Review"Including a wide range of photographs and reproductions of works of art, this remarkable and exciting collection is an indispensable work for all libraries, all scholars of Colombia, Latin Americanists of all sorts, and any interested reader. Essential. All levels/libraries." -- J. M. Rosenthal * Choice *"This book will allow us to write, teach, and tell not only different histories of Colombia but to write, teach, and tell those histories differently.... This collection will certainly become a foundational teaching tool not only for the histories of Colombia but also those of Latin America." -- A. Ricardo López * Revista *

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Book SynopsisThis title situates Carmilla within its Irish Cultural milieu and treats the text as self-standing rather than as a precursor to Dracula. Unlike other collections of Gothic literature, Costello-Sullivan's work focuses solely on Carmilla.

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Book SynopsisFeatures a dialogue between two of the most interesting thinkers working in philosophy and architecture. This work covers fundamental problems of politics, identity, and aesthetics as their exchange becomes an imaginative exploration of the possibilities of modern architecture and the future of modern life.Trade Review"A remarkable installment in Baudrillard's longstanding polemic about the modern object." - Semiotic Review of Books "Enormously suggestive... [The interviews] will leave those willing to wrestle with what is said here with a deeper understanding of the world we live in." - modernism/modernity"

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Book SynopsisProvides an answer key to the drills and exercises contained in each of the units of John F Collins's bestselling ""A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin"". Written for those charged with the responsibility of teaching the Latin of the church, this primer aims to give the student the ability to read ecclesiastical Latin.Trade ReviewHere is an opportunity to immerse oneself in the history and culture of a language that once united the world, and at the same time attain a better understanding of how ou own language has been shaped. - The Living Church

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Book SynopsisPamela Regis argues that the romance novel, the most popular but least respected of literary genres, does not enslave women but celebrates their freedom and joy. Regis provides critics with an expanded vocabulary for discussing a genre that is both classic and contemporary, sexy and entertaining.Trade Review"Finally, a true and insightful history of the romance novel. This book establishes the historical legitimacy of an important literary genre." * Jayne Ann Krentz *"Regis sets out to analyse the formal features and literary history of this much-maligned genre. . . . A thorough, sensible, and partisan book, arguing for romantic fiction as a genre that celebrates freedom of choice." * Times Literary Supplement *"Useful to those interested in the form and integrity of romance fiction, this volume joins such noteworthy examinations of the romance as Tania Modleski's Loving with a Vengeance and Janice Radway's Reading the Romance." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: The Most Popular, Least Respected Literary Genre PART I. CRITICS AND THE ROMANCE NOVEL 1. The Romance Novel and Women's Bondage 2. In Defense of the Romance Novel PART II. THE ROMANCE NOVEL DEFINED 3. The Definition 4. The Definition Expanded 5. The Genre's Limits PART III. THE ROMANCE NOVEL, 1740-1908 6. Writing the Romance Novel's History 7. The First Best Seller: Pamela, 1740 8. The Best Romance Novel Ever Written: Pride and Prejudice, 1813 9. Freedom and Rochester: Jane Eyre, 1847 10. The Romance Form in the Victorian Multiplot Novel: Framley Parsonage, 1861 11. The Ideal Romance Novel: A Room with a View, 1908 PART IV. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ROMANCE NOVEL 12. The Popular Romance Novel in the Twentieth Century 13. Civil Contracts: Georgette Heyer 14. Courtship and Suspense: Mary Stewart 15. Harlequin, Silhouette, and the Americanization of the Popular Romance Novel: Janet Dailey 16. Dangerous Men: Jayne Ann Krentz 17. One Man, One Woman: Nora Roberts Conclusion Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1950, Harold A. Innis’s Empire and Communications is considered to be one of the classic works in media studies, yet its origins have received little attention. Ambitious in its scope, the book spans five millennia, tracing a path of development around the globe from 2900 BCE to the twentieth century and revealing the cyclical interplay between communications and power structures across space and time. In this new edition, William J. Buxton pays close attention to handwritten glosses that Innis added to a copy of the original edition and the revisions undertaken by his widow, Mary Q. Innis. A new introduction provides a detailed account of how the book emerged from lectures that Innis delivered at Oxford University in 1948, as well as how it related to other presentations Innis made in Britain during the same period. It explores how Innis sought to enrich his analysis by incorporating material related to phenomena such as war, education, Table of ContentsIntroduction to Empire and Communications William J. Buxton Notes on the Text William J. Buxton Empire and Communications – 1972 edition Harold A. Innis Foreword by Marshall McLuhan Author's Preface Editor's Note by Mary Q. Innis 1. Introduction 2. Egypt 3. Babylonia 4. The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization 5. The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire 6. Parchment and Paper 7. Paper and the Printing Press Bibliography Compiled by William J. Buxton Index Compiled by William J. Buxton

