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The Bodhisattva Question

Krishnamurti, Steiner, Tomberg, and the Mystery of the Twentieth-century Master

By: Thomas Meyer,Elisabeth Vreede

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The Bodhisattva Question

Krishnamurti, Steiner, Tomberg, and the Mystery of the Twentieth-century Master

By: Thomas Meyer,Elisabeth Vreede

Enthusiastic readers are sometimes heard to say of a book: 'I couldn't put it down.' This is obviously either a metaphor or else a gross hyperbole. But I can't recall any book as to which in my case it came nearer to the literal truth than The Bodhisattva Question." -- Owen Barfield According to Eastern tradition, the twelve sublime beings known as bodhisattvas are the great teachers of humanity. One after another, they descend into earthly incarnation until they fulfil their earthly missions. At that point, they rise to buddahood and are no longer obliged to return in a physical form. However, before bodhisattvas becomes a buddhas, they announce the name of their successors. According to Rudolf Steiner, the future Maitreya Buddha--or the "Bringer of Good," as his predecessor named him--incarnated in a human body in the twentieth century. Presuming this to be so, then who was this person? Theosophists believed they had discovered the bodhisattva in an Indian boy named Krishnamurti, who did indeed grow up to become a teacher of some magnitude. Adolf Arenson and Elisabeth Vreede, both students of Steiner, made independent examinations of this question in relation to Steiner's personal mission. They reached contrasting conclusions. More recently, a claim has been made that Valentin Tomberg--a student of Anthroposophy but later an influential Roman Catholic--was the bodhisattva. In this book, Meyer analyzes these conflicting theories and demonstrates how the question can be useful as an exercise in developing sound judgment in spiritual matters. Elisabeth Vreede's two lectures on the subject, included here in full, are a valuable contribution to our understanding of the true nature and being of Rudolf Steiner. Includes a new afterword by T. H. Meyer and Carla Vlad.

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Temple Lodge Publishing

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1906999198

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Astronomy and Spiritual Science

The Astronomical Letters of Elisabeth Vreede

By: Elisabeth Vreede

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Astronomy and Spiritual Science

The Astronomical Letters of Elisabeth Vreede

By: Elisabeth Vreede

Rudolf Steiner was in fact not merely a phenomenally educated and articulate philosopher but also a Man of Destiny.... By comparison, not only with his contemporaries but with the general history of the Western mind, his stature is almost too excessive to be borne." --Owen Barfield The New Essential Steiner is an illuminating, completely new introduction to the philosophy and essential writings of Rudolf Steiner, introduced and edited by Robert McDermott, who also edited the now-classic Essential Steiner. This new volume offers selections from a wide variety of Steiner's published works, presenting a broad, accessible overview of Anthroposophy. In his introduction, McDermott recounts Steiner's life and work, from his childhood and education to his work as a natural scientist, philosopher, scholar, educator, artist, interpreter of culture, and seer. He places Steiner in relation to major traditions of thought and explores the genesis and development of Anthroposophy. Although Rudolf Steiner is considered by many to be the greatest spiritual seer and philosophical thinker of the twentieth century and is credited with major cultural contributions such as the worldwide Waldorf school movement and the ever-growing biodynamic agricultural movement, he nevertheless remains relatively unknown to both academics and the public. The purpose of this volume is to redress that situation by introducing Steiner's work to a broader audience and making his name more universally recognized. Includes selections from Steiner's writings, which are grouped into chapters that demonstrate the breadth of his thinking and spiritual accomplishments. The New Essential Steiner is an invaluable compendium and introduction to the works that form the foundation of Anthroposophy.

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SteinerBooks

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0880109602

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Literary Silences in Pascal, Rousseau, and Beckett

By: Elisabeth Marie Loevlie

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Literary Silences in Pascal, Rousseau, and Beckett

By: Elisabeth Marie Loevlie

To explore literary silence is to explore the relationships between texts and the silence of the ineffable. This study describes silent dynamics through readings of Pascal's 'Pensees', Rousseau's 'Reveries', and Beckett's trilogy 'Molloy', 'Malone Dies' and 'The Unnameable'.

