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The Object of Jewish Literature

A Material History

By: Barbara E. Mann

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The Object of Jewish Literature

A Material History

By: Barbara E. Mann

A history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an object With the rise of digital media, the "death of the book” has been widely discussed. But the physical object of the book persists. Here, through the lens of materiality and objects, Barbara E. Mann tells a history of modern Jewish literature, from novels and poetry to graphic novels and artists’ books. Bringing contemporary work on secularism and design in conversation with literary history, she offers a new and distinctive frame for understanding how literary genres emerge. The long twentieth century, a period of tremendous physical upheaval and geographic movement, witnessed the production of a multilingual canon of writing by Jewish authors. Literature’s objecthood is felt not only in the physical qualities of books—bindings, covers, typography, illustrations—but also through the ways in which materiality itself became a practical foundation for literary expression.

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Yale University Press

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0300265387

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9780300265385

Negotiating Space

Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe

By: Barbara H. Rosenwein

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Negotiating Space

Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe

By: Barbara H. Rosenwein

Why did early medieval kings declare certain properties to be immune from the judicial and fiscal encroachments of their own agents? Did weakness compel them to prohibit their agents from entering these properties, as historians have traditionally believed? In a richly detailed book that will be greeted as a landmark addition to the literature on the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein argues that immunities were markers of power. By placing restraints on themselves and their agents, kings demonstrated their authority, affirmed their status, and manipulated the boundaries of sacred space.Rosenwein transforms our understanding of an institution central to the political and social dynamics of medieval Europe. She reveals how immunities were used by kings and other leaders to forge alliances with the noble families and monastic centers that were central to their power. Generally viewed as unchanging juridical instruments, immunities as they appear here are as fluid and diverse as the disparate social and political conflicts that they at once embody and seek to defuse. Their legacy reverberates in the modern world, where liberal institutions, with their emphasis on state restraint, clash with others that encourage governmental intrusion. The protections against unreasonable searches and seizures provided by English common law and the U.S. Constitution developed in part out of the medieval experience of immunities and the institutions that were elaborated to breach them.

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Cornell University Press

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1501718681

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9781501718687

Cinematically Transmitted Disease

Eugenics and Film in Weimar and Nazi Germany

By: Barbara Hales

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Cinematically Transmitted Disease

Eugenics and Film in Weimar and Nazi Germany

By: Barbara Hales

Propaganda played an essential role in influencing the attitudes and policies of German National Socialism on racial purity and euthanasia, but little has been said on the impact of medical hygiene films. Cinematically Transmitted Disease explores these films for the first time, from their inception during the Weimar era and throughout the years to come. In this innovative volume, author Barbara Hales demonstrates how medical films as well as feature films were circulated among the German people to embed and enforce notions of scientific legitimacy for racial superiority and genetically spread “incurable” diseases, creating and maintaining an instrumental fear of degradation in the German national population.

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Berghahn Books

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1805394819

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9781805394815

Bannerman Castle

By: Thom Johnson,Barbara H. Gottlock

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Bannerman Castle

By: Thom Johnson,Barbara H. Gottlock

For generations, boaters and train passengers have been mystified and intrigued by the sight of a castlelike structure looming in the Hudson River, near Fishkill. Bannerman Castle unveils the history of this site: an island arsenal, built to resemble a Scottish castle. The story begins in 1900, when Francis Bannerman VI purchased the islandofficially Pollepel but later called Bannermans Islandfor storing used military goods purchased from the government. A native of Scotland, Bannerman designed his arsenal to resemble a Scottish castle.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439642044

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President by Massacre

Indian-Killing for Political Gain

By: Barbara Alice Mann

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President by Massacre

Indian-Killing for Political Gain

By: Barbara Alice Mann

President by Massacre pulls back the curtain of "expansionism," revealing how Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Zachary Taylor massacred Indians to "open" land to slavery and oligarchic fortunes. President by Massacre examines the way in which presidential hopefuls through the first half of the nineteenth century parlayed militarily mounted land grabs into "Indian-hating" political capital to attain the highest office in the United States. The text zeroes in on three eras of U.S. "expansionism" as it led to the massacre of Indians to "open" land to African slavery while luring lower European classes into racism's promise to raise "white" above "red" and "black." This book inquires deeply into the existence of the affected Muskogee ("Creek"), Shawnee, Sauk, Meskwaki ("Fox"), and Seminole, before and after invasion, showing what it meant to them to have been so displaced and to have lost a large percentage of their members in the process. It additionally addresses land seizures from these and the Tecumseh, Tenskwatawa, Black Hawk, and Osceola tribes. President by Massacre is written for undergraduate and graduate readers who are interested in the Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands, U.S. slavery, and the settler politics of U.S. expansionism.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440861889

