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Johns Hopkins University Press Asklepios Medicine and the Politics of Healing in
Book SynopsisThe intriguing and sometimes surprising information she presents will be valued by historians of medicine and classicists alike.Trade ReviewWickkiser, by focusing on a single historical event of some significance, has inserted an intriguing new angle to an old debate... In this respect, the present study provides the basis for further research into the significant questions which it raises. -- Konstantinos Kapparis, Ph.D. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2009 Elegantly written, and with a sound command of the original Greek, it provides an excellent introduction to the rise of Asclepius' cult in Athens. It also promotes a clear and challenging thesis. -- Vivian Nutton Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science 2010 This book will be very useful to students and scholars (especially chapters four and five) of medical history, as it is a very clear introduction to the subject and somewhat renews our perspective on the origins of the cult of Asclepios in Athens. -- Caroline Petit Social History of Medicine 2010 Wickkiser freshly appraises our best evidence for the importation of the cult-namely, the Telemachus monument-in order to embed the event in both the space of the city and the local dynamics of power. -- Brooke Holmes Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2010 I have enjoyed reading this work enormously, and would recommend it to anyone seeking a short introduction to Asklepios, or to anyone teaching a course on ancient medicine or ancient 'religion'. -- Laurence Totelin Medical History 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsTranslations and AbbreviationsIntroductionCommon Perceptions of Asklepios and His CultThe Current Project1. From Practice to Profession: The Development of Greek Medicine from the Bronze Age to the Fifth Century BCThe Bronze Age and HomerBetween Homer and HippocratesTradition and Change in Fifth-Century MedicineMedicine as a TechneMedicine and Its Limits2. Searching for a Cure: The Limits of Medicine and the Development of Asklepios' CultAlternatives to Medicine: What Doctors CondonedHealing GodsThe Early Development of Asklepios' CultThe Popularity of Asklepios and His Healing3. Asklepios and His Colleagues: Doctors and Divine HealersAsklepios as Doctor in Myth and CultOther Healing Gods and HeroesDoctors and Their Patron GodAsklepios' Specialization: Chronic Ailments4. Documenting Asklepios' Arrival in AthensSourcesDesccription, Text, and Translation of Telemachos MoumentReading between the LinesThe Eleusinian Cult of Demeter and KoreThe Location of Asklepios' Sanctuary5. Asklepios and the Topography of Athenian CultThe Acropolis and the Greater PanathenaiaDionysos and DemeterDionysos Eleuthereus and the City DionysiaThe Sanctuary of Dionysos EleuthereusThe City DionysiaEleusinian Demeter and the Mysteries6. Asklepios and Athenian EmpireEpidauros and Athens in the Peloponnesian WarsThe Peace of Nicias and Epidaurian AsklepiosAthens, Cults, and Politics in the Fifth CenturyNegotiating EmpireAsklepios and the Kerykes in 418 BCMapping Meaning: The Epidauria ProcessionConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Atlantic Diasporas Jews Conversos and CryptoJews in the Age of Mercantilism 15001800
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Theban Plays Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone
Book SynopsisThis elegant and uncommonly readable translation will make these seminal Greek tragedies accessible to a new generation of readers.Trade Review"I would recommend the translation without reservations. I expect that students and the general public will find these works newly exciting. This is clearly a translation well suited to success both in the classroom and in the theater." - Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple University"Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionMapTime LineOedipus the KingOedipus at ColonusAntigoneNotesGlossary of Terms from Greek TragedyGlossary of NamesSuggested for Further Reading
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Johns Hopkins University Press Living Well with Heart Failure the Misnamed Misunderstood Condition
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Johns Hopkins University Press Latin America and Global Capitalism A Critical Globalization Perspective
Book SynopsisBased on years of fieldwork and empirical research, this study elucidates the tensions that globalization has created and shows why Latin America is a battleground for those seeking to shape the twenty-first century's world order.Trade ReviewA scathing indictment of neoliberal globalization from an explicitly anti-capitalist perspective... An exemplary treatment of Latin America's present day political economy and social predicaments. -- Jeffery R. Webber Monthly Review 2009 An important book for anyone interested in where our imperiled planet is headed. Robinson... is admirably thorough in his overview of the direction capitalism has taken in Latin America since the 1970s. -- Ben Terrall San Francisco Bay Guardian 2009 Robinson's latest book offers brilliant insight into the underlying causes and current dilemmas of globalization. -- James M. Cypher NACLA Report on the Americas 2009 This book is a must read, not only for Latin American specialists, but for all those who draw the connection between political economy at the world level and strategies for change. -- Steve Ellner Science and Society 2010 An important contribution to globalization studies. -- Benjamin Kohl Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Record 2010 His heterodox and challenging views make provocative reading. -- Carlos Davila Business History Review 2010Table of ContentsList of TablesPrefaceList of Abbreviations and Acronyms1. An Epochal Shift in World Capitalism2. Global Economy and Latin America, I: Nontraditional Agricultural Exports and Agro-Industry3. Global Economy and Latin America, II: Industrial Subcontracting, Transnational Services, Tourism, and the Export of Labor4. Transnational Processes in Latin America: Class, State, and Migration5. The Antinomies of Global Capitalism and the Twilight of Neoliberalism6. A New Cycle of Resistance: The Future of Latin America and Global SocietyReferencesIndex
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MY - University of Toronto Press Managing to Nurse Inside Canadas Health Care Reform
Book SynopsisAlthough Managing to Nurse may contradict contemporary beliefs about health care reform, the insiders' account that it provides is undeniable evidence that nurses' caring work is being undermined and patient care is being eroded, sometimes dangerously, by current health care agendas.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction * The Managerial Turn in Nursing *'Three in a Bed': Nurses and Technologies of Bed Utilization * Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time: Adjusting the Mindset of Nurses * Managing Resistance to Restructuring: The Ruling Work of Nurse Leaders * Patient Satisfaction and the Management of Quality * Language and the Reorganization of Nurses' Consciousness Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of Toronto Press Northrop Frye on Milton and Blake
