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Book SynopsisShows how senses of gender shape and get shaped by sign systems that prove arbitrary, fluid, and susceptible of lively transformation.Trade Review"This year's most important book on gender... Wolfson's prose sparkles, and she refuses to sacrifice her delight in formalist craft to a dogmatic ideological agenda."—SEL Studies in English Literature"Borderlines is a long-awaited study that takes the gender controversy in Romanticism and Romantic studies in an entirely new and unprecedented direction. It will inflect and inform all future discussions of the crucial and abiding issue that is its focus."—William Galperin, Rutgers University"Indefatigable in examining blurrings of gender lines, . . . this fascinating study will engage mature students of Romanticism and feminist studies. Highly recommended [for] upper-division undergraduates through faculty." —S. A. Parker, CHOICE"Susan Wolfson's new book is a major accomplishment. . . . rigorously historical, . . . through the sheer copiousness of her references she is able to make it clear that we have hardly outgrown the problematics of gender. Wolfson is never satisfied with the obvious binaries. These are complicated, as she shows, both by chameleonic definitions of key terms and also by constant transvaluations even where one might expect gender divisions to remain dismally stable. . . . The notes are generous and useful, concluding a book that is likewise generous and useful—not to mention subtle and spritely by turns. . . . subtlety comes both from her skill as a reader and her knowledge of gender theory." —Paul H. Fry, Modern Language Quarterly"Wolfson's book is a major work of scholarship that everyone studying Romantic period writing will need to read. It employs no jargon, yet is a formidable book in its sustained attention to detail. Though generous in acknowledging the scholarship of others, Wolfson has trodden her own path entirely: employing her own hybrid brand of formalist and feminist critique, her idiosyncratic and playful use of language and clever way of combining the biographical with textual analysis." —Caroline Franklin, The Byron Journal"One of the most significant contributions to the area of general Romanticism this year is Susan J. Wolfson's Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism. . . . Wolfson's incisive close readings, her thorough knowledge of the field, and the clarity with which she describes the gender debate in the Romantic period and in Romantic studies itself make Borderlines an exceptional book, and essential reading for anyone interested in the study of Romanticism." —Orianne Smith, Year's Work in English Studies"An important book . . . the distillation of a career of scholarship, teaching, and just plain careful thinking about issues central to British Romanticism. . . . At once critically provocative and a joy to read."—The Wordsworth CircleTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments iii Preface iii List of Illustrations iii Chapter One On the Borderlines of Gendered Language 0 Two Women Chapter Two Felicia Hemans and the Stages of "The Feminine" 00 Chapter Three The Generations of "Masculine" Woman 000 Chapter Four Woman's Life and "Masculine" Energy: The History of Maria Jane Jewsbury 000 Two Men Chapter Five Lord Byron, Sardanapalus and "Effeminate Character" 000 Chapter Six Gender as Cross-Dressing: Don Juan 000 Chapter Seven Keats and Gender Acts 000 Chapter Eight Gendering Keats 000 Chapter Nine Sex in Souls? Texts and Abbreviations 000 Works Cited 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisPlacing women at the center of the High Qing era shows how gender relations shaped the economic, political, social, and cultural changes of the age, and gives us a sense of what women felt and believed, and what they actually did, during this period.Trade Review“This is a wonderfully rich study, based on wide reading of the sources and crafted in a readable style. It is an important contribution to feminist scholarship's project of recovering the 'traditional’ Chinese woman, making visible the complexity of gender relations in a society too often simply pigeonholed as one of history's most successful patriarchies. This is an elegant addition to the small body of high-quality studies that are putting gender into the mainstream of late imperial Chinese history.”—Charlotte Furth, University of Southern California

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Book SynopsisThe Fathers is the powerful novel by the poet and critic recognized as one of the great men of letters of our time.Old Major Buchan of Pleasant Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia, lived by a gentlemen’s agreement to ignore what was base or rude, to live a life which was gentle and comfortable because it was formal.Trade ReviewA masterpiece of formal beauty … deserves to be recognized as one of the most outstanding novels of our time. * The New Statesmen *Great novel of the broken South. * The New Statesmen *A psychological horror story … concerned with life rather than death, with significance rather than with futility.The story displays so much imagination and such a profound reflection upon life that it cannot be neglected by anyone interested in contemporary literature.It is one of the most remarkable novels of our time … The Fathers is in fact the novel Gone with the Wind ought to have been.

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Book SynopsisThis work offers a sustained examination of Dutch 17th-century genre painting from a theoretically informed feminist perspective.Trade Review"This book will take a place at the forefront of studies of Dutch genre painting and of feminist art history and visual culture, setting new paradigms for these fields. Shifting Priorities is a sophisticated work of sustained originality, sharp intelligence, and sure judgments of how paintings operated as a negotiation of social discourses, historical shifts, and relations of both class and gender." -- Griselda Pollock * University of Leeds *"With an emphasis on methodological shifts, this book adds a distinctive voice to the recent outpouring of publications on Dutch genre painting. As a focused historiography of some of the changes that continue to alter the scholarship of Netherlandish art, Shifting Priorities demonstrates how intellectually lively and contested our terrain remains." -- Historians of Netherlandish Art Book Reviews"This book of essays will remain an important and lasting contribution, both for students of Dutch art and for students of methodology." -- Seventeenth-Century News

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how a group of young far-right intellectuals in the 1930s reimagined the French nation through the lens of gender and race, connecting both antisemitism and colonial racism in order to define the "new French man."Trade Review"Sanos has provided a vital resource for the intellectual history of interwar France . . . Highly recommended." -- D. A. Harvey * CHOICE *"This book is an impressive piece of intellectual and cultural history. In an important intervention, the author illuminates how a range of extreme-right figures in 1930s France shared a racialized conception of the French nation. By historicizing these authors' thought, placing their writings in their wider political and journalistic context, Sanos moves beyond the narrow frame adopted by many literary scholars. The book's demonstration of the mutual constitution of antisemitism and colonial racism is one of its chief assets and achievements." -- Judith Surkis * Institute for Advanced Study *"This ambitious and conceptually sophisticated book moves beyond debates about whether the French far-right during the 1930s was 'really' fascist. In contrast to most historians, Sanos argues that the French far-right, while not 'worse' than other fascisms, was just different: it sought to provide the basis for a 'reasonable' racist anti-Semitism that would justify excluding Jews legally and symbolically from France rather than appealing, as they felt Hitler did, to myths." -- Carolyn Dean * Brown University *"[A]n ambitious and intriguing reappraisal of an important literary movement." -- Samuel Kalman * Canadian Journal of History *"[A] bold, sophisticated, and deeply intelligent book . . . To think through and articulate the relationship between a text and its pertinent contexts is precisely the challenge of intellectual history, and with her provocative and nuanced readings, Sanos makes an immensely valuable contribution to this field . . . Most important, with this exciting book Sanos proves how valuable the analysis of gender and race can be to intellectual history." -- Camille Robcis * The Journal of Modern History *"Among the strengths of the author in this study is her refusal to judge her subjects—essayist Thierry Maulnier, novelists Robert Brazillach and Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and literary critic Maurice Blanchot, among others—under the retroactive 'specter of Auschwitz'. Instead, Sandrine Sanos grounds her Far Right intellectuals firmly in the historical and discursive world of France in the 1930s that shaped them . . . Sanos's argument is strong, meticulously well-supported, and original. She is right that historians have generally remained 'oblivious' to the discourse of gender and sexuality that fairly saturates the texts of the Far Right." -- Paul Cohen * The Historian *"Sanos adds to an already large literature on the Jeune Droite by maintaining that it redefined far right and fascist politics by insisting that aesthetics (particularly art and literature) were the highest form of political expression....The originality of Sanos's argument lies in her assertion that the Jeune Droite used a new language, that of abjection... to express their vision of the nation." -- Caroline Campbell * Contemporary European History *"In short, this is in many regards an impressive book. Sanos's primary research is exemplary, and her analyses are grounded firmly in the evidence." -- Geoff Read * Contemporary French Civilization *

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Book SynopsisPresents an English-language translation of the ill-fated Uruguyan erotic poet Delmira Agustini. This book presents a representative sampling of the poetry Delmira Agustini published before her untimely death on July 6, 1914 at the age of twenty-seven.Trade Review"Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros provides a masterful introduction to the life and works of Delmira Agustini. Even more importantly, through its thoughtfully executed translations, the English-speaking public is afforded, for the first time, access to the complex and sophisticated poetry that turned Agustini into a celebrity during her lifetime and a role model for generations to come." - Cathy L. Jrade, author of Modernismo, Modernity, and the Development of Spanish American Literature"

