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Building in Words

Representations of the Process of Construction in Latin Literature

By: Bettina Reitz-Joosse

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Building in Words

Representations of the Process of Construction in Latin Literature

By: Bettina Reitz-Joosse

Building in Words explores the relation between text and architecture in the Roman world from a new angle. Ancient Roman viewers were not only confronted with finished monuments, but also frequently with buildings under construction. They experienced noisy building work, disruptive transportation of materials, and sometimes spectacular engineering feats. This book analyses how Roman writers responded to the process of building and construction in their works. For Roman authors, telling stories of architectural creation served to give meaning to finished monuments. Representing a building's construction might encourage admiration of its artistry, cost, or labour. On the other hand, it could also highlight morally problematic aspects of construction, especially in connection with large-scale engineering projects. In offering descriptions of the process of creating architecture, writers also reflect on the creation of their own works. The metaphor of construction for literary composition is polyvalent: writers use it to comment on the aesthetics or ambition of their literary work, to articulate the power and durability, but also the fragility of literature. This monograph places literary texts of the early Roman empire in dialogue with epigraphic and archaeological material. Through its focus on the process of building, it furthers our understanding of the aesthetics of both architecture and literature in ancient Rome"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197610684

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Environmental Law: Text, Cases & Materials

By: Elizabeth Fisher,Bettina Lange,Eloise Scotford

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Environmental Law: Text, Cases & Materials

By: Elizabeth Fisher,Bettina Lange,Eloise Scotford

This new title offers a compact and complete resource for students, featuring extracts from leading cases and articles alongside clear explanations and insightful analysis from an experienced author team. This unique approach places environmental law in context, enabling you to develop a clear and sophisticated understanding of this dynamic area.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199270880

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The Joy of Later Motherhood

Your Natural Path to Healthy Babies Even in Your 40s

By: Bettina Gordon-Wayne

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The Joy of Later Motherhood

Your Natural Path to Healthy Babies Even in Your 40s

By: Bettina Gordon-Wayne

Did you ever Google “pregnancy after 35” or “getting pregnant at 40” for helpful advice and inspiration on your way to motherhood? Did your excitement and hope turn into disbelief and shock when your search turned up millions of gut wrenching stories on the risks and dangers of later pregnancies and the staggering rise of age related infertility in women? The Joy of Later Motherhood is the much-needed antidote to all the negative hype surrounding motherhood at advanced maternal age (which is 35+). Written by seasoned journalist Bettina Gordon-Wayne—herself a first-time mom at 44 and the third generation of women in her family who did not get the memo that conceiving a baby after 40 is dangerous, if not outright impossible—The Joy of Later Motherhood is: Positive, honest, deeply human, and an inspiring guide to mature motherhood that will undoubtedly boost your fertility and your chances of getting pregnant; Full of real-life stories and helpful insights of more than 40 women over 40 (and top natural fertility experts) who all had natural pregnancies and healthy babies. With love and candor these women tell of heartbreak—like infertility diagnosis and miscarriage—and triumph—from healing diseases to finding their faith. They share their stories in order to empower other women to approach the topic of later motherhood from a position of strength and courage and to show them what’s possible and, in fact, natural. If you are looking for a medical book focused on only the physical aspect of pregnancy, this may not be the right one for you. The Joy of Later Motherhood is written by experts of a different kind. It’s written from the perspective of the women who actually achieved what millions of women are striving for: naturally conceiving a healthy baby after 35 and, especially, after 40. You’ll learn how to prepare for pregnancy, even if you choose in vitro fertilization or were diagnosed with unexplained infertility or were trying to get pregnant for years. You’ll get advice on how to get pregnant naturally and what natural family planning methods worked for other women. But maybe most importantly, you’ll learn that trying to get pregnant is not just a physical matter, but also a matter of the mind and maybe even your spiritual beliefs as these women attest to. The Joy of Later Motherhood is for you if the following rings true: You hear your biological clock ticking, but you don’t want to be in a panic about it like everyone else. You are afraid that your body may fail you. Or that your contradictory thoughts—“I would love to have a baby, but I don’t think I can give up my freedom!”—may influence your fertility. You feel alone and isolated because you’ve already experienced more than your fair share of heartache. You need different perspectives to help you go on. You wonder if it is fair to a child to have older parents and whether he’ll have to shoulder the burden of an ailing mother or father long before his peers. Maybe you are worried or are upset. Maybe you doubt that motherhood will ever happen for you. We get it. We’ve been there. With our stories, we want to lovingly see you through this journey as much as we can. We’ve got you.

