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The Diffusion of Law

The Movement of Laws and Norms Around the World

By: Sue Farran,James Gallen,Christa Rautenbach

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The Diffusion of Law

The Movement of Laws and Norms Around the World

By: Sue Farran,James Gallen,Christa Rautenbach

In considering diffusion from a global perspective, this book provides timely new insights into its application in a variety of fields and at many levels of both legal and non-legal orderings. This collection contributes to the wider theoretical debate concerning the movement of law and legal norms by engaging with concrete examples of legal diffusion, in jurisdictions as diverse as Albania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Kuwait. These examples, taken together, provide a comprehensive illustration of the theoretical debates concerning the diffusion of laws and norms in terms of both process and form. This international, multi-disciplinary and multi-methodological volume brings together scholars from law and social science with experience in mixed and hybrid jurisdictions, and advances the conversation about legal and normative diffusion across the academy. It represents a robust challenge to many preconceived ideas about legal movement and, as such, will be of interest to academics and students working in the fields of Law, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Legal Education and comparative method.

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1317035860

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Cavendish

The Experimental Life

By: Christa Jungnickel,Russell McCormmach

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Cavendish

The Experimental Life

By: Christa Jungnickel,Russell McCormmach

The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838754457

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9780838754450

Fairmont

By: Christa Lynn Greco

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Fairmont

By: Christa Lynn Greco

Situated where the West Fork and the Tygart Valley Rivers converged to form the Monongahela River, Fairmont was an attractive location for early settlers. In 1820, Fairmont, then named Middletown, was officially established as a town by the Virginia Assembly and was renamed Fairmont in 1843. The 1800s witnessed significant advancement in community formation, commerce, transportation, and education. Coal and natural gas extraction as well as the transportation sector would fuel an increasing demand for skilled and unskilled laborers. This resulted in an influx of European workers who would further enrich the culture of Fairmont. The 1900s saw the emergence of a variety of glass manufacturing companies, a packaging plant, flour mills, and an electrical service company. Fairmont became the most diversified and plentiful city in the region.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738598402

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Matthew’s Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast

A Sociorhetorical Interpretation

By: Ruth Christa Mathieson

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Matthew’s Parable of the Royal Wedding Feast

A Sociorhetorical Interpretation

By: Ruth Christa Mathieson

Ruth Christa Mathieson’s unique reading of Matthew’s parable of the royal wedding feast (Matt 22:1–14), which concludes with the king’s demand that one of the guests be bound and cast out into the outer darkness, focuses on the means of the underdressed guest’s expulsion. Using sociorhetorical interpretation, Mathieson draws the parable into conversation with early Jewish narratives of the angel Raphael binding hands and feet (1 Enoch; Tobit) and the protocol for expelling individuals from the community in Matt 18. She asserts that readers are invited to consider if the person who is bound and cast out is a danger to the little ones of the community of faith unless removed and restrained.

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SBL Press

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1628373318

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Jerome, Vita Malchi

Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

By: Christa Gray

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Jerome, Vita Malchi

Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

By: Christa Gray

This volume offers a full analysis of one of the more intriguing works by a figure who is central to our understanding of Late Antiquity and early Christianity: the translator, exegete, and controversialist Jerome (c.347-419/20AD). The neglected text of the Vita Malchi - or, to use Jerome's title, the Captive Monk - recounts the experiences of Malchus, a monk abducted by nomadic Saracens on the Eastern fringe of the fourth-century Roman Empire, in what today is the border region between southern Turkey and Syria. Most of this short, vivid, and fast-paced narrative is recounted by Malchus in the first person. The volume's introduction provides background information on the author, Jerome, and the historical and linguistic context of the Life, as well as detailed discussion of the work's style and its reception of earlier Christian and classical literature, ranging from its relationship with comedy, epic, and the ancient novel to the Apocryphal Apostolic Acts and martyr narratives. An exposition of the manuscript evidence is then followed by a new edition of the Latin text with an English translation, and a comprehensive commentary. The commentary explores the complex intertextuality of the work and provides readers with an understanding of its background, originality, and significance; it elucidates not only literary and philological questions but also points of ethnography and topography, and intellectual and social history.

