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The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature

By: Anne Schuurman

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The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature

By: Anne Schuurman

Exploring debt's permutations in Middle English texts, Anne Schuurman makes the bold claim that the capitalist spirit has its roots in Christian penitential theology. Her argument challenges the longstanding belief that faith and theological doctrine in the Middle Ages were inimical to the development of market economies, showing that the same idea of debt is in fact intrinsic to both. The double penitential-financial meaning of debt, and the spiritual paradoxes it creates, is a linchpin of scholastic and vernacular theology, and of the imaginative literature of late medieval England. Focusing on the doubleness of debt, this book traces the dynamic by which the Christian ascetic ideal, in its rejection of material profit and wealth acquisition, ends up producing precisely what it condemns. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009385968

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Conscience and Calling

Ethical Reflections on Catholic Women's Church Vocations

By: Anne E. Patrick

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Conscience and Calling

Ethical Reflections on Catholic Women's Church Vocations

By: Anne E. Patrick

This volume probes the meaning and ethical implications of the powerful symbol of vocation from the vantage of contemporary Catholic women, with particular attention to the experiences of women religious. Intended as a follow-up to Liberating Conscience: Feminist Explorations in Catholic Moral Theology, the new book will benefit many readers, including Catholic leaders, laity, and religious, as well as persons interested in Christian ethics and American religious history more generally. The work treats twentieth-century history and more recent developments, including tensions between the Vatican and progressive Catholics, the development of lay ministries, and the movement to ordain women deacons, priests, and bishops.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441175946

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The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature

By: Anne Schuurman

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The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature

By: Anne Schuurman

Anne Schuurman makes the striking argument that medieval literature engenders the spirit of capitalism by defining the sinner as debtor.

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Cambridge University Press

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Nora Heysen: A Portrait

By: Anne-Louise Willoughby

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Nora Heysen: A Portrait

By: Anne-Louise Willoughby

Hahndorf artist Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, and Australia's first female painter to be appointed as an official war artist. A portraitist and a flower painter, Nora Heysen's life was defined by an all-consuming drive to draw and paint. In 1989, aged 78, Nora re-emerged on the Australian art scene when the nation's major art institutions restored her position after years of artistic obscurity. Extensively researched, and containing artworks and photographs from the painter's life, this is the first biography of the artist, and it has been enthusiastically embraced by the Heysen family. This authorized biography coincides with a major retrospective of the works of Nora and her father, landscape painter Hans Heysen, to be held at the National Gallery of Victoria in March 2019.

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Fremantle Press

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1925815218

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The Oxford History of Life-writing

The Middle Ages

By: Karen Anne Winstead,Alan Stewart

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The Oxford History of Life-writing

The Middle Ages

By: Karen Anne Winstead,Alan Stewart

The Oxford History of Life-Writing consolidates recent academic research and debate to provide a multi-volume history of life-writing. Each volume provides a selective survey of the range of life-writing in a given period with particular focus on the most important or influential authors and works within the genre. VOLUME 1: The Middle Ages' explores the richness and variety of life writing in the Middle Ages, ranging from Anglo-Latin lives of missionaries, prelates, and princes to high medieval lives of scholars and visionaries to late medieval lives of authors and laypeople. VOLUME 2: Early modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing.

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Oxford University Press

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0198707037

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Gender and Technology at Work

From Workplace Studies to Social Justice in Design

By: Ellen Balka,Ina Wagner,Anne Weibert,Volker Wulf

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Gender and Technology at Work

From Workplace Studies to Social Justice in Design

By: Ellen Balka,Ina Wagner,Anne Weibert,Volker Wulf

This book traces the gendering of women's work and technology from its historical roots in factories, offices, IT companies, and hospitals to contemporary workplaces including platform- and AI-based work. It adopts a feminist/intersectional perspective on design with a focus on norm-critical, social justice-oriented, and decolonizing approaches.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009243705

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Gender Equality in UN Peacekeeping

Fact or Fiction?

By: Sally Anne Corcoran

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Gender Equality in UN Peacekeeping

Fact or Fiction?