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Book SynopsisThe nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw a dramatic shift in the role of children in American society and families. No longer necessary for labor, children became economic liabilities. What caused this shift in the ways parenting and childhood were experienced and perceived? The author explains this phenomenon.Trade Review"A strong, effective, and readable portrayal of how twentieth-century American parents have invested and over-invested in their children. In a fairly short compass, Stearns has demonstrated many of the things that historians have tended to belabor-the role of expertise, why despite their declining numbers, children have become so important socially, the new realm of consumption, how the anxiety about children has become a central matter in twentieth-century culture and even an identifier of American life. Stearns knows what is going on and that children are not a means to express other anxieties, but the very source of many of the anxieties we express." -- Paula S. Fass,University of California, Berkeley"Anxiety is the hallmark of contemporary parenting. Todays parents are tormented by fears of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, child abductions, and juvenile drug and alcohol use. In perhaps his most timely and exciting book, Peter N. Stearns explains with wit and humane insight how modern mothers and fathers came to agonize incessantly about children's personality development, school performance, and psychological well-being." -- Steven Mintz,University of Houston"In what is his trademark style, Stearns creates an artful synthesis that is both revelatory and captivating. An at times unsettling analysis of parental angst, the book is replete with worthy insights for historians and contemporary parents alike." * The Journal of American History *"Stearns points to a number of contemporary phenomena, each of which he considers an expression of parental anxiety. Steans appears to be particularly sensitive to the upward mobility of kids grades." * The New York Review of Books *"(Stearns) has a keen appreciation of what really mattered to 20th-century Americans, in their families and beyond. Indeed, it is his easy command of all that was going on outside the home- and his profound grasp of the connectedness of those larger developments and their consequences for childreaing - that sets his study apart from other histories of the modern American family." * Journal of Social History *"The book is more than a synthesis of existing scholarship. It is a compendium of ideas - some personal, mostly scholarly - about the experience of parenting in the United States since the beginning of the twentieth century. The book is imaginative and thought provoking." * History of Education Quarterly *Table of ContentsContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 Anxious Parents: A 20th-Century History 2 The Vulnerable Child 3 Discipline 4 All Are above Average: Children at School 5 Work and Chores: Do I Have To? 6 I'm Bored: The Two Faces of Entertainment 7 Conclusion: The Impact of Anxiety Appendix Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis book engages the perspectives of people with autism, including those who have been considered as the most severely disabled within the autism spectrum. The volume allows a look into the rich and insightful perspectives of people who have heretofore been thought of as uninterested in the world.Trade ReviewThe writings of Rubin, Mukhopadhyay, and all of the contributors are testament to the need to embrace a & disability consciousness in seeking educational and therapeutic options for autistic persons so that they can achieve their full potential. While Biklen refrains from extensive analysis of his contributors' words, his book is truly valuable in its straightforward presentation of the voices of autistic persons speaking not only for but as themselves. * Disability Studies Quarterly *Disagrees with the common picture of autism, presenting chapters written by those with autism themselvesincluding those considered most severely disabled within the world of autismto present a personalized view of how autism is experienced by those diagnosed. . . . A & must for any who understand the autistic experience. * Bookwatch *Austism and the Myth of the Person Alone is one of those rare professional books that causes one to pause and consider what it tells us about our literature, our field, and, perhaps, ourselves...Biklen has given us a fascinating, thoughtful and, most important, essential book by including insights, experiences, and perspectives of individuals with autism to add to the canon * American Association on Mental Retardation *Biklens tenacity is to be admired. * CHOICE *The prevailing view of autism and disability is redefined in this beautifully written book. Can you ask for more than to inform, inspire, challenge, and help to create new ways of understanding? Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone forces us to confront misunderstanding, misperceptions, and lack of knowledge, and to rethink disability and autism. It demands that we embrace people who act, communicate, and socialize differently. I love this book! -- Jan Nisbet,Director, Institute on DisabilityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction A Discussion of Methods 1 Framing Autism 2I. An Introduction to Sue Rubin II. A Conversation with Leo Kanner (by Sue Rubin) 3I. An Introduction to Tito Rajarshi MukhopadhyayII. Questions and Answers (by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay and Douglas Biklen) 4I. An Introduction to Lucy Blackman II. Re?ections on Language (by Lucy Blackman) I. An Introduction to Larry Bissonnette II. Letters Ordered through Typing Produce the Story of an ArtistStranded on the Island of Autism (by Larry Bissonnette) 6I. An Introduction to Alberto Frugone II. Salient Moments in the Life of Alberto, as a Child, a Youth, a Young Man (by Alberto Frugone) 7I. An Introduction to Richard Att?eld II. The Colour of Rich (by Richard Att?eld) 8I. The World as I'd Like It to Be (by Jamie Burke) II. The Myth of the Person Alone (by Douglas Biklen) Bibliography IndexAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisWritten for undergraduate students from different cohorts with one sole purpose: to facilitate a proficiency in many core concepts in PDEs while enhancing the intuition and appreciation of the subject. For mathematics students this will in turn provide a solid foundation for graduate study.Table of Contents Basic definitions First-order PDEs and the method of characteristics The wave equation in one space dimension The wave equation in three and two space dimensions The delta ""function"" and distributions in one space dimension The Fourier transform The diffusion equation The Laplacian, Laplace's equation, and harmonic functions Distributions in higher dimensions and partial differentiation in the sense of distributions The fundamental solution for Green's functions for the Laplacian Fourier series The separation of variables algorithm for boundary value problems Uniting the big three second-order linear equations and what's next Objects and tools of advanced calculus Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA title in which, the author personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, it breathes life into Chinese history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen.Trade Review"In his novels and short stories, Mr. Mo paints sprawling, intricate portraits of Chinese rural life, often using flights of fancy-animal narrators, elements of fairy tales-that evoke the lyrical techniques of South American magical realists." -New York Times "Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition."-Nobel Committee for Literature "If China has a Kafka, it may be Mo Yan. Like Kafka, Yan has the ability to examine his society through a variety of lenses, creating fanciful, Metamorphosis-like transformations or evoking the numbing bureaucracy and casual cruelty of modern governments."-Publishers Weekly"