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OUP Oxford

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019104413X

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Indirect Discrimination

A Case Study Into the Development of the Legal Concept of Indirect Discrimination Under EC Law

By: Christa Tobler

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Indirect Discrimination

A Case Study Into the Development of the Legal Concept of Indirect Discrimination Under EC Law

By: Christa Tobler

Updated habilitation thesis, submitted in 2003 to the Law Faculty of the University of Basel, analysing indirect discrimination in a broad and comparative context. Focuses on the development of the legal concept in EC law and its application in a great number of areas, including internal taxation of goods, freedom of establishment, sex equality, etc. Discusses demarcation issues between direct and indirect discrimination, and applying the concepts in concrete cases.

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Intersentia nv

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9050954588

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9789050954587

Private International Law, Art and Cultural Heritage

By: Christa Roodt

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Private International Law, Art and Cultural Heritage

By: Christa Roodt

In this timely book Christa Roodt demonstrates how the structure and method of private international law can be applied in its expanding relationship with cultural heritage law. In particular, she explores the use of private international law in the co

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781002169

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Diterpenes of Flowering Plants

Compositae (Asteraceae)

By: Fred Seaman,Ferdinand Bohlmann,Christa Zdero,Tom J. Mabry

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Diterpenes of Flowering Plants

Compositae (Asteraceae)

By: Fred Seaman,Ferdinand Bohlmann,Christa Zdero,Tom J. Mabry

More than 1200 diterpenes have been identified from approximately 550 Compo sitae taxa (Figure 1 [pp. 219-384], Tables 1-3 [pp. 7-218]). The annual output of such reports rose sharply during the past several years, a trend that was also reflected by other major lipophilic constituents of the Compositae: acetylenes (63, 465), sesquiterpene lactones (266, 458), and benzofurans and chromenes (429). Unlike these other natural products, no review of the diterpene chemistry of the Compositae has been published. Given the bulk of data currently on hand, a review of this topic is clearly overdue. Several major goals influenced the preparation of this review. The first was to provide a useful reference to guide terpenoid chemists to the literature of known compounds. The published reports for 1200 structures provide a sizable body of spectroscopic data applicable to the investigation of new compounds. The study of diterpenes has been hampered by the absence of an all-inclusive nomenclature and classification system for the various skeletal types. Conse quently, a second goal was to organize structural data into a classification scheme designed to group compounds by biogenetic homology, and to standardize such features as diterpene nomenclature and numbering. Pursuant to this goal, the published names (Table 1) and numbering systems (Table 2) for all compounds are included.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461232740

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African Americans of Alexandria, Virginia

Beacons of Light in the Twentieth Century

By: Char McCargo Bah,Christa Watters,Audrey P. Davis,Gwendolyn Brown-Henderson,James E. Henson Sr.

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African Americans of Alexandria, Virginia

Beacons of Light in the Twentieth Century

By: Char McCargo Bah,Christa Watters,Audrey P. Davis,Gwendolyn Brown-Henderson,James E. Henson Sr.

Sitting just south of the nation's capital, Alexandria has a long and storied history." "Still, little is known of Alexandria's twentieth-century African American community. Experience the harrowing narratives of trials and triumph as Alexandria's African Americans helped to shape not only their hometown but also the world around them. Rutherford Adkins became one of the first black fighter pilots as a Tuskegee Airman. Samuel Tucker, a twenty-six-year-old lawyer, organized and fought for Alexandria to share its wealth of knowledge with the African American community by opening its libraries to all colors and creeds. Discover a vibrant past that, through this record, will be remembered forever as Alexandria's beacon of hope and light.

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1625840918

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Cavendish

By: Christa Jungnickel,Russell McCormmach

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Cavendish

By: Christa Jungnickel,Russell McCormmach

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American Philosophical Society

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0871692201

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NT Workstation 4

By: Ed Tittel,Christa Anderson,David Johnson

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NT Workstation 4

By: Ed Tittel,Christa Anderson,David Johnson

Serving as a comprehensive exam prep study guide for Exam #70-073: Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0, this book features real-world examples, interactive activities, and over 100 hands-on projects that reinforce key concepts and help prepare for the exam. It provides extensive illustrations that help portray complex subject material.

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1576102386

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A Contradiction Still

Representations of Women in the Poetry of Alexander Pope

By: Christa Knellwolf King

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A Contradiction Still

Representations of Women in the Poetry of Alexander Pope

By: Christa Knellwolf King

This text offers a critique of the views concerning gender and gender roles in Pope's poetry. It engages directly with current issues in feminist criticism, cultural studies and identity politics.