By: Sally Anne Corcoran

This book investigates to what extent UNSCR 1325/WPS agenda has functioned in practice, to advance women’s equality and empowerment in the peacekeeping context and beyond. The book examines whether widespread implementation of UNSCR 1325 and the broader WPS agenda via gender mainstreaming in UN operations has translated into increased gender equality in peacekeeping operations, the broader UN institutional context and, by extension, the host countries in which missions are situated, via norm dissemination. The book investigates this via a review of the implementation of UNSCR1325 in the operations chosen as research sites over three snapshot years. The book undertakes a comparative analysis that scrutinizes if, how and under what conditions gender mainstreaming has succeeded as a strategy to advance gender equality by analyzing the factors/conditions that have led to successful gender mainstreaming across the operational context, and those that have impeded this outcome. The book concludes that, despite rhetorical commitments to women’s equality in peacekeeping since the passage of UNSCR 1325, progress on the ground has remained minimal, and that the operational environment continues to be discriminatory against women. Both quantitatively and qualitatively, women do not participate as equal partners in peacekeeping and continue to have less access to resources and decision-making power, overall. The book interrogates that by exploring the spaces available within law, policy and practice of the UN to pursue the human rights agenda of gender equality and considers whether UNSCR 1325 has enlarged those spaces. It also points to the irony of internal UN structures failing to adequately adapt to their own gender mainstreaming mandates, while those same structures have delivered some gender equality mandates successes externally, at local levels. This book will be of interest to students of peacekeeping, gender studies, and International Relations.

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Taylor & Francis

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104002078X

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Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough

A Realistic Perspective on Self-Reliance

By: Anne-Greet Keizer,Will Tiemeijer,Mark Bovens

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Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough

A Realistic Perspective on Self-Reliance

By: Anne-Greet Keizer,Will Tiemeijer,Mark Bovens

This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between "knowing" and "doing" in view of self-reliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens. In todays society, people are expected to take responsibility for their own lives and be self-reliant. This is no easy feat. They must be on constant high alert in areas of life such as health, work and personal finances and, if things threaten to go awry, take appropriate action without further ado. What does this mean for public policy? Policymakers tend to assume that the government only needs to provide people with clear information and that, once properly informed, they will automatically do the right thing. However, it is becoming increasingly obvious that things do not work like that. Even though people know perfectly well what they ought to do, they often behave differently. Why is this? This book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between 'knowing and 'doing. It focuses on the role of non-cognitive capacities, such as setting goals, taking action, persevering and coping with setbacks, and shows how these capacities are undermined by adverse circumstances. By taking the latest psychological insights fully into account, this book presents a more realist perspective on self-reliance, and shows government officials how to design rules and institutions that allow for the natural limitations in peoples 'capacity to act.

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Springer Nature

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9402417257

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9789402417258

Descartes's Theory of Action

By: Anne Davenport

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Descartes's Theory of Action

By: Anne Davenport

This volume has a single goal: to argue that Descartes’s most fundamental discovery is not the epistemological subject, but rather the underlying free agent without whom no epistemological subject is possible. This fresh interpretation of the Cartesian “cogito” is defended through a close reading of Descartes’s masterpiece, the Meditations. Special attention is paid to the historical roots of Descartes’s interest in free agency, particularly his close ties to the French School of spirituality. Three aspects of Descartes’s personal evolution are considered: his aesthetic evolution from Baroque concealment to Classicism, his political evolution from feudal nostalgia to modern secularism, and his spiritual evolution from Stoic wisdom to active engagement in the world through the scientific project.

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BRILL

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9047409973

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9789047409977

On Being Unfinished

Collected Writings

By: Patrick, Anne E.

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On Being Unfinished

Collected Writings

By: Patrick, Anne E.

Gathered here for the first time are both published and unpublished writings of Anne E. Patrick, a leading feminist Catholic voice, revered both as a teacher and as a critical scholar of theology, ethics, literature, and the arts. Her scholarly publications broke new ground in a number of Catholic theological subdisciplines, including feminist ethics, liturgy, and contemporary expressions of religious life. This is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand post-Vatican II theological development in the Catholic Church in the US.

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Orbis Books

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1608337200

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A Guide to Algorithm Design

Paradigms, Methods, and Complexity Analysis

By: Anne Benoit,Yves Robert,Frédéric Vivien

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A Guide to Algorithm Design

Paradigms, Methods, and Complexity Analysis

By: Anne Benoit,Yves Robert,Frédéric Vivien

Presenting a complementary perspective to standard books on algorithms, A Guide to Algorithm Design: Paradigms, Methods, and Complexity Analysis provides a roadmap for readers to determine the difficulty of an algorithmic problem by finding an optimal solution or proving complexity results. It gives a practical treatment of algorithmic complexity and guides readers in solving algorithmic problems. Divided into three parts, the book offers a comprehensive set of problems with solutions as well as in-depth case studies that demonstrate how to assess the complexity of a new problem. Part I helps readers understand the main design principles and design efficient algorithms. Part II covers polynomial reductions from NP-complete problems and approaches that go beyond NP-completeness. Part III supplies readers with tools and techniques to evaluate problem complexity, including how to determine which instances are polynomial and which are NP-hard. Drawing on the authors’ classroom-tested material, this text takes readers step by step through the concepts and methods for analyzing algorithmic complexity. Through many problems and detailed examples, readers can investigate polynomial-time algorithms and NP-completeness and beyond.