Book SynopsisThe writings of John Milton and William Blake were central to Northrop Frye's concept of the imaginative structure of Western literature and thought. He considered them the two most important poet-prophets in the English tradition.This volume brings together all of Frye's writings on Milton and Blake from 1947 to 1987 - published and unpublished essays, reviews, commentaries, and public lectures - with the exception of Fearful Symmetry (published as Volume 14 of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye). During this time, Frye's engagement with Milton moved outward from the university into conferences, publications, and public lectures. His engagement with Blake, meanwhile, was a personal, intellectual, and spiritual quest, leading him to became the world authority on Blake in the mid-twentieth century.Angela Esterhammer, a student of Frye's in the 1980s, has provided annotation and an introduction that demonstrates the poets' importance for Frye's literary and cultural criTable of ContentsPreface Credits Abbreviations Introduction Essays on Milton * Introduction to "Paradise Lost" and Selected Poetry and Prose * Literature as Context: Milton's Lycidas *The Return of Eden: Five Essays on Milton's Epics * The Story of All Things * The Breaking of the Music * Children of God and Nature * The Garden Within * Revolt in the Desert * The Revelation to Eve * Agon and Logos * Tribute to Balachandra Rajan Essays on Blake * Blake on Trial Again * Review of The Portable Blake * Blake's Treatment of the Archetype * J.G. Davies' The Theology of William Blake * Bernard Blackstone's English Blake * Poetry and Design in William Blake * Introduction to Selected Poetry and Prose of William Blake * David Erdman's Blake: Prophet against Empire * Notes for a Commentary on Milton * William Blake (I) * Blake after Two Centuries * Blake's Introduction to Experience * Preface to Peter Fisher's The Valley of Vision * The Road of Excess * Introduction to Blake: A Collection of Critical Essays * The Keys to the Gates * William Blake (II) * Comment on Adam and Eve and the Angel Raphael * Blake's Reading of the Book of Job (I) * William Blake (III) * Blake's Reading of the Book of Job (II) * Blake's Biblical Illustrations * Blake's Bible Notes Emendations Index
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University of Toronto Press New Institutionalism
Book SynopsisNew Institutionalism is currently one of the most prominent approaches in political science. In this innovative collection, top scholars in the field offer substantial theoretical and analytical contributions to new institutionalist scholarship, engaging in debates about structure and agency, state-society relations, institutional creation and change, preference formation, and the complicated web of relationships between institutions, culture, ideas, identity, rationality, and interests.From an analytical point of view, the contributors examine how the state and political institutions shape a variety of political phenomena and outcomes, namely, nationalism, democratic transition, party aggregation, policy networks, war and peace, international recognition, sovereignty, and selected public policies. They offer thorough theoretical reflections on the relationship between institutions and society as well as on the role of institutions in political analysis.Featuring discussions oTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors 1 New Institutionalism: Issues and Questions Andre Lecours PART ONE Theoretical Reflections on New Institutionalism 2 Ideas, Interests, and Institutions: Historical Institutionalism Revisited Daniel Beland 3 Theorizing Institutional Change Siobhan Harty 4 Institutions and Political Rationality Hudson Meadwell PART TWO Institutionalist Theory in Canadian Politics 5 Institutionalism in the Study of Canadian Politics: The English-Canadian Tradition Miriam Smith 6 New Institutionalism and Political Science in Quebec Linda Cardinal PART THREE New Institutionalism in Comparative Politics 7 New Institutionalism and the Crisis of Transitology Mamoudou Gazibo 8 Structuring Nationalism Andre Lecours 9 Institutional Change and Its Consequences: The Rational Foundations of Party System Change in India Csaba Nikolenyi PART FOUR New Institutionalism and Public Policy Analysis 10 Westminster Parliamentarism, Policy Networks, and the Behaviour of Political Actors Eric Montpetit 11 Social Learning, Third Way Politics, and Welfare State Redesign Denis Saint-Martin and Alexandra Dobrowolsky 12 National Institutional Veto Points and Continental Policy Change: Failing to Amend the U.S.-Canada Migratory Birds Convention Luc Juillet PART FIVE Institutionalist Analysis in International Relations 13 Moving beyond (or beneath) the Democratic Peace Theory: Intermediate-Level Institutions and Foreign Security Policy Norrin M. Ripsman 14 Canada and the Global Diffusion of 'One China'Der-Yuan Maxwell Wu 15 Constructing the State: Sovereignty in Comparative and International Perspectives -The View from East Asia Jeremy Paltiel
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University of Toronto Press Fools of Time
Book SynopsisIn the Alexander Lectures for 1965-66 at the University of Toronto, Dr. Frye describes the basis of the tragic vision as "being in time," in which death as "the essential event that gives shape and form to life ... defines the individual, and marks him off from the continuity of life that flows indefinitely between the past and the future."In Dr. Frye's view, three general types can be distinguished in Shakespearean tragedy, the tragedy of order, the tragedy of passion, and the tragedy of isolation, in all of which a pattern of "being in time" shapes the action. In the first type, of which Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet are examples, a strong ruler is killed, replaced by a rebel-figure, and avenged by a nemesis-figure; in the second, represented by Romeo and Juliet, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Troilus and Cressida, authority is split and the hero is destroyed by a conflict between social and personal loyalties; and in the third,
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University of Toronto Press The Principle of Federation by P.J. Proudhon
Book SynopsisA widely read and influential text in its own day, P.-J. Proudhon’s Du Principe federatif is now often overlooked by students of federalism. Yet the book’s theoretical and general chapters, in the first English translation, can claim to be considered a key text for the history of federalist thinking. Standing at the point of intersection between the anarchist and federalist traditions, they make a passionate case for federalism as the political order which gives the fullest possible expression to liberty – indeed, as the only political order in which liberty can be preserved: ‘The twentieth century will open the age of federations, or else humanity will undergo another purgatory of a thousand years.’Proudhon’s federal principle is a radically decentralist one, which contrasts sharply with modern pictures of federalism at many points, what Proudhon calls a ‘federal’ system is what many, today, would regard as the
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University of Toronto Press Irish Settlements in Eastern Canada
Book SynopsisAmong the vast migration of European peasants to North America during the nineteenth century, the largest group came from southern Ireland, Celtic, Catholic, rural, pre-industrial, many of them nevertheless settled in cities, but an appreciable number, particularly in eastern Canada, took up land and farmed. This study examines three areas of Irish settlement -- the Avalon peninsula, Miramichi, and Peterborough -- in terms of how their traditional farming methods, building styles, implements, settlement morphology, and other aspects of their culture were transferred, maintained, altered, or adapted in the new setting. The author has studied archives and records in both Ireland and Canada and rounded out these findings by interviews with some of the older settlers. The work is unique in that most studies in North American by historians, sociologists, and others have focused on the adjustment and assimilation of ethnic groups to their new environment rather than including also a study of
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University of Toronto Press Gothic Art 1140c1450
Book SynopsisAn anthology offering a chronological assessment of a whole range of technical documents on art written by and for clerks, laymen, churchmen, lawyers, city magistrates, and guilds, this text reveals differences in milieu, customs , resources and psychology during different periods. First Published in 1971 by Prentice Hall.