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Book SynopsisScholars have come to realize that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism, not a genealogy in which one is parent to the other. In this book, the author develops a revised understanding of the interactions between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity.Trade Review"Daniel Boyarin has done it again. With this book . . . he has again provoked, challenged, and enlightened us. With his usual clear, crisp, and sometimes sharp-edged writing, with his consistently critical engagement of ancient primary and modern and postmodern secondary interpretive texts and theories, Boyarin has forced us to think again and in some respects in radically different ways and on radically different terms about. . .the 'making' of Christianity and Judiasm." -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion"This is a rich, stimulating and compelling work. Boyarin's writing is complex and full fo irony and humor. . . . It is fascinating and, like a good drama, draws the reader in as if to solve a mystery. . . . Even those how are not in the field of ancient Judiasm . . . will find much of interest in this book." -- Hebrew Studies"This volume highlights new developments in understanding Christian and Jewish origins. It is intended to be the beginning of a new investigation of the religious histories of rabbinic Jews and Christians in late antiquity. It is, according to Boyarin, to be read more as a series of hypotheses than as a series of conclusions. Nevertheless it is a very exciting publication. . . . I find the central thesis compelling, even astonishing, but quite exhilirating. We are much indebted to someone who has the vision to see the past in ways most of us never fully envisaged." -- Journal of Beliefs & Values" . . . [This] book is especially worthwhile for anyone interested in the evolution of Christian and Jewish self-understanding in Late Antiquity." -- Religious Studies Review"Boyarin tells this story with grace and impressive erudition. Previously unnoticed connections are established that shed rich light on the developments under study. Boyarin has placed the separation of Judaism and Christianity into the historical context of real people attempting to understand themselves and one another, and the once-familiar story will never again look the same. He is to be congratulated for a valuable contribution." -- The Jewish Quarterly Review"Boyarin's exciting book has shown us that the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism never really occurred, at least not in the way scholars have imagined." -- History of ReligionsTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. Appendix to Chapter 4:

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Book SynopsisChronicling the rise of the Iraqi public sphere from 1921 to 1958, The Other Iraq reveals Iraqi intellectuals' democratic and pluralistic ideals, deconstructing the notion that Iraq has always been a totalitarian, artificial state, torn by sectarian violence.Trade Review"...Bashkin's work is a fascinating and rich account and will become essential reading for all interested in Iraqi history .... Overall, this is a lucid, intelligent, and well-written book that will help shape the historiography of modern Iraq." -- Magnus T. Bernhardsson * Williams College, TAARII Newsletter *"An important and enlightening book." -- Esther Meir-Galicnstein * Israeli Sociology *"Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq est à la fois un approfondissement de sa contribution à l'histoire intellectuelle de l'Irak contemporain - son champ de recherche d'origine - et une incursion dans une histoire spécifique, celle des communautés juives du monde arabe, avant et après la création de l'Etat d'Israël." -- Leyla Dakhili * Le Mouvement *"The Other Iraq opens up an entirely new perspective on the history of Iraq. No other study covers the variety and pluralism of intellectual history in a Middle Eastern society with such breadth and depth. It is a unique, unprecedented account of Iraqi writers' open-mindedness during a period when ideologies were still not fully formulated. It will usher in a change of paradigm." -- Peter Wien, University of Maryland * College Park *"This unquestionably original study considers the output of a remarkably wide range of Iraqi intellectuals, assessing their views as part of an interactive intellectual community. With sharp, clear analysis, it makes several significant contributions to the study of Iraqi and Middle Eastern intellectual history." -- James Jankowski, University of Colorado * Boulder *"A book written to explain an earlier era sometimes takes on a new and startling relevance in a later one.... Bashkin's book not only anticipates many of the troubles encountered in Iraq today, but it also supplies a vocabulary with which to talk about them and about the breach between political theory and political practice." -- Middle East JournalTable of Contents@fmct:Contents Acknowledgments xxx Introduction: Hybrid Iraq 1 Part 1 Aspects of Pluralism in the Iraqi Public Sphere 000 1 Modest Hopes: Iraqi Intellectuals in the Early 1920s 000 2 Protecting Pluralism, 19311945 000 3 Renaissance and Revolution, 19451958 000 Part 2 National Narratives 000 4 The Production of Pan-Arabism(s): Narratives of Iraqi-Arab Nationalism 000 5 Strangers in our Midst: Iraq's Others 000 6 The Rural Nation: Intellectuals, Tribesmen, and Peasants 000 7 Educating the Nation: Modes and Theories of Discipline 000 Conclusion 000 Appendix: Political Affiliation of Prominent Intellectuals 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisA rich ethnography of men in a low-income neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, this book gives the reader a vivid sense of the meaning of masculinity and the multiple agents who contribute to the making of men in the Middle East.Trade Review"Despite the profusion of works on gender in the Middle East, few studies are devoted to masculinity. This pathbreaking volume is the first to examine Egyptian manhood through an ethnographic lens, following the stories of 'boys-to-men' on the brink of a revolution. A must-read for those interested in Middle East gender studies, anthropology, and contemporary Egypt." -- Marcia C. Inhorn * Yale University, author of The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East *"With Live and Die Like a Man, Farha Ghannam is far ahead of the academic curve, setting an imposing standard for future scholarship on the Arab Spring and gender across the Middle East and North Africa. This engrossing book breaks ground by using the study of men's experiences as a method for understanding contemporary societies." -- Mark LeVine, University of California * Irvine *"In a book that lives up to its name, anthropologist Ghannam explores what in means to be a man in the working-class neighborhood of Zawiya al-Hamra . . . Her thick descriptions, amassed over 20 years of research, will make readers laugh, cry, and gasp at the lives of these individuals . . . By examining the construct of manhood, Ghannam is charting new territory in Middle Eastern studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- M. L. Russell * CHOICE *"In this groundbreaking working, anthropologist Farha Ghannam utilizes 20 years of field research in the working class neighborhood of Zawiya al-Hamra to deconstruct the notion of masculinity . . . [T]his work is a huge step forward in the field of Middle East Studies. Little work has been done on masculinity in general, and even less on what it means for the ordinary man." -- Mona L. Russell * Middle East Journal *"Farha Ghannam skillfully weaves the life stories of Egyptian men with an important accounting of the precarious balance between genders. This is a masterful treatise on masculinity in the Middle East and a timely contribution to understanding the Arab Spring and the socio-political changes facing the region. A book not to be missed." -- Sherine Hafez, University of California * Riverside *"Informed by nineteen years of field research in the same Cairo neighborhood, anthropologist Farha Ghannam's Live and Die Like a Man offers readers an incredibly well-rounded and dynamic portrait of the making (and remaking) of Egyptian working-class men that is at once intimate in its approach and capacious in its analytic reach . . . [The] explicitness of her critique in Live and Die Like a Man highlights the maturation of Ghannam's own scholarly voice . . . Its careful use of 'stories' to illustrate central theoretical claims makes it highly accessible for students, and its link to the 2011 uprising and (some of) its aftermath offers a way of understanding mass mobilization that is largely absent from most analysis and deeply convincing. Ghannam's insights, carefully wrought through the particular, have broad analytic reach and theoretical significance. Equally valuable for scholars and for teachers, Live and Die Like a Man is essential reading." -- Stacey Philbrick Yadav * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"In Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt, anthropologist Farha Ghannam offers a compelling longitudinal study of masculinity in a lower- and middle-income neighborhood in Cairo known as al-Zawiya . . . Ghannam does a wonderful job showing the nuances of masculinity, as well as the complexities and contingencies of the masculine trajectory over time. Well written and accessible, Live and Die Like a Man would be an excellent texts for undergraduate classes, particularly those that aim to dispel stereotypes characterizing Middle Eastern men as macho and violent. This ethnography makes a welcome addition to a growing body of masculinity studies in the contemporary Middle East." -- Rachel Newcomb * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Written in lucid prose and rife with Egyptian Arabic words and phrases that are translated and explained not in endnotes but in body paragraphs, Ghannam draws chiefly on participant observations rather than interviews . . . The result is a rich ethnography that shows rather than merely tells, and makes productive use of the author's long-standing involvement with the community in al-Zäwiya al-Hamra. Overall, this is a captivating study of working-class masculinities in Egypt and makes a significant contribution to the anthropology of the region as well as to masculinity and gender studies." -- Kristin V. Monroe * Review of Middle East Studies *"With its focus on masculinity, Farha Ghannam's thoughtful ethnography, Live and Die Like a Man, makes important interventions into the anthropological scholarship on gender, childhood, and family in the Middle East . . . Her ethnographic sensibility perfectly grasps the dynamic and complex intertwining of male and female ways of being and self-presentation and how that interrelationship forms men's lives." -- Nefissa Naguib * International Journal of Middle East Studies *

