Claudia Mitchell's Books

Doing Visual Research

By: Claudia Mitchell

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This is an innovative introduction to the use of photography, collaborative video, drawing, objects, multi-media production and installation in research. Claudia Mitchell explains how visual methods can be used as modes of inquiry as well as modes of representation for social research. She provides a range of conceptual and practical approaches to a variety of tools and methods, while also highlighting the interpretive and ethical issues that arise when engaging in visual research. She draws on her own work throughout to offer extensive examples from a variety of settings and with various populations.

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SAGE Publications

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1412945836

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Participatory Visual Methodologies

Social Change, Community and Policy

By: Claudia Mitchell,Naydene De Lange,Relebohile Moletsane

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Participatory Visual Methodologies

Social Change, Community and Policy

By: Claudia Mitchell,Naydene De Lange,Relebohile Moletsane

This book demonstrates how data from participatory visual methods can take people and communities beyond ideological engagement, initiating new conversations and changing perspectives, policy debates, and policy development. These methods include, for example, photo-voice, participatory video, drawing/mapping, and digital storytelling. Organised around a series of tools that have been used across health, education, environmental, and sociological research, Participatory Visual Methodologies illustrates how to maintain participant engagement in decision-making, navigate critical issues around ethics, track policies, and maximize the potential of longitudinal studies. Tools discussed include: Pedagogical screenings Digital dialogue devices Upcycling and ‘speaking back’ interventions Participant-led policy briefs An authoritative and accessible guide to how participatory visual methods and arts-based methods can influence social change, this book will help any postgraduate researcher looking to contribute to policy dialogue.

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1526416085

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9781526416087

Passionate Minds

Women Rewriting the World

By: Claudia Roth Pierpont

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Passionate Minds

Women Rewriting the World

By: Claudia Roth Pierpont

With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who remade themselves and the world through their art. Gertrude Stein, Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin, Zora Neale Hurston, Marina Tsvetaeva, Hannah Arendt and Mary Mccarthy, and Olive Schreiner: Pierpont is clear-eyed in her examination of each member of this varied group, connectng her subjects firmly to the issues of sexual freedom, race, and politics that bound them to their times, even as she exposes the roots of their uniqueness. "Pierpont['s] graceful essays are at once erudite and personal in their focus." ?The Boston Globe "One of the most ceaselessly interesting books I've read in some time." ?Lorrie Moore, The New York Review of Books

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Vintage

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0679751130

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Dirty Laundry

Real Life. Real Stories. Real Funny.

By: Maggie Rowe,Andersen Gabrych,Eddie Pepitone,Kevin Nealon,Laura Silverman,Amy Stiller,Mary Birdsong,Richard Belze,Randy Sklar,Taylor Negron ,C. Brian Smith,Jonathan Schmock,Claudia Lonow

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Dirty Laundry

Real Life. Real Stories. Real Funny.

By: Maggie Rowe,Andersen Gabrych,Eddie Pepitone,Kevin Nealon,Laura Silverman,Amy Stiller,Mary Birdsong,Richard Belze,Randy Sklar,Taylor Negron ,C. Brian Smith,Jonathan Schmock,Claudia Lonow

Every other Thursday on Santa Monica Boulevard’s Comedy Central Stage, a motley assortment of prolific Hollywood writers, actors, and comics convene to reveal the most personal—and colorful—parts of their lives. Their soul-baring monologues reveal the sources of their creative genius, from wacky families, to psycho exes, random ramblings, and unbelievable Hollywood insights. This hilarious collection, featuring a foreword by Arrested Development's Mitch Hurwitz and Jim Vallely, includes some of their best confessions. It provides an inside scoop on Hollywood, including stories on mishaps at the Emmys, writing for popular shows, being put in a sleeper hold by Hulk Hogan, growing up in famous families, and what it’s like to play Jan Brady. Funny, embarrassing, or dirty (or a combination thereof), but always brutally honest, Dirty Laundry shines a voyeuristic light on the underbellies of the people who have sold their souls to the entertainment biz. Authors include Maggie Rowe, Andersen Gabrych, Doug Benson, Kevin Nealon, Richard Belzer, Amy Stiller, Laura Silverman, Mary Birdsong, Taylor Negron, Randy Sklar, Kelly Carlin-McCall, Jennifer Elise Cox, Tom Saunders, Eileen Conn, Carlos Kotkin, Eddie Pepitone, Mark Evan Jackson, C. Brian Smith, Davis McHenry, Matt Price, David Landsberg, David Chrisman, Keith Blaney, Andrea Abbate, Jonathan Schmock, Jen Sincero, Claudia Lonow, Jackie Kashian, Shaz Bennet, B. Mark Seabrooks, Stirling Gardner, and Drew Droege.