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Art-Based Supervision

Cultivating Therapeutic Insight Through Imagery

By: Barbara J. Fish

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Art-Based Supervision

Cultivating Therapeutic Insight Through Imagery

By: Barbara J. Fish

Art-Based Supervision is a unique text for graduate supervision classes and seminars as well as a resource for post-graduate supervisors and practitioners. It offers a new view of supervision, one that incorporates both images and words as tools to investigate and communicate the interactions that occur in therapy and in the systems in which clinicians work. The fundamental principles of supervision provided in the book are useful for anyone interested in exploring the use of images to support reflection, understanding, and empathy in their work. Full-color images further enrich the narrative. In addition to supervision courses, Art-based Supervision may be used for introductory art therapy, psychology, social work, and counseling courses for readers interested in a broad range of intimate examples of the challenges of therapeutic work and the use of response art to grasp nuanced communication.

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Routledge

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1317601637

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Half Humankind

Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640

By: Katherine U. Henderson,Barbara F. McManus

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Half Humankind

Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540-1640

By: Katherine U. Henderson,Barbara F. McManus

Since the very beginnings of literature, "half humankind"--The female of the species-has been an irresistible subject for the pens of the other half.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252011740

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Body Language in Literature

By: Barbara Korte

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Body Language in Literature

By: Barbara Korte

An important interdisciplinary study, that establishes a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narrative, based on a general history of the phenomenon in the English language.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802076564

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Franz Rosenzweig and Jehuda Halevi

By: Barbara Ellen Galli,Franz Rosenzweig

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Franz Rosenzweig and Jehuda Halevi

By: Barbara Ellen Galli,Franz Rosenzweig

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), one of the most daunting modern Jewish thinkers, exercises a profound influence on contemporary philosophy and modern Jewish thought. In this seminal study, Barbara Galli provides the first English translation of Franz Rosenzweig's Jehuda Halevi: Zweiundneunzig Hymnen und Gedichte, a German translation of the poems of the great medieval Jewish poet Jehuda Halevi, followed by a lively, interpretive response. Galli's primary aim is to explore Rosenzweig's statement that his Notes to Halevi's poems exemplify a practical application of the philosophic system he set out in The Star of Redemption. Through an extended, multifaceted investigation of Rosenzweig's thought, Galli uncovers his philosophy of translation, out of which she determines and unravels his philosophic conclusion and his belief that there is only one language. In the final chapters, she concentrates on the Notes to the poems, and in doing so attempts to philosophize according to Rosenzweig's own mandate: full speech is word and response.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773512888

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9780773512887

Maria Theresa

The Habsburg Empress in Her Time

By: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

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Maria Theresa

The Habsburg Empress in Her Time

By: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule Maria Theresa (1717–1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, a far-flung realm composed of diverse ethnicities and languages, beset on all sides by enemies and rivals. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger provides the definitive biography of Maria Theresa, situating this exceptional empress within her time while dispelling the myths surrounding her. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Stollberg-Rilinger examines all facets of eighteenth-century society, from piety and patronage to sexuality and childcare, ceremonial life at court, diplomacy, and the everyday indignities of warfare. She challenges the idealized image of Maria Theresa as an enlightened reformer and mother of her lands who embodied both feminine beauty and virile bellicosity, showing how she despised the ideas of the Enlightenment, treated her children with relentless austerity, and mercilessly persecuted Protestants and Jews. Work, consistent physical and mental discipline, and fear of God were the principles Maria Theresa lived by, and she demanded the same from her family, her court, and her subjects. A panoramic work of scholarship that brings Europe's age of empire spectacularly to life, Maria Theresa paints an unforgettable portrait of the uncompromising yet singularly charismatic woman who left her enduring mark on the era in which she lived and reigned.