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Book SynopsisAnglia Series 105E and Series 123E Saloon and Estate and Series 307E and Series 309E Vans; Petrol: 1.0 litre (997cc) & 1.2 litre (1198cc).

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Book SynopsisHelping to rehabilitate horses who have been disadvantaged, mentally or physically, by inadequate or inappropriate handling is the author's chief love. This book explains why riding and training rooted in the classical tradition is the only sure way to prevent such problems developing and how it can remedy serious and ingrained problems.

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Book SynopsisA New York Times bestseller when it was first published in 1986, Linus Pauling's seminal work proposes taking vitamins and minerals to prevent disease and live a long life. Eminently readable and challenging on many levels, the book compiled for a popular audience a generation of scientific knowledge and helped to revolutionize the way people think about nutrition.

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Book SynopsisSpecific Models Covered:DT100 77-83; DT125 78-81; DT175 78-81; DT250 77-79; DT400 77-78; MX10 0 79-83; MX175 79-81

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Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated, multimedia guide to facial soft-tissue reconstruction from leading clinicians Principles of Facial Reconstruction: A Subunit Approach to Cutaneous Repair, Third Edition by distinguished clinicians Wayne F. Larrabee Jr., David A. Sherris, Jeffrey C. Teixeira, and esteemed contributors presents evidence-based facial reconstruction techniques that simplify flap design based on location and defect. The book's primary focus is soft-tissue defects of moderate size rather than larger flap reconstructions. Building on the acclaimed prior editions, the third edition features new content and images. Key surgical principles are detailed graphically in an easy-to-navigate, concise layout. The two opening chapters cover a review of soft-tissue biomechanics and physiology, followed by fundamentals of wound closure, wound healing, grafts, and flaps. The seven consistently organized anatomic chapters present a brief overview of the anatomy of the region, followed by succinct descriptions of surgical approaches for relevant subunits in that region. The final two chapters provide details on free flaps and graft harvesting techniques. The reader-friendly format enables quick determination of the most reliable reconstruction options for repair of the scalp, forehead, eyes, nose, cheek, ears, and lips and chin. Key FeaturesFirsthand experience from renowned experts on the most reliable defect reconstructionsFull-color clinical photographs, around 500 high-quality illustrations, and diagrams provide precise insights on key surgical conceptsFollowing a facial unit principle, decision-making algorithms guide readers on selection of the most effective flap or graft for each case This is a must-have resource for plastic surgeons, otolaryngologists, and oral-maxillofacial surgeons, and dermatology residents and fellows, as well as surgeons specializing in the field of facial plastic surgery. This book includes complimentary access to a digital copy on https://medone.thieme.com.

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Book SynopsisNew Third Edition! If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it. This Third Edition features: Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama's election, and gay marriage to transgender/cisgender and the Occupy Movement A glossary of terms The short essays in Chapter 6, framed around the power of sociology, dig beneath easy and popular understandings to reveal what lies beneath An additional analysis of how men's violence is made invisible even though most violence is perpetrated by men Chapter 7's focus on sociology as a worldview with an analysis of the origins of white privilegeTrade Review"There is no better book to help college students understand the sociological mindset."-Terence J. McGinn, The University of Michigan"I love The Forest and the Trees. And, honestly, if there was not a new edition, I am not sure how I would teach my introduction to sociology course. My students often comment that it was the best book in a class they have ever read. I cannot sing the praises of The Forest and the Trees enough!"-Marisol Clark-Ibáñez, Associate Professor of Sociology, California State University, San MarcosTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Life, Practice, and Promise 1 The Forest, the Trees, and the One Thing 2 Culture: Symbols, Ideas, and the Stuff of Life 3 The Structures of Social Life 4 Population and Human Ecology: People, Space, and Place 5 Us, It, and Social Interaction 6 Things Are Not What They Seem 7 Sociology as Worldview: Where White Privilege Came From Epilogue: Who Are We Really? Notes Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThis write-in workbook is an invaluable resource to help learners' improve their Maths and English skills and help prepare for Level 1 and Level 2 Functional Skills exams. The workbook format enables learners to practice and improve their maths and English skills and the real-life questions, exercises and scenarios are all written with an electrical Installation context to help learners find essential Maths and English theory understandable, engaging and achievable. This workbook is an invaluable resource to support Maths and English learning in the classroom, at work and for personal study at home.Trade ReviewChapter Title English Unit 1 Spelling Unit 2 Alphabetising Unit 3 Comprehension Unit 4 Grammar Maths Unit 5 General mathematics Unit 6 Basic operations Unit 7 Decimals Unit 8 Fractions Unit 9 Percentages Unit 10 Voltage, current and resistance Unit 11 Measuring Electrical Quantities and SI Units Unit 12 Measurement - Length and Area Unit 13 Earning wages Unit 14 Squaring numbers Unit 15 Ratios Unit 16 Mechanical Reasoning Unit 17 Reading, interpreting and understanding information in tables, charts and graphs Unit 18 Practice written exam for the Hairdressing industryTable of ContentsChapterTitle English Unit 1Spelling Unit 2Alphabetising Unit 3Comprehension Unit 4Grammar Maths Unit 5General mathematics Unit 6Basic operations Unit 7Decimals Unit 8Fractions Unit 9Percentages Unit 10Voltage, current and resistance Unit 11Measuring Electrical Quantities and SI Units Unit 12Measurement ��� Length and Area Unit 13Earning wages Unit 14Squaring numbers Unit 15Ratios Unit 16Mechanical Reasoning Unit 17Reading, interpreting and understanding information in tables, charts and graphs Unit 18Practice written exam for the Hairdressing industry