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Phoenix Books

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1614670021

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9781614670025

Church and Stage

The Theatre as Target of Religious Condemnation in Nineteenth Century America

By: Claudia Durst Johnson

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Church and Stage

The Theatre as Target of Religious Condemnation in Nineteenth Century America

By: Claudia Durst Johnson

Throughout nineteenth century America, religious officials often condemned the theatre as an inversion of the house of God, similar to the church in architectural structure and organization but wholly different in purpose and values. This book explores the many ways in which religious institutions supported by capitalism profoundly affected the early development of American theatre. The author analyzes the church's critical view toward common theatre practices, including the use of female and child performers, and the lower class alliance with the stage. Three appendices provide period correspondence, including an excerpt from Mark Twain's February 1871 "Memoranda," in which Twain criticizes an Episcopalian reverend for denying church burial to a popular stage comedian.

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McFarland

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1476608946

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The Implications of Embodiment

Cognition and Communication

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Claudia Bergomi

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The Implications of Embodiment

Cognition and Communication

By: Wolfgang Tschacher,Claudia Bergomi

This edited volume is scientifically based, but readable for a larger audience, covering the concept of "embodied cognition" and its implications from a transdisciplinary angle. The contributions are from the fields of psychology, computer science, biology, philosophy, and psychiatry. First, the roots of embodiment are described with historical, computer-science, and phenomenological viewpoints. It is argued that embodied cognition is relevant for the discussion of intentionality, with a particular focus on underlying neural processes as well as the context of synergetics and self-organization theory. As cognition is socially embedded, a large section of this book concentrates on "embodied communication": How does embodiment influence the way to approach others, what role do body movements play in social interaction, what is the function of nonverbal synchrony in interpersonal relationships and psychotherapy? Embodied cognitive agents are further embedded in particular cultural and environmental contexts. This book thus addresses the active role that cultural and environmental aspects play in driving cognition. Some applications of embodiment, e.g. to psychotherapy and aesthetics are also presented.

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Andrews UK Limited

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184540551X

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American Rhapsody

Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

By: Claudia Roth Pierpont

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American Rhapsody

Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

By: Claudia Roth Pierpont

Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age. Claudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, history and reportage, to bring these portraits to life and to link them in surprising ways. It isn't far from Wharton's brave new women to F. Scott Fitzgerald's giddy flappers, and on to the big-screen command of Katharine Hepburn and the dangerous dames of Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled world. The improvisatory jazziness of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue has its counterpart in the great jazz baby of the New York skyline, the Chrysler Building. Questions of an American acting style are traced from Orson Welles to Marlon Brando, while the new American painting emerges in the gallery of Peggy Guggenheim. And we trace the arc of racial progress from Bert Williams's blackface performances to James Baldwin's warning of the fire next time, however slow and bitter and anguished this progress may be. American Rhapsody offers a history of twentieth-century American invention and genius. It is about the joy and profit of being a heterogeneous people, and the immense difficulty of this human experiment.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374708770

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9780374708771

Life on Route 66

Personal Accounts Along the Mother Road to California

By: Claudia Heller,Alan Heller

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Life on Route 66

Personal Accounts Along the Mother Road to California

By: Claudia Heller,Alan Heller

A celebration of America’s most historic highway, in words and pictures. Winding through the rugged heartland of the American West, Route 66 has resonated for generations in hardscrabble tales of hopeful seekers of new homes and new lives. It also inspired Alan and Claudia Heller, longtime residents of Duarte, a California town along Route 66, to hitch their trailer to a retirement dream and travel the road again, journeying through their home state and back to Chicago. They collected stories of the iconic highway, and what it means to the people who live along its way, for a series in the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group. This collection retraces their journey and introduces us to some of the people and places that make Route 66 truly historic.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614234787

