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A Dictionary of Film Studies

By: Annette Kuhn,Guy Westwell

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Written by experts in the field, this dictionary covers all aspects of film studies, including terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism, national, international and transnational cinemas, film history, film movements and genres, film industry organizations and practices, and key technical terms and concepts in 500 detailed entries. Most entries also feature recommendations for further reading and a large number also have web links. The web links are listed and regularly updated on a companion website that complements the printed book. The dictionary is international in its approach, covering national cinemas, genres, and film movements from around the world such as the Nouvelle Vague, Latin American cinema, the Latsploitation film, Bollywood, Yiddish cinema, the spaghetti western, and World cinema. The most up-to-date dictionary of its kind available, this is a must-have for all students of film studies and ancillary subjects, as well as an informative read for cinephiles and for anyone with an interest in films and film criticism.

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0191034657

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Journeys Through Ethnography

Realistic Accounts Of Fieldwork

By: Annette Lareau

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Journeys Through Ethnography

Realistic Accounts Of Fieldwork

By: Annette Lareau

Learning how to carry out research projects using participant observation and in-depth interviews has become a priority for scholars in a wide range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, education, social work, nursing, and psychology. This book, a collection of well-known fieldwork accounts covering the qualitative research process, aims to help undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the social sciences understand common problems in the research process and learn strategies for resolving them.Unlike methods books that treat research issues in a superficial or prescriptive fashion, this book realistically portrays, through researchers own accounts, the process of discovery and resolution of conflicts involved in fieldwork. It also shows the costs involved in the choice of solutions. Students and seasoned scholars alike will find the collection a source of knowledge, inspiration, and comfort concerning the complexity of conducting fieldwork. }Learning how to carry out research projects using participant observation and in-depth interviews has become a priority for scholars in a wide range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, education, social work, nursing, and psychology. This book, a collection of well-known fieldwork accounts covering the qualitative research process, aims to help undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the social sciences understand common problems in the research process and learn strategies for resolving them.Unlike methods books that treat research issues in a superficial or prescriptive fashion, this book realistically portrays, through researchers own accounts, the process of discovery and resolution of conflicts involved in fieldwork. It also shows the costs involved in the choice of solutions. Students and seasoned scholars alike will find the collection a source of knowledge, inspiration, and comfort concerning the complexity of conducting fieldwork. }

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0429979126

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The Temple of Fame and Friendship

Portraits, Music, and History in the C. P. E. Bach Circle

By: Annette Richards

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The Temple of Fame and Friendship

Portraits, Music, and History in the C. P. E. Bach Circle

By: Annette Richards

This book examines the renowned portrait collection assembled by C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach’s second son. One of the most celebrated German composers of the eighteenth century, C. P. E. Bach spent decades assembling an extensive portrait collection of some four hundred music-related items—from oil paintings to engraved prints. The collection was dispersed after Bach’s death in 1788, but with Annette Richards’s painstaking reconstruction, the portraits once again present a vivid panorama of music history and culture, reanimating the sensibility and humor of Bach’s time. Far more than a mere multitude of faces, Richards argues, the collection was a major part of the composer’s work that sought to establish music as an object of aesthetic, philosophical, and historical study. The Temple of Fame and Friendship brings C. P. E. Bach’s collection to life, giving readers a sense of what it was like for visitors to tour the portrait gallery and experience music in rooms thick with the faces of friends, colleagues, and forebears. She uses the collection to analyze the “portraitive” aspect of Bach’s music, engaging with the influential theories of Swiss physiognomist Johann Caspar Lavater. She also explores the collection as a mode of cultivating and preserving friendship, connecting this to the culture of remembrance that resonates in Bach’s domestic music. Richards shows how the new music historiography of the late eighteenth century, rich in anecdote, memoir, and verbal portrait, was deeply indebted to portrait collecting and its negotiation between presence and detachment, fact and feeling.

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University of Chicago Press

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022681677X

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Law, History, and Justice

Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century

By: Annette Weinke

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Law, History, and Justice

Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century

By: Annette Weinke

Since the nineteenth century, the development of international humanitarian law has been marked by complex entanglements of legal theory, historical trauma, criminal prosecution, historiography, and politics. All of these factors have played a role in changing views on the applicability of international law and human-rights ideas to state-organized violence, which in turn have been largely driven by transnational responses to German state crimes. Here, Annette Weinke gives a groundbreaking long-term history of the political, legal and academic debates concerning German state and mass violence in the First World War, during the National Socialist era and the Holocaust, and under the GDR.