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Princeton University Press

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0691219850

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Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans

How fMRI reveals what really goes on in our minds

By: Barbara J. Sahakian,Julia Gottwald

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Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans

How fMRI reveals what really goes on in our minds

By: Barbara J. Sahakian,Julia Gottwald

The recent explosion of neuroscience techniques has proved to be game changing in terms of understanding the healthy brain, and in the development of neuropsychiatric treatments. One of the key techniques available to us is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which allows us to examine the human brain non-invasively, and observe brain activity in real time. Through fMRI, we are beginning to build a deeper understanding of our thoughts, motivations, and behaviours. Recent reports that some patients who have all indications of being in a persistent vegetative state actually show conscious awareness, and were able to communicate with researchers, demonstrate perhaps the most remarkable and dramatic use of fMRI. But this is just the most striking of a number of areas in which fMRI is being used to 'read minds', albeit in a very limited way. As neuroscientists unravel the regions of the brain involved in reward and motivation, and in romantic love, we are likely to develop the capacity to influence responses such as love using drugs. fMRI studies have also been used to indicate that many people who would not regard themselves as racist show a racial bias in their emotional responses to faces of another racial group. Meanwhile, the reliability of fMRI as a lie detector in murder cases is being debated - what if the individual simply believes, falsely, that he or she committed a murder? Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans takes readers beyond the media headlines. Barbara J. Sahakian and Julia Gottwald consider what the technique of fMRI entails, and what information it can give us, showing which applications are possible today, and which ones are science fiction. They also consider the important ethical questions these techniques raise. Should individuals applying for jobs as teachers or judges be screened for unconscious racial bias? What if the manipulation of love using 'love potions' was misused for economic or military ends? How far will we allow neuroscience to go? It is time to make up our minds.

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Oxford University Press

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0191067172

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Essential Standard General Maths Second Edition Enhanced TIN/CP Version

By: Peter Jones,Kay Lipson,David Main,Barbara Tulloch

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Essential Standard General Maths Second Edition Enhanced TIN/CP Version

By: Peter Jones,Kay Lipson,David Main,Barbara Tulloch

Revised edition enhanced with an interactive online textbook and TI-Nspire OS3 updates. The Essential VCE Mathematics series has a reputation for mathematical excellence, with an approach developed over many years by a highly regarded author team of practising teachers and mathematicians. This approach encourages understanding through a wealth of examples and exercises, with an emphasis on VCE examination-style questions. New in Standard General Mathematics Second Edition Enhanced TI-N/CP Version: • An additional chapter on bivariate data with an early introduction to regression analysis, a key topic in Further Mathematics. • Updated worked examples and exercises, with revisions for CAS calculator use. • The TI-Nspire CAS is updated to OS3 in the CAS calculator explanations, examples and problems integrated into the text, which also feature the Casio ClassPad • Page numbers in the printed text reflect the previous TI-nspire and Casio ClassPad version allowing for continuity and compatibility.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107664624

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Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union

From De-Stalinization to Perestroika

By: Barbara Martin

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Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union

From De-Stalinization to Perestroika

By: Barbara Martin

How was it possible to write history in the Soviet Union, under strict state control and without access to archives? What methods of research did these 'historians' - be they academic, that is based at formal institutions, or independent - rely on? And how was their work influenced by their complex and shifting relationships with the state? To answer these questions, Barbara Martin here tracks the careers of four bold and important dissidents: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Roy Medvedev, Aleksandr Nekrich and Anton Antonov-Ovseenko. Based on extensive archival research and interviews (with some of the authors themselves, as well as those close to them), the result is a nuanced and very necessary history of Soviet dissident history writing, from the relative liberalisation of de-Stalinisation through increasing repression and persecution in the Brezhnev era to liberalisation once more during perestroika. In the process Martin sheds light onto late Soviet society and its relationship with the state, as well as the ways in which this dissidence participated in weakening the Soviet regime during Perestroika. This is important reading for all scholars working on late Soviet history and society.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135010681X

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Anonymity in Early Modern England

'What's In A Name?'

By: Barbara Howard Traister

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Anonymity in Early Modern England

'What's In A Name?'

