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International Organizations under Pressure

Legitimating Global Governance in Challenging Times

By: Klaus Dingwerth,Antonia Witt,Ina Lehmann,Ellen Reichel,Tobias Weise

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International Organizations under Pressure

Legitimating Global Governance in Challenging Times

By: Klaus Dingwerth,Antonia Witt,Ina Lehmann,Ellen Reichel,Tobias Weise

International organizations like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, or the European Union are a defining feature of contemporary world politics. In recent years, many of them have also become heavily politicized. In this book, we examine how the norms and values that underpin the evaluations of international organizations have changed over the past 50 years. Looking at five organizations in depth, we observe two major trends. Taken together, both trends make the legitimation of international organizations more challenging today. First, people-based legitimacy standards are on the rise: international organizations are increasingly asked to demonstrate not only what they do for their member states, but also for the people living in these states. Second, procedural legitimacy standards gain ground: international organizations are increasingly evaluated not only based on what they accomplish, but also based on how they arrive at decisions, manage themselves, or coordinate with other organizations in the field. In sum, the study thus documents how the list of expectations international organizations need to fulfil to count as 'legitimate' has expanded over time. The sources of this expansion are manifold. Among others, they include the politicization of expanded international authority and the rise of non-state actors as new audiences from which international organizations seek legitimacy.

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Oxford University Press

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0192574922

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Undoing Coups

The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar

By: Antonia Witt

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Undoing Coups

The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar

By: Antonia Witt

Since the beginnings of independence, a number of African nations have been plagued by repeated coup d'états. Within the African Union (AU), there has been a concerted effort to break this cycle through the official adoption of an ‘anti-coup norm’, by which the AU is mandated to suspend a member state and restore constitutional order following a coup. Supporters of this stance see it as strengthening democracy in Africa, while critics argue that it has served to prop up existing regimes. But there has been little analysis of what the AU’s attempts to ‘restore constitutional order’ have meant for individual African states. In this book, Antonia Witt looks at the legacy of the AU’s intervention in Madagascar following the 2009 ‘Malagasy crisis’, one of the increasingly relevant yet under-researched cases of non-Western intervention in Africa. The book looks at the ways in which international intervention reconfigured the political order in Madagascar, how it facilitated the power struggle within the Madagascan elite and prevented more profound political change. It also considers what the example set by the Madagascan intervention means for the wider international order in Africa and the powers attributed to African international actors such as the AU.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1786996855

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Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age

By: Antonia Tripolitis

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Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age

By: Antonia Tripolitis

This insightful read traces the development of the principal Western religions and their philosophical counterparts from the beginnings of Alexander the Great's empire in 331 B.C.E. to the emergence of the Christian world in the fourth century C.E.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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080284913X

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9780802849137

Undoing Coups

The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar

By: Antonia Witt

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The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar

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Personality Hacker

Harness the Power of Your Personality Type to Transform Your Work, Relationships, and Life

By: Joel Mark Witt,Antonia Dodge

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Personality Hacker

Harness the Power of Your Personality Type to Transform Your Work, Relationships, and Life

By: Joel Mark Witt,Antonia Dodge

From the hosts of the popular podcast, a handbook for understanding the way you’re wired—and using that knowledge for greater happiness. Get past superficial markers of identity and discover the full makings of your personality type with this interactive guide to hacking your mind and uncovering your true self. Recognizing all aspects of who you really are will improve your confidence, compassion, decision-making process, and success. Written by the hosts of the popular Personality Hacker podcast, this book shows how your mind is naturally wired. It provides the information and tools you need to harness the power of your personality type and realize your full potential, including: • Detailed Personality Test • Interactive Journal Prompts • Myers-Briggs Explanation • Personal Growth Techniques • Cognitive Functions Breakdown • Relationship and Career Assistance

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Simon and Schuster

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1612437796

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9781612437798

Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity

By: Antonia Fitzpatrick

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Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity