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Measures for Community and Neighborhood Research

By: Mary L. Ohmer,Claudia Coulton,Darcy A. Freedman,Joanne L. Sobeck,Jaime Booth

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Measures for Community and Neighborhood Research

By: Mary L. Ohmer,Claudia Coulton,Darcy A. Freedman,Joanne L. Sobeck,Jaime Booth

Measures for Community and Neighborhood Research, by Mary L. Ohmer, Claudia Coulton, Darcy A. Freedman, Joanne L. Sobeck, and Jaime Booth, is the first book of its kind to compile measures focused on communities and neighborhoods in one accessible resource. Organized into two main sections, the first provides the rationale, structure and purpose, and analysis of methodological issues, along with a conceptual and theoretical framework; the second section contains 10 chapters that synthesize, analyze, and describe measures for community and neighborhood research, with tables that summarize highlighted measures. The book will get readers thinking about which aspects of the neighborhood may be most important to measure in different research designs and also help researchers, practitioners, funders, and others more closely examine the impact of their work in communities and neighborhoods.

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SAGE Publications

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1483358356

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Labor and Workplace Issues in Literature

By: Claudia Durst Johnson

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Labor and Workplace Issues in Literature

By: Claudia Durst Johnson

The daily newspaper headlines revealing deaths, illnesses, and injuries in the workplace, along with the ongoing decline of workers' rights, make this book an especially timely volume. Included are chapters devoted to such widely read texts as Hard Times, Life in the Iron Mills, Bartleby the Scrivener, The Grapes of Wrath, and several others. Each chapter examines the historical background and plot of the work, the labor and workplace issues raised by the author, and the history of those issues since the text was published. Just a few of the issues raised are low wages, long hours, workplace dangers, unemployment, sexual harassment, and the struggle of immigrants. Each chapter provides topics for research and discussion, and cites works for further reading. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. The volume discusses such issues as low wages, long hours, workplace dangers, unemployment, sexual harassment, lack of job security or medical care, and the struggle of immigrants. Each chapter closes with topics for research and discussion, along with a list of works for further reading. An introductory essay examines the consequences of the industrial revolution and the economic philosophies central to society. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students in literature and social studies classes will value this helpful guide.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313038171

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Psychoanalysis and Black Novels

Desire and the Protocols of Race

By: Claudia Tate

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Psychoanalysis and Black Novels

Desire and the Protocols of Race

By: Claudia Tate

Although psychoanalytic theory is one of the most potent and influential tools in contemporary literary criticism, to date it has had very little impact on the study of African American literature. Critical methods from the disciplines of history, sociology, and cultural studies have dominated work in the field. Now, in this exciting new book by the author of Domestic Allegories: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century, Claudia Tate demonstrates that psychoanalytic paradigms can produce rich and compelling readings of African American textuality. With clear and accessible summaries of key concepts in Freud, Lacan, and Klein, as well as deft reference to the work of contemporary psychoanalytic critics of literature, Tate explores African- American desire, alienation, and subjectivity in neglected novels by Emma Kelley, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nella Larsen. Her pioneering approach highlights African American textual realms within and beyond those inscribing racial oppression and modes of black resistance. A superb introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its applications for African American literature and culture, this book creates a sophisticated critical model of black subjectivity and desire for use in the study of African American texts.

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Oxford University Press

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0198025688

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9780198025689

Time To Grow

By: Claudia Shelton

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Time To Grow

By: Claudia Shelton

The simple business contract has become complicated. Consequently, the staircase to the second floor is way too short. Rylie Crawford, widow, is determined to keep Crawford Enterprises out of the red, so she eagerly accepts the TRED Corporation's offer to handle commercial sales in their new Nature's Crossing subdivision. Temporarily moving to the small town may be an inconvenience, but she can tolerate anything for a short period of time—even the very obstinate CEO. Besides, the two-story Victorian house is perfect. She doubts they will see each other more than once a day. After his father's heart attack, Taylor Randolph was named CEO of TRED, the family's environment and nature friendly land development company. Hoping for a more hands-on atmosphere of leadership, he's spending most of his time at their newest development, Peaceful Lake Acres in Nature's Crossing. Still looking for peace from recurring flashbacks from time in the military, he prefers to stay busy and in control. But when he's forced to share his house with Rylie, control takes on a whole different meaning . Welcome back to Nature's Crossing as the small community starts to expand. Where the new subdivision brings jobs to the area, new friendships and chances to embrace the future.