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Oxford University Press

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0199266360

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Scotland in feature film

The country s screen-image then and now, with focus on the City of Glasgow and the development of a Scottish film industry

By: Sandra-Elisabeth Haider

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Scotland in feature film

The country s screen-image then and now, with focus on the City of Glasgow and the development of a Scottish film industry

By: Sandra-Elisabeth Haider

Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: At Glasgow s University Library I discovered a book about Scotland on film, Scotch Reels. Originally, Scotch Reels is the title of a research carried out in 1982 about the depiction of Scotland on screen. It was revealed then that the predominant image of Scotland was very much engaged with stereotypes (defined as the heather and haggis image by one of the book s critics) and had obviously nothing to do with the contemporary reality of Scotland. Not surprisingly, that radical view has found a lot of stern critics. On superficial examination, when I think of all the recent films set in Scotland (ranging from the historical epos Braveheart to the contemporary fast-paced drug story Trainspotting, to mention two of the more popular examples), it seems to me that contemporary films set in Scotland show a wider spectrum of Scottish life than they apparently did before the 1980s, when the stories were mostly (with a few exceptions only) set in the Highlands or on an island, in a community far away from contemporary (modern and industrial) life. As a classic example of those films one can mention the musical Brigadoon by Vicente Minnelli from the year 1954. However, in my thesis I want to concentrate on films set in the City of Glasgow, since there would be far too much material concerned if I considered every single available recent film set in Scotland. I would like to find out whether the image of Glasgow has improved (or widened in its conception) through the release of recent films, compared to its depiction in older movies. As I could not analyse all recent feature films set in Glasgow in this context, I decided to concentrate on a few examples. By taking a closer look at these films I hope to be able to demonstrate how varied (or one-sided as will be determined) the contemporary portrayal of the city is. I do not want to omit mentioning my awareness of the fact that my selection is very subjective. Had I selected other movies, the result would naturally have been a different one. Also, I have not taken into account television films or series set in the Glasgow area. Especially in recent years a whole range of series has been produced and broadcasted, for instance the surreal hospital-drama Psychos, starring Douglas Henshall, the controversial Tinsel Town, set in Glasgow s lively clubbing scene, or Glasgow Kiss, which portrays the city as a modern, airy place, inhabited by sympathetic, educated middle-class people [...]

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diplom.de

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3832461205

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9783832461201

Be Fabulous at Any Age

By: Elisabeth L. Thieriot

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Be Fabulous at Any Age

By: Elisabeth L. Thieriot

Resilience is the key to living fully, and joy comes to us between solving problems. Looking good is part of youthful skin, attitude, and abundant energy on demand. In Be Fabulous at Any Age, author Elisabeth L. Thieriot teaches you how to have it all with help of nature and its hidden magic of life force. Thieriot, who has spent years studying the correlation between cyclical changes in seasons, circadian rhythms, health, and science, provides the tools to help you become a skilled manager of your own life during the most stressful times and how to bounce back easily without losing any part of yourself in the process. She shares a system called seasonal living that describes how to thrive mentally, physically, and spiritually in your business and personal life Be Fabulous at Any Age presents an informative guide to healthy living for greater beauty, with an emphasis on skin care. Drawing on Thieriots knowledge and expereince in natural healing, with special attention to awareness of oneself and natural phenomena, especially the seasons, it offers a wide range of ways to approach personal beauty from the inside out. Skin is how our bodies communicate with our awareness, and our senses create our emotions.

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Balboa Press

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150439240X

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9781504392402

The Wolayta

By: Eike Haberland, Elisabeth Pauli, Wolfgang Kuls

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The Wolayta

By: Eike Haberland, Elisabeth Pauli, Wolfgang Kuls

The ethnography of the Wolayta people of southern Ethiopia by Eike Haberland goes back to his research in Wolayta in the years 1954/55, 1967, and 1970/71. Following his research, Haberland wrote the present work, which he did not publish. It is a classic ethnography divided into the following chapters: Sacred kingship, myths of state, court culture and administration, law and justice, the meritorious complex, feasts and rituals, crops, economy and folkloric material. The ethnography is illustrated by historical photographs from the archives of the Frobenius Institute.

