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Simply Too Good to be True

By: Annette Sym

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Symply Too Good to Be True" has sold over 2.5 million copies in Australia by inspiring readers with the author's own powerful weight-loss testimony presenting 150 tasty and easy-to-prepare recipes, with complete nutritional information and dietician's tip for each dish outlining an effective 28-day weight-loss plan helping readers to manage diabetes, heart health, and cholesterol levels, promoting a positive approach to health and well-being.

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Symply - Too Good to be True

By: Annette Sym

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Symply - Too Good to be True

By: Annette Sym

Do you want to: - Lose weight and keep it off? - Make low fat recipes that taste as good as traditional versions? - Use recipes that help control Type 2 Diabetes? - Have recipes that will assist in lowering your cholesterol levels? - Spend as little time in the kitchen as possible? - Have a 28 day weight loss plan at your finger tips that is healthy and achievable? - Never feel deprived or miss out on your favorite meal? - Maintain a healthy weight range with ease? - Cook recipes that take very little skill or prep time? - Have recipes that use ingredients readily available in the supermarkets? - Take responsibility for yourself and become the healthy person you want to be NOW? If you answer YES to any of these questions, then this is the book for you

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Symply Too Good to be True 2

Over 150 Ways to Tasty, Low Fat Homestyle Cooking!

By: Annette Sym

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Symply Too Good to be True 2

Over 150 Ways to Tasty, Low Fat Homestyle Cooking!

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Symply Too Good to be True 7

Over 200 Ways to Tasty, Healthy, Low Fat Homestyle Cooking!

By: Annette Sym

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Symply Too Good to be True 7

Over 200 Ways to Tasty, Healthy, Low Fat Homestyle Cooking!

By: Annette Sym

Low fat Cookbook

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0957716192

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Mathematics in Ancient Egypt

A Contextual History

By: Annette Imhausen

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Mathematics in Ancient Egypt

A Contextual History

By: Annette Imhausen

A survey of ancient Egyptian mathematics across three thousand years Mathematics in Ancient Egypt traces the development of Egyptian mathematics, from the end of the fourth millennium BC—and the earliest hints of writing and number notation—to the end of the pharaonic period in Greco-Roman times. Drawing from mathematical texts, architectural drawings, administrative documents, and other sources, Annette Imhausen surveys three thousand years of Egyptian history to present an integrated picture of theoretical mathematics in relation to the daily practices of Egyptian life and social structures. Imhausen shows that from the earliest beginnings, pharaonic civilization used numerical techniques to efficiently control and use their material resources and labor. Even during the Old Kingdom, a variety of metrological systems had already been devised. By the Middle Kingdom, procedures had been established to teach mathematical techniques to scribes in order to make them proficient administrators for their king. Imhausen looks at counterparts to the notation of zero, suggests an explanation for the evolution of unit fractions, and analyzes concepts of arithmetic techniques. She draws connections and comparisons to Mesopotamian mathematics, examines which individuals in Egyptian society held mathematical knowledge, and considers which scribes were trained in mathematical ideas and why. Of interest to historians of mathematics, mathematicians, Egyptologists, and all those curious about Egyptian culture, Mathematics in Ancient Egypt sheds new light on a civilization's unique mathematical evolution.

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Princeton University Press

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0691209073

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9780691209074

Adventures of Faith

On Learning to Walk on Water

By: Faith Annette Sand

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Adventures of Faith

On Learning to Walk on Water

By: Faith Annette Sand

Christians today, instead of "being one" as Christ mandated his followers, tend to be fractious and willing to judge others out of their community of faith. With a fresh approach to what is dividing the church, Ms. Sand is calling for a renewal of our commitment to Christ and to one another. Taking a novel approach to the homosexual issue causing so much dissension, the author claims we are blaming the victims and not the true perpetrators of this growing phenomenon. She feels if we allowed God's Spirit to meld us into "one body with One Lord" we could overcome all these obstacles that prevent us from leaping out of our comfortable boats and following Christ on the truly adventuresome life our Lord offers to all.

