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Exploring Experience Design

By: Ezra Schwartz

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Learn how to unify Customer Experience, User Experience and more to shape lasting customer engagement in a world of rapid change. About This Book An introductory guide to Experience Design that will help you break into XD as a career by gaining A strong foundational knowledge Get acquainted with the various phases of a typical Experience Design workflow Work through the key process and techniques in XD, supported by most of the common use cases Who This Book Is For This book is for designers who wish to enter the field of UX Design, especially Programmers, Content Strategists, and Organizations keen to understand the core concepts of UX Design. What You Will Learn Understand why Experience Design (XD) is at the forefront of business priorities, as organizations race to innovate products and services in order to compete for customers in a global economy driven by technology and change Get motivated by the numerous professional opportunities that XD opens up for practitioners in wide-ranging domains, and by the stories of real XD practitioners Understand what experience is, how experiences are designed, and why they are effective Gain knowledge of user-centered design principles, methodologies, and best practices that will improve your product (digital or physical) Get to know your X's and D's—understand the differences between XD and UX, CX, IxD, IA, SD, VD, PD, and other design practices In Detail We live in an experience economy in which interaction with products is valued more than owning them. Products are expected to engage and delight in order to form the emotional bonds that forge long-term customer loyalty: Products need to anticipate our needs and perform tasks for us: refrigerators order food, homes monitor energy, and cars drive autonomously; they track our vitals, sleep, location, finances, interactions, and content use; recognize our biometric signatures, chat with us, understand and motivate us. Beautiful and easy to use, products have to be fully customizable to match our personal preferences. Accomplishing these feats is easier said than done, but a solution has emerged in the form of Experience design (XD), the unifying approach to fusing business, technology and design around a user-centered philosophy. This book explores key dimensions of XD: Close collaboration among interdisciplinary teams, rapid iteration and ongoing user validation. We cover the processes, methodologies, tools, techniques and best-practices practitioners use throughout the entire product development life-cycle, as ideas are transformed to into positive experiences which lead to perpetual customer engagement and brand loyalty.

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The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory

By: Joshua Ezra Burns

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The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory

By: Joshua Ezra Burns

How did Jews perceive the first Christians? By what means did they come to appreciate Christianity as a religion distinct from their own? In The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory, Professor Joshua Ezra Burns addresses those questions by describing the birth of Christianity as a function of the Jewish past. Surveying a range of ancient evidences, he examines how the authors of Judaism's earliest surviving memories of Christianity speak to the perspectives of rabbinic observers who were conditioned by the unique circumstances of their encounters with Christianity to recognize its adherents as fellow Jews. Only upon the decline of the Church's Jewish demographic were their successors compelled to see Christianity as something other than a variation of Jewish cultural expression. The evolution of thought in the classical Jewish literary record thus offers a dynamic account of Christianity's separation from Judaism counterbalancing the abrupt schism attested in contemporary Christian texts.

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Cambridge University Press

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Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials

By: Ezra Schwartz

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Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials

By: Ezra Schwartz

2. Axure Basics-the User Interface; Getting started; Working with multiple project files; The Axure workspace; Customizing the workspace; The Sitemap pane; Wireframe pages; Flow pages; The Page Properties pane; Page notes; Managing notes; Page interactions; Page formatting; Sketch effects; The Widgets pane; Wireframe Widgets; Flow widgets; Creating your own widget library; Third party widget libraries; The Widget Properties pane; Annotation tab; Annotation fields; Annotation views; Interactions tab; Interactions; Events; Cases; Actions; Formatting tab; Location and size; Font.

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Privacy as Trust

Information Privacy for an Information Age

By: Ari Ezra Waldman

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Privacy as Trust

Information Privacy for an Information Age

By: Ari Ezra Waldman

It seems like there is no such thing as privacy anymore. But the truth is that privacy is in danger only because we think about it in narrow, limited, and outdated ways. In this transformative work, Ari Ezra Waldman, leveraging the notion that we share information with others in contexts of trust, offers a roadmap for data privacy that will better protect our information in a digitized world. With case studies involving websites, online harassment, intellectual property, and social robots, Waldman shows how 'privacy as trust' can be applied in the most challenging real-world contexts to make privacy work for all of us. This book should be read by anyone concerned with reshaping the theory and practice of privacy in the modern world.