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Book SynopsisOpen Secrets identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette''s La Princesse de Clèves (1678), Jane Austen''s Mansfield Park (1814), and poems by William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, and Thomas Hardy. The author argues that these works locate fulfillment not in narrative fruition, but in grace understood both as a simplicity of formal means and a freedom from work, in particular that of self-concealment and self-presentation. Declining the twin pressures of self-actualization and self-denial defining modernity''s call to make good on one''s talents, the subjects of the literature of uncounted experience do nothing so heroic as renounce ambitions of self-expression; they simply set aside the fantasy of the all-responsible subject. The originality of Open Secrets is thus to imagine the non-instrumental without casting it as a heavy ethical burden. Non-appropriation emerges not as what is difficult to do but as the path Trade Review"Open Secrets is a profoundly original and exquisitely written book, one of the most important publications in its field in many years. Anne-Lise François develops here an idiom that can help us attend to the quiet mystery of literary experience—an experience that claims us but makes no demand on us, and retreats from any demand we address to it. Carefully distinguishing her concerns from those of deconstruction, new historicism, and other critical positions, and engaging relevant aspects of the thought of many theorists of desire, representation, and subjectivity, François elaborates a critical perspective that at once seeks to remain faithful to literary instances of "event-less experience," yet also teaches us how much can be said in the proximity of such moments." -- Marc Redfield * The Claremont Graduate University *"The dazzling analyses on display in Open Secrets are so original and far-reaching that, taken together, they constitute something like a new paradigm for literary study. Attentive to the unattended and the inconspicuously significant, Francois teases out the real dynamics in one resonant example after another, in the lyric and the novel. An altogether singular achievement that will be reckoned with for years to come." -- Ian Balfour * York University *"Reader, beware: this ambitious book aims to change our entire literary-critical perspective. Its 'mirror of steel uninsistence' (to adapt Marianne Moore's phrase) brings out in the poets and novelists discussed the non-teleological aspects of their work, the incidence of 'non-emphatic revelation,' the presence of an 'open secret' attributed by Goethe to Nature itself. In seeking to change a mode of discourse, by shifting its terminological axis from action to a contemplative and passionate recessiveness, Francois makes us see a counterplot to fiction's 'powers of plot,' so that evanescence, and even inconsequence, are given their weight, or more precisely a 'weightless gain.' It is a book no reader concerned about the 'nothingness' of literary reflection can lightly pass by." -- Geoffrey Hartman * Yale University *"The greatest merit of Open Secrets is the way in which its attention to the intrinsic sufficiency of minimal experiences allows us to appreciate the continuity between many of the dominant critical paradigms in postmodern thought and Enlightenment models of action-as-production Francois's readings of literature not only reveal a stunning capacity to concentrate on formal details, but also to manage to put forward interpretations that future critics of the works in question will likely have to contend with for a long time to come." -- Postmodern CultureTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Preface iii @toc2:1 Toward a Theory of Recessive Action 000 2 L'aveu sans suite: Love's Open Secret in Lafayette's La Princesse de Cl'ves 000 3 Lying Lightly: Lyric Inconsequence in Wordsworth, Dickinson and Hardy 000 4 Fanny's "Labour of Privacy" and the Accommodation of Virtue in Austen's Mansfield Park 000 @toc4:Works Cited 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisDeception offers a broadly accessible overview of state-of-the-art research on lies, trickery, cheating, and shams by leading experts in the natural and social sciences, as well as computing, the humanities, and the military.Trade Review"Brook Harrington's edited collection of essays is the product of a series of cross-disciplinary workshops held at the Santa Fe Institute in 2007, while Harrington was a Visiting Scholar. It includes essays by biologists, computer scientists, social psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, law professors, humanities professors, and poets. The mix of contributors reflects the editorial view that . . . it would be a form of 'reductionism' for the collection as a whole to offer a definition of deception. . . ."—James Edwin Mahon, Philosophy in Review"This book is not only very interesting, it is one that should be read by all those who are interested in achieving a better understanding of human behavior, regardless of context."—Richard Klimoski, Administrative Science Quarterly"Unlike many edited books, this book of chapters by different authors is uniformly well written."—Richard W. Bloom, PsychCRITIQUES."This quirky but wonderful book has one message: lies abound. Deception is everywhere and always has been...This first-rate book belongs bedside and in any number of disciplinary seminars on deception."—CHOICE"One of the most important forms of communication—deception—is one of the least studied, in part because it deliberately blurs itself to get its effect, in part because there are so many forms of deception they seem to defy coherent analysis. A useful approach to the problem, then, is with a collection of investigators, each with a different angle, each aware of the others' contributions, each looking for signs of hidden structure. The result in this book, deliciously, is an introduction to the Science of Untruth." —Stewart Brand, Global Business Network/Monitor"Well written, with fresh insights into deceptive behaviors in diversecontexts, this timely volume is a must-read for anyone interested in thelatest cutting edge thinking about deception."—David Shulman, author of From Hire to Liar: The Role of Deception inthe Workplace"Don't be deceived by the deceptively simple title. These fascinating essays by biologists, psychologists, sociologists, poets, and computer scientists reveal the complexities of studying deception across historical epochs and types of interactions—from the micromechanisms of facial muscles to online communications, from photography to finance, from the false mating signals of the carnivorous firefly to the literary trickster Brer Rabbit, from deception in warfare to self-delusion. Insightful analysis, and delightful reading." —David Stark, Columbia University, author of The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life

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Book SynopsisEssays on both newly discovered and famous drawings that reveal aspects of the Renaissance and how artists thought.

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Book SynopsisFrom its beginnings, the Church has presented itself as a human phenomenon that carries the divine within it. This book is the final volume in McGill-Queen's University Press's trilogy of Luigi Giussani's writings, and explores the Church's definition of itself as both human and divine and evaluates the truth of this claim.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt is not the easiest of reads, but the subject is fascinating, and the book is absolutely packed with information on a traditional music undergoing rapid change. * RnR Magazine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on transliteration and transcriptionChapter 1: One Minute in MeknesChapter 2: Defending Ritual AuthorityChapter 3: African Routes and Sufi RootsChapter 4: Making a Living as a Contemporary Ritual MusicianChapter 5: New OpportunitiesChapter 6: Light Rhythms and Heavy SpiritsChapter 7: Fighting New DemandsChapter 8: Heritage and HybridityChapter 9: New Authorities and AuthenticitiesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis workbook is packed with unique learning activities including Puzzle It Out - complete the crossword puzzles; Conceptualize in Color - color figures from the book; Lists for Learning - fill-in-the-blanks to compile lists; Make a Connection - unscramble words and then draw lines to connect each word to the appropriate statement.Table of ContentsPart I Foundation of the BodyChapter 1 Orientation to the Human BodyChapter 2 Chemistry of LifeChapter 3 CellsChapter 4 Human MicrobiomePart II Covering, Support, and Movement of the BodyChapter 5 TissuesChapter 6 Integumentary SystemChapter 7 Bones & Bone TissueChapter 8 Skeletal SystemChapter 9 JointsChapter 10 Muscular SystemPart III Regulation and Integration of the BodyChapter 11 Nervous SystemChapter 12 Sense OrgansChapter 13 Endocrine SystemPart IV Maintenance of the BodyChapter 14 BloodChapter 15 HeartChapter 16 Vascular SystemChapter 17 Lymphatic & Immune SystemsChapter 18 Respiratory SystemChapter 19 Urinary SystemChapter 20 Fluid, Electrolyte, & Acid-Base BalanceChapter 21 Digestive SystemChapter 22 Nutrition & MetabolismPart V ContinuityChapter 23 Reproductive SystemsChapter 24 Pregnancy & Human DevelopmentChapter 25 Heredity