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book is ethnographically rich and presents us with new ways of thinking about development practices and environmental politics broadly defined. More importantly, An Ethnography of Hunger makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the relationship between power, politics and the environment. The book, for many years to come, will provoke intellectual debate about the place of politics and the environment in Tanzania, Africa, and beyond. * Political and Legal Anthrology Review *Recommended. * Choice *Phillips's nuanced analysis of the lived experience of hunger, its embeddedness in social relationships, and its impact on political subjectivity are truly original and set this book apart from other anthropological studies of hunger, subsistence farming, or political subjectivity. -- Jennie E. Gurnet - Georgia State University * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsPreface AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Subsistence CitizenshipPART I: The Frames of Subsistence in Singida: Cosmology, Ethnography, HistoryChapter 1 Hunger in Relief: Village Life and Livelihood Chapter 2 The Unpredictable Grace of the Sun: Cosmology, Conquest, and the Politics of SubsistencePART II: The Power of the Poor on the Threshold of SubsistenceChapter 3 We Shall Meet at the Pot of Ugali: Sociality, Differentiation, and Diversion in the Distribution of FoodChapter 4 Crying, Denying, and Surviving Rural HungerPART III: Subsistence CitizenshipChapter 5 Subsistence versus DevelopmentChapter 6 Patronage, Rights, and the Idioms of Rural Citizenship Conclusion: The Seasons of Subsistence and CitizenshipNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book presents 17th-century pastor Richard Baxter's wise, gentle advice to comfort and strengthen all who struggle with depression or know someone who does.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Best known for inaugurating the rehabilitation of Nietzsche, Kaufmann is portrayed in Stanley Corngold’s splendid recent biography—Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic—as the conduit through which [Martin] Buber’s teaching entered the American conversation."---Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal"[A] luminous biography." * Kirkus *"In this new work, [Stanley] Corngold presents a historical account of philosopher Walter Kaufmann's writings, which ranged widely from ethics and religion to a major rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche. Thorough and engaging, Corngold presents a vivid picture of Kaufmann's life through an analysis of his most influential works."---William Simkulet, Library Journal"Corngold’s ‘philosophical biography’ portrays Kaufmann as a fascinating, admirable, and flawed character. After a brief biographical chapter, Corngold takes us through Kaufmann’s intellectual journey from his first book to his last. The detailed discussions of Kauf­mann’s individual works, supplemented by an array of philosophical and liter­ary references, are balanced and rich."---Lewis Rosenberg, Australian Book Review"Corngold writes with a tenacity and intensity that matches his subject . . . [and] proves an admirable guide."---Robert L. Kehoe III, Los Angeles Review of Books"[A] brilliantly erudite and playful intellectual biography of Kaufmann."---Hugo Drochon, Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisShines a light on the long-ignored phenomenon of side effects of education policies and practices, bringing a fresh and perhaps surprising perspective to evidence-based practices and policies. Identifying the adverse effects of some of the “best” educational interventions, the author investigates causes and offers clear recommendations.Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments  - vii Introduction  - 1 1. When Risks Outweigh Benefits: The Effectiveness, Effects, and Side Effects of NCLB   - 7 The Diagnosis and Prescription  - 7 The Effects and Effectiveness of NCLB  - 11 Side Effects of NCLB  - 15 Summary  - 21 2. The Missed Lesson from Medical Research for Education: Why Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) Couldn’t Cure Reading First  - 24 The Case of Reading First  - 24 Side Effects: The Missed Lesson from Medicine  - 32 Moving Beyond RCT: A Summary  - 36 3. Unproductive Successes and Productive Failures: Direct Instruction and Classroom Side Effects  - 38 The Grievance of Direct Instruction  - 40 Effectiveness Versus Effects of Direct Instruction  - 43 Effects and Side Effects of Direct Instruction  - 50 Summary  - 54 4. At What Cost: Side Effects at the System Level in East Asia  - 56 The Surprising Admiration for East Asian Education  - 56 Evidence of Effectiveness  - 57 The Asian Treatment  - 60 Asian Treatment at Work: Effects and Side Effects  - 65 Summary  - 74 5. The Rabbit Hole of Visible Learning:Invisible Side Effects Lurk Ahead  - 75 Many Educational Outcomes  - 78 An Ecological Metaphor  - 79 Outcomes Versus Outcomes: Side Effects of Pursuing Academic Achievement  - 82 Summary  - 88 6. From When Is It Effective to Who Gets Hurt: When Vouchers Don’t Work  - 89 Aptitude–Treatment Interaction  - 90 Lessons from ATI Research  - 92 From Effects to Side Effects  - 94 Who Gets Hurt: The Case of School Vouchers  - 96 Summary  - 103 7. The Futile Quest for Panacea: Wars, Pendulum Swings, and Snake Oil in Education  - 104 Cyclical Warfare and Pendulum Swings in Education  - 105 The Elusive Middle Ground  - 109 The Quest for Panacea  - 110 Neglecting Side Effects  - 114 Raging Wars and New Panacea: A Summary  - 116 8. Study Side Effects Now: A Call to Action  - 118 Why Study Side Effects?  - 119 Why Haven’t We?   - 126 A Call to Action  - 128 Side Effects of Studying Side Effects: Conclusion  - 132 References  - 133 Index  - 156 About the Author  - 168