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CCS Writings, LLC

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0996822666

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The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620-2000

By: Claudia Haake

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The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620-2000

By: Claudia Haake

This book investigates the forced migration of the Delawares in the United States and the Yaquis in Mexico, focusing primarily on the impact removal from tribal lands had on the (ethnic) identity of these two indigenous societies. It analyzes Native responses to colonial and state policies to determine the practical options that each group had in dealing with the states in which they lived. Haake convincingly argues that both nation-states aimed at the destruction of the Native American societies within their borders. This exemplary comparative, transnational study clearly demonstrates that the legacy of these attitudes and policies are readily apparent in both countries today. This book should appeal to a wide variety of academic disciplines in which diversity and minority political representation assume significance.

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Routledge

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1135903158

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9781135903152

Multi-word Verbs in Early Modern English

A Corpus-based Study

By: Claudia Claridge

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Multi-word Verbs in Early Modern English

A Corpus-based Study

By: Claudia Claridge

The topic of this book fits in with the recently growing interest in phraseology and fixedness in English. It offers a description of multi-word verbs in the language of the 17th and 18th centuries, an important formative period for Modern English. For the first time, multi-word verbs are treated together as a group, as it is argued that phrasal verbs, prepositional verbs, phrasal-prepositional verbs, verb-adjective combinations and verbo-nominal combinations share defining characteristics. These characteristics are also reflected in similar possibilities of usage, in particular the subtle modification of verbal meaning and these verbs' potential for topicalization structures, both leading to a greater expressiveness. Using a new text collection, the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts (1640-1740), the study provides a description of the multi-word verb types found, their syntactic behaviour, and their semantic structure. The composition of the corpus also allowed the examination of the development of these verbs over time and in different registers. The corpus study is supplemented by an investigation of attitudes towards multi-word verbs with the help of contemporary works on language, leading to a more speculative discussion of the factors influencing the choice between multi-word and simplex verbs.

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BRILL

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9004333843

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9789004333840

Tommy

By: Claudia Charles

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Tommy

By: Claudia Charles

Tommy" is the story of a young boy who is struggling to understand life, truth and love. From his earliest memories, his was a childhood of disorder and fear that was manifested by a distant, cold mother consumed with her own failures and shortcomings and a long-gone father whom he has never known. Feeling lost and confused in a life of chaos and anxiety, eight-year-old Tommy Walker is desperate for answers to help free him from the mounting burden of his past and present circumstances and give him a much-deserved better life. And although friends are few and far between, Tommy is able to form some important, albeit atypical, relationships with the people who come into his life. Woven together, these people help him discover what love really is and lead him to a degree of clarity, a sense of understanding and a bit of peace within himself.

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Gatekeeper Press

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1662914725

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9781662914720

British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 5

By: Claudia Nelson,Julie-Marie Strange,Susan B Egenolf

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British Family Life, 1780–1914, Volume 5

By: Claudia Nelson,Julie-Marie Strange,Susan B Egenolf

The five volumes of this collection focus on various aspects of family life. Drawing on rare printed sources and archival material, this collection will provide a balanced, contextualized picture of family life, during a period of intense social change. It will appeal to scholars of social history, gender studies and the long nineteenth century.