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MY - University of Toronto Press Medieval and Renaissance Music A Performers Guide
Book SynopsisAt the time of publication, this book was the first to address the problem of how to perform medieval and Renaissance music. It is intended for both the amateur performing musician and the serious student.Trade Review'The book is attractively presented, and the clear arrangement of chapters, along with the comprehensive index,makes it a valuable reference work heartily to be welcomed.' -- Scott Patterson Music Magazine
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University of Toronto Press Essays on Life Writing
Book SynopsisLife writing is the most flexible and open term available for autobiographical fragments and other kinds of autobiographical-seeming texts. It includes the conventional genres of autobiography, journals, memoirs, letters, testimonies, and metafiction, and in earlier definitions it included biography. It is a way of seeing literary and other texts that neither objectifies nor subjectifies the nature of a particular cultural truth.Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars, most of whom are women engaged in larger projects in life writing or in archival research. In the more practical pieces the author has discerned a pattern in autobiographical text, or subtext, that has come to revolutionize the life, the critic’s approach, or the discipline itself. In the theoretical pieces, authors make cogent proposals to view a body of literature in a new way, often in order to in
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University of Toronto Press Erasmus
Book SynopsisErasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence is a comprehensive introduction to Erasmus's life, works, and thoughts. It integrates the best scholarship of the past twenty years and will appeal to undergraduates in all areas of cultural history as well as Erasmus specialists.
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University of Toronto Press Platos Psychology 2nd Edition
Book SynopsisPlato’s Psychology, originally published in 1970 and reprinted in 1972, is still the definitive modern discussion of the nature and development of Plato’s concept of psyche. In a lengthy and detailed new introduction, T.M. Robinson surveys the scope and value of a number of contributions to Plato’s theory of psyche, individual and cosmic, that have appeared since 1970. He then offers his own ‘second thoughts’ on various aspects of the subject, revisiting inter alia such questions as the dating of the Timaeus, and the implication thereof, and the understanding and implication of the myth of the Politicus. Finally, he widens the whole discussion of Plato’s cosmic psychology to include an analysis and appreciation of the remarkably close relationship between much of Plato’s thinking about the universe and its origins and a good deal of twentieth-century theorizing, from Einstein to Hawking. (Phoenix Supplementary Volumes)
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University of Toronto Press Body Language in Literature
Book SynopsisThe tilt of a head, the quirk of an eyebrow, or a shift in position can eloquently portray a wide range of emotions without a single word being spoken. Body language is a critical component of everyday communication, yet the importance of body language, or non-verbal communication, in such a verbal medium as literature has not been fully studied.In Body Language in Literature, Barbara Korte has produced an important interdisciplinary study, by establishing a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narrative, based on a general history of the phenomenon in the English language. By focusing major works of literature, including stories by D.H. Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and J.D. Salinger, Korte shows body language to be a vital, yet unexplored method of communication in literature.
