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Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity

The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition

By: Claudia Rapp

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Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity

The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition

By: Claudia Rapp

Between 300 and 600, Christianity experienced a momentous change from persecuted cult to state religion. One of the consequences of this shift was the evolution of the role of the bishop—as the highest Church official in his city—from model Christian to model citizen. Claudia Rapp's exceptionally learned, innovative, and groundbreaking work traces this transition with a twofold aim: to deemphasize the reign of the emperor Constantine, which has traditionally been regarded as a watershed in the development of the Church as an institution, and to bring to the fore the continued importance of the religious underpinnings of the bishop's role as civic leader. Rapp rejects Max Weber’s categories of "charismatic" versus "institutional" authority that have traditionally been used to distinguish the nature of episcopal authority from that of the ascetic and holy man. Instead she proposes a model of spiritual authority, ascetic authority and pragmatic authority, in which a bishop’s visible asceticism is taken as evidence of his spiritual powers and at the same time provides the justification for his public role. In clear and graceful prose, Rapp provides a wholly fresh analysis of the changing dynamics of social mobility as played out in episcopal appointments.

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Brother-making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual

By: Claudia Rapp

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Brother-making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Monks, Laymen, and Christian Ritual

By: Claudia Rapp

Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis, which pronounces two men, not related by birth, as brothers for life. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the monastic world of late antiquity, and it becomes a popular social networking strategy among lay people from the ninth century onwards, even finding application in recent times. Located at the intersection of religion and society, brother-making exemplifies how social practice can become ritualized and subsequently subjected to attempts of ecclesiastical and legal control. Controversially, adelphopoiesis was at the center of a modern debate about the existence of same-sex unions in medieval Europe. This book, the first ever comprehensive history of this unique feature of Byzantine life, argues persuasively that the ecclesiastical ritual to bless a relationship between two men bears no resemblance to marriage. Wide-ranging in its use of sources, from a complete census of the manuscripts containing the ritual of adelphopoiesis to the literature and archaeology of early monasticism, and from the works of hagiographers, historiographers, and legal experts in Byzantium to comparative material in the Latin West and the Slavic world, Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium examines the fascinating religious and social features of the ritual, shedding light on little known aspects of Byzantine society.

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Oxford University Press

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Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity

The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition

By: Claudia Rapp

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The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition

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Aristotle and the Animals

The Logos of Life Itself

By: Claudia Zatta

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Aristotle and the Animals

The Logos of Life Itself

By: Claudia Zatta

With a novel approach to Aristotle’s zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, in response to his predecessors, exiles logos as reason and pursues the logos intrinsic to animals’ bodies, empowering them to sense the world and live. The volume explores Aristotle’s conception of animals through a discussion of his ad hoc methodology to study them, including the pertinence of the soul to such a study, and the rise of zoology as a branch of natural philosophy. For Aristotle, animal life stems from the body in the space of existence and revolves around sensation, which is entwined with pleasure, pain, and desire. Lack of human reason is irrelevant to an understanding of the richness of animal life and cognition. In sum, the reader will acquire knowledge of the "animal as such," which lay at the core of Aristotle’s agenda and required a study of its own, separate from plants and the elements. This book is intended for students of the history of science, ancient biology, and philosophy and all those who, from different fields, are interested in animal studies and the human-animal relation.

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Routledge

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1000533891

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Design and materials. Sensory perception_sustainability_project

Sensory perception_sustainability_project

By: Beatrice Lerma,Claudia De Giorgi,Cristina Allione

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Sensory perception_sustainability_project

By: Beatrice Lerma,Claudia De Giorgi,Cristina Allione

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FrancoAngeli

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8820462397

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Semantic Control for the Cybersecurity Domain

Investigation on the Representativeness of a Domain-Specific Terminology Referring to Lexical Variation

By: Claudia Lanza

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Semantic Control for the Cybersecurity Domain

Investigation on the Representativeness of a Domain-Specific Terminology Referring to Lexical Variation