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Book SynopsisLynching was a national crime. But it obsessed the South. W. Fitzhugh Brundage''s multidisciplinary approach to the complex nature of lynching delves into the such extrajudicial murders in two states: Virginia, the southern state with the fewest lynchings; and Georgia, where 460 lynchings made the state a measure of race relations in the Deep South. Brundage''s analysis addresses three central questions: How can we explain variations in lynching over regions and time periods? To what extent was lynching a social ritual that affirmed traditional white values and white supremacy? And, what were the causes of the decline of lynching at the end of the 1920s? A groundbreaking study, Lynching in the New South is a classic portrait of the tradition of violence that poisoned American life.Trade ReviewWinner of the Merle Curti Social History Award given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994. "The research is formidable, the analysis sophisticated. Clearly, this is the best work ever written on lynching."--Numan V. Bartley, author of The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South during the 1950sTable of ContentsAcknowledgments / xi Introduction / 1 1 Mobs and Ritual / 17 2 "To Draw the Line": Crimes and Victims / 49 3 "When White Men Merit Lynching" / 86 4 The Geography of Lynching in Georgia / 103 5 The Geography of Lynching in Virginia / 140 6 "We Live in an Age of Lawlessness": The Response to Lynching in Virginia / 161 7 The Struggle against Lynching in Georgia, 1880-1910 / 191 8 Turning the Tide: Opposition to Lynching in Georgia, 1910-30 / 208 Epilogue The Passing of a Tradition / 245 Appendixes / 261 Notes / 303 Index / 369

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This impressive book reflects a lifetime of immersion in Palestinian history, and as a result, throws a great deal of new light on many aspects of Palestinian society and politics. Moshe Shemesh adds new facts and insights to virtually every major episode in the forty-year period he covers."—Avi Shlaim, author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World"The web of relationships woven by Palestinians—leaders and ordinary subjects of regimes that felt embattled and weak—was extraordinarily complicated and often changed as swiftly as did the regimes. Moshe Shemesh unravels these complexities and all students of the Middle East, no matter their background, will benefit."—Donna Robinson Divine, author of Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate PalestineTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAims and ScopePart I The Leadership Crisis of the Palestinian National Movement, 1937–1963:The Decline from Power of Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husayni En Route to a Crisis of Leadership: The 1930s through World War II Return of the Mufti and Increased Arab Involvement in the Filastin Issue The All-Palestine Government, September 1948: Historical Failure of Leadership or Default Option? The Palestinians in the Absence of Leadership, 1949–1963 Part IINational Revival: The 1950s as the Formative Years of the New Palestinian National Movement The Nakba Generation The "Sons of the Nakba" Generation: Emergent Leadership of the New Palestinian National Movement Manifestations of the Palestinian National Awakening: The Arab Nationalists Movement, Fatah, the Ba'th Party, and the General Union of Palestinian Students The Palestinians of the Gaza Strip under the Egyptian Government Part IIIThe West Bank Palestinians under Hashemite Rule: The "Palestinization" Process in the Shadow of Egyptian Subversion and Influence The Palestinians under the Hashemite Regime First Crisis: Aftermath of the IDF Raid on Qibya Second Crisis: In the Shadow of Egyptian Subversion – December 1955–April 1957 The Crisis of April 1963: West Bank Palestinians and the Revival of a Palestinian Entity The Palestinians of Jordan, 1965–1966: Between Shuqayri, Husayn, and the Emergence of Fatah The Crisis of November 1966: The Aftermath of the IDF Raid on Samu' Part IVAhmad al-Shuqayri: Between the Arab Hammer and Palestinian Anvil, 1964–1967A Predictable Failure of Leadership and the Peak of a Leadership Crisis Ahmad al-Shuqayri's Path to PLO Leadership The Struggle over Leadership of the PLO: Emergence of Fatah and Decline in Shuqayri's Status, 1965-1966 The Leadership Crisis Escalates: June 1966–May 1967 Shuqayri: The End of the Road – June–December 1967 ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis Maclean of Duart genuine tartan cloth large notebook is made with genuine British tartan cloth. It measures 21cm x 13cm, and has 192 pages of 80gsm cream paper, with left page plain, right page ruled. Cloth supplied by tailors and kilt makers Kinloch Anderson. With a ribbon marker, inner note pocket, elastic enclosure, history of tartan leaflet, and colourful bookmark with a brief history of the Maclean of Duart tartan. Presented in a clear acetate bag. The Maclean of Duart tartan is red with black, and touches of yellow, white and blue. The Macleans claim descent from Gillean of the Battleaxe, a kinsman of Fergus Mor, the sixth-century-ruler of the ancient kingdom of Dalriada. Lands given to the clan chief included the isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. During the 16th century the Campbells emerged as the most powerful clan in the West Highlands. Several marriages took place between the Macleans and the Campbells. Septs of the Maclean clan include Beaton, Black, Dowart, Dowie, Duart, Garvie, Gillan, Lane, Lean, Leith, MacBeth, MacCormick, MacFadyen, Macgeachan, MacVey, Patten and Rankin. Scientists, thinkers and writers in the Scottish Enlightenment used 'commonplace notebooks' to record thoughts and ideas. Many British writers such as Virginia Woolf and Arthur Conan Doyle continued to use them. Tartan belongs to Scottish heritage and culture, and thrives today both at home and overseas. There are now over 7,000 tartans officially recorded in the Scottish Register of Tartans located within the National Archive of Scotland. Waverley Books (Waverley Scotland) are delighted to innovate on the commonplace notebook idea with the Waverley tartan notebooks bound in genuine tartan cloth supplied by kilt makers and tailors Kinloch Anderson, Edinburgh.

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Book SynopsisPEPIN gift and creative paper books all contain 4 pages of introduction and 12 large sheets of very high-quality wrapping paper. They can easily be removed from the books by tearing them along a perforated line. The wrapping papers are folded to fit into the book; when removed and opened they measure 50 cm x 70 cm (191/2 inch x 271/2 inch; a standard size for gift wrapping papers). Depending on the theme, we have selected a suitable light-weight paper quality. For example, papers with designs in gold, silver or bronze are printed on silky art paper on which the inks show to their best advantage. Designs with an antique or hand-made feel are printed on high-quality creamy offset paper. PEPIN (R) papers make your gift package look very special. In addition, our papers are suitable for scrap booking and all sorts of craft projects. Each volume contains 12 different, exceptional designs.

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Book SynopsisA look at what it takes for animals to live at the edges of existence. Each chapter of this book takes readers on a different journey to remote environs and in chase of an understanding of the species that live there.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGroundbreaking. In the first detailed description of Stalin's mass terror, Vatlin unfolds the day-to-day working of the Soviet political police who carried out orders to select, arrest, interrogate, and often murder their fellow citizens. An absorbing, heartrending account."" - David Shearer, author of Policing Stalin's Socialism""A sensationally significant, detailed microhistory of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the criminal files of NKVD agents who were arrested as scapegoats at the end of the terror—what some historians have called the purge of the purgers."" - Lynne ViolaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Oleg Khlevniuk Preface to the English-Language Edition Introduction to the English-Language Edition by Seth Bernstein List of Abbreviations Introduction: Why Kuntsevo? Setting the Stage Part I. Executors of Terror Part II. Patterns of Victimization Epilogue: New Kuntsevo Forgets the Past Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDiscoveries in the Garden shows how getting into the dirt, and in between the roots and leaves, with close observation, grows both enthusiasm and understanding for basic biology.Trade Review"I must say . . . I LOVE Discoveries in the Garden! The work is solid, the science is good, and the presentation is perfect for a general audience interested in plant science, for teachers wishing to use simple and effective observational experiments in their classrooms, as an introduction to plant science for home-school students, or even as a guide to develop program ideas for public gardens, museums, or ecology centers."--Scott Stewart, executive director of the Millennium Park Foundation and former director of Lurie Garden