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3643913141

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The Individuality of Colour

By: Elisabeth Wagner-Koch,Gerard Wagner

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The Individuality of Colour

By: Elisabeth Wagner-Koch,Gerard Wagner

What is postulated here is not the dogmatic laying down of a way of working. Rather the aim is to make evident one possible means of access to an experience of the color world ... and guide actual practice to Rudolf Steiner's sketch motifs--to their eminent educational power--for we recognize in them a path that can become of great significance to the developing human soul." (from the introduction) This unique workbook describes the early stages of training for painters, teachers, as well as for beginners. The stages are based on recommendations by Rudolf Steiner for the development of a renewed art of painting for our time. The book draws on Steiner's indications for teaching painting in the first Waldorf school, his lectures on color and art, and sketches he made for painters. Together, they form a self-contained system of exercises for a new, spiritually alive art. (Photo: The authors, Gerard Wagner and Elisabeth Wagner-Koch, in the garden of their house in Dornach, Switzerland.)

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Rudolf Steiner Press

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1855842262

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9781855842267

Hannah Arendt

For Love of the World

By: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

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Hannah Arendt

For Love of the World

By: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade paperback edition for a new generation of readers. In a new preface the author offers an account of writings by and about Arendt that have appeared since the book's 1982 publication, providing a reassessment of her subject's life and achievement. Praise for the earlier edition: “Both a personal and an intellectual biography . . . It represents biography at its best.”—Peter Berger, front page, The New York Times Book Review “A story of surprising drama . . . . At last, we can see Arendt whole.”—Jim Miller, Newsweek “Indispensable to anyone interested in the life, the thought, or . . . the example of Hannah Arendt.”—Mark Feeney, Boston Globe “An adventure story that moves from pre-Nazi Germany to fame in the United States, and . . . a study of the influences that shaped a sharp political awareness.”—Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch Cover drawing by David Schorr

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Yale University Press

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0300105886

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The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945

Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims

By: Elisabeth Boeckl-Klamper,Thomas Mang,Wolfgang Neugebauer

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The Vienna Gestapo, 1938-1945

Crimes, Perpetrators, Victims

By: Elisabeth Boeckl-Klamper,Thomas Mang,Wolfgang Neugebauer

The Vienna Gestapo headquarters was the largest of its kind in the German Reich and the most important instrument of Nazi terror in Austria, responsible for the persecution of Jews, suppression of resistance and policing of forced labourers. Of the more than fifty thousand people arrested by the Vienna Gestapo, many were subjected to torturous interrogation before being either sent to concentration camps or handed over to the Nazi judiciary for prosecution. This comprehensive survey by three expert historians focuses on these victims of repression and persecution as well as the structure of the Vienna Gestapo and the perpetrators of its crimes.

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Berghahn Books

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1800732600

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9781800732605

Alabama in Africa

Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South

By: Angela Elisabeth Zimmerman

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Alabama in Africa

Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South

By: Angela Elisabeth Zimmerman

In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South. Alabama in Africa explores the politics of labor, sexuality, and race behind this endeavor, and the economic, political, and intellectual links connecting Germany, Africa, and the southern United States. The cross-fertilization of histories and practices led to the emergence of a global South, reproduced social inequities on both sides of the Atlantic, and pushed the American South and the German Empire to the forefront of modern colonialism. Zimmerman shows how the people of Togo, rather than serving as a blank slate for American and German ideologies, helped shape their region's place in the global South. He looks at the forms of resistance pioneered by African American freedpeople, Polish migrant laborers, African cotton cultivators, and other groups exploited by, but never passive victims of, the growing colonial political economy. Zimmerman reconstructs the social science of the global South formulated by such thinkers as Max Weber and W.E.B. Du Bois, and reveals how their theories continue to define contemporary race, class, and culture. Tracking the intertwined histories of Europe, Africa, and the Americas at the turn of the century, Alabama in Africa shows how the politics and economics of the segregated American South significantly reshaped other areas of the world.

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Princeton University Press

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140083497X

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9781400834976

Autobiographical Comics

Life Writing in Pictures

By: Elisabeth El Refaie

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Autobiographical Comics

Life Writing in Pictures

By: Elisabeth El Refaie

A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth. In Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth El Refaie offers a long overdue assessment of the key conventions, formal properties, and narrative patterns of this fascinating genre. The book considers eighty-five works of North American and European provenance, works that cover a broad range of subject matters and employ many different artistic styles. Drawing on concepts from several disciplinary fields—including semiotics, literary and narrative theory, art history, and psychology—El Refaie shows that the traditions and formal features of comics provide new possibilities for autobiographical storytelling. For example, the requirement to produce multiple drawn versions of one's self necessarily involves an intense engagement with physical aspects of identity, as well as with the cultural models that underpin body image. The comics medium also offers memoirists unique ways of representing their experience of time, their memories of past events, and their hopes and dreams for the future. Furthermore, autobiographical comics creators are able to draw on the close association in contemporary Western culture between seeing and believing in order to persuade readers of the authentic nature of their stories.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1626744114