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Book SynopsisStudents of all ages can learn to think like artists! Studio Thinking changed the conversation about quality arts education. Now this new publication shows how the eight Studio Habits of Mind and four Studio Structures can be used successfully with younger students in a range of school environments.Trade ReviewThis fresh, new work focuses on the development of younger minds... Studio Thinking from the Start is designed for any teacher regardless of discipline, especially novices.- Arts & Activities;Praise for Studio Thinking:""Winner and Hetland have set out to show what it means to take education in the arts seriously, in its own right.""- The New York Times;""This book is very educational and would be helpful to art teachers in promoting quality teaching in their classrooms.""- School Arts Magazine;“Studio Thinking is a major contribution to the field.""- Arts & Learning Review;""The research in Studio Thinking is groundbreaking and important because it is anchored in the actual practice of teaching artists …The ideas in Studio Thinking continue to provide a vehicle with which to navigate and understand the complex work in which we are all engaged.""- Teaching Artists Journal;“If we want our students to think, if we want them to learn, we must engage them in habits of the mind that cultivate their innate abilities. The habits of artists in their studios can help all of us who teach to hone our techniques in every classroom and can aid administrators to see possibilities to enrich our schools for the sake of learners and teachers alike.”- From the Foreword by David P. Nelson, president, Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt);""Starting young with studio thinking is a fabulous idea supported by this fine resource. After all, studio thinking thrives on art but applies to everything?habits of mind that help people to live their lives in thoughtful, curious, and creative ways.""- David Perkins, Harvard Graduate School of Education;“For experienced and novice teachers alike, for generalist teachers and for art teachers, Studio Thinking from the Start: The K–8 Art Educator’s Handbook is a needed addition to teacher resources for improving the quality of elementary art education. Focusing not on materials or project recipes, but on the language and interactions of teachers and students, this book supports teachers in deepening conversations about form and meaning by modeling simple elegant questions and exchanges that engage students as serious makers who are pursuing their own creative research agendas.”- Olivia Gude, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular. He was the leading exponent of the Sicilian School (c.1220-1270) as well as the inventor of the sonnet. Featuring illustrations and new English translations of some forty lyrics, Richard Lansing revives the work of a pioneer of Italian literature, a poet who helped pave the way for later writers such as Dante and Petrarch. Giacomo da Lentini is hailed as the earliest poet to import the Occitan tradition of love poetry into the Italian vernacular. This edition of Giacomo fills a gap in the canon of translations of Italian literature in English and serves as a vital reference source for students as well as scholars and teachers interested in the literature of the romance languages.Trade Review"This volume deserves to be commended as an elegant, comprehensive, and well- contextualized edition of Giacomo’s poetry. Thanks to Lansing and Kumar’s efforts here, a much broader readership