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Berghahn Books

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1805399020

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The Commons of the Mind

By: Annette Baier

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The Commons of the Mind

By: Annette Baier

Since Descartes, it has seemed natural for philosophers to take reason to be complete in each individual reasoner. Locke wrote, "God, that hath given the World to Men in common, hath also given them Reason..." In The Commons of the Mind, Annette C. Baier asks whether reason and other aspects of mind are possessed "in common" in the strong Lockean sense. She looks at the relation between two views of mind: on the one hand, the idea that mind is something possessed by each individual, independently of membership in a culture and a society, and on the other hand, the idea that mental activities and states are essentially social. She focuses her examination on three activities we take to be quintessentially mental ones, reasoning, intending, and moral reflection, in each case emphasizing the interdependence of minds, and the role of social practices in setting the norms governing these mental activities. Professor Baier defends the view that both our reasoning and our intention-formation require a commons of the mind, that is, the background existence of shared reasonings, intentions, and actions. However, she concludes that moral reflection, as a social capacity, is still in its infancy and that a commons of the mind is by no means assured with regard to morality. This volume is based on Professor Baier's Cams Lectures delivered at the meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in December 1995. Excerpt from The Commons of the Mind: "How are we to decide whether to take reason to be an essentially private thing that can, however, turn on a public display when it chooses to do so, or, like conversing, to be an essentially social skill, which can, however, be retained a while through periods of solitary confinement?

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Open Court Publishing

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0812693507

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Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism

By: Annette Yoshiko Reed

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Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism

By: Annette Yoshiko Reed

Jewish-Christianity" is a contested category in current research. But for precisely this reason, it may offer a powerful lens through which to rethink the history of Jewish/Christian relations. Traditionally, Jewish-Christianity has been studied as part of the origins and early diversity of Christianity. Collecting revised versions of previously published articles together with new materials, Annette Yoshiko Reed reconsiders Jewish-Christianity in the context of Late Antiquity and in conversation with Jewish studies. She brings further attention to understudied texts and traditions from Late Antiquity that do not fit neatly into present day notions of Christianity as distinct from Judaism. In the process, she uses these materials to probe the power and limits of our modern assumptions about religion and identity.

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3161544765

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Open Invitation

By: Annette Boulanger

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Open Invitation

By: Annette Boulanger

Diane Becker is flipping through her mail after a long day when she comes across an envelope with a familiar return address. Although she is almost seventy, Diane is suddenly transported back to a time when she was newly single and in the middle of something that felt so right, but was unfortunately very wrong. As she opens the envelope and views an invitation to return to Honey Water, Missouri, for an anniversary party, Diane becomes lost in her memories of James Hoover, the man she loved completely for over fifteen years all while knowing he belonged to someone else. Now with a chance to revisit her past and achieve closure, peace, and maybe a little payback, Diane decides to take other women who also loved Jamie on a journey back to Honey Water, where it all began. As the ladies wind their way back three decades to the origin of their passionate escapades with the same man, Diane and the others reveal surprising details about their lives, loves, and transformations. But as Diane arrives in Honey Water, she has no idea James has already arranged his final act of love for her. Open Invitation is the compelling story of forbidden love as a woman journeys back into her past, with the help of others, to right a wrong and finally heal her broken heart.

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Abbott Press

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1458216284

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Drugs and Society

By: Glen Hanson,Peter Venturelli,Annette Fleckenstein

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Drugs and Society

By: Glen Hanson,Peter Venturelli,Annette Fleckenstein

Thoroughly revised and updated, Drugs and Society, Eleventh Edition, contains the most current information available concerning drug use and abuse. Written in an objective and user-friendly manner, this best-selling text continues to captivate students by taking a biological approach to the impact of drug use and abuse on the lives of ordinary people. The Eleventh Edition incorporates the authors’ combined expertise in pharmacology, drug abuse, and sociology and extensive experience in research, teaching, drug policy-making, and drug policy implementation and includes hundreds of new citations that reflect the current state of drug abuse issues and the rapidly changing issues of substance abuse/addiction.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States