By: Barbara Howard Traister

Expanding the scholarly conversation about anonymity in Renaissance England, this essay collection explores the phenomenon in all its variety of methods and genres as well as its complex relationship with its alter ego, attribution studies. Contributors address such questions as these: What were the consequences of publishing and reading anonymous texts for Renaissance writers and readers? What cultural constraints and subject positions made anonymous publication in print or manuscript a strategic choice? What are the possible responses to Renaissance anonymity in contemporary classrooms and scholarly debate? The volume opens with essays investigating particular texts-poetry, plays, and pamphlets-and the inflection each genre gives to the issue of anonymity. The collection then turns to consider more abstract consequences of anonymity: its function in destabilizing scholarly assumptions about authorship, its ethical ramifications, and its relationship to attribution studies.

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Routledge

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1317180615

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The Temple of Love

By: Barbara Cartland

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The Temple of Love

By: Barbara Cartland

Desperate to avoid being trapped into marriage by the lovely but scheming Lady Charlotte Denington, the handsome young Duke of Ingleby is relieved to be sent on a special secret mission for the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon. He is to find and if he is in time to save an ancient Buddhist Temple on the island of Java from desecration and looting by the Dutch who are the Rulers of the country at the time. Travelling incognito and posing as an English tourist keen to photograph the delightful scenery of Java, the Duke unexpectedly meets a beautiful and ethereal young woman called ‘Sarida’ at the Temple’s portal. Although clearly English, Sarida bears this Javanese name and is attuned to Javanese culture. Indeed she believes fervently in the Buddha. The Duke is entranced and then enthralled when he discovers that he and she bear an uncanny resemblance to the sculpted portrayals of a Javanese King and Princess in the depths of the Temple. It is as if they have been together and loved each other in another life. Even without speaking they both understand that this is what the Buddhists have always called The Wheel of Rebirth. And, as together they face terrible danger, it is immediately obvious that the attraction between them is too powerful to resist. It is all an essential part of the Divine power of the Temple of Love.

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Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd

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1788670159

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Nazi Ideology before 1933

A Documentation

By: Barbara Miller Lane

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Nazi Ideology before 1933

A Documentation

By: Barbara Miller Lane

This collection of early writings by leading Nazi intellectuals sheds light on the evolution of Nazi political thought as the party came to power. Barbara Miller Lane and Leila J. Rupp bring together a crucial yet hitherto inaccessible body of material that thoroughly chronicles Nazi ideology before 1933. It includes the extensive writings and programs published by Dietrich Eckart, Alfred Rosenberg, Gottfried Feder, Joseph Goebbels, Gregor and Otto Strasser, Heinrich Himmler, and Richard Walther Darré. Hitler’s role in the development of Nazi ideology, interpreted here as a very permissive one, is thoroughly assessed. In commentary by the editors, the significance of each Nazi theorist is evaluated at each stage of the history of the party. Lane and Rupp conclude that early Nazi ideology was not a consistent whole but a doctrine in the process of rapid development to which new ideas were continually introduced. By the time the Nazis came to power, however, a group of interrelated assertions and official promises had been made to party followers and to the public. Hitler and the Third Reich had to accommodate this ideology, even when not implementing it. Each selection is accompanied by an introductory note and annotations which clarify its relationship to other works of the author and other writings of the period. Also included are original translations of the “Twenty-Five Points” and a number of little-known official party statements.

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Univ of TX + ORM

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1477304460

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When It's Over

A Novel

By: Barbara Ridley

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When It's Over

A Novel

By: Barbara Ridley

Coming of age in Prague in the 1930s, Lena Kulkova is inspired by the left-wing activists who resist the rise of fascism. She meets Otto, a refugee from Hitler’s Germany, and follows him to Paris to work for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. As the war in Spain ends and a far greater war engulfs the continent, Lena gets stuck in Paris with no news from her Jewish family, including her beloved baby sister, left behind in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Otto, meanwhile, has fled to a village in England, and urges Lena to join him, but she can’t obtain a visa. When Lena and Otto are finally reunited, the safe haven Lena has hoped for doesn’t last long. Their relationship becomes strained, and Lena is torn between her loyalty to Otto and her growing attraction to Milton, the son of the eccentric Lady of the Manor. As the war continues, she yearns to be reunited with her sister, while Milton is preoccupied with the political turmoil that leads to the landslide defeat of Churchill in the 1945 election. Based on a true story, When It’s Over is a moving, resonant, and timely read about the lives of war refugees, dramatic political changes, and the importance of family, love, and hope.

