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Holy Treasure and Sacred Song

Relic Cults and Their Liturgies in Medieval Tuscany

By: Benjamin David Brand

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Holy Treasure and Sacred Song

Relic Cults and Their Liturgies in Medieval Tuscany

By: Benjamin David Brand

Holy Treasure and Sacred Song explores the complex interplay between relic cults and the liturgy in medieval Tuscany. Drawing on documentary, literary and visual evidence rarely considered together, it reveals that liturgical texts, music, and ritual were integral to the clergy's well-informed promotion of saints buried in their churches.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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ISBN 10

019935135X

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9780199351350

Orientalist Aesthetics

Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930

By: Roger Benjamin

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Orientalist Aesthetics

Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930

By: Roger Benjamin

Benjamin's rediscovery of the important Society of French Orientalist Painters provides a critical context for understanding a rich body of work, including that of indigenous Algerian artists whose careers have never before been discussed in English.".

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Univ of California Press

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0520222172

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9780520222175

The Long Crisis

New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism

By: Benjamin Holtzman

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The Long Crisis

New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism

By: Benjamin Holtzman

Across all the boroughs, The Long Crisis shows, New Yorkers helped transform their broke and troubled city in the 1970s by taking the responsibilities of city governance into the private sector and market, steering the process of neoliberalism. Newspaper headlines beginning in the mid-1960s blared that New York City, known as the greatest city in the world, was in trouble. They depicted a metropolis overcome by poverty and crime, substandard schools, unmanageable bureaucracy, ballooning budget deficits, deserting businesses, and a vanishing middle class. By the mid-1970s, New York faced a situation perhaps graver than the urban crisis: the city could no longer pay its bills and was tumbling toward bankruptcy. The Long Crisis turns to this turbulent period to explore the origins and implications of the diminished faith in government as capable of solving public problems. Conventional accounts of the shift toward market and private sector governing solutions have focused on the rising influence of conservatives, libertarians, and the business sector. Benjamin Holtzman, however, locates the origins of this transformation in the efforts of city dwellers to preserve liberal commitments of the postwar period. As New York faced an economic crisis that disrupted long-standing assumptions about the services city government could provide, its residents--organized within block associations, non-profits, and professional organizations--embraced an ethos of private volunteerism and, eventually, of partnership with private business in order to save their communities' streets, parks, and housing from neglect. Local liberal and Democratic officials came to see such alliances not as stopgap measures but as legitimate and ultimately permanent features of modern governance. The ascent of market-based policies was driven less by a political assault of pro-market ideologues than by ordinary New Yorkers experimenting with novel ways to maintain robust public services in the face of the city's budget woes. Local people and officials, The Long Crisis argues, built neoliberalism from the ground up, creating a system that would both exacerbate old racial and economic inequalities and produce new ones that continue to shape metropolitan areas today.

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Oxford University Press

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0190843713

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9780190843717

A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou

Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites

By: Benjamin Hebblethwaite

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A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou

Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites

By: Benjamin Hebblethwaite

Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou’s African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. Split into two sections, the African chapters focus on history, economics, and culture in Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda while scrutinizing the role of Europeans in fomenting tensions. The political, military, and slave trading histories of the kingdoms in the Bight of Benin reveal the circumstances of enslavement, including the geographies, ethnicities, languages, and cultures of enslavers and enslaved. The study of the spirits, rituals, structure, and music of the region’s religions sheds light on important sources for Haitian Vodou. Having royal, public, and private expressions, Vodun spirit-based traditions served as cultural systems that supported or contested power and enslavement. At once suppliers and victims of the European slave trade, the people of Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda deeply shaped the emergence of Haiti’s creolized culture. The Haitian chapters focus on Vodou’s Rada Rite (from Allada) and Gede Rite (from Abomey) through the songs of Rasin Figuier’s Vodou Lakay and Rasin Bwa Kayiman’s Guede, legendary rasin compact discs released on Jean Altidor’s Miami label, Mass Konpa Records. All the Vodou songs on the discs are analyzed with a method dubbed “Vodou hermeneutics” that harnesses history, religious studies, linguistics, literary criticism, and ethnomusicology in order to advance a scholarly approach to Vodou songs.

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288

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496835646

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9781496835642

Disruptive Branding

How to Win in Times of Change

By: Jacob Benbunan,Gabor Schreier,Benjamin Knapp

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Disruptive Branding

How to Win in Times of Change

By: Jacob Benbunan,Gabor Schreier,Benjamin Knapp

Disruptive forces have rewritten the rules of business. In an age of continuous change the strength and authenticity of brands has become more important than ever. The organizations that can master their brand experience are able to survive disruption by disrupting themselves; companies that can't do this will leave themselves ripe for disruption. Disruptive Branding is a practical guide, demonstrating how to harness change to power your brand's survival and ensure growth in a transforming world. It will help ambitious, courageous and aspirational organizations to define their compelling brand strategies, design powerful brand experiences and innovate new brand-led products and services. Disruptive Branding tells the stories of businesses that have succeeded in managing the forces of disruption. From Nintendo fighting off its competition by re-imagining gaming, to Airbnb redefining what it means to travel, modern day brands are thinking faster and smarter than ever before. This book identifies the strategies and designs that some of the world's most successful brands use to stay one step ahead of the curve. It is an invaluable resource for brands working to withstand disruption - or even become disruptors themselves.

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265

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749484071

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9780749484071

Brand New Me

By: Meg Benjamin

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Brand New Me

By: Meg Benjamin

Deirdre Brandenburg has an MBA and a dream. What she doesn’t have is money, courtesy of her billionaire father’s scheme to make her come home. All she needs is three months until her trust fund kicks in. Until then, she needs a job. Hiring the new girl next door is no-brainer for ex-gambler Tom Ames. He’s already succeeded in making his bar, The Faro, a growing tourist draw. Deirdre’s beauty will pull in the locals—particularly every red-blooded male in the Hill Country. As he watches her transform into a confident, sassy barmaid, he realizes he wants first crack at her heart. When Big John Brandenburg sends Deirdre’s ex-boyfriend to drag her home, the plan backfires, leaving Tom’s bar in shambles and Deirdre kidnapped by a band of loony Texas secessionists. Tom will have to decide just how far he’s willing to go to get her back. Each book in the Konigsburg series is STANDALONE: * Venus in Blue Jeans * Wedding Bell Blues * Be My Baby * Long Time Gone * Brand New Me * Don’t Forget Me * Fearless Love * Hungry Heart

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372

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Entangled: Select Contemporary

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1640633235

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9781640633230

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Vol. I

By: Benjamin Thorpe

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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Vol. I

By: Benjamin Thorpe

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

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3375040318

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9783375040314

Book's by Benjamin David Brand

Holy Treasure and Sacred Song

Holy Treasure and Sacred Song

Orientalist Aesthetics

Orientalist Aesthetics

The Long Crisis

The Long Crisis

A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou

A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou

Disruptive Branding

Disruptive Branding

Brand New Me

Brand New Me

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

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