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Manchester University Press

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0719053331

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Home Another Way

By: Christa Parrish

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Home Another Way

By: Christa Parrish

After her mother's death and her father's abandonment, tiny infant Sarah Graham was left to be raised by her emotionally distant grandmother. As a child she turned to music for solace and even gained entrance to Juilliard. But her potentially brilliant music career ended with an unplanned pregnancy and the stillborn birth of her child. In an attempt to escape the past, Sarah, now twenty-seven, is living life hard and fast--and she is flat broke. When her estranged father dies, she travels to the tiny mountain hamlet of Jonah, New York, to claim her inheritance. Once there, she learns her father's will stipulates a six-month stay before she can receive the money. Fueled by hate and desperation, Sarah settles in for the bitter mountain winter, and as the weeks pass, she finds her life intertwining with the lives of the simple, gracious townsfolk. Can these strangers teach Sarah how to forgive and find peace? A story of grace, of God's never-ceasing love, and the sometimes flawed, faithful people He uses to bring His purposes to pass.

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Bethany House

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1441205535

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Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

By: A.B. Christa Schwarz

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Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

By: A.B. Christa Schwarz

Heretofore scholars have not been willing—perhaps, even been unable for many reasons both academic and personal—to identify much of the Harlem Renaissance work as same-sex oriented. . . . An important book." —Jim Elledge This groundbreaking study explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. Christa Schwarz focuses on Countée Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Richard Bruce Nugent and explores these writers' sexually dissident or gay literary voices. The portrayals of men-loving men in these writers' works vary significantly. Schwarz locates in the poetry of Cullen, Hughes, and McKay the employment of contemporary gay code words, deriving from the Greek discourse of homosexuality and from Walt Whitman. By contrast, Nugent—the only "out" gay Harlem Renaissance artist—portrayed men-loving men without reference to racial concepts or Whitmanesque codes. Schwarz argues for contemporary readings attuned to the complex relation between race, gender, and sexual orientation in Harlem Renaissance writing.

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Indiana University Press

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0253216079

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The Chemistry of Organophosphorus Pesticides

Reactivity - Synthesis - Mode of Action - Toxicology

By: Christa Fest,K.-J. Schmidt

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The Chemistry of Organophosphorus Pesticides

Reactivity - Synthesis - Mode of Action - Toxicology

By: Christa Fest,K.-J. Schmidt

Our intention has been to provide a short introduction to the chemistry and mode of action of insecticidal phosphoric acid compounds, with particular reference to the relationship between structure and activity. The yearly production of these pesticides is now approaching 100,000 tons and thus offers an important example of applied research. If, however, one examines the historical develop ment of these compounds, it is apparent that this was preceded by a hundred years of pure chemistry of phosphorus. The utility of the phosphoric acid pesticides is undisputed today - and furthermore it can be expected that they will solve many of the world's nutritional problems" yet from this field of applied research many paths are now leading back into basic research in chemistry, biochemistry, biology and toxicology etc. This clearly illustrates the problem of attempting to define pure and applied research. Originally, this book was conceived for students of chemistry who, on completion of their study, were uncertain about the place of applied research in industry but it was soon clear that such material, when supplemented with further data, would serve as an introduction to the field of pesticidal phosphoric acid compounds for many technicians, officials and scientists who, in various authorities in agriculture, in chemical and biological research, are concerned with the problems of crop protection and more recently with questions of pollution of the environ ment.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642978762

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Photosynthetic Adaptation

Chloroplast to Landscape

By: William K Smith,Thomas C. Vogelmann,Christa Critchley

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Photosynthetic Adaptation

Chloroplast to Landscape

By: William K Smith,Thomas C. Vogelmann,Christa Critchley

This is a thorough study of photosynthetic mechanisms from cells to leaves, crown, and canopy. The authors question whether photosynthetic adaptations take place primarily at the metabolic and biochemical level or through changes in structure and form, or both. The text goes on to analyze the relative importance of genes that control metabolic and light reactions, and the structure, arrangement, and orientation of photosynthesis.