By: Antonia Fitzpatrick

This is a study of the union of matter and the soul in the human being in the thought of the Dominican Thomas Aquinas. At first glance this issue might appear arcane, but it was at the centre of polemic with heresy in the thirteenth century and at the centre of the development of medieval thought more broadly. The book argues that theological issues, especially the need for an identical body to be resurrected at the end of time, but also considerations about Christ's crucifixion and saints' relics, were central to Aquinas's account of how human beings are constituted. The book explores in particular how theological questions and concerns shaped Aquinas's thought on individuality and personal and bodily identity over time, his embryology and understanding of heredity, his work on nutrition and bodily growth, and his fundamental conception of matter itself. It demonstrates, up-close, how Aquinas used his peripatetic sources, Aristotle and (especially) Averroes, to frame and further his own thinking in these areas. The book also indicates how Aquinas's thought on bodily identity became pivotal to university debates and relations between the rival mendicant orders in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, and that quarrels surrounding these issues persisted into the fifteenth century. Not only is this a study of the interface between theology, biology, and physics in Aquinas's mind; it also fundamentally revises the view of Aquinas that is generally accepted. Aquinas is famous for holding that the one and only substantial (or nature-determining) form in a human being is the soul, and most scholars have therefore thought that he located the identity of the individual in their soul. This book restores the body through a thorough and critical examination of the range of Aquinas's works.

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Oxford University Press

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0192508245

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New York's Remarkable Women

Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History

By: Antonia Petrash

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New York's Remarkable Women

Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History

By: Antonia Petrash

How did New York become the amazing state that it is today, you may wonder? New York's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who shaped the Empire State. The lives of female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies. Discover fourteen extraordinary women from New York's past, including suffragist Amelia Bloomer, abolitionist Harriet Tubman, attorney and US Representative Bella Abzug, and WASP pilot Betty Gillies.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493015826

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9781493015825

Cromwell

By: Antonia Fraser

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Cromwell

By: Antonia Fraser

The national-bestselling author of Mary Queen of Scots delivers a masterful biography of the Puritan rebel Oliver Cromwell: “Rich and extraordinary” (The New York Times). In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England’s most celebrated and controversial figures, often misunderstood and demonized as a puritanical zealot. Oliver Cromwell rose from humble beginnings to spearhead the rebellion against King Charles I, who was beheaded in 1649, and led his soldiers into the last battle against the Royalists and King Charles II at Worcester, ending the civil war in 1651. Fraser shows how England’s prestige and prosperity grew under Cromwell, reversing the decline it had suffered since Queen Elizabeth I’s death. “A classic above almost all others in its class.” —The Oxford Times

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802195822

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9780802195821

The Pleasure of Reading

43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them

By: Antonia Fraser

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The Pleasure of Reading

43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them

By: Antonia Fraser

In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend, and Jeanette Winterson. The new edition will include essays from ten new writers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1632862298

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9781632862297

Climate Change Fictions

Representations of Global Warming in American Literature

By: Antonia Mehnert

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Climate Change Fictions

Representations of Global Warming in American Literature

By: Antonia Mehnert

This book highlights the importance of the cultural sphere, and in particular literature, in response and discussion with the unprecedented phenomenon known as climate change. Antonia Mehnert turns to a set of contemporary American works of fiction, reading them as a unique response to the challenges of representing climate change. She draws on “climate change fiction”— texts dealing explicitly with anthropogenic climate change—and explores how these works convey climate change, deal with its challenging characteristics, and with what narrative techniques they ultimately participate in its communication. Indeed, a number of challenging traits make climate change a difficult issue to engage with including its slow and long temporal dimension, global scale, scientific controversy, and its disconnect between cause and effect. Considering such complexity and uncertainty at the source of climate change fictions, this book moves beyond a solely ecocritical analysis and shows how these climate change fictions constitute an insightful cultural repertoire valuable for discussion in the environmental humanities in general.