By: Claudia Lanza

This book presents the creation of a bilingual thesaurus (Italian and English), and its conversion into an ontology system, oriented to the Cybersecurity field of knowledge term management and the identification of a replicable method over other specialized areas of study, through computational linguistics procedures, to a statistical and qualitative measurement of the terminological coverage threshold a controlled vocabulary is able to guarantee with respect to the semantic richness proper to the domain under investigation. The volume empowers readers to compile and study significant corpora documentations to support the text mining tasks and to establish a representativeness evaluation of the information retrieved. Through a description of several techniques belonging to the field of linguistics and knowledge engineering, this monograph provides a methodological account on how to enhance and update semantic monitoring tools reflecting a specialized lexicon as that of Cybersecurity to grant a reference semantic structure for domain-sector text classification tasks. This volume is a valuable reference to scholars of corpus-based studies, terminology, ICT, documentation and librarianship studies, text processing research, and distributional semantics area of interest as well as for professionals involved in Cybersecurity organizations.

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CRC Press

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1000685896

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A Grammar of Kilmeri

By: Claudia Gerstner-Link

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A Grammar of Kilmeri

By: Claudia Gerstner-Link

This book is a description of Kilmeri, a language of Papua New Guinea, based on the author's fieldwork. The volume is dedicated to the detailed description of form and meaning and their interface, which is supported through extensive illustration by examples. The narrative structure of entire texts is accessible via a small collection of fully glossed personal and traditional stories included in the Online Supplement. The typological evaluation of selected properties of Kilmeri rounds out the description of the language.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1501506668

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Cold Comfort

Mothers, Professionals, and Attention Deficit Disorder

By: Claudia Malacrida

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Cold Comfort

Mothers, Professionals, and Attention Deficit Disorder

By: Claudia Malacrida

Drawing on both poststructural discourse analysis and feminist standpoint theory, Malacrida makes a critical contribution to qualitative methodologies by developing a feminist discursive ethnography of the construction of AD(H)D in two divergent cultures.

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University of Toronto Press

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080208558X

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Cellular Mechanics and Biophysics

Structure and Function of Basic Cellular Components Regulating Cell Mechanics

By: Claudia Tanja Mierke

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Cellular Mechanics and Biophysics

Structure and Function of Basic Cellular Components Regulating Cell Mechanics

By: Claudia Tanja Mierke

This book focuses on the mechanical properties of cells, discussing the basic concepts and processes in the fields of immunology, biology, and biochemistry. It introduces and explains state-of-the-art biophysical methods and examines the role of mechanical properties in the cell/protein interaction with the connective tissue microenvironment. The book presents a unique perspective on cellular mechanics and biophysics by combining the mechanical, biological, physical, biochemical, medical, and immunological views, highlighting the importance of the mechanical properties of cells and biophysical measurement methods. The book guides readers through the complex and growing field of cellular mechanics and biophysics, connecting and discussing research findings from different fields such as biology, cell biology, immunology, physics, and medicine. Featuring suggestions for further reading throughout and addressing a wide selection of biophysical topics, this book is an indispensable guide for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the fields of cellular mechanics and biophysics.

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Springer Nature

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3030585328

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9783030585327

Figurations

Child, Bodies, Worlds

By: Claudia Castañeda

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Figurations

Child, Bodies, Worlds

By: Claudia Castañeda

Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Castañeda shows how this malleability is itself generated—how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically, and culturally specific figures are put to widely divergent uses, often to very powerful effect. Situated at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial, cultural, and science and technology studies, this book provides a remarkable map of the child's meaning and movement across transnational circuits of exchange. Castañeda investigates the construction of the child as both a natural and cultural body, the character of its embodiment, and its imaginative appeal in various settings. The sites through which she tracks the bodily production and deployment of the child include nineteenth-century developmental science; cognitive neuroscience in the late twentieth century; international adoption; rumors and media coverage of child-organ stealing; and poststructuralist theory. Her work reveals the extent to which the child's cultural significance and value lie in its status as a body whose incompleteness makes it "available" for such varied uses. Figurations establishes the child as a key figure for understanding and rethinking the politics of nature, culture, bodies, and subjects in changing "global" worlds.