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Simon and Schuster

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1631522973

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Security and Trust in Online Social Networks

By: Barbara Carminati,Elena Ferrari,Marco Viviani

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Security and Trust in Online Social Networks

By: Barbara Carminati,Elena Ferrari,Marco Viviani

The enormous success and diffusion that online social networks (OSNs) are encountering nowadays is vastly apparent. Users' social interactions now occur using online social media as communication channels; personal information and activities are easily exchanged both for recreational and business purposes in order to obtain social or economic advantages. In this scenario, OSNs are considered critical applications with respect to the security of users and their resources, for their characteristics alone: the large amount of personal information they manage, big economic upturn connected to their commercial use, strict interconnection among users and resources characterizing them, as well as user attitude to easily share private data and activities with strangers. In this book, we discuss three main research topics connected to security in online social networks: (i) trust management, because trust can be intended as a measure of the perception of security (in terms of risks/benefits) that users in an OSN have with respect to other (unknown/little-known) parties; (ii) controlled information sharing, because in OSNs, where personal information is not only connected to user profiles, but spans across users' social activities and interactions, users must be provided with the possibility to directly control information flows; and (iii) identity management, because OSNs are subjected more and more to malicious attacks that, with respect to traditional ones, have the advantage of being more effective by leveraging the social network as a new medium for reaching victims. For each of these research topics, in this book we provide both theoretical concepts as well as an overview of the main solutions that commercial/non-commercial actors have proposed over the years. We also discuss some of the most promising research directions in these fields.

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Springer Nature

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3031023390

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Eros, Imitation, and the Epic Tradition

By: Barbara Pavlock

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Eros, Imitation, and the Epic Tradition

By: Barbara Pavlock

Barbara Pavlock here illuminates the significance of the erotic in the epic tradition from Alexandrian Greece to the late Renaissance by examining the transformations of two Homeric episodes, Odysseus' encounter with Nausikaa and the night-raid of Odysseus and Diomedes. In close readings of epics by Apollonius of Rhodes, Virgil, Ovid, Catullus, Ariosto, and Milton, Pavlock shows how these poets maintain the appearance of thematic continuity as they actually differentiate their own views on heroic values from those of their predecessors. Asserting that the erotic serves in the epic as a locus of criticism of social values, she traces adaptations in rhetorical devices, in larger structural patterns, and in major generic forms, as in the combination of tragic with epic models.

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Cornell University Press

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1501746146

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Narrating the Organization

Dramas of Institutional Identity

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

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Narrating the Organization

Dramas of Institutional Identity

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

Using a narrative approach unique to organizational studies, Czarniawska employs literary devices to uncover the hidden workings of organizations. She shows how the interpretive description of organizational worlds works as a distinct genre of social analysis, and her investigations ultimately disclose the paradoxical nature of organizational life: we follow routine in order to change, and decentralize in order to control. By confronting such paradoxes, we bring crisis to existing institutions and enable them to change.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226132285

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The First Cold War

Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century

By: Barbara Emerson

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The First Cold War

Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century

By: Barbara Emerson

Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon’s defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into constant acrimonious rivalry over Persia, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia—the Great Game—and, towards the end of the century, East Asia. The First Cold War presents for the first time the Russian perspective on this ‘game’, drawing on the archives of the Tsars’ Imperial Ministry. Both world powers became convinced of the expansionist aims of the other, and considered these to be at their own expense. When one was successful, the other upped the ante, and so it went on. London and St Petersburg were at war only once, during the Crimean War. But Russophobia and Anglophobia became ingrained on each side, as these two great empires hovered on the brink of hostilities for nearly 100 years. Not until Britain and Russia recognised that they had more to fear from Wilhelmine Germany did they largely set aside their rivalries in the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, which also had major repercussions for the balance of power in Europe. Before that came a century of competition, diplomacy and tension, lucidly charted in this comprehensive new history.