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Springer

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3319403370

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9783319403373

Duty Calls

Lessons Learned From an Unexpected Life of Service

By: Antonia Novello,Jill S. Tietjen

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Duty Calls

Lessons Learned From an Unexpected Life of Service

By: Antonia Novello,Jill S. Tietjen

Follow the remarkable journey of a trailblazing American leader, Dr. Antonia Novello, the first woman and the first Hispanic Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Antonia Novello is a vanguard in the United States and Puerto Rico, whose enduring commitment to service has left an indelible mark on the world of public health. With a distinguished career spanning more than four decades, including serving as the US Surgeon General and the New York State Commissioner of Health during 9/11, her story highlights an unwavering dedication to improving the well-being of individuals and communities.& Dr. Novello's story is one of challenges faced and overcome, of resilience and perseverance, and of shattering glass ceilings and opening doors for future generations of leaders. With honesty and openness, she shares her early battles with childhood illness and her desire to overcome stereotypes, while also chronicling her meteoric rise through various roles in the field of health care, leading to her service as the nation's top medical officer. From her struggles to her celebrations to her tireless advocacy for the health of young people, each chapter offers a glimpse into the resilience and wisdom that have shaped her life, unveiling the profound lessons she has gathered along the way. In Duty Calls, readers will learn about: Dr. Novello's early life and her struggles with congenital megacolon Her medical school and internship experiences How she became the first female/first Hispanic Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Novello's work as the New York State Commissioner of Health during 9/11 Her efforts to vaccinate and provide health care resources to her home in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria Wisdom and insights Dr. Novello gained through her life experiences, as well as her advice for the next generation (and everyone else!)

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Fulcrum Publishing

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1682754472

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9781682754474

Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival

Seven Sacred Plays

By: Antonia Pulci

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Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival

Seven Sacred Plays

By: Antonia Pulci

A talented poet and a gifted dramatist, Antonia Pulci (1452-1501) pursued two vocations, first as a wife and later as founder of an Augustinian order. During and after her marriage, Pulci authored several sacre rappresentazioni—one-act plays on Christian subjects. Often written to be performed by nuns for female audiences, Pulci's plays focus closely on the concerns of women. Exploring the choice that Renaissance women had between marriage, the convent, or uncloistered religious life, Pulci's female characters do not merely glorify the religious life at the expense of the secular. Rather, these women consider and deal with the unwanted advances of men, negligent and abusive husbands and suitors, the dangers of childbearing, and the disappointments of child rearing. They manage households and kingdoms successfully. Pulci's heroines are thoughtful; their capacity for analysis and action regularly resolve the moral, filial, and religious crises of their husbands and admirers. Available in English for the first time, this volume recovers the long muted voice of an early and important female Italian poet and playwright.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226685187

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9780226685182

Variable Density Fluid Turbulence

By: P. Chassaing,R.A. Antonia,Fabien Anselmet,L. Joly,S. Sarkar

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Variable Density Fluid Turbulence

By: P. Chassaing,R.A. Antonia,Fabien Anselmet,L. Joly,S. Sarkar

The first part aims at providing the physical and theoretical framework of the analysis of density variations in fully turbulent flows. Its scope is deliberately educational. In the second part, basic data on dynamical and scalar properties of variable density turbulent flows are presented and discussed, based on experimental data and/or results from direct numerical simulations. This part is rather concerned with a research audience. The last part is more directly devoted to an engineering audience and deals with prediction methods for turbulent flows of variable density fluid. Both first and second order, single point modeling are discussed, with special emphasis on the capability to include specific variable density / compressibility effects.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402006713

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9781402006715

Greenport, NY

By: Antonia Booth,Thomas Monsell

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Greenport, NY

By: Antonia Booth,Thomas Monsell

Lying ninety miles east of Manhattan and bordered by both Long Island Sound and Peconic Bay, Greenport has long been known as a boater's paradise. Part of the town of Southold, this Long Island beach town is noted for its lively mix of ethnicities and its contrasts-old-time New England rectitude giving way to a growing artistic community. In stunning photographs, Greenport portrays this place of hearty good spirits, with its legacy of fast boats and rumrunners, hardworking artisans and their grateful descendants, and notable independent figures such as Kofi Annan, and three-time America's Cup winner George Monsell.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738511846

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9780738511849

International Organizations under Pressure

Legitimating Global Governance in Challenging Times

By: Klaus Dingwerth,Antonia Witt,Ina Lehmann,Ellen Reichel,Tobias Weise

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International Organizations under Pressure

Legitimating Global Governance in Challenging Times

By: Klaus Dingwerth,Antonia Witt,Ina Lehmann,Ellen Reichel,Tobias Weise

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International Organizations under Pressure

International Organizations under Pressure

Undoing Coups

Undoing Coups

Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age

Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age

Undoing Coups

Undoing Coups

Personality Hacker

Personality Hacker

Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity

Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity

New York's Remarkable Women

New York's Remarkable Women

Cromwell

Cromwell

The Pleasure of Reading

The Pleasure of Reading

Climate Change Fictions

Climate Change Fictions

Duty Calls

Duty Calls

Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival

Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival

Variable Density Fluid Turbulence

Variable Density Fluid Turbulence

Greenport, NY

Greenport, NY

International Organizations under Pressure

International Organizations under Pressure

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