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Routledge

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1000560899

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9781000560893

Engaging Moments

The Origins of Medieval Bridal-quest Narrative

By: Claudia Bornholdt

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Engaging Moments

The Origins of Medieval Bridal-quest Narrative

By: Claudia Bornholdt

This book presents the first collection of the earliest West Germanic bridal-quest narratives together with a comparative study of them. In contrast to earlier studies, the author locates the origin of this narrative tradition in the oral and written Germanic literary tradition, a result that leads to a re-assessment of the genesis of vernacular German and Scandinavian literature. The chapters deal in chronological order with the Latin chronicles of the Germanic peoples and with the early Latin and vernacular literature in Germany and Scandinavia.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110184508

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The Literariness of Media Art

By: Claudia Benthien,Jordis Lau,Maraike M. Marxsen

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The Literariness of Media Art

By: Claudia Benthien,Jordis Lau,Maraike M. Marxsen

The beginning of the 20th century saw literary scholars from Russia positing a new definition for the nature of literature. Within the framework of Russian Formalism, the term ‘literariness’ was coined. The driving force behind this theoretical inquiry was the desire to identify literature—and art in general—as a way of revitalizing human perception, which had been numbed by the automatization of everyday life. The transformative power of ‘literariness’ is made manifest in many media artworks by renowned artists such as Chantal Akerman, Mona Hatoum, Gary Hill, Jenny Holzer, William Kentridge, Nalini Malani, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler, and Lawrence Weiner. The authors use literariness as a tool to analyze the aesthetics of spoken or written language within experimental film, video performance, moving image installations, and other media-based art forms. This volume uses as its foundation the Russian Formalist school of literary theory, with the goal of extending these theories to include contemporary concepts in film and media studies, such as Neoformalism, intermediality, remediation, and postdrama.

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1351608703

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Precocious Children and Childish Adults

Age Inversion in Victorian Literature

By: Claudia Nelson

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Precocious Children and Childish Adults

Age Inversion in Victorian Literature

By: Claudia Nelson

Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary phenomenon and explores the ways in which writers discussed the child-adult relationship during this period. Though far from ubiquitous, the terms “child-woman,” “child-man,” and “old-fashioned child” appear often enough in Victorian writings to prompt critical questions about the motivations and meanings of such generational border crossings. Nelson carefully considers the use of these terms and connects invocations of age inversion to developments in post-Darwinian scientific thinking and attitudes about gender roles, social class, sexuality, power, and economic mobility. She brilliantly analyzes canonical works of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside lesser-known writings to demonstrate the diversity of literary age inversion and its profound influence on Victorian culture. By considering the full context of Victorian age inversion, Precocious Children and Childish Adults illuminates the complicated pattern of anxiety and desire that creates such ambiguity in the writings of the time. Scholars of Victorian literature and culture, as well as readers interested in children’s literature, childhood studies, and gender studies, will welcome this excellent work from a major figure in the field.

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JHU Press

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1421405342

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Religion-State Relations in the United States and Germany

The Quest for Neutrality

By: Claudia E. Haupt

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Religion-State Relations in the United States and Germany

The Quest for Neutrality

By: Claudia E. Haupt

This comparative analysis of the constitutional law of religion-state relations in the United States and Germany focuses on the principle of state neutrality. A strong emphasis on state neutrality, a notoriously ambiguous concept, is a shared feature in the constitutional jurisprudence of the US Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court, but neutrality does not have the same meaning in both systems. In Germany neutrality tends to indicate more distance between church and state, whereas the opposite is the case in the United States. Neutrality also has other meanings in both systems, making straightforward comparison more difficult than it might seem. Although the underlying trajectory of neutrality is different in both countries, the discussion of neutrality breaks down into largely parallel themes. By examining those themes in a comparative perspective, the meaning of state neutrality in religion-state relations can be delineated.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139505408

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9781139505406

Ethics and Children's Literature

By: Claudia Mills

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Ethics and Children's Literature

By: Claudia Mills

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. The essays in Part I look at various past attempts at conveying moral messages to children and interrogate their underlying assumptions. What visions of childhood were conveyed by explicit attempts to cultivate specific virtues in children? What unstated cultural assumptions were expressed by growing resistance to didacticism? How should we prepare children to respond to racism in their books and in their society? Part II takes up the ethical orientations of various classic and contemporary texts, including 'prosaic ethics' in the Hundred Acre Wood, moral discernment in Narnia, ethical recognition in the distant worlds traversed by L’Engle, and virtuous transgression in recent Anglo-American children’s literature and in the emerging children’s literature of 1960s Taiwan. Part III’s essays engage in ethical criticism of arguably problematic messages about our relationship to nonhuman animals, about war, and about prejudice. The final section considers how we respond to children’s literature with ethically focused essays exploring a range of ways in which child readers and adult authorities react to children’s literature. Even as children’s literature has evolved in opposition to its origins in didactic Sunday school tracts and moralizing fables, authors, parents, librarians, and scholars remain sensitive to the values conveyed to children through the texts they choose to share with them.