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Book SynopsisExplains what happened to musicfor both artists and fanswhen music went online. Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms has transformed artist-fan relationships into something closer to friendship or family. Through in-depth interviews with musicians such as Billy Bragg and Richie Hawtin, as well as members of the Cure, UB40, and Throwing Muses, Baym reveals how new media has facilitated these connections through the active, and often required, participation of the artists and their devoted, digital fan base.Before the rise of social sharing and user-generated content, fans were mostly seen as an undifferentiated and unidentifiable mass, often mediated through record labels and the press. However, in today's networked era, musicians and fans have built more active relationships through social media, fan sites, and artist sites, giving fans a new sense of intimacy and offering artists unparalleled informationTrade ReviewBaym's enthusiasm and experience makes this academic study accessible to professional musicians as well as musicology and communication scholars. * Library Journal *Nancy K. Baym was researching the impact of emerging technologies and music when most of us did not have the foresight to anticipate the changing music landscape. This is not her first pioneering work, and it certainly won't be her last, but it is, as always, fun and intriguing. An innovative wordsmith and an engaging storyteller, Baym explains how musicians transition from technologies designed to render them remote deities to those that invite them to be irrevocably intimate. Her observations carry weight and her interpretations are timely and timeless. She is a sharp researcher with a curious mindthe type that unfailingly seduces, educates and inspires you with their writing. -- Zizi Papacharissi,University of Illinois at ChicagoNancy K. Bayms Playing to the Crowdis a major advance in our understanding of new media, music and audiences. Through careful ethnographic and historical work, Baym offers a definitive reception history of popular music as it went online. She also offers a transformative theory of music in the age of social media. Methodologically rich, beautifully written, and full of great storytelling, Playing to the Crowdexplains the novel aspects of our emergent online environment, all while linking it to music as a cultural practice that transcends any one context, and insisting that we understand online relationships as fundamentally human relationships. It will change the way you think about music, technology and people. -- Jonathan Sterne,author of MP3: The Meaning of a FormatBaym’s book sheds light on the previously unexplored territory of musicians’ own management of their social media presence through ethnography, and for this reason many sections of this volume deserve a place in music and media syllabi for undergraduate and graduate studies, particularly to study Western cultural contexts and popular music scenes. * Yearbook for Traditional Music *

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the author's unprecedented access to Jim Wright before his death, this biography reveals how the former US House majority leader and speaker shaped the political culture of Congress that endures today, some three decades after his fall from powTrade ReviewFlippen draws on Wright's memoirs, diaries, and papers; copious library and newspaper archives; and interviews (including conversations with Wright) to offer a definitive, richly detailed biography . . . An engrossing history that sheds light on our own fractious times. * Kirkus *Flippen offers an exhaustive biography that reveals Wright as a Texas go-getter in the mold of mentor President Lyndon B. Johnson. . . The detailed analyses of Wright’s legislative actions will likely make this the authoritative account of his political life. * Library Journal *A vivid and compelling portrait of a grass-roots politician who ascended into the hallowed halls of our nation’s capital and made his mark on practically every major public policy issue in the late 20th century. * San Antonio Express-News *Extensively researched and well written…Flippen provides his readers with an excellent political biography, a work that will serve as the authoritative voice on Wright's career for many years to come." * Central Texas Studies *A very scrupulous 'warts and all' account of the life of Jim Wright and his short-lived and problematic time as Speaker of the House…a good read in addition to representing strong scholarship. * Congress & The Presidency *Clearly written and provides a helpful account of Wright's rise in national politics…historians of twentieth-century Texas will want to read this book. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *A detailed, thoroughly researched account of a lost political species: the moderate southern Democrat. * Journal of Southern History *[An] engaging treatment of Wright's life and career…Flippen makes a convincing case that Wright deserves a place in the ranks of Texas political giants. * Texas Books in Review *Much-needed…this book offers a definitive political biography of Wright while also illuminating the multifaceted and complex structure of Congress and the individuals who serve in it. * Western Historical Quarterly *Everyone interested in the power structure of Congress and late twentieth-century public policy issues should fine a place for Speaker Jim Wright on their bookshelf. * Journal of American History *Table of Contents Introduction. The Long Shadow of Scandal: The Forgotten Legacy Part I. The Rise of a Politician 1. The Foundations for Success: Family and Childhood (1922–1939) 2. The Lessons of Life: College and War (1939–1944) 3. Ambition and Frustration: State Legislature (1944–1948) 4. Preparation and Payoff: Businessman, Mayor, and Election to Congress (1948–1954) Part II. Congress in an Age of Tradition 5. Learning the Ropes: The New Congressman (1954–1956) 6. Building a Record: The Eisenhower Years (1956–1960) 7. Challenges: The Kennedy Years (1960–1963) 8. Access to Power: Johnson Takes Control (1963–1965) 9. The Rough Path Forward: Years of Change (1965–1968) Part III. Leadership in an Age of Dynamism 10. Old School: A Moderate in the Nixon Years (1968–1972) 11. Bombshell: The Watergate Crisis (1972–1974) 12. The Ripples of Watergate: A New Congress and New Opportunity (1972–1976) 13. The New Majority Leader: Critical Decisions in an Age of Partisanship (1976–1978) 14. The Struggle for Unity: The Carter Years (1978–1980) Part IV. Victory and Defeat in the Age of Reagan 15. A Challenge Like None Before: Reagan (1980–1982) 16. Rallying the Opposition: Friends and Enemies (1982–1986) 17. On the Mountaintop: Speaker of the House (1986–1989) 18. In the Valley: Resignation and Its Aftermath (1987–2015) Epilogue. The Politics of Scandal and the Judgment of History Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDisruptive Power examines a surprising revival of faith in Catholic miracles in Germany from the 1920s to the 1960s. The book follows the dramatic stigmata of Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth and her powerful circle of followers that included theologians, Cardinals, politicians, journalists, monarchists, anti-fascists, and everyday pilgrims. Disruptive Power explores how this and other similar groups negotiated the precariousness of the Weimar Republic, the repression of the Third Reich, and the dynamic early years of the Federal Republic. Analyzing a network of rebellious traditionalists, O’Sullivan illustrates the divisions that characterized the German Catholic minority as they endured the tumultuous era of the world wars. Analyzing material from archives in Germany and the United States, Michael E. O’Sullivan investigates the unsanctioned but very popular visions in several rural towns after World War II, providing micro-histories that illuminTrade Review"Disruptive Powers deals with a myriad of themes in a complex, ambitious narrative based to a great degree on primary sources from numerous state and church archives…O’Sullivan gives us much to ponder in his thought-provoking, challenging work." -- Kevin P. Spicer, Stonehill College * Contemporary Church History *"O’Sullivan’s wonderful study of early-twentieth-century German Catholic miracles, Disruptive Power, keeps social structures, clerical and lay leadership and institutions in view while also illuminating forms of popular piety and their political impact both within the Catholid community and at regional and national levels…Michael O’Sullivan has written a richly descriptive and carefully argued book that makes a serious and important contribution to a vibrant and expanding field." -- Monica Black, University of Tennessee * German History *"O’Sullivan aptly demonstrates the ways in which power from below – grassroots movements as well as localized individual efforts – can influence and shape figures and events at regional and national levels. While his book will be of most interest to German studies scholars, his subject also has broad appeal to social and cultural historians of modern Europe." -- Lauren Faulkner Rossi * German Studies Review *"O’Sullivan offers a compelling argument for reconfiguring the conventional narrative about piety and secularization in modern Germany." -- Lauren N. Faulkner Rossi * Journal of Modern History, Vol.92, No. 4 *"O’Sullivan’s book is fascinating reading, meticulously researched, and well written." -- Stephen Bevans, SVD, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *"Michael E. O’Sullivan’s deeply researched, equally imaginative and provocative book Disruptive Power tells the fascinating story of Therese Neumann (1898–1962)." -- Benjamin Ziemann, University of Sheffield * American Historical Review *"This beautifully written monograph deserves wide readership, especially by students and scholars of Europe and sexuality. Employing the case of Catholic mystic Therese Neumann, Michael O’Sullivan challenges conventional narratives about German history to argue for ‘the central place of Catholic miracles to the politics of modern Germany.’" -- Maria Mitchell, Franklin & Marshall College * EuropeNow *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Germany between Apocalypse and Salvation: Bloody Images and Miraculous Cures 2. The Rise of Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth during the Weimar Republic 3. Saving Souls and Making Enemies: The Struggle over Konnersreuth and the Downfall of Political Catholicism 4. Between Feminine Agency and Moral Utopia: Gender and Sex in Konnersreuth 5. Disruptive Potential: Catholic Miracles under the Third Reich 6. Miraculous Times in West Germany: Marian Apparitions during the Early Federal Republic 7. Therese Neumann between Catholic Traditionalism, Cold War, and Economic Miracle Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisProvides important insights for educators in music, the arts, and other subjects on the role that music can play in the curriculum as a powerful bridge to cultural understanding. The author documents key ideas and practices that have influenced current music education, and examines some of the promises and pitfalls in shaping multicultural education through music.