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Morgan James Publishing

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1683506820

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9781683506829

Caribbean Diaspora in the USA

Diversity of Caribbean Religions in New York City

By: Dr Bettina Schmidt

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Caribbean Diaspora in the USA

Diversity of Caribbean Religions in New York City

By: Dr Bettina Schmidt

Caribbean Diaspora in the USA presents a new cultural theory based on an exploration of Caribbean religious communities in New York City. The Caribbean culture of New York demonstrates a cultural dynamism which embraces Spanish speaking, English speaking and French speaking migrants. All cultures are full of breaks and contradictions as Latin American and Caribbean theorists have demonstrated in their ongoing debate. This book combines unique research by the author in Caribbean New York with the theoretical discourse of Latin American and Caribbean scholars. Focusing on Caribbean religious communities, including Cuban/Puerto Rican Santería (Regla de Ocha), Haitian Vodou, Shango (Orisha Baptist) from Trinidad and Tobago, and Brazilian Pentecostal church, Schmidt's observations lead to the construction of a cultural concept that illustrates a culture in an ongoing state of change, with more than one form of expression depending on situation, time and context. Showing the creativity of religions and the way immigrants adapt to their new surroundings, this book fills a gap between Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409477967

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9781409477969

Imagining Shakespeare's Original Audience, 1660-2000

Groundlings, Gallants, Grocers

By: Bettina Boecker

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Imagining Shakespeare's Original Audience, 1660-2000

Groundlings, Gallants, Grocers

By: Bettina Boecker

Comparatively little is known about Shakespeare's first audiences. This study argues that the Elizabethan audience is an essential part of Shakespeare as a site of cultural meaning, and that the way criticism thinks of early modern theatregoers is directly related to the way it thinks of, and uses, the Bard himself.

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190

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Springer

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1137379960

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International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World

Moral Responsibility and Power Politics

By: Michael C. Davis,Wolfgang Dietrich,Bettina Scholdan

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International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World

Moral Responsibility and Power Politics

By: Michael C. Davis,Wolfgang Dietrich,Bettina Scholdan

International intervention on humanitarian grounds has been a contentious issue for decades. First, it pits the principle of state sovereignty against claims of universal human rights. Second, the motivations of intervening states may be open to question when avowals of moral action are arguably the fig leaf covering an assertion of power for political advantage. These questions have been salient in the context of the Balkan and African wars and U.S. policy in the Middle East. This volume undertakes a serious, systematic, and broadly international review of the issues.

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Routledge

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1315498154

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9781315498157

The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany

By: Bettina Hitzer

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The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany

By: Bettina Hitzer

Different people feel different emotions when they are diagnosed with cancer. Both today and a century ago, fear and hope, shame and disgust, sadness and joy are and were the emotions experienced by many cancer patients and their loved ones. But these emotions do not just have significance for the people who feel them. They have also exerted a surprisingly profound influence on how hospitals and laboratories dealt with cancer, how early detection campaigns portrayed it, and how doctors talked about it with their patients. Bettina Hitzer details the history of cancer and emotions in twentieth-century Germany and thus follows the cancer-associated transformations of emotional regimes, emotional politics, and emotional experiences through five different political systems. In doing so, the study underscores that political caesuras resonate in the immediate corporeality of the history of emotions.

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405

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Oxford University Press

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0192868071

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9780192868077

Patterns Legitimizing Political Violence in Transcultural Perspectives

Islamic and Christian Traditions and Legacies

By: Bettina Koch

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Patterns Legitimizing Political Violence in Transcultural Perspectives

Islamic and Christian Traditions and Legacies

By: Bettina Koch

This volume explores theoretical discourses in which religion is used to legitimize political violence. It examines the ways in which Christianity and Islam are utilized for political ends, in particular how violence is used (or abused) as an expedient to justify political action. This research focuses on premodern as well as contemporary discourses in the Middle East and Latin America, identifying patterns frequently used to justify the deployment of violence in both hegemonic and anti-hegemonic discourses. In addition, it explores how premodern arguments and authorities are utilized and transformed in order to legitimize contemporary violence as well as the ways in which the use of religion as a means to justify violence alters the nature of conflicts that are not otherwise explicitly religious. It argues that most past and present conflicts, even if the discourses about them are conducted in religious terms, have origins other than religion and/or blend religion with other causes, namely socio-economic and political injustice and inequality. Understanding the use and abuse of religion to justify violence is a prerequisite to discerning the nature of a conflict and might thus contribute to conflict resolution.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1614513945

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9781614513940

Environmental Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Elizabeth Fisher,Bettina Lange,Eloise Scotford

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Environmental Law

Text, Cases, and Materials

By: Elizabeth Fisher,Bettina Lange,Eloise Scotford

Environmental Law: Text, Cases, and Materials offers a comprehensive, critical, and case-focused approach to the subject, combining insightful author commentary with carefully selected extracts to fully support students.

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0198811071

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Securitising Russia

The domestic politics of Vladimir Putin

By: Edwin Bacon,Bettina Renz,Julian Cooper

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Securitising Russia

The domestic politics of Vladimir Putin

By: Edwin Bacon,Bettina Renz,Julian Cooper

Securitising Russia shows the impact of twenty-first-century security concerns on the way Russia is ruled. It demonstrates how President Putin has wrestled with terrorism, immigration, media freedom, religious pluralism, and economic globalism, and argues that fears of a return to old-style authoritarianism oversimplify the complex context of contemporary Russia. The book focuses on the internal security issues common to many states in the early twenty-first-century, and places them in the particular context of Russia. Detailed analysis of the place of security in Russia’s political discourse and policy-making reveals nuances often missing from overarching assessments of Russia today. To characterise the Putin regime as the ‘KGB-resurgent’ is to miss vital continuities, contexts, and on-going political conflicts which make up the contemporary Russian scene. Securitising Russia draws together current debates about whether Russia is a ‘normal’ country developing its own democratic and market structures, or a nascent authoritarian regime returning to the past.