By: Annette Mahoney

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The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States

By: Annette Mahoney

The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States is a timely addition to the knowledge base concerning the integration of this population into the fabric of American society. On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, this book examines the relationship between immigrants from the Caribbean and the culture of the United States. This body of work provides resources for scholars and researchers and provides instrumental strategies for use in practice by counselors/social workers, curriculum developers, and immigration analysts. With this book, you will develop a new appreciation for the social capital immigrants bring with them, their adaptation to their new society, and the extent to which their distinctive characteristics promote or hinder their social mobility. Using tables, figures, and graphs, The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States provides thorough analyses of broad-ranging issues and proposes viable solutions to the problems these immigrants face. In this important resource, expert educators, researchers, and community leaders address the unique challenges that affect this population, including: increased infant mortality rates increased HIV/AIDS among the Caribbean community the growing trend of violence and abuse among Caribbean and Caribbean-American youths the special needs of aging and elderly immigrants living in the United States the impact of the 1996 immigration legislation on Caribbean families The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States paints a clear picture of how these citizens are coping with the social, economic, and political aspects of the American way of life. This guide offers new findings and insight into the reality of the diverse immigrant Caribbean population, setting the stage for establishing groundbreaking initiatives to develop better support services. Innovative community-based approaches and culturally specific prescriptive intervention models make this book an integral source for social scientists, human service professionals, and policymakers.

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1136379568

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Drugs & Society

By: Glen R. Hanson,Peter J. Venturelli,Annette E. Fleckenstein

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Drugs & Society

By: Glen R. Hanson,Peter J. Venturelli,Annette E. Fleckenstein

5 Stars! from Doody's Book Reviews! (of the 13th Edition) "This edition continues to raise the bar for books on drug use and abuse. The presentation of the material is straightforward and comprehensive, but not off putting or complicated." As a long-standing, reliable resource Drugs & Society, Fourteenth Edition continues to captivate and inform students by taking a multidisciplinary approach to the impact of drug use and abuse on the lives of average individuals. The authors have integrated their expertise in the fields of drug abuse, pharmacology, and sociology with their extensive experiences in research, treatment, drug policy making, and drug policy implementation to create an edition that speaks directly to students on the medical, emotional, and social damage drug use can cause.

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1284197859

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The German Roots of Nineteenth-Century American Theology

By: Annette G. Aubert

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The German Roots of Nineteenth-Century American Theology

By: Annette G. Aubert

This book explores the influences of German theology on Emanuel Gerhart and Charles Hodge, two Reformed theologians who addressed questions concerning method and atonement theology in light of modernism and new scientific theories.

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0199915326

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Home Advantage

Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education

By: Annette Lareau

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Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education

By: Annette Lareau

This new edition contextualizes Lareau's original ethnography in a discussion of the most pressing issues facing educators at the beginning of the new millennium.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461637406

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Norwegian Friluftsliv

A Way of Living and Learning in Nature

By: Annette R. Hofmann,Carsten Gade Rolland,Kolbjørn Rafoss,Herbert Zoglowek

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Norwegian Friluftsliv

A Way of Living and Learning in Nature

By: Annette R. Hofmann,Carsten Gade Rolland,Kolbjørn Rafoss,Herbert Zoglowek

This book is aimed at an international readership. Friluftsliv is a Norwegian form of living outdoors in harmony with nature. The book demonstrates how friluftsliv is central to Norwegian social and cultural practices in the outdoors. The purpose of this book is to provide you with knowledge, ideas and perspectives that can enhance your understanding of nature and help make your stay in nature more purposeful and meaningful. Key themes addressed throughout the book include: •Friluftsliv as a social and cultural phenomenon •Friluftsliv as an educational approach •Nature guiding and leadership in nature •Outdoor adventure education •Friluftsliv activities Annette R. Hofmann, PhD, Professor for Sports Pedagogy at Ludwigsburg University of Education in Germany, and head of the sport department. Main fields of research: ski history, history of women's ski jumping, German American sports, women and sport. Besides sports pedagogy her teaching includes downhill and cross-country skiing and outdoor education (friluftsliv) in Norway's Arctic. Dr. Hofmann, Annette R., Professorin für Sportwissenschaft an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Vizepräsidentin des Deutschen Turner-Bundes (DTB), Präsidentin der Internationalen Vereinigung für Sportgeschichte (ISHPES), Academic Editor Europe des International Journal of the History of Sport.