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Book SynopsisPost-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core theme in contemporary Chicana and Chicanx narratives. Cuevas explores how a new generation of Chicanx writers, performers, and filmmakers are drawing on a rich tradition of challenging heteropatriarchal norms to offer new directions for Chicana feminist theory. Trade Review"Cuevas’s invigorating appraisal and persuasive readings of under-examined yet pivotal texts and writers, refreshing refusal to adhere to the sex/gender binary, and stunning ability to link history with critical theory breathes new life into Chicano/a literary and queer studies." -- Richard T. Rodríguez * author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics *"Building on and moving beyond the work of Gloria Anzaldua, Post-Borderlandia interrogates the queer Chicana literary archive through the lens of gender variant critique. Arguing that gender non-conformity shapes understandings of queerness in Chicanx literary texts, this original and provocative book theorizes a movement beyond the binaries of white lesbianism and heteronormative Chicanidad, examining the normative projects of borderlands theory and queer of color critique to claim post-borderlandia as a site where gender variance opens up new potentialities for Chicanx subjectivity. A beautifully written, challenging, and ground-breaking text." -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty * author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity *"Spring Arts 2018 Books: Fact, fiction and beyond" by Will Owen * Washington Blade *"New Scholarly Books: Weekly Book List, May 25, 2018" by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Post-Borderlandia indeed creates an archive showing that gender variance is central to Chicana literature. Further, it shows that such intersectional non-normativity is, in the words of Rosario Castellanos quoted by Cuevas, “Otro modo de ser humano y libre” ‘Another way of being human and free’" * Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature *"Post-Borderlandia is a necessary read for scholars of both Latinx literature and queer/trans studies, offering exciting new takes on classic texts and drawing attention to lesser-known cultural artifacts." * MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. *"Post-Borderlandia is a valuable book for scholars in the fields of Hispanic and Chicanx cultures and those who study gender and queer theory; this work combines all in a way that is both insightful and fascinating for the reader....Cuevas takes Anzaldua’s work and expands upon it beautifully, bringing her ground-breaking work of the 1980s into a more contemporary context that will be of interest to many scholars." * Hispanic Research Journal *"Cuevas makes a critical intervention into the body of scholarship concerning Chicana/o/x LBGTQ literature....Readers will certainly find value in Cuevas’s analytical acumen [and] some may wonder which other Chicanx texts could have been brought under this lens: how might a gender variant critique be marshalled to examine Chicanx and non-Chicanx characters and open new possibilities within Chicana/o/x cultural productions? In this way, Cuevas has done the significant work of illuminating what had long been ignored." * Feministas Unidas *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Gender Variance and the Post-Borderlands 1 Chicana Masculinities 2 Ambiguous Chicanx Bodies 3 Transing Chicanidad 4 Brokeback Rancho Conclusion: From a Long Line of Marimachas Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFirst appearing in 1964, and long since out of print, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel’s landmark book The Popular Arts takes seriously the importance of studying popular culture, thereby opening up an almost unprecedented field of analysis of everything from film, pulp crime novels, and jazz to television and advertising.Table of ContentsIntroduction to 2018 Edition / Richard Dyer vii Introduction 13 Part I: Definitions 1. The Media and Society 19 2. Minority Art, Folk Art, and Popular Art 45 3. Popular Art and Mass Culture 66 Part II. Topics for Study 4. Popular Forms and Popular Artists 89 5. Violence on the Screen 110 6. The Avenging Angels 142 7. Falling in Love 164 8. Fantasy and Romance 196 9. Friends and Neighbours 225 10. The Young Audience 269 11. The Big Bazaar 313 Part III. Social Themes 12. The Institutions 341 13. Mass Society: Critics and Defenders 364 Acknowledgments 385 Index 387

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Book SynopsisFinance Fictions examines the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel and shows that compared to earlier instances of the genre (Wolfe; Ellis), the 21st-century finance novel (Alger; Harris; Houellebecq; Lerner) develops a new realist approach to a contemporary economy of financial instruments and automated trading.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Revisiting The Bonfire of the Vanities 2. Psychotic Realism in (American) Psycho 3. Financial Realism in The Fear Index 4. The Financial Universe (After Meillassoux) 5. Michel Houellebecq, Finance Novelist 6. Financing the Novel: Ben Lerner’s 10:04 Conclusion: Economic Defense Systems; Or: On Financial Immunity Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBurlingame interprets Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd, the untimely death of his son Willie to disease in 1862, and his recurrent anguish over the enormous human costs of the war.Table of Contents19. "The Man Does Not Live Who Is More Devoted to Peace Than I Am, But It May Be Necessary to Put the Foot Down Firmly": From Springfield to Washington (February 11–22, 1861)20. "I Am Now Going to Be Master": Inauguration (February 23–March 4, 1861)21. "A Man So Busy Letting Rooms in One End of His House, That He Can't Stop to Put Out the Fire That Is Burning in the Other": Distributing Patronage (March–April 1861)22. "You Can Have No Conf lict Without Being Yourselves the Aggressors": The Fort Sumter Crisis (March–April 1861) 23. "I Intend to Give Blows": The Hundred Days (April–July 1861)24. Sitzkrieg: The Phony War (August 1861–January 1862) 25 "This Damned Old House": The Lincoln Family in the Executive Mansion26. "I Expect to Maintain This Contest Until Successful, or Till I Die, or Am Conquered, or My Term Expires, or Congress or the Country Forsakes Me": From the Slough of Despond to the Gates of Richmond (January–July 1862)27. "The Hour Comes for Dealing with Slavery": Playing the Last Trump Card (January–July 1862) 28. "Would You Prosecute the War with Elder- Stalk Squirts, Charged with Rose Water?": The Soft War Turns Hard (July–September 1862)29. "I Am Not a Bold Man, But I Have the Knack of Sticking to My Promises!": The Emancipation Proclamation (September– December 1862)30. "Go Forward, and Give Us Victories": From the Mud March to Gettysburg (January–July 1863)31. "The Signs Look Better": Victory at the Polls and in the Field (July–November 1863)32. "I Hope to Stand Firm Enough to Not Go Backward, and Yet Not Go Forward Fast Enough to Wreck the Country's Cause": Reconstruction and Renomination (November 1863–June 1864) 33. "Hold On with a Bulldog Grip and Chew and Choke as Much as Possible": The Grand Offensive (May–August 1864)34. "The Wisest Radical of All": Reelection (September–November 1864) 35. "Let the Thing Be Pressed": Victory at Last (November 1864– April 1865) 36. "I Feel a Presentiment That I Shall Not Outlast the Rebellion. When It Is Over, My Work Will Be Done.": The Final Days (April 9–15, 1865) Acknowledgments Note on Sources Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have been hidden until now for political reasons relating to the country's liberation struggles. By looking to records from a slave lodge, women's associations, army education units, universities, courts, libraries, prison departments, and political groups, Archie Dick exposes the key works of fiction and non-fiction, magazines, and newspapers that were read and discussed by political activists and prisoners.Uncovering the book and library schemes that elites used to regulate reading, Dick exposes incidences of intellectual fraud, book theft, censorship, and book burning. Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and booTrade Review'Archie Dick's Hidden History offers us a fine example of a historian working in an imaginative way to show how, at various junctures in the South African past, book and reading cultures have arisen, survived or even thrived despite the ways in which controlling and repressive regimes have sought to destroy or limit the impact of reading and writing for their own purposes.' -- Charles van Onselen Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, vol. 66:03:2012 'The scholarship is exemplary, and the book opens up new areas of research.' -- Anthony Olden Information and Culture: A Journal of History, October 2013 'Engaging and path breaking book...Rarely, if ever, is a work on South African history published that covers such a vast stretch of time, and is based on such a truly remarkable range of primary sources.' -- Gerald Groenewald Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa; vol 19:1:2014 'Trailblazing study.' -- Daniel Magaziner American Historical Review - vol 119:03:2014 'This is an inventive and engaging book that will do much to advance studies of southern African print culture and reading and their broader significance. Richly researched and lucidly written, the book will lend itself well to classroom use.' -- Isabel Hofmeyr African Studies Review vol 57:03:2014 'This wide ranging book contains a treasure-trove of stories about print cultures in South Africa between the mid-seventeenth century and mid-1990s... Dick has produced a study that is informative as well as ambitious.' -- Stephanie Newell SHARP News vol 24:04:2015Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Significance of Common Readers in South Africa 1 Early Readers at the Cape, 1658-1800 2 Literacy, Class, and Regulating Reading, 1800-1850 3 The Women's Building of Nations: History Books in the Early Twentieth Century 4 Books for Troops in the Second World War 5 Politics and the Libraries, Part One: Book Theft, Intellectual Fraud, and Book Burning, 1950-1971 6 Politics and the Libraries, Part Two: Dissident Readers and Librarians in the 1980s Townships 7 Reading in Exile after Soweto, 1978-1992 8 Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books Conclusion: Revealing the Hidden Books and Hidden Readers Notes Index