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0387220798

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Josua und Salomo

Eine Studie zu Autorität und Legitimität des Nachfolgers im Alten Testament

By: Christa Schäfer-Lichtenberger

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Josua und Salomo

Eine Studie zu Autorität und Legitimität des Nachfolgers im Alten Testament

By: Christa Schäfer-Lichtenberger

Josua und Salomo puts forward the thesis that the literary figure of the successor was created by circles who strongly relied on the book of Deuteronomy. In order to construct the ideal of a successor they used the characters of Joshua and Solomon and implemented the results of their theological reflection which were unleashed by the complete destruction of the pre-exilic political, social and religious organization of the nation. The figure of Joshua combines all the treats of their theological conception of an ideal political leader, whereas the figure of Solomon demonstrates the dangers which are implied in monarchical succession. From the theological perspective of deuteronomism “Solomon” and “Joshua” are opposite characters. The deuteronomic concepts of God and authority play a central role for the reflection on both characters.

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BRILL

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9004275827

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Bodies in Flux

Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty

By: Christa Teston

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Bodies in Flux

Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty

By: Christa Teston

Doctors, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of “certainty” in medical practice. To help navigate the chaos caused by ongoing bodily change we rely on scientific reductions and deductions. We take what we know now and make best guesses about what will be. But bodies in flux always outpace the human gaze. Particularly in cancer care, processes deep within our bodies are at work long before we even know where to look. In the face of constant biological and technological change, how do medical professionals ultimately make decisions about care? Bodies in Flux explores the inventive ways humans and nonhumans work together to manufacture medical evidence. Each chapter draws on rhetorical theory to investigate a specific scientific method for negotiating medical uncertainty in cancer care, including evidential visualization, assessment, synthesis, and computation. Case studies unveil how doctors rely on visuals when deliberating about a patient’s treatment options, how members of the FDA use inferential statistics to predict a drug’s effectiveness, how researchers synthesize hundreds of clinical trials into a single evidence-based recommendation, and how genetic testing companies compute and commoditize human health. Teston concludes by advocating for an ethic of care that pushes back against the fetishization of certainty—an ethic of care that honors human fragility and bodily flux.

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University of Chicago Press

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022645083X

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9780226450834

A New Old Damascus

Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria

By: Christa Salamandra

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A New Old Damascus

Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria

By: Christa Salamandra

[F]illed with rare encounters with Syria's oldest, most elite families. Critics of anthropology's taste for exoticism and marginality will savor this study of upper-class Damascus, a world that is urbane and cosmopolitan, yet in many ways as remote as the settings in which the best ethnography has traditionally been done.... [Written] with a nuanced appreciation of the cultural forms in question and how Damascenes themselves think, talk about, and create them." -- Andrew Shryock In contemporary urban Syria, debates about the representation, preservation, and restoration of the Old City of Damascus have become part of status competition and identity construction among the city's elite. In theme restaurants and nightclubs that play on images of Syrian tradition, in television programs, nostalgic literature, and visual art, and in the rhetoric of historic preservation groups, the idea of the Old City has become a commodity for the consumption of tourists and, most important, of new and old segments of the Syrian upper class. In this lively ethnographic study, Christa Salamandra argues that in deploying and debating such representations, Syrians dispute the past and criticize the present. Indiana Series in Middle East Studies -- Mark Tessler, general editor

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Indiana University Press

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0253110416

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9780253110411

Wounds and Words

Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction

By: Christa Schönfelder

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Wounds and Words

Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction

By: Christa Schönfelder

Trauma has become a hotly contested topic in literary studies. But interest in trauma is not new; its roots extend to the Romantic period, when novelists and the first psychiatrists influenced each others' investigations of the »wounded mind«. This book looks back to these early attempts to understand trauma, reading a selection of Romantic novels in dialogue with Romantic and contemporary psychiatry. It then carries that dialogue forward to postmodern fiction, examining further how empirical approaches can deepen our theorizations of trauma. Within an interdisciplinary framework, this study reveals fresh insights into the poetics, politics, and ethics of trauma fiction.