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3830988516

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Drugs and Society

By: Glen R. Hanson,Peter J. Venturelli,Annette E. Fleckenstein

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Drugs and Society

By: Glen R. Hanson,Peter J. Venturelli,Annette E. Fleckenstein

Drugs and Society, Ninth Edition, clearly illustrates the impact of drug use and abuse on the lives of ordinary people and provides students with a realistic perspective of drug-related problems in our society. Written in an objective and user-friendly manner, this best-selling text continues to captivate students by incorporating personal drug use and abuse experiences and perspectives throughout. Statistics and chapter content have been revised to include the latest information on current topics.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763737321

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Indelible Shadows

Film and the Holocaust

By: Annette Insdorf

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Indelible Shadows

Film and the Holocaust

By: Annette Insdorf

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Cambridge University Press

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Borderland Battles

Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia's War

By: Annette Idler

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Borderland Battles

Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia's War

By: Annette Idler

The post-cold war era has seen an unmistakable trend toward the proliferation of violent non-state groups-variously labeled terrorists, rebels, paramilitaries, gangs, and criminals-near borders in unstable regions especially. In Borderland Battles, Annette Idler examines the micro-dynamics among violent non-state groups and finds striking patterns: borderland spaces consistently intensify the security impacts of how these groups compete for territorial control, cooperate in illicit cross-border activities, and replace the state in exerting governance functions. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with more than 600 interviews in and on the shared borderlands of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela, where conflict is ripe and crime thriving, Idler reveals how dynamic interactions among violent non-state groups produce a complex security landscape with ramifications for order and governance, both locally and beyond. A deep examination of how violent non-state groups actually operate with and against one another on the ground, Borderland Battles will be essential reading for anyone involved in reducing organized crime and armed conflict-some of our era's most pressing and seemingly intractable problems.

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Oxford University Press

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0190849177

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The Holy Spirit and Christian Ethics in the Theology of Klaus Bockmuehl

By: Annette M. Glaw

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The Holy Spirit and Christian Ethics in the Theology of Klaus Bockmuehl

By: Annette M. Glaw

Klaus Bockmuehl (1931-1989), former Professor for Systematic Theology at Regent College, Vancouver, published outstanding theological ethical works. The questions that Bockmuehl explored have not lost any relevance: How do we know what God's will is in a particular situation? Is Scripture sufficient for ethical decisions or should we listen to God? Does God even speak today? Is there a distinctive Christian ethic? Bockmuehl's central contribution can be found in his emphasis on the seminal role the Holy Spirit plays within Christian ethics, not only as the one who realizes the reign of God in the life of the individual but also as the one guiding the individual in a particular situation. This book is the first in-depth study of Bockmuehl, introducing readers to his theology and ethics, including a short biographical overview, delineating and appraising how he understands the role of the Holy Spirit in Christian ethics. It is not a book without criticism and its own creative contribution. Annette Glaw concludes her fascinating study with a proposal for a relational concept of the Holy Spirit as the loving presence of God in Christian ethics.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1620324016

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Culture and Society

Sociology of Culture

By: Rosamund Billington,Sheelagh Strawbridge,Lenore Greensides,Annette Fitzsimons

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Culture and Society

Sociology of Culture

By: Rosamund Billington,Sheelagh Strawbridge,Lenore Greensides,Annette Fitzsimons

This text explores the difficulties of defining a sociology of 'culture', emphasising the complex, interdisciplinary nature of 'cultural studies', and the variety of theoretical contributions from sociology, literature, history and anthropology. Intended for a wide range of undergraduates, the text covers areas not usually included in cultural studies, together with those more familiar to the field. It deals with the development and breakdown of key conceptual distinctions, like structure/culture, culture/knowledge, objective reality/subjective experience and the implications for the study of culture.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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134921518X

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Der Midrasch zur Eschatologie aus der Qumrangemeinde (4QMidrEschat a.b)

Materielle Rekonstruktion, Textbestand, Gattung und traditionsgeschichtliche Einordnung des durch 4Q174 (“Florilegium”) und 4Q177 (“Catena A”) repräsentierten Werkes aus den Qumranfunden