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On Modern Jewish Politics

By: Ezra Mendelsohn

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On Modern Jewish Politics

By: Ezra Mendelsohn

This book is a concise guide to and analysis of the complexities of modern Jewish politics in the interwar European and American diaspora. "Jewish politics" refers to the different and opposing visions of the Jewish future as formulated by various Jewish political parties and organizations and their efforts to implement their programs and thereby solve the "Jewish question." Mendelsohn begins by attempting a typology of these Jewish political parties and organizations, dividing them into a number of schools or "camps." He then suggests a "geography" of Jewish politics by locating the core areas of the various camps. There follows an analysis of the competition among the various Jewish political camps for hegemony in the Jewish world--an analysis that pays particular attention to the situation in the United States and Poland, the two largest diasporas, in the 1920s and 1930s. The final chapters ask the following questions: what were the sources of appeal of the various Jewish political camps (such as the Jewish left and Jewish nationalism), to what extent did the various factions succeed in their efforts to implement their plans for the Jewish future, and how were Jewish politics similar to, or different from, the politics of other minority groups in Europe and America? Mendelsohn concludes with a discussion of the great changes that have occurred in the world of Jewish politics since World War II.

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Oxford University Press

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Industry Unbound

The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power

By: Ari Ezra Waldman

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Industry Unbound

The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power

By: Ari Ezra Waldman

In Industry Unbound, Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy. With research based on interviews with scores of tech employees and internal documents outlining corporate strategies, Waldman reveals that companies don't just lobby against privacy law; they also manipulate how we think about privacy, how their employees approach their work, and how they weaken the law to make data-extractive products the norm. In contrast to those who claim that privacy law is getting stronger, Waldman shows why recent shifts in privacy law are precisely the kinds of changes that corporations want and how even those who think of themselves as privacy advocates often unwittingly facilitate corporate malfeasance. This powerful account should be read by anyone who wants to understand why privacy laws are not working and how corporations trap us into giving up our personal information.

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The Cinema of Things

Globalization and the Posthuman Object

By: Elizabeth Ezra

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The Cinema of Things

Globalization and the Posthuman Object

By: Elizabeth Ezra

This book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by Hollywood. Informed by both the Internet of Things and the Parliament of Things, The Cinema of Things examines cinematic depictions of the ways in which human beings are prosthetically engaged with life beyond the self in the global age: by hyperconsumption; by structures of racial and sexual objectification that reduce people designated as “others” to objects of fascination, sexual gratification, warfare, or labor; and by information technology that replaces human agency with encoding. Consumer culture, a key feature of globalization, posits that we must supplement ourselves with commodities without which we would otherwise be incomplete: but these prostheses, rather than enhancing us, end up creating the insufficiencies they were meant to overcome. We are engulfed by objects, to the extent that we ourselves are becoming objectified. At the same time, objects, especially technological objects, are becoming increasingly autonomous, assuming roles that were once the preserve of human agency. We are becoming the objects of globalization, and cinema imaginatively represents this transformation, but it also offers us the possibility of retaining our humanity in the process.

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ABC of Reading

By: Ezra Pound

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ABC of Reading

By: Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound’s classic book about the meaning of literature, with a new introduction by Michael Dirda. This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly sensitive to the beauty and inspiration of the world’s best literature. With characteristic vigor and iconoclasm, Pound illustrates his precepts with exhibits meticulously chosen from the classics, and the concluding “Treatise on Meter” provides an illuminating essay for anyone aspiring to read and write poetry. ABC of Reading displays Pound’s great ability to open new avenues in literature for our time.

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Race and Excellence

My Dialogue With Chester Pierce

By: Ezra E. H. Griffith, M.D.

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Race and Excellence

My Dialogue With Chester Pierce

By: Ezra E. H. Griffith, M.D.

Graduate of Harvard Medical School, president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, founding national chair of the Black Psychiatrists of America: the list of Chester Pierce's accomplishments alone cement him as a luminary in the field--and that is before one considers how foundational his theories about racism as an environmental pollutant are to modern mental health. Reprinted with a new introduction, this collection of interactive conversations between Ezra Griffith and Pierce sheds light on the man behind the impressive titles and oft-cited theories. Focusing on different stages of Pierce's life and career, it traces his path of achievement in the face of obstacles both individual and institutional. What emerges is more than just a revealing portrait of one particularly determined and talented man. It is a chronicle that illustrates distinct methods of coping with the stress of racial discrimination and new ways to approach narrative stories about Black lives that will prove illuminating to anyone interested in gaining a greater understanding of how to evaluate the salience of race matters in people's lives.