will now be able to evaluate the innovative poetry of Giacomo on its own terms and in light of its own specific cultural and intellectual context." -- Tristan Kay * Speculum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Bibliography Lyrics Canzoni and Discordo 1. Madonna, dir vo voglio (My lady, I wish to tell you) 2. Meravigliosa-mente (Extraordinarily) 3. Guiderdone aspetto avere (I hope for recompense) 4. Amor non vole ch’io clami (Love will not let me seek) 5. Dal core mi vene (From my heart comes) 6. La ’namoranza disïosa (The love full of desire) 7. Ben m’è venuto prima cordoglienza (Indeed I felt deep grief at once, my fair) 8. Donna, eo languisco (My Love, I suffer and don’t know what hope) 9. Troppo son dimorato (Too long have I resided) 10. Non so se ’n gioia mi sia (I do not know if thoughts of love) 11. Uno disïo d’amore sovente (So frequently an amorous desire) 12. Amando lungiamente (In loving for so long) 13. Madonna mia, a voi mando (My lady fair, I send to you) 14. S’io doglio no è meraviglia (It’s no surprise I grieve) 15. Amore, paura m’incalcia (O Love, fear presses me) 16. Poi no mi val merzé né ben servire (Since neither mercy nor performing deeds) 17. Dolce coninzamento (I sing a sweet preamble) Tenzone with the Abbot of Tivoli 18a. Ai deo d’amore (O god of Love, I pray you see) 18b. Feruto sono isvarïatamente (I have been wounded differently) 18c. Qual om riprende altrui (One who rebukes another frequently) 18d. Cotale gioco rnai non fue veduto (A game like this has not been seen) 18e. Con vostro onore facciovi uno ’nvito (I honor you and send you this appeal) Tenzone with Jacopo Mostacci and Pier della Vigna 19a. Solicitando un poco meo savere (To stimulate my intellect) 19b. Però ch’Amore non si pò vedere (Because Love is not visible) 19c. Amore è uno disio che ven da core (Love’s a desire that issues from the heart) Sonnets 20. Lo giglio quand’è colto tost’è passo (The lily fades as soon as it is picked) 21. Sì come il sol che manda la sua spera (Just like the sun that sends its rays) 22. Or come pote sì gran donna entrare (How can so great a lady pass) 23. Molti amadori la lor malatia (Many lovers bear their malady) 24. Donna, vostri sembianti mi mostraro (My lady, your expressions raised in me) 25. Ogn’omo ch’ama de’ amar so ’nore (A lover must protect his name) 26. A l’aire claro ò vista ploggia dare (On clear days I have seen it rain) 27. Io m’aggio posto in core a Dio (I’ve set my heart on serving God) 28. Lo viso mi fa andare alegramente (Her face creates my happiness) 29. Eo viso e son diviso da lo viso (I see, but only from afar, her face) 30. Sì alta amanza à pres’a lo me’ core (A love so noble seized my heart) 31. Per sofrenza si vince gran vetoria (Through patience victories are won) 32. Certo me par che far dea bon signore (It seems quite clear a noble lord should base) 33. Sì como ’l parpaglion ch’a tal natura (Just as the butterfly in nature’s grasp) 34. Chi non avesse mai veduto foco (If one had never seen a flame of fire) 35. Diamante, né smiraldo, né zafino (No diamond, sapphire, emerald) 36. Madonna à ’n se vertute con valore (The virtue of my lady is) 37. Angelica figura e comprobata (Angelic figure manifest) 38. Quand’om à un bon amico leiale (When someone has a good and loyal friend) Lyrics of dubious attribution D.1. Membrando l’amoroso dipartire (Remembering my loving fond farewell) D.2. Lo badalisco a lo specchio lucente (Before a shiny mirror the basilisk) D.3. Guardando basalisco velenoso (Looking at the deadly basilisk) Notes Illustrations Index of First Lines