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Hope Publishing House

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193271717X

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Sound and Communication

An Aesthetic Cultural History of Sanskrit Hinduism

By: Annette Wilke,Oliver Moebus

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Sound and Communication

An Aesthetic Cultural History of Sanskrit Hinduism

By: Annette Wilke,Oliver Moebus

In Hindu India both orality and sonality have enjoyed great cultural significance since earliest times. They have a distinct influence on how people approach texts. The importance of sound and its perception has led to rites, models of cosmic order, and abstract formulas. Sound serves both to stimulate religious feelings and to give them a sensory form. Starting from the perception and interpretation of sound, the authors chart an unorthodox cultural history of India, turning their attention to an important, but often neglected aspect of daily religious life. They provide a stimulating contribution to the study of cultural systems of perception that also adds new aspects to the debate on orality and literality.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110240033

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9783110240030

Frances McCollin

Her Life and Music

By: Annette Maria DiMedio

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Frances McCollin

Her Life and Music

By: Annette Maria DiMedio

Frances McCollin, a Philadelphia composer and violist (1892-1960), wrote 333 compositions, of which 93 were published during her lifetime; over 500 performances of her works took place during her lifetime with major orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic, and the Indianapolis Symphony. The two conductors who championed her music were Fabien Sevitzky and Leopold Stokowski, and she won 19 national awards. Her compositions, transcribed by Vincent Persichetti and others after she became blind at a young age, include works for symphony orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensembles, and solo works for organ, violin, piano, and solo voices. In this book DiMedio presents an introductory essay on McCollin's life and a catalog of compositions, with over 300 musical examples.

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Scarecrow Press

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081082289X

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9780810822894

Failing the Future

A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century

By: Annette Kolodny

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Failing the Future

A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century

By: Annette Kolodny

A former professor and Dean looks at the future of education in the U.S. as well as the dilemmas facing current and future educators.

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Duke University Press

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0822324709

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9780822324706

Empowerment and Participation in Youth Work

By: Annette Fitzsimons,Max Hope,Keith Russell,Charlie Cooper

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Empowerment and Participation in Youth Work

By: Annette Fitzsimons,Max Hope,Keith Russell,Charlie Cooper

In today′s society, many young people feel marginalised and unable to find their own voice. It is vital therefore that youth workers are able to work with them to tackle this in a meaningful way. Drawing on the real experiences and difficulties faced by youth workers, this book will help those who want to work with young people in an empowering way. The concepts of empowerment and participation are explained, explored and critically analysed, along with the key notion of resilience. This is backed up by activities and case studies which help to bring together the theory and the practice.

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Learning Matters

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1844457834

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9781844457830

A Progress of Sentiments

reflections on Hume's Treatise

By: Annette C. BAIER,Annette Baier

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A Progress of Sentiments

reflections on Hume's Treatise

By: Annette C. BAIER,Annette Baier

Annette Baier's aim is to make sense of David Hume's Treatise as a whole. Hume's family motto, which appears on his bookplate, was True to the End. Baier argues that it is not until the end of the Treatise that we get his full story about truth and falsehood, reason and folly. By the end, we can see the cause to which Hume has been true throughout the work. Baier finds Hume's Treatise of Human Nature to be a carefully crafted literary and philosophical work which itself displays a philosophical progress of sentiments. His starting place is an overly abstract intellectualism that deliberately thrusts passions and social concerns into the background. In the three interrelated books of the Treatise, his self-understander proceeds through partial successes and dramatic failures to emerge with new-found optimism, expecting that the exact knowledge the morally self-conscious anatomist of human nature can acquire will itself improve and correct our vision of morality. Baier describes how, by turning philosophy toward human nature instead of toward God and the universe, Hume initiated a new philosophy, a broader discipline of reflection that can embrace Charles Darwin and Michel Foucault as well as William James and Sigmund Freud. Hume belongs both to our present and to our past.