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Duke University Press

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0822383896

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Working Class Women in Elite Academia

A Philosophical Inquiry

By: Claudia Leeb

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Working Class Women in Elite Academia

A Philosophical Inquiry

By: Claudia Leeb

In this original book, Claudia Leeb uses a poststructuralist perspective to chart explicit and tacit assumptions about the working class in general and the working-class woman specifically in the classical texts of prominent political philosophers and social critics including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Rousseau, Marx, Weber and Bourdieu. The author argues that philosophical discourses that construct such categories as the Other function as disciplinary practices that aim at keeping working-class women either out of or at the margins of academic institutions. She analyzes interviews with women from a range of national origins in New York City's elite academic institutions, who identified their backgrounds as working class. Her analysis foregrounds the potential of these women to resist class and gender discipline. Working-Class Women in Elite Academia makes a significant contribution to political-theory literature on injustice that challenges and reconfigures the meanings of woman and working class. It is of particular interest to political philosophers, critical theorists, and women's and gender studies scholars.

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Peter Lang

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9052019797

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Novum Millennium

Studies on Byzantine History and Culture Dedicated to Paul Speck

By: Claudia Sode,Sarolta Takács

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Novum Millennium

Studies on Byzantine History and Culture Dedicated to Paul Speck

By: Claudia Sode,Sarolta Takács

This volume reflects the different methods and new approaches to the study of Byzantine history that have characterized the work of Paul Speck, to whom it is dedicated, and above all, his insistence on a close reading and careful interpretation of the sources. These aims are encapsulated in the introduction by John Haldon, which gives a sense of where future studies should lead new generations of scholars. The following studies, by many of the leading authorities in their fields, look at a whole range of aspects of the history of Byzantium - its culture, theology, linguistics, literature, historiography, sigillography and art - and at the place of the Byzantine empire within the late antique and medieval worlds.

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472

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Routledge

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135191426X

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The Deconfinement Transition of QCD

Theory Meets Experiment

By: Claudia Ratti,Rene Bellwied

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The Deconfinement Transition of QCD

Theory Meets Experiment

By: Claudia Ratti,Rene Bellwied

In the last few years, numerical simulations of QCD on the lattice have reached a new level of accuracy. A wide range of thermodynamic quantities is now available in the continuum limit and for physical quark masses. This allows a comparison with measurements from heavy ion collisions for the first time. Furthermore, calculations of dynamical quantities are also becoming available. The combined effort from first principles and experiment allows to gain an unprecedented understanding of the properties of quark-gluon plasma. This concise text, geared towards postgraduate students and newcomers to the field, carefully introduces and reviews the state-of-the-art techniques and results from lattice simulations and connects them to the experimental information from RHIC and the LHC.

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Springer Nature

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3030672352

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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

2000 Years of Pandemics

Past, Present, and Future

By: Claudia Ferreira,Marie-Françoise J. Doursout,Joselito S. Balingit

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2000 Years of Pandemics

Past, Present, and Future

By: Claudia Ferreira,Marie-Françoise J. Doursout,Joselito S. Balingit

This book analyzes the factors that have sparked pandemics over the past 2000 years, from the Antonine Plague to COVID-19. It is noteworthy that the frequency of pandemics has increased over the past 2000 years. The authors identify three main drivers for the development of pandemics: transportation, human development, and changes in natural ecosystems. It is important to note that with the advent of the industrial age, the length of time it takes for a pandemic to develop has decreased. COVID-19 is certainly not the last pandemic we will face. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to learn from the past 2000 years to help educate general community and public health officials about pandemic risks and help governments prepare for the next pandemic. The book is also very useful in low and middle-income countries where, in the last several decades, viruses with potential for pandemics have originated. It's comprehensiveness and didactic style make this book a valuable read for government health agencies, private organizations, health care professionals and students.