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Book SynopsisIn the Self's Place is a phenomenological reading of Augustine that engages with modern and postmodern analyses of Augustinian philosophy.Trade Review"Jean-Luc Marion's new book is a feast that should be savored by anyone with an interest in either the thought of Saint Augustine or in Marion's phenomenological philosophy . . . I think it would be difficult to speak too highly of Marion's achievement in this book . . . In the Self's Place is a landmark, advancing every position which it touches."—Andreas Nordlander, Anglican Theological Review"In the Self's Place is astounding in its rigor both in terms of its use of the original Latin and in terms of its breadth of familiarity with the larger Augustinian corpus . . . In the Self's Place should be of particular interest to those readers who have strong interest in and familiarity with ongoing conversations in both theology and philosophy . . . [F]or all those who are stimulated by what contemporary philosophy and classical theology have to say to one another, this is, without doubt, an essential read."—Rico G. Monge, Reviews in Religion and Theology"The confrontation of Heidegger with Nietzsche, the confrontation of Derrida with Heidegger, and now the confrontation of Marion with Augustine! In the Self's Place engages with Augustine's Confessions, one of the incomparable texts that open the intellectual and religious space we call 'the West.' Here Marion continues his critiques of the self and metaphysics, his analysis of praise, and his bold case for the univocity of love. Also he shows us something new: how his theory of the saturated phenomenon can be used to read a canonical narrative. A major achievement!"—Kevin Hart, University of Virginia