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Harvard University Press

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0674020383

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9780674020382

The Archive of Development

By: Annette W. Balkema

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The Archive of Development

By: Annette W. Balkema

In the current debate on art, thought on time has commanded a prominent position. Do we live in a posthistorical time? Has objective art historical time and belief in a continual progress shifted to a more subjective experience of the ephemeral? Has (art) history fallen away and, if so, what does this mean for the future of art? How does a visual archive relate to artistic memory? This volume investigates positions, arguments and comments regarding the stated theme. Philosophers and theorists explore the subject matter theoretically. Curators articulate the practice of art. The participants are: Hans Belting, Jan Bor, Peter Bürger, Bart Cassiman, Leontine Coelewij, Hubert Damisch, Arthur C. Danto, Bart De Baere, Okwui Enwezor, Kasper König, Sven Lütticken, Manifesta (Barbara VanderLinden), Hans Ulrich Obrist, Donald Preziosi, Survival of the Past Project (Herman Parret, Lex Ter Braak, Camiel Van Winkel), Ernst Van Alphen, Kirk Varnedoe, Gianni Vattimo, and Kees Vuyk.

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Rodopi

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9042004312

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9789042004313

Beyond Venice

Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750

By: Jutta-Annette Page,Ignasi Doménech

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Beyond Venice

Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750

By: Jutta-Annette Page,Ignasi Doménech

A lovingly illustrated celebration of the Venetian art of "cristallo" focuses on this remarkable glasswork produced in five countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, using essays and photographs to highlight the aesthetic and social dimensions of this unique craft. 281 colour & 47 b/w illustrations

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Hudson Hills

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0872901572

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We are Few

Folklore and Ethnic Identity of the Jewish Community of Ioannina, Greece

By: Annette B. Fromm

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We are Few

Folklore and Ethnic Identity of the Jewish Community of Ioannina, Greece

By: Annette B. Fromm

The Jewish community of Ioannina, in Northwestern Greece, traces its roots to Byzantine times if not earlier. In the early 20th century, at least half of the community's population emigrated to settle in Athens, Israel, and the United States because of economic and religious reasons. The cataclysm of the Holocaust dramatically decimated the community. This steady outward movement created an abrupt rupture of their patterns of traditional culture. We are Few brings this unique community to life in a series of ethnographic sketches of history and traditional culture in order to understand its intense allegiance to ethnic identity. Dr. Annette Fromm explores the decreasing inventory of cultural traditions from the patterns of daily life to the rituals and customs associated with life cycle events and holiday celebrations. Through the periodic return of individuals associated with the Jews of Ioannina, pilgrims, a new avenue of the expression of ethnic identity has been created. These visits reassure residents that the Jewish community of Ioannina still exists no matter how dispersed. This study is useful for graduate level students and researchers of Anthropology and Jewish Studies.

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Lexington Books

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0739120611

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9780739120613

The Cautious Jealous Virtue

Hume on Justice

By: Annette Baier

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The Cautious Jealous Virtue

Hume on Justice

By: Annette Baier

Like David Hume, whose work on justice she engages here, Annette C. Baier is a consummate essayist: her spirited, witty prose captures nuances and telling examples in order to elucidate important philosophical ideas.Baier is also one of Hume’s most sensitive and insightful readers. In The Cautious Jealous Virtue, she deepens our understanding of Hume by examining what he meant by “justice.” In Baier’s account, Hume always understood justice to be closely linked to self-interest (hence his description of it in An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals as “the cautious jealous virtue”), but his understanding of the virtue expanded over time, as evidenced by later works, including his History of England.Along with justice, Baier investigates the role of the natural virtue of equity (which Hume always understood to constrain justice) in Hume’s thought, arguing that Hume’s view of equity can serve to balance his account of the artificial virtue of justice. The Cautious Jealous Virtue is an illuminating meditation that will interest not only Hume scholars but also those interested in the issues of justice and in ethics more generally.