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Hurst Publishers

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1805261452

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Uprooted and Unwanted

Bosnian Refugees in Austria and the United States

By: Barbara Franz

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Uprooted and Unwanted

Bosnian Refugees in Austria and the United States

By: Barbara Franz

The tragedy of war does not end when the soldiers put down their guns. Among the after-effects, the dislocation and relocation of civilians often loom large. The aftermath of the Bosnian conflicts has left many refugees needing to establish new lives, often in radically different cultures. In Uprooted and Unwanted, Barbara Franz offers a cogent look at how these refugees have fared in two representative cities—Vienna and New York City. Between 1991 and 2001, some 30,000 Bosnian refugees settled in Austria, and 120,000 found their way to the United States. Franz focuses on the strategies, skills, and informal networks used by Bosnian refugees, particularly women, to adapt to official policies and administrative practices in their host societies. Her analysis concludes that historically inaccurate ideas on how to deal with displaced persons have led to policies in both Europe and North America that have adversely affected those whose lives have been devastated by war.

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Texas A&M University Press

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158544412X

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Wet Site Archaeology

By: Barbara A. Purdy

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Wet Site Archaeology

By: Barbara A. Purdy

This volume, the result of an International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, explores the rewards and responsibilities of recovering unique assemblages from water-saturated deposits. Characteristics common to all archaeological wet sites are identified from Newfoundland to Chile, Polynesia to Florida, and from the Late Pleistocene to the Twentieth Century. Topics include innovative excavation and preservation methods; the need for adequate funding to preserve and analyze the abundant biological and cultural remains recovered only at archaeological wet sites; expanded knowledge of past environments, subsistence, technologies, artistic expressions, skeletal structure, and pathologies; the urgency to inform developers and governmental bodies about the invisible heritage entombed in wetlands that is often destroyed before it can be investigated; a formula for establishing priorities for excavating wet sites; and how to determine when enough of a wet site has been sampled.Many famous sites and discoveries are described in this volume, including Herculaneum, Hoko River, Hontoon Island, Key Marco, Monte Verde, Ozette, Somerset Levels, Windover, bog bodies of Northern Europe, and lake dwellers of Switzerland. Professional and amateur archaeologists, as well as anyone interested in archaeology or the significance of wet site archaeology will find this book fascinating.

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CRC Press

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1351094653

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Ashes to Ashes (Francis Hancock Mystery 3)

A page-turning World War Two crime thriller

By: Barbara Nadel

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Ashes to Ashes (Francis Hancock Mystery 3)

A page-turning World War Two crime thriller

By: Barbara Nadel

As London burns, an unlikely hero unearths a series of brutal murders... Ashes to Ashes is the third novel in the acclaimed Francis Hancock World War Two crime series by Barbara Nadel. Perfect for fans of Martin Walker and Maureen Jennings. 'A great depiction of the period and a touchingly involuntary new sleuth' - Guardian As the German Luftwaffe bomb the capital, undertaker Francis Hancock suddenly finds himself caught up in the middle of a terrifying abduction plot. It's 29 December, 1940, the night that Hitler has chosen to destroy London under a barrage of flaming incendiary bombs. Their main target - St Paul's cathedral - is where Hancock is sheltering from the onslaught. But the First World War veteran doesn't just have bombs to contend with; a young girl, who was also sheltering in the cathedral, has vanished. Then some of those charged with protecting the building are brutally murdered. Hancock must face his own demons and fears in his struggle to catch those responsible and bring them to justice... What readers are saying about Ashes to Ashes: 'The details of people's ordinary lives adds so much depth to the story' 'The tale covers madness, loyalty, patriotism, priorities, faith - all the deep stuff Barbara Nadel tackles so well' 'Barbara Nadel is a seriously perceptive, interesting writer

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The Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century

By: Marion Gymnich,Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz,Gerold Sedlmayr

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The Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century

By: Marion Gymnich,Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz,Gerold Sedlmayr

The orphan has turned out to be an extraordinarily versatile literary figure. By juxtaposing diverse fictional representations of orphans, this volume sheds light on the development of cultural concepts such as childhood, family, the status of parental legacy, individualism, identity and charity. The first chapter argues that the figure of the orphan was suitable for negotiating a remarkable range of cultural anxieties and discourses in novels from the Victorian period. This is followed by a discussion of both the (rare) examples of novels from the first half of the 20th century in which main characters are orphaned at a young age and Anglophone narratives written from the 1980s onward, when the figure of the orphan proliferated once more. The trope of the picaro, the theme of absence and the problem of parental substitutes are among the issues addressed in contemporary orphan narratives. The book also looks at the orphan motif in three popular fantasy series, namely Rowling’s Harry Potter septology, Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy and Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. It then traces the development of the orphan motif from the end of the 19th century to the present in a range of different types of comics, including funnies and gag-a-day strips, superhero comics, underground comix, and autobiographical comics.