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University of Toronto Press Living and Learning with Blind Children
Book SynopsisBlind and visually impaired children experience the world in unique ways. To help them learn and develop, parents and teachers need to understand how such children relate to their environment. Felicity Harrison and Mary Crow, who have spent years working with blind children and their families, offer practical strategies for encouraging the blind child's development and interaction with his or her family and school community. The authors begin by discussing the reactions of parents when they learn their child is visually impaired, perhaps even multihandicapped. They go on to provide insights into what it means not to see well and techniques for encouraging the child to use whatever vision he or she may have. They suggest activities that parents or teachers can share with a blind child, from songs, games, and crafts to projects around the house and ways to enjoy a walk together. They discuss the nursery school experience and offer ideas on how to make it enjoyable and reward
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University of Toronto Press Social Working
Book SynopsisIn this unique work directed at social workers, Gerald A.J. de Montigny maintains that they, along with other professionals, create an `institutional' reality through their day-to-day practices. He traces the practical ways that social workers, when involved in child protection, struggle to produce a world which can be ordered, systematized, and subjected to their powers. It is a penetrating and sensitive analysis of how social workers in their everyday practice make sense from a confusing collection of case details to create organizationally defined problems and cases. De Montigny uses the tension between his experience of growing up 'working class' and the difficult process of becoming a social worker to explore the practical activities professionals use to secure organizational power and authority over clients. This tension has forced him to confront the dilemma of how to stand on the side of clients when standing inside professional and organizational realities.In Table of ContentsPreface / Acknowledgments * Introduction* Ideological Practice** Constructing a Professional Standpoint* Professional Discursive Powers* Ad Hoc Science: Constructing Child Abuse* Producing Good Sense* Producing Reports* Child Protection Work* Producing a File* The Report Goes to Court* The Hearing* Conclusion: Dirty Social Work Notes / References / Index
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University of Toronto Press Game Theory and Canadian Politics
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length application of game theory to Canadian politics. It uses a series of case studies to illustrate fundamental concepts of game theory such as two-person and n-person games; solution in mixed strategies; ordinal games; Nash equilibrium; coordination, Assurance, Chicken and Prisoner's Dilemma models; Schelling curves; coalition theory and Riker's size principle; voting rules, cycles, and the Condorcet winner; the Banzhaf power index; structure-induced equilibrium; and spatial models of political conflict. No mathematics more complex than simple algebra is required to follow the exposition.The case studies are not just contrived illustrations of abstract models but intensively researched studies of important episodes in Canadian politics. Topics include the Lubicon Lake stalemate, metrification and vaccination; the size of winning coalitions; formulas for amending the Canadian constitution; the mechanics of choosing party leaders; Parliament's failure
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University of Toronto Press Reconstructing Dropout
Book SynopsisAs many as one million untrained youths will enter the Canadian labour market by the year 2000. And yet, 60 per cent of jobs being created in Canada require at least a high school education. The drop-out rate is one of the most crucial issues that Canadian educators face.Traditionally, we have pinned dropping out on individual failure or specific situations such as pregnancy, substance abuse, and family troubles. The authors of this book suggest that the problem is more complex. Race, class, gender, and other forms of social difference can affect how education is delivered. For Black students, whose drop-out rate is disproportionately high, race is a key element in disengagement. The authors turn to the experiences of Black and non-Black students, teachers, parents, and community workers to try and reconstruct the social, structural, and institutional practices that lead Black youth to lose interest in and leave school.Based on a three-year study in the greater Toronto
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University of Toronto Press Getting it Wrong
Book SynopsisOn a snowy November day in 1872, the premier of Ontario is speaking in his constituency, and he tells a story - the story of his people's long struggle for liberty ...With this vignette Paul Romney leads us onto a lost middle ground between conflicting visions of Canada's past. He reminds that both French and English Canadians once regarded Confederation as a compact of provinces and of peoples, designed to permit each partner to cultivate its own distinct society. In English Canada that original conception gave way to a nationalist myth, which alienated French Canadians by its celebration of nation-building and exaltation of federal power. English Canada's forgetting resulted in a "historic blunder" - patriation of the Canadian constitution without Quebec's consent.How did that happen? Romney presents the politics of nineteenth-century Ontario as a confrontation between two competing myths - one of resistance to subversion, and one of resistance to oppression. The lat
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University of Toronto Press Fish Law and Colonialism
Book SynopsisAn engrossing history, Fish, Law, and Colonialism recounts the human conflict over fish and fishing in British Columbia and of how that conflict was shaped by law. Pacific salmon fisheries, owned and managed by Aboriginal peoples, were transformed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by commercial and sport fisheries backed by the Canadian state and its law. Through detailed case studies of the conflicts over fish weirs on the Cowichan and Babine rivers, Douglas Harris describes the evolving legal apparatus that dispossessed Aboriginal peoples of their fisheries. Building upon themes developed in literatures on state law and local custom, and law and colonialism, he examines the contested nature of the colonial encounter on the scale of a river. In doing so, Harris reveals the many divisions both within and between government departments, local settler societies, and Aboriginal communities.Drawing on government records, statute books, case reportTrade ReviewFish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia,by Douglas C. Harris, is a work of substantial empirical rigor and broad theoretical importance. -- Jeffery R. Dudas Law & Social Inquiry
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University of Toronto Press Drama Education in the Lives of Girls
Book SynopsisIn this book, Kathleen Gallagher presents a multi-case study of adolescent girls who are learning through drama about their particular sexual, cultural, ethnic, and class-based identities in relation to the broader world around them. By examining the power and possibility of drama in schools to animate the processes of learning, Gallagher's research offers hope for meaningful reflection on pedagogy in what she sees as an increasingly mechanistic and disempowering period in education. This work is a unique contribution to the fields of equity studies and the arts in education, as it provides a new lens through which to examine gender, diversity, and schooling. Experiencing the drama curriculum as a process and method, the students learn by taking on different roles. This re-positioning of the learner generates new and rich experiences in the dialectic of life and art and the discourse of the "world as a stage" metaphor. Combining research and classroom practice in a publi
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MY - University of Toronto Press The Wrong Door The Complete Plays of Natalia
Book SynopsisBringing together the eleven plays Ginzburg wrote between 1965 and the months before her death, this volume directs attention to Ginzburg's unique talent as a dramatist.Trade Review"'This is an impressive effort. Wendell Ricketts's translations are thoroughly enjoyable to read and true to the style and spirit of Natalia Ginzburg.' Jen Wienstein, Department of Italian Studies, McGill University"
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MJ - Ohio University Press Children of the Albatross Children of the Albatross Vol II
Book SynopsisChildren of the Albatross is divided into two sections: “The Sealed Room” focuses on the dancer Djuna and a set of characters, chiefly male, who surround her; “The Café” brings together a cast of characters already familiar to Nin’s readers, but it is their meeting place that is the focal point of the story.
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MJ - Ohio University Press D. H. Lawrence An Unprofessional Study
Book SynopsisIn 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence’s death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented it to a Paris publisher. She recorded the event in her diary: “It will not be published and out by tomorrow, which is what a writer would like when the book is hot out of the oven, when it is alive within oneself.Trade Review“Lawrence has … given me a world to live in, a world where I fit. Over and over again, in his descriptions of women I find myself. In his treatment of language, in the poetic intensity of his prose, I find courage for my own writing. I find, at last, a kind of home.”