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1317141407

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The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia

Hittite Sovereign Practice, Resistance, and Negotiation

By: Claudia Glatz

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The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia

Hittite Sovereign Practice, Resistance, and Negotiation

By: Claudia Glatz

In this book, Claudia Glatz reconsiders the concept of empire and the processes of imperial making and undoing of the Hittite network in Late Bronze Age Anatolia. Using an array of archaeological, iconographic, and textual sources, she offers a fresh account of one of the earliest, well-attested imperialist polities of the ancient Near East. Glatz critically examines the complexity and ever – transforming nature of imperial relationships, and the practices through which Hittite elites and administrators aimed to bind disparate communities and achieve a measure of sovereignty in particular places and landscapes. She also tracks the ambiguities inherent in these practices -- what they did or did not achieve, how they were resisted, and how they were subtly negotiated in different regional and cultural contexts.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108865526

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Essential Skills in Family Therapy, Second Edition

From the First Interview to Termination

By: JoEllen Patterson,Lee Williams,Todd M. Edwards,Larry Chamow,Claudia Grauf-Grounds

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Essential Skills in Family Therapy, Second Edition

From the First Interview to Termination

By: JoEllen Patterson,Lee Williams,Todd M. Edwards,Larry Chamow,Claudia Grauf-Grounds

Readable and concise yet immensely informative, this bestselling text prepares students and new therapists to work confidently and effectively in real-world clinical practice with families. The authors offer wise and compassionate guidance on everything from intake and assessment to treatment planning, the nuts and bolts of specific interventions, the nuances of establishing therapeutic relationships, and how to troubleshoot when treatment gets “stuck.” They help the novice clinician navigate typical dilemmas and concerns, and spell out the basics of therapist self-care. Vivid case examples, sample forms, and quick-reference tables enhance the utility of the text. New to This Edition *Updated throughout to reflect current clinical findings and practices. *Many new or revised case examples. *Now more integrative--shows how to flexibly draw on multiple theories and techniques. *New topics, including "Dealing with Clients We Dislike." See also the authors' Essential Assessment Skills for Couple and Family Therapists, which shows how to weave assessment into all phases of therapy, and Clinician's Guide to Research Methods in Family Therapy.

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Guilford Press

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160623367X

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Private Equity Investments

Drivers and Performance Implications of Investment Cycles

By: Claudia Sommer

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Private Equity Investments

Drivers and Performance Implications of Investment Cycles

By: Claudia Sommer

Private Equity experienced dramatic flutuations in investment activity in line with the turbulences of financial markets in recent years. Claudia Sommer develops a theoretical framework of factors driving private equity investment activity and the resulting performance implications. Using a data set of more than 40,000 European transations between 1990 and 2009 she applies a variety of econometrial approaches and shows how neoclassical aspects, information asymmetries, agency conflicts, and market timing contribute to the dynamics in the private equity market. In a performance analysis of more than 1,300 European private equity funds, she reveals how fund performance is linked to investment activity.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3658002336

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9783658002336

Grim

By: Rachel Hawkins,Julie Kagawa,Ellen Hopkins,Claudia Gray,Amanda Hocking

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Grim

By: Rachel Hawkins,Julie Kagawa,Ellen Hopkins,Claudia Gray,Amanda Hocking

Inspired by classic fairy tales, but with a dark and sinister twist, Grim contains short stories from some of the best voices in young adult literature today: Ellen Hopkins Amanda Hocking Julie Kagawa Claudia Gray Rachel Hawkins Kimberly Derting Myra McEntire Malinda Lo Sarah Rees-Brennan Jackson Pearce Christine Johnson Jeri Smith Ready Shaun David Hutchinson Saundra Mitchell Sonia Gensler Tessa Gratton Jon Skrovron

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482

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Harlequin

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0373211082

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9780373211081

Sorority Sisters

By: Claudia Welch

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Sorority Sisters

By: Claudia Welch

In 1975, trying to find a place to belong, four young women found each other in the same sorority pledge class. Through parties and pranks; finals and skipped classes; boyfriends and break-ups, they forge a bond that takes them by surprise. No one expected it to last beyond college graduation. But some bonds are too strong to break. Now they’re sisters. And with sisters, it’s not about what happens. It’s about no matter what happens.