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1527515702

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Smoke Signals from Samarcand

The 1931 Reform School Fire and Its Aftermath

By: Barbara Bennett

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The 1931 Reform School Fire and Its Aftermath

By: Barbara Bennett

A case study and dramatic retelling of young girls on trial for arson at a reform school In 1931 sixteen poor, white girls—all teenaged inmates at Samarcand Manor, officially named the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, in Samarcand, North Carolina—were accused of burning down two campus buildings in protest against living conditions. Barbara Bennett offers not only a dramatic retelling of this historic case in Smoke Signals from Samarcand, but also reveals a case study of the misguided social engineering schemes—fraught with racism, classism, and sexual stereotypes—that churned through North Carolina and other southern states during this time. The girls, who became known as the "Samarcand Sixteen," were described by administrators and the media as incorrigible and troublesome. Bennett additionally reveals their grim backgrounds and details the harsh disciplinary methods, including savage whippings, that were dispensed at Samarcand and other reform schools in the early twentieth century. Arson was a capital offense in North Carolina at the time, and the girls were put on trial for their lives. The sensational trial took place in the midst of a strong eugenics movement that was sweeping the state and the South. The girls' newly minted lawyer, Nell Battle Lewis, argued that the treatment the girls endured at Samarcand had forced them to take drastic action and therefore should result in lenient sentences. Instead the state of North Carolina used bogus "scientific" theories—such as "bad blood genetics"—to create legal policy and criminal justice practices that were heavily prejudiced against powerless people, particularly girls and women. In the end the girls received sentences of eighteen months to five years in the state penitentiary, although the trial and its publicity did lead to improvements in the physical conditions and disciplinary methods at Samarcand and other juvenile facilities in North Carolina.

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An EMDR Therapy Primer

From Practicum to Practice

By: Barbara J. Hensley, PhD

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An EMDR Therapy Primer

From Practicum to Practice

By: Barbara J. Hensley, PhD

Note to Readers: Publisher does not guarantee quality or access to any included digital components if book is purchased through a third-party seller. Praise for the Second Edition: This book is a must-have for any newly trained EMDR therapist. Dr. Hensley, drawing from her years of experience and many conversations with Dr. Francine Shapiro, clearly and succinctly addresses the kinds of clinical questions that typically arise for new clinicians and does so in a way that is incredibly supportive and encouraging. The EMDR Therapy Primer is the perfect companion to Shapiro's seminal textbook. –Deborah Korn, PhD. This book presents EMDR as a comprehensive therapeutic approach and informs the clinician how to integrate EMDR into clinical practice. EMDR concepts are clearly explained and illustrated with many case examples. It is informative, well-written, and an excellent resource that expands EMDR basic training for the clinician. -- Roger Solomon, PhD - This book has been an invaluable resource as a one-stop shop for EMDR therapists. Thank you for the gift of the 3rd edition! -- Deany Laliotis, LICSW Barbara Hensley’s book, An EMDR Therapy Primer: From Practicum to Practice, is written as a primer and companion to Francine Shapiro’s EMDR texts. It is a step-by-step overview of the foundations of EMDR therapy presented in easily accessible, conversational language, and helps both new and experienced clinicians to maximize their preparation and skills in using EMDR safely, confidently, and effectively. By providing concise coverage of the AIP model and EMDR principles, protocols, and procedures, and by addressing the types of targets accessed during the EMDR process, the book expertly summarizes the eight phases of EMDR with myriad examples so core content can be easily grasped. The third edition is fully revised to include case examples on treating specific populations and issues - transgender issues, military personnel, children, and disaster response. The author has ensured that all relevant new information on components of memory, precepts of EMDR therapy, and adaptive information processing has been fully integrated into the text, making this the most up-to-date book available on the foundations of EMDR therapy. An eBook is included with the purchase of the print edition. New to the Third Edition: New chapter on working with special populations including the transgender population, children, military personnel, and disaster response Expanded Shapiro metaphors and introduced new informational plateau embracing social connection and belonging Key Features: Like having a tutor in your pocket Blends text, clinical examples, scripts, and derailment possibilities to explore and explain the eight phases of EMDR Describes core content in clear, easy-to-understand language Uses case histories, dialogues, and transcripts of successful EMDR sessions with explanations of treatment rationale Details strategies and techniques for dealing with challenging clients, high levels of abreaction, and blocked processing Delivers abundant diagrams, tables, and illustrations to illuminate concepts Helps clinicians to guide clients smoothly through the EMDR process