By: Annette Steudel

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Der Midrasch zur Eschatologie aus der Qumrangemeinde (4QMidrEschat a.b)

Materielle Rekonstruktion, Textbestand, Gattung und traditionsgeschichtliche Einordnung des durch 4Q174 (“Florilegium”) und 4Q177 (“Catena A”) repräsentierten Werkes aus den Qumranfunden

By: Annette Steudel

This volume deals with one of the oldest midrashim, the Eschatological Midrash from Qumran Cave 4. 4QMidrEschat, previously unknown, is preserved in at least two copies (4QFlorilegium, 4QCatena A) found at Qumran. A reconstruction of 4QFlorilegium and 4QCatena A is given in the first part of the book. The second part is a comparative analysis which shows that both manuscripts are copies of the same former work, 4QMidrEschat. The third part deals with the other exegetical Qumran texts, a definition of 4QMidrEschat's genre, its position among the Qumran literature, and its dating. 4QMidrEschat provides valuable information on Bible interpretation and eschatology among the Essenes in the first century BCE. 4QMidrEschat is of special significance because, according to recent studies, the Essenes are no longer to be regarded as a "sect", but as one of the most important Jewish groups of that time.

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BRILL

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9004350144

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9789004350144

Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years

By: Annette R. Federico

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Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years

By: Annette R. Federico

Published in 1979, Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Atticwas hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism. This thirtieth-anniversary collection adds both valuable reassessments and new readings and analyses. The authors take as their subjects specific nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers, the state of feminist theory and pedagogy, genre studies, film, race, and postcolonialism, with approaches ranging from ecofeminism to psychoanalysis.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826219276

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Gender as a Verb

Gender Segregation at Work

By: Annette Fitzsimons

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Gender as a Verb

Gender Segregation at Work

By: Annette Fitzsimons

This title was first published in 2002. Aiming to contribute to feminist theory in the area of paid employment, this volume demonstrates how the meanings attached to gender can form part of the explanation for the persistence of gender segregation at work. The author applies the Foucaultian concept of discourse to occupational segregation to offer a new approach to the study of gender segregation. An analysis is provided of gender in relation to computer programming.

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Routledge

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135174299X

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Unequal Childhoods

Class, Race, and Family Life

By: Annette Lareau

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Unequal Childhoods

Class, Race, and Family Life

By: Annette Lareau

Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of "leisure" activities; and here are families with plenty of time but little economic security. Lareau shows how middle-class parents, whether black or white, engage in a process of "concerted cultivation" designed to draw out children's talents and skills, while working-class and poor families rely on "the accomplishment of natural growth," in which a child's development unfolds spontaneously—as long as basic comfort, food, and shelter are provided. Each of these approaches to childrearing brings its own benefits and its own drawbacks. In identifying and analyzing differences between the two, Lareau demonstrates the power, and limits, of social class in shaping the lives of America's children. The first edition of Unequal Childhoods was an instant classic, portraying in riveting detail the unexpected ways in which social class influences parenting in white and African American families. A decade later, Annette Lareau has revisited the same families and interviewed the original subjects to examine the impact of social class in the transition to adulthood.

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Univ of California Press

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0520949900

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The Era of the Witness

By: Annette Wieviorka

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The Era of the Witness

By: Annette Wieviorka

What is the role of the survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? In this book, a concise, rigorously argued, and provocative work of cultural and intellectual history, the author seeks to answer this surpassingly complex question.

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Cornell University Press

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0801443318

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Advertising in Tourism and Leisure

By: Nigel Morgan,Annette Pritchard

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Advertising in Tourism and Leisure

By: Nigel Morgan,Annette Pritchard

Advertising in Tourism and Leisure' brings together the current thinking in this area, illustrated with extensive international case studies, to provide a critical appraisal of the potential of advertising in leisure and tourism. Arranged in three parts, the book examines * the role of advertising and its relationship with other aspects of tourism and leisure marketing * the techniques used in advertising to key market segments * new strategic directions in advertising, focusing on the new destination marketing strategy of branding and assessing the relationship between advertising and other increasing important areas of promotion, such as sponsorship, ambient marketing and sales promotion. Advertising and marketing professionals in the leisure industries and undergraduates on marketing-related modules in tourism, leisure and hospitality courses will find this an invaluable text. Since the case studies are drawn from an international field, readers will be able to assess best practice from a variety of sources and countries. Dr Nigel Morgan is Principal Lecturer in Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism and Annette Pritchard is Senior Lecturer at School of Leisure and Tourism, at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.