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The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

Volume II, Antietam

By: Ezra Carman,Thomas Clemens

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The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

Volume II, Antietam

By: Ezra Carman,Thomas Clemens

Antietam is the eagerly awaited second volume of Ezra Carman's magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862. Many authors have written about the climactic September 17 battle of the 1862 invasion of Maryland, but it is impossible to do so without referencing Carman's sweeping and definitive maps and 1,800-page manuscript. His work guides every Civil War historian and comprises the basis of the National Park Service's interpretive programs at Antietam. Indeed, even the basic layout of the National Park battlefield was based upon Carman's groundbreaking work. Carman had the advantage of not only participating in the battle as a colonel in the Union army, but knowing, corresponding, and conversing with hundreds of Northern and Southern soldiers from corps commanders all the way down to privates. Over the decades he amassed a vast collection of letters, maps, and personal memoirs from many key participants. He used this treasure trove of firsthand accounts to create his compelling narrative. No one has devoted more time and effort to understanding what happened at Antietam than did Ezra Carman-the campaign's first true historian. Unfortunately, Carman did not always note from where he obtained his information, making the authenticity and reliability of his work problematic. Editor Thomas G. Clemens, recognized internationally as one of the foremost historians of the Maryland Campaign, has spent more than two decades studying Antietam and editing and richly annotating Carman's exhaustively written manuscript. As Clemens discovered, Carman used his sources judiciously, and the stories he relates withstand scrutiny for accuracy and reliability. Carman's invaluable prose is augmented by his detailed maps of the dawn to nearly dusk fighting on September 17, which have never appeared in their original form in any book on the battle. Even more exciting are the newly discovered 19th century photographs authorized by Carman to document his work laying out the battlefield, a haunting visual record of how the battlefield appeared to Carman as he tried to unravel its mysteries. The result is The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Antietam, the most comprehensive and detailed account of the battle ever produced. Jammed with firsthand accounts, personal anecdotes, detailed footnotes, maps, and photos, this long-awaited study will be read and appreciated as battle history at its finest. Indeed, we will never see such a study again. About the Authors: Ezra Ayres Carman was born in Oak Tree, New Jersey, on February 27, 1834, and educated at Western Military Academy in Kentucky. He fought with New Jersey organizations throughout the Civil War. He died in 1909 on Christmas day and was buried just below the Custis- Lee mansion in Arlington Cemetery. Thomas G. Clemens earned his doctoral degree at George Mason University, where he studied under Maryland Campaign historian Dr. Joseph L. Harsh. Tom has published a wide variety of magazine articles and book reviews, has appeared in several documentary programs, and is a licensed tour guide at Antietam National Battlefield. A retired professor from Hagerstown Community College, he also helped found and is the current president of Save Historic Antietam Foundation, Inc., a preservation group dedicated to saving historic properties.

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Savas Beatie

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Ezra Pound and 'Globe' Magazine: The Complete Correspondence

By: Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound and 'Globe' Magazine: The Complete Correspondence

By: Ezra Pound

In the summer of 1936, Ezra Pound agreed to take on the role of European Correspondent for a newly launched travel journal entitled Globe: The International Magazine. Ezra Pound and 'Globe' Magazine: The Complete Correspondence collects for the first time Pound's writings for the journal and his extensive correspondence with one of its editors, James Taylor Dunn, and the leading writers who Pound himself attempted to recruit for the magazine. Numbering almost forty letters and twenty published and unpublished articles, these writings represent a darkly significant time in Pound's thought as his infatuation with the rise of fascism took root. Annotated throughout and supported by substantial explorations of the historical and cultural contexts of the writings, the book also includes a substantial bibliography of related writings and a biographical glossary of the major figures discussed in the correspondence and writing. Together, these texts represent an important resource for anyone interested in an important phase of 20th-Century literary modernism.