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9781626744110

Komposisjoner av lys

By: Elisabeth Thorsen

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Komposisjoner av lys

By: Elisabeth Thorsen

Mette er alene i Oslo når landet stenges ned i mars 2020. Inspirert av Isaac Newton, legger hun ut på en oppdagelsesreise i lys. Spekteret som åpner seg, involverer alle relasjoner. Også arbeidsdagen. Leseren tas med inn i en sanselig og nær verden hvor vitenskapsmenn, komponister, forfattere, filosofer og helgener er like naturlige hverdagsvenner som småfuglene, hageplantene, telefonen og katten uten navn.Komposisjoner av lys er bygget opp av fragmenter: biter av minner, fliker av samtaler, glimt av situasjoner, stemninger, sitater og refleksjoner. Den lodder dypt, men er lett å lese. Den er full av alvor, men også av morsomheter og absurditeter. Først og fremst er den menneskelig, og tilbyr et fellesskap der vi er på vårt mest ensomme. «Hun tar sats i hverdagsbetraktninger og sikter mot lengre tankerekker. Lett springer hun fra konkrete dagligdagse hendelser, taktile sansninger og observasjoner til eksistensiell tematikk. Sjarmerende tar hun leseren fra bare føtter og kattepels under fingrene, til Bibelen.»Astrid Fosvold, Vårt land«Elisabeth Thorsens første roman om presten Mettes liv og indre reise griper meg fra første stund. Det er et velskrevet og tankevekkende litterært verk som tar leserne inn i et univers som vi kan kjenne oss igjen i, men også en reise i teologiens og psykologiens verden.»Nina Hanssen, Fri fagbevegelse«En original fortelling som gir oss en ganske spesiell romanopplevelse. Den er både utfordrende, tankevekkende og en sjelden skjønnlitterær kilde til viktige refleksjoner.»Audun Mosevoll, Dagen«… en usedvanlig stimulerende roman som igangsetter mange og lange tankerekker og refleksjoner i leseren.»[Terningkast 5 Sigmund Jensen, Stavanger Aftenblad

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Vigmostad & Bjørke

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8241954530

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9788241954535

Sylvia Plath

By: Elisabeth Bronfen

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Sylvia Plath

By: Elisabeth Bronfen

In this new edition of her engaging and original study Elisabeth Bronfen examines Sylvia Plath's poetry, her novel The Bell Jar, her shorter fiction as well as her autobiographical texts, in the context of the resilient Plath-Legend that has grown since her suicide in 1963 and to which, after over three decades of silence. Ted Hughes responded with his collection of commemorative poems, Birthday letters. Arguing that although we can not sever our reading of Plath's work from the critical and biographical writings about her, the study nevertheless offers close readings of texts to explore the various self-fashionings in poetry and prose. Which this highly ambivalent poet developed. The central theme to which this study returns is Plath's insistence on a clandestine traumatic knowledge of fallibility and fragility underlying the fiction of success, health and happiness so prevalent in post-World War Two, whether expressed as anger and violence, as the celebration of feminine figures of transcendence,

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Northcote House Pub Limited

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0746311362

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9780746311363

Orpheus with His Lute

Poetry and the Renewal of Life

By: Elisabeth Henry

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Orpheus with His Lute

Poetry and the Renewal of Life

By: Elisabeth Henry

The legend of Orpheus has exerted a powerful influence on the work of poets and artists through the ages--from the poetry of Virgil and Ovid and the Ovidian romances of the Middle Ages to the new mythologies of Blake and Rilke. Orpheus was believed to have aroused responses from inanimate nature as well as from living creatures, bringing about a peaceful order and even--in some cases-- restoring the dead to life. This challenging new study analyses the changing images of Orpheus in the poetry, sculpture and vase-painting of the ancient world. The author shows how later versions diverge from the early story of the divinely inspired poet-musician and reflect conflicting ideas about the nature of poetic creativity, its sources and powers. Orpheus with His Lute is essential reading for all those interested in literature and the psychology of aesthetic experience. It will also be of value to students of philosophy and the history of religion.