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MJ - Ohio University Press The FourChambered Heart
Book SynopsisThe Four-Chambered Heart, Anaïs Nin’s 1950 novel, recounts the real-life affair she conducted with café guitarist Gonzalo Moré in 1936. Nin and Moré rented a house-boat on the Seine, and under the pervading influence of the boat’s watchman and Moré’s wife Helba, developed a relationship.Trade ReviewThe Four-Chambered Heart stands as a fine example of how Anaïs Nin used the incidents of her life to craft her novels. It is her clarity of tone and flair for magic and romance that give this work its unique potency. Essentially, it is fiction made rich by the inspiration of real life.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Cities of the Interior
Book SynopsisLadders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anaïs Nin began in 1946 to appear in quiet succession.Trade Review“A prose/poetry dream; a lyrical celebration of the inner life and the images it evokes.”“Beautiful, rare novels.””Real and unmistakable genius.”“She explores relationships on a level to which few contemporary novelists penetrate.”“She wishes to immerse readers in that flow of sensibility and reflection from which human beings distill the significance of what they do and suffer.”
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MJ - Ohio University Press Collected Poems 19531983
Book SynopsisLucien Stryk’s poetry is made of simple things—frost on a windowpane at morning, ducks moving across a pond, a neighbor’s fuss over his lawn—set into language that is at once direct and powerful.YearsTrade Review“Like Japanese art, the poetry of Lucien Stryk is spare, compressed, and simple—minimalist art at its very best. But Stryk is no Japanese, and his representations of tornadoes, elm trees, willows, and farms revitalize these primary images of midland America. Without them there could be no Midwest; and Stryk deserves the gratitude of his readers for helping to rescue this precious world from oblivion.” * Midamerica XII *
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Woman at Otowi Crossing
Book SynopsisThis is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby Indian pueblo and also a friend of the first atomic scientists. The secret evolution of atomic research is a counterpoint to her psychic development.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Newport in the Rockies
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MJ - Ohio University Press Colorado Gem Trails and Mineral Guide
Book SynopsisThis famous book takes you on an extensive gem and mineral collecting tour of Colorado, revealing the interesting places where nature has stored her treasures.Detailed directions are given for reaching the noted as well as the little-known localities in all sections of this great mineral-producing state.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Ancient Sisterhood
Book SynopsisIn this fascinating piece of scholarly detective work, biblical scholar Savina J. Teubal peels away millenia of patriarchal distortion to reveal the lost tradition of biblical matriarchs.Trade ReviewTeubals lost tradition rejects victimization in favor of female empowerment, reevaluates social values and shows how both Sarah and Hagar merit prestige in their own right, not merely as receptacles of Abrahams seed. * Bible Review *
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MJ - Ohio University Press A Trick of Sunlight
Book SynopsisIn his new collection of poems, Dick Davis, the acclaimed author of Belonging, addresses themes that he has long worked with—travel, the experience of being a stranger, the clash of cultures, the vagaries of love, the pleasures and epiphanies of meaning that art allows us.Trade Review“[H]is prosodic manners are immaculate; this guy knows how to write formal verse, without a dropped, stretched, or off-beat foot anywhere in sight. ... Marvelous reading.” * Booklist *“Davis’s poems exemplify Auden’s definition of the art as ‘the clear expression of mixed feelings.’ With a sly, self-deprecating wit, a wisdom that spurns bombast, they are charming, as well as intelligent, so clear and deftly controlled that a reader might overlook the ‘mixed feelings’ that they express, the disquiet and passionate ambivalence.” * Virginia Quarterly Review *“This volume is a perfect example of (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press’s) ability to find and publish the best of the genre. Davis has an uncanny knack of making amazingly accurate observations of seemingly everyday events.... Highly recommended.” * The Oklahoma Observer *“The pleasures it offers readers are rich and varied.” * The Hudson Review *
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MJ - Ohio University Press A Spy in the House of Love
Book SynopsisAlthough Anaïs Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could not reveal this intimate record of her own experiences during her lifetime. Instead, she turned to fiction, where her stories and novels became artistic “distillations” of her secret diaries.Trade Review“Real and unmistakable genius”“A prose/poetry dream, a lyrical celebration of the inner life and the images it evokes.”
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MJ - Ohio University Press Seduction of the Minotaur
Book Synopsis“Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream, some in the urgency of contradicting a dream.Trade Review“Beautiful, rare novels.”“A prose/poetry dream: a lyrical celebration of the inner life and the images it evokes.”