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113600209X

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9781136002090

Images of Illness in the Gospel of Luke

Insights of Ancient Medical Texts

By: Annette Weissenrieder

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Images of Illness in the Gospel of Luke

Insights of Ancient Medical Texts

By: Annette Weissenrieder

Analyzing the illness-related terminology of the Gospel against the background of classical medical texts, Annette Weissenrieder examines the degree to which ancient medical knowledge was incorporated into the healing narratives of the Gospel of Luke. Thus, her work focuses on the crossroads of theology and medical history. Her primary reference is the Corpus Hippocraticum, supplemented by the writings of Soranus, Empedocles and Caelius Aurelianus. She also examines Jewish sources in the light of these secular medical texts. The premise of the study is the constructivist concept that has been developed in the context of 'writing the history of the body': that there is no objective view of the sick body. Every description of the body is formed by the cultural norms of a particular society, and society's culture influences the way in which any given illness is seen.In investigating concepts of medicine prevalent in antiquity, Annette Weissenrieder brings to light the cultural parameters of perception specific to Luke. She deals with gender-specific images of illness as well as with those associated with impurity or demonic possession. Her analysis confirms that the concepts of illness used by the Lucan author were profoundly characteristic of his time. She demonstrates how he uses these concepts to make his central message plausible: the presence of divine reality in the human sphere which can be experienced by both the physical body and the social body.

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3161479157

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Education and Anthropology

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Annette Rosenstiel

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Education and Anthropology

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Annette Rosenstiel

Originally published in 1977 and compiled over a period of 25 years of teaching and research in the fields of education and anthropology, this annotated bibliography was designed as a single source reflecting (1) historical influences (2) current trends (3) theoretical concerns and (4) practical methodology at the interfaces of these disciplines. All entries, listed alphabetically by author, are numbered for ready reference, and the material covered spans nearly three centuries, from the earliest entry in 1689 to the most recent in 1976. The volume also contains entries for items dealing with the teaching of anthropology and the use of anthropological concepts and data in teaching.

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Routledge

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1000576833

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Imperfect Insurance Markets

An Economic Analysis of Externalities and Consumer Diversity

By: Annette Hofmann

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Imperfect Insurance Markets

An Economic Analysis of Externalities and Consumer Diversity

By: Annette Hofmann

The focus of this thesis is on consumer diversity. Incorporating consumer heterogeneity into economic analysis is well-established in industrial organization literature; this aspect is, however, often neglected in microeconomic insurance models. A first new approach lies in analyzing risk interdependencies. When risks are interdependent, an agent's decision to self-protect affects the loss probabilities faced by others. Due to these externalities, economic agents invest too little in prevention relative to the socially efficient level by ignoring marginal external costs or benefits conferred on others. We analyze an insurance market with externalities of loss prevention. It is shown in a model with heterogenous agents and imperfect information that a monopolistic insurer can achieve the social optimum by engaging in premium discrimination. An insurance monopoly reduces not only costs of risk selection, but may also play an important social role in loss prevention. This result can be empirically confirmed. We also deal with the impact of intermediation on insurance market transparency and performance. In a differentiated insurance market under imperfect information, uninformed consumers may become informed about product suitability by consulting an intermediary. We analyze current broker compensation systems: commissions and fees. While insurers' equilibrium profits are equivalent under both systems, social welfare under fees is first-best efficient. Both systems may offer the opportunity to increase profits via collusion. Under a commission system, collusion enables insurers to separate consumers into groups purchasing different contracts. Insurers may then extract additional rents from some consumers. This might explain why intermediaries tend to be compensated by insurers in practice. Finally, we study optimal monopoly pricing given imperfect information and heterogenous policyholders. Die in englischer Sprache verfasste Arbeit ist der mikroökonomischen Analyse von Versicherungsmärkten gewidmet. Zunächst werden einige wichtige theoretische Grundlagen der Versicherungsnachfragetheorie beschrieben. Eine zentrale Erweiterung des Basismodells stellen interdependente Risiken dar. Bestehen Risikointerdependenzen, so sind alle Maßnahmen, die die Schadenshäufigkeit reduzieren, mit positiven externen Effekten verbunden. Es wird gezeigt, dass im Gleichgewicht das realisierte Präventionsniveau unterhalb des optimalen Niveaus angesiedelt ist. Aufgrund der Externalitäten kommt es zu einem Marktversagen und nur ein Monopolversicherer kann eine differenzierte Prämienstruktur herbeiführen, die zum optimalen Präventionsniveau führt. Dieses Ergebnis kollidiert mit dem Ergebnis, dass wettbewerbliche Versicherungsmärkte zu einer höheren Gesamtwohlfahrt führen, es lässt sich jedoch empirisch stützen. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt auf unvollkommenen Versicherungsmärkten, wobei heterogene Versicherungsnachfrager mit unterschiedlichen Produktpräferenzen und Informationskosten unterstellt werden. In einem solchen Markt erhöhen Versicherungsvermittler die Markttransparenz und damit auch die Gewinne der Versicherer. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Analyse verschiedener Vergütungsformen der Vermittler. Ein Vergütungssystem auf Basis von Beratungshonoraren ist einem Provisionssystem aus wohlfahrtsökonomischer Perspektive vorzuziehen. Aus Sicht der Versicherer kehrt sich dieses Ergebnis allerdings um, sobald es zur Kollusion zwischen Versicherern und Vermittlern kommt. Der letzte Schwerpunkt liegt in der Analyse einer optimalen Preispolitik eines Versicherungsmonopolisten bei heterogenen Nachfragern, die sich durch ihre Risikopräferenzen und damit ihre individuelle Zahlungsbereitschaft für Versicherungen unterscheiden.