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SIU Press

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0809317699

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9780809317691

Cultural Critique and Abstraction

Marianne Moore and the Avant-garde

By: Elisabeth W. Joyce

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Cultural Critique and Abstraction

Marianne Moore and the Avant-garde

By: Elisabeth W. Joyce

This study of Marianne Moore and the visual arts focuses on how art productions serve to break down and re-create cultural practice, proving that culture is a mutable organism, reluctant to change, but not impervious to it. In doing so, author Elisabeth W. Joyce shows that, even though Moore may have restricted herself to the quiet, provincial life of Brooklyn, her poetry attests to her resistance to the constrictions imposed by the predominating bourgeoisie. This study presents the bifurcation between modernism and the avant-garde where, while the modernists retreated from engagement in society, the avant-gardistes remained focused on political and social issues in order to critique stifling cultural phenomena so that art could effect cultural changes. In taking this stance, instead of viewing Moore's poetry as typically and provincially American, Joyce places her in the international and radical art movements of the early twentieth century.

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Bucknell University Press

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083875371X

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9780838753712

Late Ottoman Society

The Intellectual Legacy

By: Elisabeth Özdalga

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Late Ottoman Society

The Intellectual Legacy

By: Elisabeth Özdalga

When the Ottomans commenced their modernizing reforms in the 1830s, they still ruled over a vast empire. In addition to today's Turkey, including Anatolia and Thrace, their power reached over Mesopotamia, North Africa, the Levant, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. The Sultanate was at the apex of a truly multi-ethnic society. Modernization not only brought market principles to the economy and more complex administrative controls as part of state power, but also new educational institutions as well as new ideologies. Thus new ideologies developed and nationalism emerged, which became a political reality when the Empire reached its end. This book compares the different intellectual atmospheres between the pre-republican and the republican periods and identifies the roots of republican authoritarianism in the intellectual heritage of the earlier period.

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Routledge

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1134294735

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Families at Play

Connecting and Learning through Video Games

By: Sinem Siyahhan,Elisabeth Gee

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Families at Play

Connecting and Learning through Video Games

By: Sinem Siyahhan,Elisabeth Gee

How family video game play promotes intergenerational communication, connection, and learning. Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social isolation, promoting violence, and creating tensions between parents and children. In this book, Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee offer another view. They show that video games can be a tool for connection, not isolation, creating opportunities for families to communicate and learn together. Like smartphones, Skype, and social media, games help families stay connected. Siyahhan and Gee offer examples: One family treats video game playing as a regular and valued activity, and bonds over Halo. A father tries to pass on his enthusiasm for Star Wars by playing Lego Star Wars with his young son. Families express their feelings and share their experiences and understanding of the world through playing video games like The Sims, Civilization, and Minecraft. Some video games are designed specifically to support family conversations around such real-world issues and sensitive topics as bullying and peer pressure. Siyahhan and Gee draw on a decade of research to look at how learning and teaching take place when families play video games together. With video games, they argue, the parents are not necessarily the teachers and experts; all family members can be both teachers and learners. They suggest video games can help families form, develop, and sustain their learning culture as well as develop skills that are valued in the twenty-first century workplace. Educators and game designers should take note.

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MIT Press

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0262552639

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9780262552639

The Architecture of Anna Karenina

A History of Its Writing, Structure and Message

By: Elisabeth Stenbock-Fermor

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The Architecture of Anna Karenina

A History of Its Writing, Structure and Message

By: Elisabeth Stenbock-Fermor

When criticized about the lack of architecture in Anna Karenina, connecting the themes of Levin and Anna Karenina, Tolstoj disagreed: “The arches of the vault are brought together in such a way that it is even impossible to notice where the keystone is.” This book explores the architecture, attempting to trace the pattern of the invisible pillars that support the 'arches' on both side of the 'vault', leading to the discovery of the 'keystone' which Tolstoj tried so hard to keep invisible.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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1588116751

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9781588116758

Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany

By: Andi Zimmerman

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Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany