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MJ - Ohio University Press Fourth Down and Out An Andy Hayes Mystery
Book SynopsisAndy Hayes, everyone’s not-so-favorite former Buckeye quarterback, thinks retrieving a laptop with a damning video should be easy enough—until bodies start to pile up and the case gets personal.Trade Review“Welsh-Huggins (does) a masterful job with the book, an entertaining, easy-to-read tale worthy of Robert B. Parker.” * Columbus Dispatch *“Like any other good detective novel, Fourth Down and Out has murder, dames, snappy dialogue and a tough, weary protagonist. This most entertaining fiction debut shows that noir can come in scarlet and gray.” * Akron Beacon-Journal *“With a wealth of Columbus-area color, an intriguing private detective with a shady past and more twists than many of Ohio’s back roads, Fourth Down and Out represents a top-notch opener for a writer who seems destined to score big.” * Richmond Times-Dispatch *“Midwesterners and football fans will find the most enjoyment in Fourth Down and Out, but even for private eye fans at large, this is a promising new series with a lot of charm.” * Black Heart Magazine *“Fourth Down And Out is a tall, frosty stein of Middle-American noir, backed with a healthy shot of wry.”“Columbus resident Welsh-Huggins has his scene down pat, from government buildings to trendy coffee shops, and he makes good use of his familiarity, such as knowing the best abandoned quarry to dump a body into. Similar to how James Lee Burke treats Cajun country or Sue Grafton the California coast, Welsh-Huggins is out to make Columbus a character.” * ForeWord Reviews *“Andy (Hayes) is an agreeable narrator with a dry wit and a bit of a martyr’s complex. His dark past under center for the Buckeyes plays into the satisfying conclusion of this solid debut thriller from an AP legal-affairs reporter based in Columbus.” * Booklist *“Reporter Welsh-Huggins’s…debut, the first in a series, introduces Andy Hayes, a Columbus, Ohio, PI, and—for reasons explained late in the story—perhaps the most reviled former football player in Ohio State history…. The author’s use of iconic Columbus landmarks and lots of Buckeye lore will appeal to O.S.U. fans.” * Publishers Weekly *
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Ohio University Press Comic Shop The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a
Book SynopsisAward-winning business journalist Dan Gearino leads a tour through the world of comic shops, telling the story of the direct market from its 1970s origins to today. Includes profiles of forty notable shops in the U.S. and Canada, and a close look at The Laughing Ogre in Columbus.Trade Review“Gives a fascinating glimpse at the challenges and pressures that store owners have to face in this hybrid retail business.… [Gearino] makes the case that the modern pop culture era we’re living in wouldn’t exist without the rise of comic book stores.”“Dan Gearino offers a more compelling and complex place for the comic shop in popular culture by demonstrating how entrepreneurs and distribution channels have reshaped that commercial space over the last 50 years.…Gender issues feature heavily in the text, and this offers scholars…a point of consideration lacking from many other outlets.…Above all, this work personalizes the comic shop as a collection of people who, through emotion and personal desire, embrace an evolving and unstable place in the commercial world of pop culture.” * PopMatters *“[Gearino] has clearly done his homework.…Comic Shop is an essential read for anyone interested in the mechanics and money of the comic industry, but I was most amazed to learn that, beyond Carol Kalish, there was another woman behind the formation of the direct market. That’s not a story that’s often been told.” * Comics Worth Reading *“There are precious few prose books that have elucidated the quirkiness of the comics industry more than Comic Shop.…In clear and compelling language, Gearino lays out how comics specialty shops were born in the 1970s and ’80s, how they flew too close to the sun in the ’90s, and how they’ve managed to endure decades into the Information Age.”“This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand comics in the U.S. Dan Gearino has put together a riveting account of the history of the comics market, and even reveals the forgotten key women who were essential to its creation. Comic Shop is a fascinating page turner.”“If the foundation of America’s castle on a hill consists of how we buy and sell things, Dan Gearino shows us what’s in the basement.”“Gearino pulls back the curtain on the seldom-seen end of the business encompassing sales, distribution and retail.… Drawing from original documents and firsthand interviews with key participants, [he] gives the retail and distribution side of the industry an account as dramatic and lively as Sean Howe did for the creative side in his 2012 book on Marvel Comics.… The result is a readable, well-researched account that fills a gap in existing comics literature and provides a great reference for future work.” * ICv2 *“Gearino…effortlessly navigates the byzantine business lore of comic-distribution companies.…The author still takes delicate care with their stories, weaving tales of complex heroes and villains with stories directly from the people who lived through the uncertainty and chaos in the industry.…It is spectacular how often Gearino makes these small stories of heartbreak and triumph feel herculean in scope.…Comic Shop lives in the beautiful struggle to survive and exist.” * Columbus Dispatch *“The fickle, frustrating and sometimes joyful travails of owning a comic book store are detailed in a new book by native Iowan Dan Gearino. [Comic Shop] traces the history of selling comic books from their inception on newsstands in grocery stores, pharmacies and gas stations to the rise of specialty stores.” * Des Moines Register *“Dan Gearino captures the genie in the bottle. He’s gathered together the players and the circumstances to reveal how a generation of entrepreneurs saved an entire industry and changed the very way people discover, buy, read, collect, and even think about comic books.”
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MK - Stanford University Press Calamity and Reform in China State Rural Society and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length treatment of the political causes and consequences of the Great Leap Famine (1959-61), one of the worst tragedies in human history.Trade Review"On the basis of a wealth of primary and secondary sources, the book provides a vigorous treatment of the origin and consequences of the Great Leap Forward as well as the institutions and processes involved in China's rural reforms. Yang's book is an impressive scholarly addition to our study of contemporary Chinese politics." -- Journal of Asian Studies"This is a very impressive achievement. What is so good about it is the theoretical and statistical sophistication, the emphasis on regional variation, and the learning it displays, not only with regard to China but in general. It contains much new material of enormous value." -- Thomas P. Bernstein * Columbia University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Context: 1. The path to disaster 2. The political economy of the Great Leap famine Part II. Catastrophe and Reform: 3. The Great Leap famine and rural liberalization 4. The Cultural Revolution interlude 5. Structural incentives for rural reform 6. The political struggle over reform Part III. State and Rural Society Under Reform: 8. Rural industrialization, political empowerment, and state policy Conclusions and reflections Appendix Notes Bibliography Index.
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MK - Stanford University Press The Evolution of Human Societies
Book SynopsisFor this new edition, the authors have thoroughly rewritten the theoretical argument for greater clarity, updated the case studies to incorporate new research, and added a new chapter that extends their perspective to the problem of industrialization and globalization.Trade Review"Johnson and Earle show in masterly detail how societies articulate to their environments and . . . how they evolve."—EthnohistoryTable of Contents1. Introdution Part I. The Family-Level Group: 2. The family level 3. Family-level foragers 4. Families with domestication Part II. The Local Group: 5. The local group 6. The family and the village 7. The village and the clan 8. The corporate group and the big man collectivity Part III. The Regional Polity: 9. The regional polity 10. The simple chiefdom 11. The complex chiefdom 12. The archaic state 13. The peasant economy 14. The evolution of global society.