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Harvard University Press

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0674049764

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9780674049765

A Fiddler's Tale

How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me

By: Louis Kaufman,Annette Kaufman

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A Fiddler's Tale

How Hollywood and Vivaldi Discovered Me

By: Louis Kaufman,Annette Kaufman

Companion CD contains 13 recordings from 1942-1952.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299183831

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9780299183837

Sex and the Psychic Witch

By: Annette Blair

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Sex and the Psychic Witch

By: Annette Blair

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.

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1440622884

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Beyond Market Value

A Memoir of Book Collecting and the World of Venture Capital

By: Annette Campbell-White

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Beyond Market Value

A Memoir of Book Collecting and the World of Venture Capital

By: Annette Campbell-White

Beyond Market Value chronicles Annette Campbell-White’s remarkable life, from a childhood spent in remote mining camps throughout the British Commonwealth, where books created an imaginary home; to her early adulthood in London, where she first discovered a vocation as a book collector; to Silicon Valley, where she built a pioneering career as a formidable venture capitalist. She recalls the impulsive purchase of the first book in her collection, T. S. Eliot’s A Song for Simeon, and her pursuit of rare editions of all one hundred titles listed in Cyril Connolly’s The Modern Movement. Campbell-White’s collecting and career peaked in 2005, when she acquired the last of the Connolly titles and was first named to Forbes’ Midas List, the annual ranking of the most successful dealmakers in venture capital. In 2007, out of concern for their preservation, Campbell-White rashly sold the Connolly titles she had spent more than twenty years assembling, leading to a new appreciation of what remained of her collection and, going forward, a broader focus on collecting modernist letters, manuscripts, and ephemera. Beyond Market Value is both a loving tribute to literary collecting and a telling account of the challenges of being a woman in the male-dominated world of finance.

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University of Texas Press

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1477319379

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9781477319376

The Lay of the Land

Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters

By: Annette Kolodny

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The Lay of the Land

Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters

By: Annette Kolodny

An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.' It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American continent as a feminine entity (as Mother, as Virgin, as Temptress, as the Ravished), and it is also the first systematic inquiry into the metaphor's implications for the current ecological crisis.

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UNC Press Books

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1469619563

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9781469619569

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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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284197859

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9781284197853

Cry for Me, Argentina

The Performance of Trauma in the Short Narratives of Aída Bortnik, Griselda Gambaro, and Tununa Mercado

By: Annette H. Levine

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Cry for Me, Argentina

The Performance of Trauma in the Short Narratives of Aída Bortnik, Griselda Gambaro, and Tununa Mercado

By: Annette H. Levine

Inspired by Madres de la Plaza de Mayo's work for memory and justice, this book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on Latin American literary, trauma, performance, and cultural studies to analyze the narrative of three Argentine women writers/activists.

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Associated University Presse

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0838641563

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9780838641569

Disturbing Indians

The Archaeology of Southern Fiction

By: Annette Trefzer

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Disturbing Indians

The Archaeology of Southern Fiction

By: Annette Trefzer

Disturbing Indians describes how William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Andrew Lytle, and Caroline Gordon reimagined and reconstructed the Native American past in their work.

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University of Alabama Press

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081731542X

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9780817315429

Philip Kaufman

By: Annette Insdorf

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Philip Kaufman

By: Annette Insdorf

American director Philip Kaufman is hard to pin down: a visual stylist who is truly literate, a San Franciscan who often makes European films, he is an accessible storyteller with a sophisticated touch. Celebrated for his vigorous, sexy, and reflective cinema, Kaufman is best known for his masterpiece The Unbearable Lightness of Being and the astronaut saga The Right Stuff. His latest film, Hemingway & Gellhorn(premiering May 2012 on HBO), stars Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen. In this study, Annette Insdorf argues that the stylistic and philosophical richness of Kaufman's cinema makes him a versatile auteur. She demonstrates Kaufman's skill at adaptation, how he finds the precise cinematic device for a story drawn from seemingly unadaptable sources, and how his eye translates the authorial voice from books that serve as inspiration for his films. Closely analyzing his movies to date (including Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wanderers, and Quills), Insdorf links them by exploring the recurring and resonant themes of sensuality, artistic creation, codes of honor, and freedom from manipulation. While there is no overarching label or bold signature that can be applied to his oeuvre, she illustrates the consistency of themes, techniques, images, and concerns that permeates all of Kaufman's works.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252093976