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3862981134

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Listening to People

A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up

By: Annette Lareau

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Listening to People

A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up

By: Annette Lareau

This book will help you: Understand the importance of talking to others, including listening to feedback from others while conducting research Recognize that there is not only one right way to sculpt your study Learn how to plan the early stages of a project such as designing the study and choosing whom to study See how to navigate the IRB and how to perform practical matters while collecting data Learn how to plan before an interview and how to construct an interview guide Read real-life interviews with notes showing what probes work well and which are less successful A down-to-earth, practical guide for interview and participant observation and analysis. In-depth interviews and close observation are essential to the work of social scientists, but inserting one’s researcher-self into the lives of others can be daunting, especially early on. Esteemed sociologist Annette Lareau is here to help. Lareau’s clear, insightful, and personal guide is not your average methods text. It promises to reduce researcher anxiety while illuminating the best methods for first-rate research practice. As the title of this book suggests, Lareau considers listening to be the core element of interviewing and observation. A researcher must listen to people as she collects data, listen to feedback as she describes what she is learning, listen to the findings of others as they delve into the existing literature on topics, and listen to herself in order to sift and prioritize some aspects of the study over others. By listening in these different ways, researchers will discover connections, reconsider assumptions, catch mistakes, develop and assess new ideas, weigh priorities, ponder new directions, and undertake numerous adjustments—all of which will make their contributions clearer and more valuable. Accessibly written and full of practical, easy-to-follow guidance, this book will help both novice and experienced researchers to do their very best work. Qualitative research is an inherently uncertain project, but with Lareau’s help, you can alleviate anxiety and focus on success.

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University of Chicago Press

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022680660X

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The Effective Principal

Instructional Leadership for High-quality Learning

By: Barbara Scott Nelson,Annette Sassi

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The Effective Principal

Instructional Leadership for High-quality Learning

By: Barbara Scott Nelson,Annette Sassi

This volume examines how effective instructional leadership by principals and other school administrators is affected by their own knowledge and beliefs about learning, teaching, and subject matter. Using mathematics as a subject focus, the authors examine several specific aspects of instructional leadership, such as teacher supervision and classroom observation, curriculum selection, and student assessment. Nelson and Sassi provide detailed portraits of administrators at work, illuminating key decision-making situations and the actions they choose to take. This important volume looks at a new image of the school principal, one that is tied more closely to learning and teaching.The authors discuss and offer important implications for mathematics education, educational policy, and school improvement.