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3031100352

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Domestic Allegories of Political Desire

The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century

By: Claudia Tate

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Domestic Allegories of Political Desire

The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century

By: Claudia Tate

Why did African-American women novelists use idealized stories of bourgeois courtship and marriage to mount arguments on social reform during the last decade of the nineteenth century, during a time when resurgent racism conditioned the lives of all black Americans? Such stories now seem like apolitical fantasies to contemporary readers. This is the question at the center of Tate's examination of the novels of Pauline Hopkins, Emma Kelley, Amelia Johnson, Katherine Tillman, and Frances Harper. Domestic Allegories of Political Desire is more than a literary study; it is also a social and intellectual history--a cultural critique of a period that historian Rayford W. Logan called "the Dark Ages of recent American history." Against a rich contextual framework, extending from abolitionist protest to the Black Aesthetic, Tate argues that the idealized marriage plot in these novels does not merely depict the heroine's happiness and economic prosperity. More importantly, that plot encodes a resonant cultural narrative--a domestic allegory--about the political ambitions of an emancipated people. Once this domestic allegory of political desire is unmasked in these novels, it can be seen as a significant discourse of the post-Reconstruction era for representing African-Americans' collective dreams about freedom and for reconstructing those contested dreams into consummations of civil liberty.

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Oxford University Press

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019536080X

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The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language

By: Ari Huhta,Claudia Harsch,Dmitri Leontjev,Lea Nieminen

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The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language

By: Ari Huhta,Claudia Harsch,Dmitri Leontjev,Lea Nieminen

The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language is a comprehensive survey of diagnostic assessment of second/foreign language (SFL) writing. In this innovative book, a compelling case is made for SFL writing as an individual, contextual, and multidimensional ability, combining several theoretically informed approaches upon which to base diagnosis. Using the diagnostic cycle as the overarching framework, the book starts with the planning phase, cover design, development, and delivery of diagnostic assessment, ending with feedback and feed-forward aspects to feed diagnostic information into the teaching and learning process. It covers means to diagnose both the writing processes and products, including the design and development of diagnostic tasks and rating scales, as well as automated approaches to assessment. Also included is a range of existing instruments and approaches to diagnosing SFL writing. Addressing large-scale as well as classroom contexts, this volume is useful for researchers, teachers, and educational policy-makers in language learning.

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Taylor & Francis

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1315511959

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9781315511955

Human Rights and Digital Technology

Digital Tightrope

By: Susan Perry,Claudia Roda

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Human Rights and Digital Technology

Digital Tightrope

By: Susan Perry,Claudia Roda

Analysing the convergence of law and regulation with rapidly evolving communications technologies, this interdisciplinary work navigates the intricate balancing act between human rights protection and technological innovation in a digital age, and illuminates the comprehensive potential of human rights to frame our intelligent use of technology. The authors address such pressing questions as how to protect user privacy online, whether digital pollution is a health hazard, who should have control and be responsible for data technologies and how to maintain human autonomy in a world of interconnected objects. By considering specific cases, this book provides an in-depth exploration of the many regulatory and technological choices citizens, states, civil society organizations and the private sector should consider to ensure that digital technology more fully serves human needs.

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Springer

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1137588055

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Pediatric Chiropractic

By: Claudia A. Anrig,Gregory Plaugher

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Pediatric Chiropractic

By: Claudia A. Anrig,Gregory Plaugher

The long-awaited third edition of Pediatric Chiropractic takes the valuable second edition to a whole new level, offering new chapters, full-color photos, illustrations, and tables to provide the family wellness chiropractor and the student of chiropractic a valuable reference manual covering all aspects of care for the pediatric and prenatal populations. Internationally recognized authorities Claudia Anrig, DC and Gregory Plaugher, DC have invited the leaders in their fields to contribute to this precedent-setting textbook and now offer even more valuable information for the practitioner.

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