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Stanford University Press Organizations Policy and the Natural Environment
Book SynopsisThis book brings together emerging perspectives from organization theory and management, environmental sociology, international regime studies, and the social studies of science and technology to provide a starting point for discipline-based studies of environmental policy and corporate environmental behavior.Trade Review"Deftly employing the tools of institutionary theory, the authors in this edited collection link natural and organizational environments in a variety of new and challenging ways. Theoretically rich and analytically sophisticated, Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment is a veritable treasure trove of useful approaches and strategies that should appeal to researchers and practitioners in organizational behavior, management studies, environmental sociology and public administration."—John Hannigan, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto and author of Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective"Organizations, Policy, and the Natural Environment is a much welcomed and timely contribution to the growing body of literature on corporate environmentalism and environmental policy. Not only do the contributors to this volume clearly demonstrate the applicability of institutional theories of organization in analyzing environmental issues, they use environmental issues to extend theory in organizational sociology and strategy. Positioned at the intersection of environmental sociology, environmental policy studies and management, and organization theory, this book provides insights relevant and important for audiences in all these fields."—Susse George, Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology, Copenhagen Business School"Hoffman and Ventresca have gathered an impressive collection of research studies that examine how the natural environment/organization interface evolves through dynamic interactions between institutional field processes and organizational strategies and structures. The research collected in this volume provides unique insights into the complex forces driving organizational change in response to increasing emphasis on sustainable development. Organizations, Policy, and the Natural Environment is not only an important addition for scholars of organizations and the natural environment but also those in organizational theory."—Sanjay Sharma, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada"This volume brings together imaginative work from environmental sociology and environmental management to illuminate the variety of factors shaping organizational responses to environmental crises. Organizations, Policy, and the Natural Environment provides valuable theorizing that combines careful empirical studies with analytic theory—a must read for corporate officials and environmental business researchers."—Peter M. Haas, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst"Hoffman and Ventresca have opened up a new and productive line of research for organizational scholars."—Academy of Management Review
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MK - Stanford University Press The Time That Remains A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans
Book SynopsisAgamben seeks to separate the Pauline texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus revealing them to be "the fundamental messianic texts of the West." He argues that Paul's Letters are concerned not with the foundation of a new religion but rather with the "messianic" abolition of Jewish law.Trade Review"The Time that Remains presents itself as an exegetical seminar on the opening line of the Letter to the Romans ("Paul, called as a slave of Jesus the Messiah, separated as apostle for the announcement of God")... Agamben's insightful close reading of the Pauline corpus sets this book apart from the more free-range grazing over the text modeled by Badiou and iek."—Radical Philosophy Review"Agamben, through the close reading of Pauline letter and the comparison of W. Benjamin's philosophy of history, gives us a fruitful key to better understand Western history and civilization. Philosophers and theologians will learn a great deal from reading this book." —Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus philosophiquesTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc2:The First Day 000 The Second Day 000 The Third Day 000 The Fourth Day 000 The Fifth Day 000 The Sixth Day 000 Threshold or Tornada 000 @toc4:Appendix 000 Bibliogrpahy 000 Index of Names 000
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MK - Stanford University Press Leading with Purpose
Book SynopsisAn exploration of corporate purpose - a company's expressed overriding reason for existing - and its effect upon strategy, executive leadership, employees, and ultimately, on competitive performance. It argues that the path to financial success lies in a customer-focused corporate purpose.Trade Review"Ellsworth links the literature of current management practice to the findings of economists and political scientists who study the global environment, making the argument that purpose is at the core of a company's global competitiveness and managers have a moral as well as a fiduciary responsibility in the corporation. The strong, clear voice that comes through in this work is one that should be heard more often in business schools. Leading with Purpose is a major contribution on an issue of immense importance and provides an effective counterweight to the rational and analytic frameworks that often drive our MBA programs and executive classrooms." -- Christopher A. Bartlett * Harvard Business School *"Vivid and encyclopaedic in his description of organizational purpose, Ellsworth helps leaders truly understand the tremendous impact that knowing who you are has on where you go and how you get there. In these globally turbulent times, any thoughtful leader will benefit greatly from this book." -- Jerry I. Porras * Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change, Stanford Business School, and co-author of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies *"Reexamining the view that the overriding purpose of a corporation is to increase shareholder wealth, this book challenges corporations to integrate product development, customer satisfaction, employee productivity, and shareholder satisfaction to both remain competitive in the world economy and contribute to the betterment of the community. Leading with Purpose exemplifies Ellsworth's ability to identify and analyze abstract philosophical conceptions in a way that is useful to practicing managers." -- George C. Lodge * Harvard Business School *"This thoughtful and incredibly ambitious work tackles head-on the enormously important issue of why the corporation exists. Ellsworth creates the kind of provocative framework and well-articulated set of concepts that would drive an intense and powerful classroom learning experience in courses of general management, strategic management, and business policy in business schools everywhere." -- Christopher A. Bartlett * Harvard Business School *"In order to prosper, businesses need to switch their primary focus from shareholders to customers, says Claremont Graduate University['s] Ellsworth. He finds that shareholder-focused purpose disenfranchises other stakeholders and customers . . . .while a customer-focused purpose enhances strategy and management, supports global operations, and provides a worthy motivation for employees." -- Richmond Times"No serious student of