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Teachers College Press

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0807746061

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9780807746066

Functional Categories in Language Acquisition

Self-Organization of a Dynamical System

By: Annette Hohenberger

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Functional Categories in Language Acquisition

Self-Organization of a Dynamical System

By: Annette Hohenberger

This study investigates the acquisition of Functional Categories (e.g., INFL (AGR, TNS), DET, COMP) from the perspective of self-organization in generative grammar. Language is conceived of as a dynamical system which evolves in time and bifurcates when critical thresholds are reached. The emergence of syntax as evidenced by the acquisition of Functional Categories is the major bifurcation in child language acquisition. Target values of syntactic parameters are attractors which children approach on individual trajectories. A proposed tripartite scenario of change - from a simple stable state A, via symmetry-breaking in a liminal phase B characterized by variation, to a new complex stable state C - accounts for the dynamics in early grammatical development. Traditional generative issues, such as the acquisition of case-marking, finiteness, V2, and wh-questions, are discussed as well as new issues, such as functional neologisms, and sentential blends. Dynamical notions like precursor, oscillation, symmetry-breaking, and trigger are important explanatory tools. The growing child phrase marker is a fractal mental object which represents syntactic information by way of self-similar extended projections. The book addresses researchers in language acquisition from various theoretical camps: generative, functional, connectionist, by giving new answers to old questions in the light of a novel challenging theory: self-organization.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110923521

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The Ghosts in Our Classrooms, or: John Dewey Meets Ceauşescu

By: Annette Cristescu, Radu Freyberg-Inan

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The Ghosts in Our Classrooms, or: John Dewey Meets Ceauşescu

By: Annette Cristescu, Radu Freyberg-Inan

How can democracy be learned? And how successful are we at teaching and learning it?This book does three things: First, it explains why civic education is important for the growth and survival of (any type of) democracy. Second, it focuses on a particular country, which is in many ways representative for the general problems of post-communist transition to democracy. It carefully examines the practical reality of civic education in Romania both at the level of general schooling and in higher education. Emphasis lies on the ways in which the ideals of civic education clash with post-communist realities and on the obstacles that continue to exist in this transition country to the democratic empowerment of citizens through education. Scarcity of resources, corruption in many forms, and attitudes of deference to authority, among other problems, perpetuate a situation in which education fails to support democratization and instead reflects the failures of regimes of the past. Third, the book offers concrete recommendations for how civic education in Romania (and elsewhere) can be improved. How can education be organized to suc-cessfully support the realization of democratic ideals?This book is based on its main author’s direct experience working in the field of civic education in Romania between 1999 and 2005 and draws on her wider expertise in the study of Romanian political economy and the country’s European integration as well as in the fields of political psychology and democratic theory. It is of particular interest for teachers and social scientists willing to reflect on the implications of their teaching or research for democratic empowerment, for policymakers and activists who seek to support processes of democratization, as well as for students of post-communist transition countries in general and of Romania in particular. It provides an accessible, informative, and frequently humorous account of lofty ideals clashing with harsh realities on the battlefield of democratic emancipation.

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3898214168

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9783898214162

Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity

The Reception of Enochic Literature

By: Annette Yoshiko Reed

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Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity

The Reception of Enochic Literature

By: Annette Yoshiko Reed

This book considers the early history of Jewish-Christian relations focussing on the fallen angels.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521853788

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9780521853781

Understanding Managed Care

An Introduction for Health Care Professionals

By: Annette U. Rickel,Thomas N. Wise

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Understanding Managed Care

An Introduction for Health Care Professionals

By: Annette U. Rickel,Thomas N. Wise

A unique series of cases based on a fictional family selecting and using a health plan is presented and a glossary is provided which defines basic concepts frequently encountered in the managed care field.

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Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers

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3805569602

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9783805569606

Help Teachers Engage Students

Action Tools for Administrators

By: Gary Forlini,Ellen Williams,Annette Brinkman

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Help Teachers Engage Students

Action Tools for Administrators

By: Gary Forlini,Ellen Williams,Annette Brinkman

This unique, hands-on reference for school administrators offers guidelines for effective student engagement as well as reproducible action tools that will enable you to identify and share The Big Eight Student Engagement Strategies with your teachers, promote teacher growth and provide support for new and/or struggling teachers, collect data to help you consult and coach teachers effectively in student engagement, and provide direct assistance with skills and strategies to sharpen student engagement.

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1317926358

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