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transcript Verlag

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3839423783

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Contesting Nietzsche

By: Christa Davis Acampora

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Contesting Nietzsche

By: Christa Davis Acampora

A brilliant exploration of a significant and understudied aspect of Nietzsche’s philosophy. In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche’s crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, she shows how the agon, or contest, organized core areas of Nietzsche’s philosophy, providing a new appreciation of the subtleties of his notorious views about power. By focusing so intensely on this particular guiding interest, she offers an exciting, original vantage from which to view this iconic thinker: Contesting Nietzsche. Though existence—viewed through the lens of Nietzsche’s agon—is fraught with struggle, Acampora illuminates what Nietzsche recognized as the agon’s generative benefits. It imbues the human experience with significance, meaning, and value. Analyzing Nietzsche’s elaborations of agonism—his remarks on types of contests, qualities of contestants, and the conditions in which either may thrive or deteriorate—she demonstrates how much the agon shaped his philosophical projects and critical assessments of others. The agon led him from one set of concerns to the next, from aesthetics to metaphysics to ethics to psychology, via Homer, Socrates, Saint Paul, and Wagner. In showing how one obsession catalyzed so many diverse interests, Contesting Nietzsche sheds fundamentally new light on some of this philosopher’s most difficult and paradoxical ideas.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226821013

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Queen Elizabeth I

Past and Present

By: Christa Jansohn

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Queen Elizabeth I

Past and Present

By: Christa Jansohn

This work marks the 400th anniversary of the death of one of England's greatest monarchs, a highly intelligent and successful ruler. The volume appeals to everyone interested in the charismatic character of Elizabeth I, her time and cultural afterlife. Contributors focus on important aspects of Elizabeth's subtle and resourceful political power and the longstanding struggle she faced at home and abroad as well as the threats posed to her realm. This edition presents a series of essays about fictional representations of Queen Elizabeth I in literature, music, and film. Articles illuminate the fascinating story of her numerous afterlives and their significance for the cultural history of England, its sense of identity and psyche. Essays investigate the ceremony, festivities, and dance practices at her court and bring to life the cultural significance of this colorful and extraordinary monarch. Christa Jansohn is professor of British culture at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3825875296

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9783825875299

God's Provision, Humanity's Need

The Gift of Our Dependence

By: Christa L. McKirland

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God's Provision, Humanity's Need

The Gift of Our Dependence

By: Christa L. McKirland

In a world often consumed with self-sufficiency, this book reminds us that humans have an innate need for the grace of God's personal presence. Christa McKirland, an author doing research at the intersection of Christian theology and the sciences, argues for a new way of understanding the image of God that might precondition science-engaged theology. She makes an exegetical and theological case that human beings were created to need the presence of God in order to flourish. Such a need is not a liability but our greatest human dignity. Foreword by Alan J. Torrance.

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Baker Books

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1493436791

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Writing Systems and Their Use

An Overview of Grapholinguistics

By: Dimitrios Meletis,Christa Dürscheid

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Writing Systems and Their Use

An Overview of Grapholinguistics

By: Dimitrios Meletis,Christa Dürscheid

Grapholinguistics, the multifaceted study of writing systems, is growing increasingly popular, yet to date no coherent account covering and connecting its major branches exists. This book now gives an overview of the core theoretical and empirical questions of this field. A treatment of the structure of writing systems—their relation to speech and language, their material features, linguistic functions, and norms, as well as the different types in which they come—is complemented by perspectives centring on the use of writing, incorporating psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic issues such as reading processes or orthographic variation as social action. Examples stem from a variety of diverse systems such as Chinese, English, Japanese, Arabic, Thai, German, and Korean, which allows defining concepts in a broadly applicable way and thereby constructing a comparative grapholinguistic framework that provides readers with important tools for studying any writing system. The book emphasizes that grapholinguistics is a discipline in its own right, inviting discussion and further research in this up-and-coming field as well as an overdue integration of writing into general linguistic discussion.

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3110757893

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9783110757897

Saints & Non-saints

Some Saintly and Not-so-saintly Figures from Church History

By: Christa Gingery Habegger

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Saints & Non-saints

Some Saintly and Not-so-saintly Figures from Church History

By: Christa Gingery Habegger

Saints. Most of us know them only from church names and grotesque figures in classic paintings and stained glass windows. But who were these people dubbed "saints"? What are the facts behind the legends, the real human beings with all the weaknesses common to mankind who somehow made their mark in history as holy men and women? Saints and Non-Saints digs into the sense and nonsense in the lives and legends of fiteen famous saints, ranging from larger-than-life figures like Augustine to shadowy legends like Nicholas and Valentine. Some were saints in the biblical sense -- they knew Christ as their personal Savior -- while others were merely religious by human standards. All, however, are fascinating personalities whose careers have profound lessons to teach us. - Back cover.

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