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9780252093975

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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9783110923520

Call and Consequences

A Womanist Reading of Mark

By: Raquel Annette St. Clair

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Call and Consequences

A Womanist Reading of Mark

By: Raquel Annette St. Clair

* A womanist reading of the Gospel of Mark * Addresses questions of the necessity of suffering

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Fortress Press

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1451416474

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9781451416473

Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture

Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child

By: Annette Wannamaker

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Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture

Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child

By: Annette Wannamaker

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Routledge

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0415974690

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9780415974691

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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VVW GmbH

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3862981134

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9783862981137

Destination Branding

By: Nigel Morgan,Annette Pritchard,Roger Pride

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Destination Branding

By: Nigel Morgan,Annette Pritchard,Roger Pride

In today's highly competitive market, many destinations - from individual resorts to countries - are adopting branding techniques similar to those used by 'Coca Cola', 'Nike' and 'Sony' in an effort to differentiate their identities and to emphasize the uniqueness of their product. By focusing on a range of global case studies, Destination Branding demonstrates that the adoption of a highly targeted, consumer research-based, multi-agency 'mood branding' initiative leads to success every time.

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Postures of the Mind

Essays on Mind and Morals

By: Annette Baier

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Postures of the Mind

Essays on Mind and Morals

By: Annette Baier

Postures of the Mind was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Annette Baier develops, in these essays, a posture in philosophy of mind and in ethics that grows out of her reading of Hume and the later Wittgenstein, and that challenges several Kantian or analytic articles of faith. She questions the assumption that intellect has authority over all human feelings and traditions; that to recognize order we must recognize universal laws—descriptive or prescriptive; that the essential mental activity is representing; and that mental acts can be analyzed into discrete basic elements, combined according to statable rules of synthesis. In the first group of essays—"Varieties of Mental Postures"—Baier evaluates the positions taken by philosophers ranging from Descartes to Dennett and Davidson. Among her topics are remembering, intending, realizing, caring, representing, changing one's mind, justifying one's actions and feelings, and having conflicting reasons for them. The second group of essays—"Varieties of Moral Postures" - explores the sort of morality we get when all of these capacities become reflective and self-corrective. Some deal with particular moral issues—our treatment of animals, our policies regarding risk to human life, our contractual obligations; others, with more general questions on the role of moral philosophers and the place of moral theory. These essays respond to the theories of Hobbes, Kant, Rawls, and MacIntyre, but Baier's most positive reaction is to David Hume; Postures of the Mind affirms and cultivates his version of a moral reflection that employs feeling and tradition as well as reason.

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0816613273

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Idol of Suburbia

Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture

By: Annette Federico

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Idol of Suburbia

Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture

By: Annette Federico

Despite the ridicule of reviewers, Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was the most popular novelist of her time. Federico (English, James Madison University) points out the creative, combative and contradictory nature of Corelli's participation in the culture, and argues that her attempts to create her own image illuminate continuing debates about literary value, class hegemony, and gender politics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Virginia Press

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0813919150

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9780813919157

Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer

By: Annette J. Saddik

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Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess

The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer

By: Annette J. Saddik

The plays of Tennessee Williams' post-1961 period have often been misunderstood and dismissed. In light of Williams' centennial in 2011, which was marked internationally by productions and world premieres of his late plays, Annette J. Saddik's new reading of these works illuminates them in the context of what she terms a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Saddik explains why they are now gaining increasing acclaim, and analyzes recent productions that successfully captured elements central to Williams' late aesthetic, particularly a delicate balance of laughter and horror with a self-consciously ironic acting style. Grounding the plays through the work of Bakhtin, Artaud, and Kristeva, as well as through the carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory, Saddik demonstrates how Williams engaged the freedom of exaggeration and excess in celebration of what he called 'the strange, the crazed, the queer'.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316240681

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