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Book SynopsisThis critically acclaimed, lavishly illustrated book will help educators create the highest quality learning opportunities for a new generation of children. This second edition features substantial and important changes, including the addition of new chapters by pioneers of the work that happens in the atelier who draw on several decades of experience.Trade Review“This book’s great illustrations and enthusiasm for learning make it difficult to put it back on the shelf!”- SchoolArts;“This book will help to promote a vibrant and creative approach to learning that will enrich American children’s educational experience.”- Barbara and Eric Carle, author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar;“It’s now widely understood that the preschools of Reggio Emilia are among the most important educational endeavors of the last century. Theoretically grounded and eminently practical, drawing on experiences in Italy and the United States, this book probes deeply into the atelier, the heartland of a Reggio-inspired school.”- Howard Gardner, author of Changing Minds and Good Work;“A book that is intended to reveal the meaning of the atelier in the world of schools and learning gives me nothing but joy and receives my warmest support.”- From the Foreword by Vea Vecchi, Atelierista, 1970–2001, Diana School, Reggio Emilia, Italy Consultant, Reggio Children s.r.l.;""Not only have these authors and educators committed to the dialogue between art and education, but they, themselves, have also acted as artists, bringing the spirit of the studio and the mind-set of the artist into every aspect of their design, dialogue, thought, and practice.""- From the Foreword to the second edition by Steven Seidel, Director, Arts in Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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Book SynopsisDescribes data literacy for teaching, emphasizing the important relationship between data knowledge and skills and disciplinary and pedagogical content knowledge. Case studies of emerging programs in schools of education are used to illustrate the key components needed to integrate data-driven decisionmaking into the teaching curricula.

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Book Synopsis"This richly illustrated book provides an in-depth natural history of the most poisonous plants on earth, covering everything from the lethal effects of hemlock and deadly nightshade to the uses of such plants in medicine, ritual, and chemical warfare."--Dust jacket.Trade Review"[Plants That Kill] will appeal to everyone interested in plants, from the amateur gardener to the professional botanist."---Barbara Paul Robinson, Wall Street Journal"Elizabeth Dauncey and Sonny Larsson have provided the world with a book that is detailed and comprehensive in the information it supplies while, at the same time, is a model of simplicity in its outlay and in allowing the reader to find quickly the particular piece of information being sought. It has been a long time since I was as impressed as I am by Plants that Kill."---Ian Lipke, Queensland Reviewers Collective

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Book SynopsisNaked Lunch was banned, ridiculed, and castigated on publication in 1959. Tracing its origins from Texas to Tangier, from Mexico City to New York and Paris, crossing time zones and cultures, this book helps understands this most influential but elusive of texts.Trade ReviewI can think of no other work of literary criticism that brings together such a multiplicity of artists, practitioners, and critics in such a dynamic assembly of writing forms. The resulting symbiosis strikes me as a whole new critical form, utterly pertinent to Burroughs' milieu. - Michael Hrebeniak, author of Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form

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