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1472589610

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A Safety Valve Model of Equity as Anti-opportunism

By: Kenneth Ayotte,Ezra Friedman,Henry E Smith

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A Safety Valve Model of Equity as Anti-opportunism

By: Kenneth Ayotte,Ezra Friedman,Henry E Smith

Equity can be defined as the use of a more flexible, morally judgmental, and subjective mode of legal decision making that roughly corresponds with historical equity. This Element presents a simple contracting model that captures the role of equity as a safety valve, and shows how it can solve problems posed by opportunists–agents with unusual willingness and ability to take advantage of necessary imperfections in the law. In this model, a simple but imperfect formal legal regime is able to achieve first best in the absence of opportunists. But when opportunists are added, a more flexible regime (equity), can be preferred. However, equity is also vulnerable to being used opportunistically by the parties it intends to protect. Hence, the Element shows that it is often preferable to limit equity, reserving it for use only against those who appear sufficiently likely to be opportunists.

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The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy

Europe's Custodians

By: Antonis A. Ellinas,Ezra Suleiman

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The European Commission and Bureaucratic Autonomy

Europe's Custodians

By: Antonis A. Ellinas,Ezra Suleiman

This book examines the struggle of the European Union bureaucracy to maintain its autonomy in an increasingly complex institutional setting and adverse political environment. Using an original survey of nearly two hundred top European Commission officials, it shows that the Commission is a coherent organization that shares a common culture of supranationalism. The European Union's multicephalous structure of political authority limits the capacity of European politicians to curb the autonomy of the Commission but tends to undermine the legitimacy of the organization, which finds itself under persistent political attacks. These attacks inadvertently help the organization bolster its defenses against the external threats and trigger internal legitimation processes that reinforce the devotion of its employees to its institutional mission. The rich survey data show how Commission bureaucrats establish themselves as the 'custodians of Europe'. The book helps disentangle the complexity of the Commission and makes a contribution to the study of international bureaucracies, a topic that has received little attention.

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The Pisan Cantos

By: Ezra Pound

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The Pisan Cantos

By: Ezra Pound

At last, a definitive, paperback edition of Ezra Pound's finest work.

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The Cantos of Ezra Pound

By: Ezra Pound

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The Cantos of Ezra Pound

By: Ezra Pound

The Cantos of Ezra Pound is the most important epic poem of the twentieth century.

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New Directions Publishing

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ASPC Manual of Preventive Cardiology

By: Ezra A. Amsterdam, MD,Roger S. Blumenthal, MD, FACC, FAHA,Nathan D. Wong, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA

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ASPC Manual of Preventive Cardiology

By: Ezra A. Amsterdam, MD,Roger S. Blumenthal, MD, FACC, FAHA,Nathan D. Wong, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA

Endorsed by the American Society for Preventive Cardiology, this highly practical resource focuses on the application of current guidelines and practice standards in the clinical management of cardiovascular risk factors. The Manual presents concise descriptions of each major cardiovascular risk factor, and practical, to-the-point discussions of current best practices in clinical management. In addition, the Manual includes chapters on peripheral arterial disease, stroke, smoking, contemporary cardiovascular imaging, heart failure, metabolic syndrome, thrombosis, nutrition, special populations, novel risk factors, and psychosocial stress. Throughout the Manual, recommendations are based on the most recent prevention guidelines of the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association, including those on Risk Assessment, Lifestyle Recommendations, Blood Cholesterol, and Obesity, as well as the new guidelines on Hypertension. Chapter authors are recognized leaders in each area of practice, and special efforts have been made by the authors and editors to ensure that the content of all chapters is as up-to-date as possible. Key Features: ■ Presents a highly practical focus on the application of current guidelines and practice standards regarding cardiovascular risk factors ■ Recommendations based on the most recent prevention guidelines ■ Authored by recognized leaders in the field ■ Covers all major cardiovascular risk factors, key methodologies in risk assessment, and special issues regarding specific patient populations

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Demos Medical Publishing

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The Four Little Dragons

The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia

By: Ezra F. Vogel

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The Four Little Dragons

The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia

By: Ezra F. Vogel

Vogel brings masterly insight to the underlying question of why Japan and the little dragons--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--have been so extraordinarily successful in industrializing while other developing countries have not.