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Penguin

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1101580909

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9781101580905

Barely Breathing

By: Claudia R. Woodard

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Barely Breathing

By: Claudia R. Woodard

Julianna Foudree figured out at an early age that love was a pipe dream, and that romance existed only in the movies. Becoming a widow had brought her to the end of a miserable, abusive marriage, and her precious son and daughter were grown. She was looking forward to a new life on her own—a new job, new home, new freedom. Peter Bellamy made his living mastering the mechanics of love and romance, and anyone who bought a ticket could watch him fill a big screen with it. This Montana rancher’s son deserved everything a popular Hollywood leading man could hope for. He had paid his dues! So why couldn’t he relax and enjoy it? Through a series of unlikely encounters, these two became skilled at rubbing each other the wrong way. How could this most irritating, egotistical man force Juli’s darkest fear to the surface? Certainly not the fear of being abused or mistreated. She knew how to handle that. But coming to the realization that she deserved to be truly loved was more frightening than anything. Juliana Foudree needed to embrace her own significance—and Peter Bellamy was determined to see that she did.

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iUniverse

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0966859197

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9780966859195

Carbon Nanotubes and Nanosensors

Vibration, Buckling and Balistic Impact

By: Isaac Elishakoff,Kevin Dujat,Giuseppe Muscolino,Simon Bucas,Toshiaki Natsuki,Chien Ming Wang,Demetris Pentaras,Claudia Versaci,Joel Storch,Noël Challamel,Yingyan Zhang,Guillaume Ghyselinck

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Carbon Nanotubes and Nanosensors

Vibration, Buckling and Balistic Impact

By: Isaac Elishakoff,Kevin Dujat,Giuseppe Muscolino,Simon Bucas,Toshiaki Natsuki,Chien Ming Wang,Demetris Pentaras,Claudia Versaci,Joel Storch,Noël Challamel,Yingyan Zhang,Guillaume Ghyselinck

The main properties that make carbon nanotubes (CNTs) a promising technology for many future applications are: extremely high strength, low mass density, linear elastic behavior, almost perfect geometrical structure, and nanometer scale structure. Also, CNTs can conduct electricity better than copper and transmit heat better than diamonds. Therefore, they are bound to find a wide, and possibly revolutionary use in all fields of engineering. The interest in CNTs and their potential use in a wide range of commercial applications; such as nanoelectronics, quantum wire interconnects, field emission devices, composites, chemical sensors, biosensors, detectors, etc.; have rapidly increased in the last two decades. However, the performance of any CNT-based nanostructure is dependent on the mechanical properties of constituent CNTs. Therefore, it is crucial to know the mechanical behavior of individual CNTs such as their vibration frequencies, buckling loads, and deformations under different loadings. This title is dedicated to the vibration, buckling and impact behavior of CNTs, along with theory for carbon nanosensors, like the Bubnov-Galerkin and the Petrov-Galerkin methods, the Bresse-Timoshenko and the Donnell shell theory.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118565886

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9781118565889

Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

By: Roger Cooter,Claudia Stein

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Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

By: Roger Cooter,Claudia Stein

DIV A noted medical historian explores the roles played by various intellectual frameworks and trends in the writing of history /div

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Yale University Press

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0300186630

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9780300186635

Forgotten Blitzes

France and Italy under Allied Air Attack, 1940-1945

By: Claudia Baldoli,Andrew Knapp

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Forgotten Blitzes

France and Italy under Allied Air Attack, 1940-1945

By: Claudia Baldoli,Andrew Knapp

Forgotten Blitzes analyses how states and civil society in Vichy France and Fascist Italy reacted to the experience of Allied bombing between 1940 and 1945.

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A&C Black

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1441159363

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9781441159366

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