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CRC Press

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1439898138

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Civic Charity in a Golden Age

Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam

By: Anne Elizabeth Conger McCants

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Civic Charity in a Golden Age

Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam

By: Anne Elizabeth Conger McCants

Using the Amsterdam Municipal Orphanage as a window through which readers can see the start of profound social and economic changes in early modern Amsterdam, Civic Charity in a Golden Age explores the connections between the developing capitalist economy, the functioning of the government, and the provision of charitable services to orphans in Amsterdam during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the period of the city's greatest prosperity and subsequent decline. Anne McCants skillfully interprets details of the orphanage's expenditures, especially for food; its population; the work records of those who were reared there; and the careers of the regents who oversaw it. The establishment of the orphanage itself was called for by the changing economic needs of rapidly expanding commercial centers and the potential instability of a government that depended on taxes from a large, politically powerless segment of the population.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252023331

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Leslie Beck's Nutrition Encyclopedia

Managing Over 75 Health Concerns with Diet, Vitamins, Minerals and Herbs

By: Leslie Beck,Von Rosenbach, Anne

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Leslie Beck's Nutrition Encyclopedia

Managing Over 75 Health Concerns with Diet, Vitamins, Minerals and Herbs

By: Leslie Beck,Von Rosenbach, Anne

Leslie Beck's Nutrition Encyclopedia translates the latest scientific information on nutrition, vitamins and minerals, herbal medicine and complementary therapy into easy-to-implement strategies to help you manage or treat over 75 health conditions. Inside you'll find a wealth of information that can help you prevent disease, increase your energy level, boost your immune system and achieve optimal health.

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Prentice Hall

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0130319791

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Anne Frank

By: Anne Schraff

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Anne Frank

By: Anne Schraff

Guided by Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people, this series of 64-page biographies focuses on the leaders, scientists, and icons who shaped our world. These people, many from very humble beginnings, changed how the world works. Each biography includes a glossary, timeline, and illustrations. An individual guide for each title provides reproducible activities to extend the text. Born in Germany in 1929, Anne Frank was a teenager during World War II. Because Anne was Jewish, she and her family were forced to escape the terror of the Holocaust that swept the continent. Beginning in 1942, Anne kept a diary of the difficult journey of her family. See how Anne's family tried to escape the horror of the war, and how her diary became her best friend.

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Saddleback Educational Publishing

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163078303X

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Dear Anne and Nan

By: Anne B. Adams,Nancy Nash-Cummings

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Dear Anne and Nan

By: Anne B. Adams,Nancy Nash-Cummings

Two Vermont columnists share their unusual money-saving advice for hundreds of day-to-day problems, from kitchen and bath cleaning to gardening and home repair

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Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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0553351621

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An Essential Vision

The Art of Anne Graham

By: Joan Ackland

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An Essential Vision

The Art of Anne Graham

By: Joan Ackland

Through this searching overview of Anne Graham's work Joan Ackland leads us to the artist's unique vision, with its particular insight and character. Key factors in its formation have been the artist's background and her personality about which the author writes with the appealing vitality of her subject.

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The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature

The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature

Conscience and Calling

Conscience and Calling

The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature

The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English Literature

Nora Heysen: A Portrait

Nora Heysen: A Portrait

The Oxford History of Life-writing

The Oxford History of Life-writing

Gender and Technology at Work

Gender and Technology at Work

Gender Equality in UN Peacekeeping

Gender Equality in UN Peacekeeping

Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough

Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough

Descartes's Theory of Action

Descartes's Theory of Action

On Being Unfinished

On Being Unfinished

A Guide to Algorithm Design

A Guide to Algorithm Design

Civic Charity in a Golden Age

Civic Charity in a Golden Age

Leslie Beck's Nutrition Encyclopedia

Leslie Beck's Nutrition Encyclopedia

Anne Frank

Anne Frank

Dear Anne and Nan

Dear Anne and Nan

An Essential Vision

An Essential Vision

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