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Harvard University Press

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067431526X

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Dismantling Democratic States

By: Ezra N. Suleiman

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Dismantling Democratic States

By: Ezra N. Suleiman

Bureaucracy is a much-maligned feature of contemporary government. And yet the aftermath of September 11 has opened the door to a reassessment of the role of a skilled civil service in the survival and viability of democratic society. Here, Ezra Suleiman offers a timely and powerful corrective to the widespread view that bureaucracy is the source of democracy's ills. This is a book as much about good governance as it is about bureaucratic organizations. Suleiman asks: Is democratic governance hindered without an effective instrument in the hands of the legitimately elected political leadership? Is a professional bureaucracy required for developing but not for maintaining a democratic state? Why has a reform movement arisen in recent years championing the gradual dismantling of bureaucracy, and what are the consequences? Suleiman undertakes a comparative analysis of the drive toward a civil service grounded in the New Public Management. He argues that "government reinvention" has limited bureaucracy's capacity to adequately serve the public good. All bureaucracies have been under political pressure in recent years to reduce not only their size but also their effectiveness, and all have experienced growing deprofessionalism and politicization. He compares the impact of this evolution in both democratic societies and societies struggling to consolidate democratic institutions. Dismantling Democratic States cautions that our failure to acknowledge the role of an effective bureaucracy in building and preserving democratic political systems threatens the survival of democracy itself.

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Princeton University Press

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1400850738

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The Impact of Yom Kippur on Early Christianity

The Day of Atonement from Second Temple Judaism to the Fifth Century

By: Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra

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The Impact of Yom Kippur on Early Christianity

The Day of Atonement from Second Temple Judaism to the Fifth Century

By: Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2002.

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Mohr Siebeck

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Dundurn Performing Arts Library Bundle — Musicians

Opening Windows / True Tales from the Mad, Mad, Mad World of Opera / Lois Marshall / John Arpin / Elmer Iseler / Jan Rubes / Music Makers / There's Music in These Walls / In Their Own Words / Emma Albani / Opera Viva / MacMillan on Music

By: Ezra Schabas,Lotfi Mansouri,Stuart Hamilton,James Neufeld,Robert Popple,Walter Pitman,Holly Higgins Jonas,Michelle Labrèche-Larouche,Carl Morey

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Dundurn Performing Arts Library Bundle — Musicians

By: Ezra Schabas,Lotfi Mansouri,Stuart Hamilton,James Neufeld,Robert Popple,Walter Pitman,Holly Higgins Jonas,Michelle Labrèche-Larouche,Carl Morey

This special twelve-book bundle is a classical and choral music lover’s delight! Canada’s rich history and culture in the classical music arts is celebrated here, both in the form of in-depth biographies and autobiographies (Lois Marshall, Lotfi Mansouri, Elmer Iseler, Emma Albani and more), but also in honour of musical places (There’s Music in These Walls, a history of the Royal Conservatory of Music; In Their Own Words, a celebration of Canada’s choirs; and Opera Viva, a history of the Canadian Opera Company). Canada plays an important role in the promotion and performance of art music, and you can learn all about it in these fine books. Includes Opening Windows True Tales from the Mad, Mad, Mad World of Opera Lois Marshall John Arpin Elmer Iseler Jan Rubes Music Makers There’s Music in These Walls In Their Own Words Emma Albani Opera Viva MacMillan on Music

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1459724011

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Lines of Thought

Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind

By: Ayelet Even-Ezra

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Lines of Thought

Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind

By: Ayelet Even-Ezra

We think with objects—we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions, articulate ideas, and organize the chaos that fills our heads. Medieval scholars learned to think with their pages in a peculiar way: drawing hundreds of tree diagrams. Lines of Thought is the first book to investigate this prevalent but poorly studied notational habit, analyzing the practice from linguistic and cognitive perspectives and studying its application across theology, philosophy, law, and medicine. These diagrams not only allow a glimpse into the thinking practices of the past but also constitute a chapter in the history of how people learned to rely on external devices—from stone to parchment to slide rules to smartphones—for recording, storing, and processing information. Beautifully illustrated throughout with previously unstudied and unedited diagrams, Lines of Thought is a historical overview of an important cognitive habit, providing a new window into the world of medieval scholars and their patterns of thinking.