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Manchester University Press

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1847796362

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9781847796363

Media and Culture with 2013 Update

An Introduction to Mass Communication

By: Richard Campbell,Christopher R. Martin,Bettina Fabos

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Media and Culture with 2013 Update

An Introduction to Mass Communication

By: Richard Campbell,Christopher R. Martin,Bettina Fabos

Today's media landscape is changing faster than ever, and students are experiencing these developments firsthand. Media & Culture pulls back the curtain on the media and shows students what all these new trends and developments really mean — giving students the deeper insight and context they need to become informed media critics. The 2013 Update also includes the must-cover events and trends students need to know to become informed media consumers and critics — from social media's influence on political events like the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring revolutions and what the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal means for journalism to the continued growth of television streaming and apps and the advent of tablet-only newspapers. Read the preface.

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610

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Macmillan

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1457604914

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9781457604911

Endovascular Aneurysm Repair

From Bench to Bed

By: Bettina Marty

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Endovascular Aneurysm Repair

From Bench to Bed

By: Bettina Marty

Endovascular procedures have a tremendous impact upon modern patient care. This book summarizes covered stent-graft applications in the experimental and clinical settings. Excellent illustrations document the acute and chronic behavior of stent-grafts within the vascular system including diagnostic imaging, histologic work-up and schematic drawings. A large amount of experience on intravascular ultrasound-based repair of aortic pathologies is presented. Physicians interested in the endovascular field will find this book a very stimulating resource.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3798514941

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9783798514942

Credit Default Swaps

Mechanics and Empirical Evidence on Benefits, Costs, and Inter-Market Relations

By: Christopher L. Culp,Andria van der Merwe,Bettina J. Stärkle

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Credit Default Swaps

Mechanics and Empirical Evidence on Benefits, Costs, and Inter-Market Relations

By: Christopher L. Culp,Andria van der Merwe,Bettina J. Stärkle

This book, unique in its composition, reviews the academic empirical literature on how CDSs actually work in practice, including during distressed times of market crises. It also discusses the mechanics of single-name and index CDSs, the theoretical costs and benefits of CDSs, as well as comprehensively summarizes the empirical evidence on important aspects of these instruments of risk transfer. Full-time academics, researchers at financial institutions, and students will benefit from the dispassionate and comprehensive summary of the academic literature; they can read this book instead of identifying, collecting, and reading the hundreds of academic articles on the important subject of credit risk transfer using derivatives and benefit from the synthesis of the literature provided.

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356

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3319930761

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9783319930763

The EU and Global Climate Justice

Normative Power Caught in Normative Battles

By: Franziskus von Lucke,Thomas Diez,Solveig Aamodt,Bettina Ahrens

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The EU and Global Climate Justice

Normative Power Caught in Normative Battles

By: Franziskus von Lucke,Thomas Diez,Solveig Aamodt,Bettina Ahrens

This book examines the European Union (EU)'s contribution to the development of the global climate regime within the broader framework of global justice. It argues that the procedural dimension of justice has been largely overlooked so far in the assessment of EU climate policy and reveals that the EU has significantly contributed to the development of the climate regime within its broader efforts to ‘solidarise’ international society. At the same time, the book identifies deficits of the climate regime and limits to the EU’s impact, and explains why the EU policy towards global climate change has shifted over time. Finally, it argues that these policies should not be assessed in terms of being wholly positive or wholly negative, but that they are shot through with ambiguities. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of climate change, climate politics, and environmental and climate justice studies, and more broadly to EU Studies and International Relations.

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Routledge

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1000363538

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9781000363531

Creating the Links

Families and Social Responsibility : Final Report : Advance Release

By: National Council for the International Year of the Family

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Creating the Links

Families and Social Responsibility : Final Report : Advance Release

By: National Council for the International Year of the Family

This final report outlines ten priorities identified by the Council for the Commonwealth Government to adopt, to ensure that Australian families are placed at the centre of public policy.

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Building in Words

Building in Words

Environmental Law: Text, Cases & Materials

Environmental Law: Text, Cases & Materials

The Joy of Later Motherhood

The Joy of Later Motherhood

Caribbean Diaspora in the USA

Caribbean Diaspora in the USA

Imagining Shakespeare's Original Audience, 1660-2000

Imagining Shakespeare's Original Audience, 1660-2000

International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World

International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World

The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany

The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany

Patterns Legitimizing Political Violence in Transcultural Perspectives

Patterns Legitimizing Political Violence in Transcultural Perspectives

Environmental Law

Environmental Law

Securitising Russia

Securitising Russia

Media and Culture with 2013 Update

Media and Culture with 2013 Update

Endovascular Aneurysm Repair

Endovascular Aneurysm Repair

Credit Default Swaps

Credit Default Swaps

The EU and Global Climate Justice

The EU and Global Climate Justice

Creating the Links

Creating the Links

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