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In the Name of Hate

Understanding Hate Crimes

By: Barbara Perry

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Understanding Hate Crimes

By: Barbara Perry

In The Name of Hate is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of hate crimes, arguing for an expansion of the legal definitions that most states in the U.S. hold. Barbara Perry provides an historical understanding of hate crimes and provocatively argues that hate crimes are not an aberration of current society, but rather a by-product of a society still grappling with inequality, difference, fear, and hate.

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1135957835

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The Fire Portrait

The page-turning novel of love and loss

By: Barbara Mutch

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The Fire Portrait

The page-turning novel of love and loss

By: Barbara Mutch

I've taken risks in my life. Some have been physical ones, but some have been bolder and required more of myself. When Englishwoman Frances McDonald sets up home in a remote South African hamlet in the shadow of the Hex River Mountains, she is regarded with suspicion by the community. Confined by a marriage of convenience, she seeks an outlet by learning the local language, teaching art, and exhibiting her paintings of the stunning veld landscape. Soon the spectre of war threatens to divide not only the country but the town itself and scupper Frances' hard-won acceptance. While her husband leaves to fight for the Allies, Frances chances to meet a former love. The bright joy of that unexpected reunion is clouded by a day that will change her life. Out of the smoke and ash of a shocking fire, she is propelled on a journey that will take her from the arid veld to the bright lights of London and beyond.

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074902674X

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Negotiating Racial Politics in the Family

Transnational Histories touched by National Socialism and Apartheid

By: Barbara Henkes

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Negotiating Racial Politics in the Family

Transnational Histories touched by National Socialism and Apartheid

By: Barbara Henkes

This book is situated at the cutting edge of the political-ethical dimension of history writing. Henkes investigates various responsibilities and loyalties towards family and nation, as well as other major ethical obligations towards society and humanity when historical subjects have to deal with a repressive political regime. In the first section we follow pre-war German immigrants in the Netherlands and their German affiliation during the era of National Socialism. The second section explores the positions of Dutch emigrants who settled after the Second World War in Apartheid South Africa. The narratives of these transnational agents and their relatives provide a lens through which changing constructions of national identities, and the acceptance or rejection of a nationalist policy on racial grounds, can be observed in everyday practice.

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9004401601

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Highly Respectable and Accomplished Ladies

Catholic Women Religious in America, 1790-1850

By: Barbara Misner

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Highly Respectable and Accomplished Ladies

Catholic Women Religious in America, 1790-1850

By: Barbara Misner

Originally published in 1988. This study examines women religious in the American community in the first half of the nineteenth century. The primary aim of this research was to determine who the women were who entered eight religious communities, and whether there was any clear relationship between who they were and their choice of community. This title will be of interest to students of history and religious studies.

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1351588303

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Hashem/Jehovah/Yahweh: Almighty God, the Father

By: BARBARA ANN MARY MACK

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Hashem/Jehovah/Yahweh: Almighty God, the Father

By: BARBARA ANN MARY MACK

Book One: “HASHEM/JEHOVAH/YAHWEH: ALMIGHTY GOD, THE FATHER” is a God inspired book that consists of two separate adult books, which reveal a Spiritual Conversation between Almighty God, The Father, Barbara Ann Mary Mack, and God’s Earthly children today. “HASHEM/JEHOVAH/YAHWEH: ALMIGHTY GOD, THE FATHER” is written in the form of Poetry, which makes it easier for the reader to follow and understand God’s written Sayings that flow throughout this book. “HASHEM/JEHOVAH/YAHWEH: ALMIGHTY GOD, THE FATHER” reveals the Presence of God, the Father, in our lives today. Book Two, titled: “CHRIST JESUS, OUR REDEEMING GOD” Reveals the Reality of Christ Jesus, as our Redeeming God and Savior.

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