management or practicing manager can afford to miss the lessons contained in this book—lessons that help address perhaps the most fundamental of all business questions: What is the ultimate purpose of your corporation?" * Academy of Management Review *"The unique strength of Richard Ellsworth's book is that it presents the business enterprise in all its dimensions—as an economic institution; as a human organization; and as an embodiment of values—and carries all three dimensions in both clear theory and practical application." -- Peter F. Drucker * The Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management *"A truly unique effort. I know of no other book that takes for its centerpiece the concept of purpose and then refracts it so meaningfully through the prism of the modern corporation. Ellsworth argues forcibly for a strong point of view and moral imperative in the corporation, brilliantly presenting a book of immense importance." -- Warren Bennis * University of Southern California, Graduate School of Business Administration *Table of ContentsPART I Influences on Meaning, Strategy, Managing, and Performance 1 Purpose and Performance: Leveraging the Essence of a Corporation 2 Corporations and Individuals: Creating Meaning and Competitiveness 3 Strategy: Defining Corporate Mission, Priorities, and Direction 4 Managing: Transforming Purpose into Action PART II Capital Markets, Property Rights, and the Individual 5 Capital-Market Relationships: The Myths of Shareholder Wealth Maximization 6 Property Rights: The Shareholders' Rights and Responsibilities 7 Individualism: America's Competitive Advantage PART III Competing Purposes in the Global Marketplace 8 Purpose and Global Competitiveness: The Realities 9 America's Rivals: Changing the Rules of Competition CONCLUSION The Lessons for Leadership 10 Infusing Purpose: A Moral and Strategic Responsibility of Leadership
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MK - Stanford University Press Paper Machine
Book SynopsisThis book draws together essays that play in various ways upon questions involving books, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals.Trade Review"A brilliant and succinct formulation of Derrida's position on the topics that have most interested him in recent years. This volume will make a wonderful book because of its timeliness: much in this book helps one to understand 9/11 and its aftermaths, though it was written before the event. Paper Machine will serve as an admirable introduction to Derrida's work." -J. Hillis Miller,University of California, IrvineTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Translator's Note iii @toc2:1 Machines and the "Undocumented Person" 000 2 The Book to Come 000 3 The Word Processor 000 4 "Butno, butneverand yetas for the media": Intellectuals 000 5 Paper or Me, You Know(New Speculations on a Luxury of the Poor) 000 6 The Principle of Hospitality 000 7 "Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious" 000 8 As If It Were Possible "Within Such Limits" 000 9 My Sunday "Humanities" 000 10 For Jose Rainha: What I Believe and Believe I Know 000 11 "What Does It Mean to be a French Philosopher Today?" 000 12 Not Utopia, the Im-possible 000 13 "Others Are Secret Because They Are Other" 000 14 Fichus 000 @toc4:Notes 000
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Stanford University Press Locating Global Advantage
Book SynopsisWhat are the forces that are driving firms and industries to globalize their operations? This volume explores how specific industries have organized their global operations through case studies of seven manufacturing industries including: garments and textiles, televisions and personal computers.Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Locating Global Advantage Preface: In Vino Veritas?, by Paul Duguid 1. Introduction, by Martin Kenney Part One 2. Globalization in the Apparel and Textile Industries: What Is New and What Is Not? by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, and David Weil 3. Globalization, Deverticalization, and Employment in the Motor Vehicle Industry, by Timothy Sturgeon and Richard Florida 4. The Shifting Value Chain: The Television Industry in North America, by Martin Kenney Part Two 5. The Organizational and Geographic Configuration of the Personal Computer Value Chain, by James Curry and Martin Kenney 6. Leveraging Locations: Hard Disk Drive Producers in International Competition, by David G. McKendrick 7. Industry Creation and the New Geography of Innovation: The Case of Flag Panel Displays, by Thomas P. Murtha, Stefanie Ann Lenway, and Jeffrey A. Hart 8. Globalization and Semiconductors: Do Real Men Have Fabs, or Virtual Fabs? by Robert C. Leachman and Chien H. Leachman 9. The Net World Order's Influence on Global Leadership in the Semiconductor Industry, by Greg Linden, Clair Brown, and Melissa M. Appleyard Part Three 10. Conclusion: From Regions and Firms to Multinational Highways: Knowledge and Its Diffusion as a Factor in the Globalization of Industries, by Bruce Kogut References Index
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MK - Stanford University Press Oedipus Unbound
Book SynopsisThese hard-to-find writings afford an inside look at the emergence of Girard's scapegoat theory from his pioneering analysis of rivalry and desire. Girard unbinds the Oedipal triangle from its Freudian moorings, replacing desire for the mother with desire for anyone-or anything-a rival desires.Trade Review"Readers of Oedipus Unbound will, I wager, both enjoy and find enlightenment in the newly-combined set of essays by Girard and Mark Anspach's expert introduction. My advice would be to take the book down from the shelf and take it home."—COV&R BulletinTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Editor's Acknowledgments i Editor's Introduction: Imitating Oedipus iii @toc2:1 From the Novelistic Experience to the Oedipal Myth 000 2 Oedipus Analyzed 000 3 Symmetry and Dissymmetry in the Myth of Oedipus 000 4 Doubles and the Pharmakos in Levi-Strauss, Frye, Derrida and Shakespeare 000 5 The Myth of Oedipus, the Truth of Joseph 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Sophocles, Oedipus rex, Sophocles Characters Oedipus, Oedipus (Greek mythology) in literature, Oedipus complex in literature, Psychology in literature, Competition (Psychology)Sophocles Influence, Incest in literature, Desire in literature
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MK - Stanford University Press Explorations in Poetics
Book SynopsisThe book provides a lucid and systematic theory of the work of literature and its major aspects.Table of ContentsContents @toc3:Preface xx @toc2:1. Fictionality and Fields of Reference: A Theoretical Framework 1 2. Metaphor and Frames of Reference: With Examples from Eliot, Rilke, Mayakovsky, Mandelshtam, Pound, Creeley, Amichai, and The New York Times 000 3. An Outline of Integrational Semantics: An Understander's Theory of Meaning in Context 000 4. The Structure of Semiotic Objects: A Three-Dimensional Model 000 5. On Presentation and Representation in Fiction 000 6. The Meaning of Sound Patterns in Poetry: An Interaction Theory 000 7. "Literariness" Revisited: A Contemporary Manifesto 000 8. The Structure of Non-Narrative Fiction: The First Episode of War and Peace 000 @toc4:References to Chapters 18 000 @toc1:Frameworks 000 @toc2:9. The Elusive Science of Literature: Remarks on the Fields and Responsibilities of the Study of Literature [Tel-Aviv 1968] 000 10. A Unified Theory of the Literary Text [Berkeley 1972] 000 @toc4:Sources of the Chapters 000 Index 000
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