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Book Synopsis"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity"--Amazon.com.Trade Review"Shortlisted for the Catholic Herald Book Award in History""Winner of the 2018 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology, American Society of Missiology""Winner of a 2019 Award of Merit in History, Christianity Today Book Awards""One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018""One of First Things' Favorite Books of 2018""[This] book is an essential foundation for understanding the perilous times in which we live."---Diarmaid MacCulloch, Times Literary Supplement"A finely crafted exploration of Christianity in the 20th century. Stanley . . . provides an ingenious and informative history of the Christian faith through the last century . . . A well-written religious history that is destined to become a standard classroom text." * Kirkus *"This ambitious work . . . surveys narratives of 20th-century Christian activity around the globe. . . . At times the array of Christian organizations . . . and the rapid jumps between locations can feel bewildering—yet the author provides reader-friendly transitions into and out of each theme." * Publishers Weekly *"To outline the course of 20th century Christian history in one volume is a daunting task and it is not surprising that few have attempted it but it has to be said that Stanley has succeeded in producing a masterpiece that will be read for many years to come."---Paul Richardson, The Church of England Newspaper"This book is . . . ambitious in scope and . . . succeeds. If you want to know the Christian background to problems abroad or why the situation at home is not replicated elsewhere, then read this book."---Pamela Evans, Congregational History Society Magazine"What emerges from this book is a deep sense of the vibrant presence of different forms of Christianity across many parts of the world, and of the continuing ability of Christians and churches to adapt to new and very various contexts."---Charlotte Methuen, Theology"THis major work of scholarship greatly informs and illuminates our understanding of Christianity in the 20th century world."---Rev. Brian Cooper, The Gandhi Way

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association""One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018""What a tonic Lisa Blaydes’s new book is. . . . Blaydes deserves a medal for a book that is impeccably researched and challenges so many myths with calm objective analysis. Her argument is one in the eye for those who say the modern state is incompatible with Islam."---Tim Stanley, Daily Telegraph"It is out of the question that State of Repression is the product of very impressive scholarly research and analysis."---Sophia Hoffmann, Journal of Perpetrator Research

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Book SynopsisPride in Modesty argues that ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s.Trade Review'Pride in Modesty brings a valuable new perspective to the scholarship on Italian modernism. Sabatino unquestionably establishes the vernacular as a major feature of Italian modernism and invites scholars to reconsider the topography of inter-war and post-war Italian architecture, which has far too long been defined by a narrow cannon of exemplars.' -- Lucy Maulsby Canadian Art Review: vol35:02:10 'Pride in Modesty offers the Anglophone scholar a rigorous and nuanced analysis not of Italian vernacular architecture per se but instead of the intellectual and creative engagement architects, engineers, and other proponents of modernist trends with everyday architecture in Italy during the twentieth century. Sabatino deftly navigates architects' adaptation of vernacular traditions under fascism...A compelling and insightful study of Italian Modernist architects.' -- Joseph Sciorra Buildings & Landscapes: vol 18:01:2011 'Sabatino's eloquent and significant study establishes and develops the critical ground that will serve as a bench mark for future research.' -- Andrew J. Manson , Traditional Dwellings & Settlements Review, vol :23:01:2011

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Book SynopsisNaamiwan's Drum follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself.Trade Review‘What this book does excellently is to uncover in subtle ways how objects are actors in the drama of repatriation whether one takes First Nations perspective or not.’ -- Max Carocci * Transmotion Journal vol 4:01:2018 *‘This work will no doubt become a standard by which repatriation and perhaps even cultural and community studies are judged.’ -- Patricia Harms * The Canadian Journal of Native Studies vol 37:02:2017 *Table of ContentsMAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS COLOUR PLATES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Chapter 2 OMISHOOSH: Visit to the Museum Chapter 3 ANIMACY: Linguistic Considerations Chapter 4 DEWE'IGAN: Repatriation Chapter 5 PERSONHOOD: Wiikan and Artefact Chapter 6 THREE FIRES MIDEWIWIN LODGE: Ojibwe Advocacy and Revitalization Chapter 7 REPATRIATION: Cultural Rights and the Construction of Meaning Chapter 8 NELSON OWEN: Mitigwakik Homecoming Chapter 9 AGENCY AND ARTEFACTS: New Theoretical Approaches Chapter 10 REPATRIATING AGENCY: An Agency Analysis of Repatriation APPENDIX A: TIME LINE APPENDIX B: OJIBWE LANGUAGE NOTES APPENDIX C: OJIBWE GLOSSARY REFERENCES CITED END NOTES

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Book SynopsisIn the new knowledge economy, traditional modes of thinking are no longer effective. Compartmentalizing problems and solutions and assuming everything can be solved with the right formula can no longer keep pace with the radical changes occurring daily in the modern business world. It’s Not Complicated offers a paradigm shift for business professionals looking for simplified solutions to complex problems. In his straightforward and highly engaging style, Rick Nason introduces the principles of complexity thinking which empower managers to understand, correlate, and explain a diverse range of business phenomena. For example, why some new products go viral while others remain unnoticed, how office cliques develop despite collaborative work policies and spaces, how economic bubbles form, and how an unknown retiree foiled one of the most carefully planned product launches ever with a single letter to the editor of his local newspaper. Rather than consider complicateTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introduction to Systems and Complexity Chapter 2: The False Axioms of Business Chapter 3: It's Not Complicated Chapter 4: The Wonders of Complexity Chapter 5: Managing Complexity Chapter 6: The Complexity of Strategic Planning Chapter 7: The Complex Economy Chapter 8: Risk Management and Complexity Chapter 9: The Complex Future