By: Andi Zimmerman

With the rise of imperialism, the centuries-old European tradition of humanist scholarship as the key to understanding the world was jeopardized. Nowhere was this more true than in nineteenth-century Germany. It was there, Andrew Zimmerman argues, that the battle lines of today's "culture wars" were first drawn when anthropology challenged humanism as a basis for human scientific knowledge. Drawing on sources ranging from scientific papers and government correspondence to photographs, pamphlets, and police reports of "freak shows," Zimmerman demonstrates how German imperialism opened the door to antihumanism. As Germans interacted more frequently with peoples and objects from far-flung cultures, they were forced to reevaluate not just those peoples, but also the construction of German identity itself. Anthropologists successfully argued that their discipline addressed these issues more productively—and more accessibly—than humanistic studies. Scholars of anthropology, European and intellectual history, museum studies, the history of science, popular culture, and colonial studies will welcome this book.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226983463

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Human Rights As Indivisible Rights

The Protection of Socio-economic Demands Under the European Convention on Human Rights

By: Ida Elisabeth Koch

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Human Rights As Indivisible Rights

The Protection of Socio-economic Demands Under the European Convention on Human Rights

By: Ida Elisabeth Koch

The book analyses the legal nation of human rights as indivisible, interrelated and interdependent rights by analysing case law from the European Court of Human Rights. The book concludes that the nation of human rights as indivisible right as a legal content and that aspects of several socio-economic rights are in fact protected by the Convention.

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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9004160515

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9789004160514

A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests

Administration, Norms, and Commentary

By: Esther Strauss,Elisabeth M. S. Sherman,Otfried Spreen

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A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests

Administration, Norms, and Commentary

By: Esther Strauss,Elisabeth M. S. Sherman,Otfried Spreen

For the practicing neuropsychologist or researcher, keeping up with the sheer number of newly published or updated tests is a challenge, as is evaluating the utility and psychometric properties of neuropsychological tests in a clinical context. The goal of the third edition of A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests, a well-established neuropsychology reference text, is twofold. First, the Compendium is intended to serve as a guidebook that provides a comprehensive overview of the essential aspects of neuropsychological assessment practice. Second, it is intended as a comprehensive sourcebook of critical reviews of major neuropsychological assessment tools for the use by practicing clinicians and researchers. Written in a comprehensive, easy-to-read reference format, and based on exhaustive review of research literature in neuropsychology, neurology, psychology, and related disciplines, the book covers topics such as basic aspects of neuropsychological assessment as well as the theoretical background, norms, and the utility, reliability, and validity of neuropsychological tests. For this third edition, all chapters have been extensively revised and updated. The text has been considerably expanded to provide a comprehensive yet practical overview of the state of the field. Two new chapters have been added: "Psychometrics in Neuropsychological Assessment" and "Norms in Psychological Assessment." The first two chapters present basic psychometric concepts and principles. Chapters three and four consider practical aspects of the history-taking interview and the assessment process itself. Chapter five provides guidelines on report-writing and chapters six through sixteen consist of detailed, critical reviews of neuropsychological tests, and address the topics of intelligence, achievement, executive function, attention, memory, language, visual perception, somatosensory olfactory function, mood/personality, and response bias. A unique feature is the inclusion of tables that summarize salient features of tests within each domain so that readers can easily compare measures. Additional tables within each test review summarize important features of each test, highlight aspects of each normative dataset, and provide an overview of psychometric properties. Of interest to neuropsychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, and educational and clinical psychologists working with adults as well as pediatric populations, this volume will aid practitioners in selecting appropriate testing measures for their patients, and will provide them with the knowledge needed to make empirically supported interpretations of test results.

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Poetry Criticism

By: Elisabeth Gellert

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Poetry Criticism

By: Elisabeth Gellert

Annotation Each volume provides substantive critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all eras. A cumulative title index to the entire series is published separately (included in subscription).

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Poetry Criticism

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Vegetation and Macrofungi of Acid Oakwoods in the North-east of the Netherlands

By: Anna Elisabeth Jansen

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Vegetation and Macrofungi of Acid Oakwoods in the North-east of the Netherlands

By: Anna Elisabeth Jansen

nov.) in the Province of Drenthe in the Netherlands.

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9022008479

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Too Young to Know

By: Elisabeth Ogilvie

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Too Young to Know

By: Elisabeth Ogilvie

Scotland isn't quite what Mary Kate expected when she first heard she'd be spending the summer there with her father. Her new friends are so different-especially Robin. Mary Kate doesn't know whether to feel bewildered by him or tender toward him.

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