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Book SynopsisA bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere.Trade Review'Modern Realism offers a clear and in-depth analysis for anyone seeking access to a new understanding of the genre, and an excellent resource for critics and scholars seeking to discover newly refound examples of modern realist Canadian fiction.' -- Marc Andre Fortin Canadian Literature issue #218 autumn 2013Table of ContentsAcknowledgments * The Modern-Realist Movement: Contexts, Aesthetics, Origins * Manifestos for a Modern Realism: Canadian Bookman and The Canadian Forum of the 1920s * Raymond Knister: Revolutionary Modern Realist * The Proliferation of Modern Realism in Canada, Part 1: Prairie Realism Re-evaluated * Frederick Philip Grove's Eclectic Realism and 'The Great Tradition' * The Proliferation of Modern Realism in Canada, Part 2: Urban and Social Realism Reclaimed * Morley Callaghan's Cosmopolitan Modern Realism * Modern Realism and Canadian Literature Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Hotel: Occupied Space explores the hotel as both symbol and space through the concept of occupancy. By examining how it manifests in art, photography, and film as well as its uses during wartime and as a sanctuary for displaced people, this book offers a timely critique of a crucial modern space.Trade Review"Its assemblage of sources unique to Davidson’s perspective and its original articulation of the concept of occupancy makes The Hotel: Occupied Space a topical study that, while broad in scope, is refreshingly clear and accessible to anyone interested in our evolving relationship with the built environment in the age of global conduct." -- Matthew D’Ambrosio Griffith, Harvard University * Between *"Through his provocative series of close readings, Davidson uses the hotel form as a way to register the significance of incursions of state power into the contractually arranged relationship to space that defines the modern hotel." -- Jordan J. Howie, University of Toronto * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Overlooked Space Part I: The Realm of Imagination Chapter 1: The Pictorial Hotel Chapter 2: The Cinematic Hotel Part II: The Built Environment Chapter 3: The Wartime Hotel Chapter 4: The Displacement Hotel Conclusion: The Hotel Attraction Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIn his groundbreaking study, Art, Politics and Development, Philipp Lepenies contributes to the ongoing controversy about why the track record of development aid is so dismal. He asserts that development aid policies are grounded in a specific way of literally looking at the world. This worldview is the result of a mental conditioning that began with the invention of linear perspective in Renaissance art. It not only triggered the emergence of modern science and brought forth our Western notion of progress, but ultimately, development as well. Art, Politics, and Development examines this process by pulling from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, literature, and social science. Lepenies not only explains the shortcomings of modern aid in a novel fashion, he also proposes how aid could be done differently. In the series Politics, History and Social Change, edited by John C. TorpeyTrade Review"While none of [the book's] components [are] original, the combination of them may be. The best section, on the invention of perspective... cites art historian Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form. Lepenies isn't writing history; he's building an intellectual construct. Its end point is the assertion that contemporary thinking on development supports a linear concept of progress and that we possess a privileged viewpoint on it."--Library Journal, October 2013Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Perspective: A Window to the World and to the FuturePERSPECTIVEMedieval Art, Optics, and Perspectives • The Invention of Perspective: The Mirror • From the “Intercisione” to the Vanishing Point • The Window • The Role of Mathematics • Rediscovery or InventionAnticipation of a New Weltanschauung: Transgressing Medieval BoundariesThe Iconic Gaze • The Window Revisited • Iconic Space, Subjective Objectivity, and the Invention of Infinity • Friction with Religion • The Artist as Creator • The Horizon • The World and the Future • A Case in Point: The Città Ideale of Berlin2. From Art to WorldviewThe Disenchantment of the Physical WorldThe Universe Open to Our Gaze • The Order to Conquer Nature • Everything Has a Mathematical Counterpart • The Predictable Universe • Control through Calculation Toward a New Horizon: The Discovery of Linear Time and the Idea of ProgressThe Threat of Doomsday Comes to an End • Circularity and Linearity • Progress as the Advancement of Knowledge • Turgot and the Progress of the Human MindCondorcet: From the Linear Perspective Worldview to the Development Mind-setA Life of Science, Action, and Tragedy • Social Mathematics • The Esquisse: The Philosophy of Future Progress • The Future and the Others • Mathematics, the Future, and ActionThe Notion of the “Other” prior to the EsquisseAlternative Views of Otherness • Slavery and the Société des Amis des Noirs The Development Mind-set Further Concretized: The Idea of Civilizing and CivilizationThe Meaning of Civilization • The Destiny of All Nations • The Need for Education and Educators • Civilizing by Teaching PerspectiveLinear Perspective and the Development Mind-set: A Summary of Key Concepts3. Modern DevelopmentThe Contemporary Development Mind-setUs and Them • Endless and Dynamic Progress • The Aim of All AidEducating the “Others”Development as Knowledge Transfer • Knowledge Transfer in Historical PerspectiveThe “Rage de Vouloir Conclure”Knowledge Transfer as a Hindrance to Development and Change • The Visiting Economist Syndrome 115 • Anthropological Views • The Earth Is Not Flat • Planners • Unhelpful Helpers • Summary4. CounterperspectivesResistance to the Perspective WorldviewAntiperspective Movements in Art HistoryArab Views • The Perspective Wars of Paris • Through the Eye of a Cow: Rationalist versus Empiricist Perspective • SummaryProposals for Development AlternativesReversals • Searchers • Midwives • PossibilismA Nonlinear ApproachNonlinearity • Challenges • The Way Forward: Self-Critical Historical Awareness and Knowledge CoalitionsConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA practical and lighthearted guide to planning, designing, and delivering a presentation.Table of Contents Preface Part I: General Principles of Public Speaking Chapter 1: Speaking (and Stammering) About Psychology Chapter 2: The First Commandment of Public Speaking: Know Thine Audience Chapter 3: Preparing and Delivering Your Talk Chapter 4: Answering Questions Chapter 5: Managing Anxiety Chapter 6: When Disaster Strikes: Handling Problems With Humor and Grace Part II: Help With Specific Presentations Chapter 7: Research Talks Chapter 8: Poster Presentations Chapter 9: Job Talks Chapter 10: Presentations for Lay Audiences Epilogue References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisEnriched by vivid photographs of MSF operations and by ironic, self-critical cartoons drawn by a member of the Communications Department of MSF France, Doctors Without Borders highlights the bold mission of the renowned international humanitarian organization even as it demonstrates the intrinsic dilemmas of humanitarian action.Trade ReviewCarefully researched and delightfully written, Doctors Without Borders establishes a new bar for those who would cover Medecins Sans Frontieres in the future. This book will take its due place as one of the most comprehensive works on MSF. Science A commendably reflective work of sociology that, more importantly, tells a remarkable history of care. Publishers Weekly Generally interested readers will find Fox's thoughtful and thought-provoking overview ambitious and well worth the effort, while anyone focused on health care and medicine will be deeply fascinated. Booklist A treasured and monumental depiction of MSF's courageous and persistent commitment to millions of people in distress. South African Medical Journal A remarkable story of healing, conflict, and the journey of an organization once dismissed as a bunch of 'medical commandos' [and now] one of the most important health care humanitarian organizations in the world. Hospitals and Health Networks Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Medecins Sans Frontieres provides detailed insights on the Doctors Without Borders medical ideals and culture... The result is a blend of organizational history and development and observations of the group's struggles to combat third world nation diseases, making for an outstanding social and health history. Midwest Book Review The author tells an exquisite story of the organization's origins and challenges... This book, honoring those who provide such important humanitarian assistance, will enrich a wide audience. Choice The author provides a well written ethnographic account of the often conflictual internal dynamics of inclusion and exclusion among various factions within MSF. This book is original in its scope, taking seriously the opinions and personal history of past and current MSF members, from the more prominent and infamous leaders to veterans of humanitarian aid and newcomers alike. -- Sadia Habib The Sociological Imagination Sociologist Renee C. Fox has written an eloquent, sensitive, and complex ethnographic profile based on extensive fieldwork. Fox conducted numerous interviews, site visits, and attended a number of major meetings and conferences; she ended her fieldwork at a landmark event, the first meeting of a newly created International General Assembly which also marked MSF's 40th anniversary. She describes her role as an "insider-outsider" combining access to internal information, public documents, and a staff blog. These multiple methods allowed her to become a sensitive yet detached and objective observer of the social relationships and culture of MSF. -- Susan M. Chambre Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly The first extensive social scientific description in English of MSF, its origins and action in the field, and its cultural identity...Reaching beyond the history of the organization-the schisms and tensions that it has undergone-the book aims to explore how these tensions are related to the field of operations and to what happens in the field. -- Johanna Simeant European Journal of Sociology How has MSF come to occupy this role as canary in the coalmine, as the embodiment of humanitarian ideals and as a provocative moral force for medical ethics and human rights around the world? This question is answered in Renee Fox's rich sociological and historical text... A must-read for anyone considering a medical mission abroad or studying humanitarian assistance. -- Lauren Carruth Global Public Health Sociologist Renee C. Fox has written an eloquent, sensitive, and complex ethnographic profile based on extensive fieldwork. Fox conducted numerous interviews and site visits, and attended a number of major meetings and conferences; she ended her fieldwork at a landmark event, the first meeting of a newly created International General Assembly which also marked MSF's 40th anniversary. She describes her role as an "insider-outsider" combining access to internal information, public documents, and a staff blog. These multiple methods allowed her to become a sensitive yet detached and objective observer of the social relationships and culture of MSF. -- Susan M. Chambre Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Over half a million people contribute $10 or $20 to MSF each month... Doctors Without Borders will enlighten them about how hard yet rewarding this work is. Springer: Sociology ... a must-read for anyone considering a medical mission abroad or studying humanitarian assistance. Global Public Health Whether you like MSF or not, and whether you already know it or not, Doctors Without Borders provides a refreshing and unusual perspective of this larger-than life organization. Without complacency, but with the candor and attention to detail a social scientist can marshal, Fox takes us backstage where MSFers breathe, agonize, exult, or fulminate to defend a complex and imperfect idea of humanitarian action. Perspectives in Biology and MedicineTable of ContentsThe QuestsPart I1. Voices from the FieldPart II2. Origins, Schisms, and Crises3. "Nobel or Rebel?"4. MSF Greece Ostracized5. The Return of MSF GreecePart III6. La ManchaPart IV7. Struggling with HIV/ AIDS8. In Khayelitsha9. A "Non-Western Entity" Is BornPart V10. Reaching Out to the Homeless and Street Children of Moscow with Olga Shevchenko11. Confronting TB in Siberian Prisons with Olga ShevchenkoCodaAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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