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University of Chicago Press

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022674311X

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The Shape of Craft

By: Ezra Shales

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The Shape of Craft

By: Ezra Shales

Today when we hear the word “craft,” a whole host of things come immediately to mind: microbreweries, artisanal cheeses, and an array of handmade objects. Craft has become so overused, that it can grate on our ears as pretentious and strain our credulity. But its overuse also reveals just how compelling craft has become in modern life. In The Shape of Craft, Ezra Shales explores some of the key questions of craft: who makes it, what do we mean when we think about a crafted object, where and when crafted objects are made, and what this all means to our understanding of craft. He argues that, beyond the clichés, craft still adds texture to sterile modern homes and it provides many people with a livelihood, not just a hobby. Along the way, Shales upends our definition of what is handcrafted or authentic, revealing the contradictions in our expectations of craft. Craft is—and isn’t—what we think.

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Reaktion Books

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1780238843

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Selected Prose, 1909-1965

By: Ezra Pound

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Selected Prose, 1909-1965

By: Ezra Pound

Essays by the distinguished poet illuminate his philosophical beliefs as well as the principal themes found in the Cantos.

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New Directions Publishing

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Painting a People

Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art

By: Ezra Mendelsohn

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Painting a People

Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art

By: Ezra Mendelsohn

Analyzes the life, work, and reception of a founding father of modern Jewish art in Eastern Europe.

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Abraham Ibn Ezra on Elections, Interrogations, and Medical Astrology

A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of Elections (3 Versions), the Book of Interrogations (3 Versions), and The Book of the Luminaries

By: Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra

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Abraham Ibn Ezra on Elections, Interrogations, and Medical Astrology

A Parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of Elections (3 Versions), the Book of Interrogations (3 Versions), and The Book of the Luminaries

By: Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra

This volume offers the first critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of seven astrological treatises by Abraham Ibn Ezra: the Book of Elections (3 versions); the Book of Interrogations (3 versions); and the Book of the Luminaries.

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9004212205

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Quantization, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, and Operator Algebra

1994 John Von Neumann Symposium on Quantization and Nonlinear Wave Equations June 7-11 1994, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

By: William Arveson,Thomas Branson,Irving Ezra Segal

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Quantization, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, and Operator Algebra

1994 John Von Neumann Symposium on Quantization and Nonlinear Wave Equations June 7-11 1994, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

By: William Arveson,Thomas Branson,Irving Ezra Segal

This book describes the outstanding recent progress in this important and challenging field and presents general background for the scientific context and specifics regarding key difficulties. Quantization is developed in the context of rigorous nonlinear quantum field theory in four dimensions and in connection with symplectic manifold theory and random Schrödinger operators. Nonlinear wave equations are exposed in relation to recent important progress in general relativity, in purely mathematical terms of microlocal analysis, and as represented by progress on the relativistic Boltzmann equation. Most of the developments in this volume appear in book form for the first time. The resulting work is a concise and informative way to explore the field and the spectrum of methods available for its investigation.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821803816

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Habits and Holiness

Ethics, Theology, and Biopsychology

By: Ezra Sullivan

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Habits and Holiness

Ethics, Theology, and Biopsychology

By: Ezra Sullivan

This comprehensive exploration of Thomas Aquinas's theology of habit takes habits in general as a prism for understanding human action and its influences and provides a unique synthesis of Thomistic virtue theory, modern science of habits, and best practices for eliminating bad habits and living good habits"--

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CUA Press

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0813233291

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9780813233291

Diptych Rome-London (New Directions Bibelot)

By: Ezra Pound

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Diptych Rome-London (New Directions Bibelot)

By: Ezra Pound

Diptych Rome-London presents the two undisputed masterpieces of Pound's pre-Cantos work––the long poems "Homage to Sextus Propertius" and "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley." Created in the aftermath of World War I, the poems ironically consider the place of the artist in "a botched civilization." "Homage to Sextus Propertius" (1917) is a free translation from the Latin, an homage to the Roman poet; praising its "enormous freedom and range of tone," Hugh Kenner remarked that "few more original poems exist in English." "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly" (1920) is described in A. Walton Litz's clear and helpful introduction as a "master document of literary modernism." It was also T.S. Eliot's favorite Pound poem: "I am quite certain of 'Mauberley,' whatever else I am certain of... a great poem, a document of an epoch.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811224287

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9780811224284

Royal Art of Benin

The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Kate Ezra,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Royal Art of Benin

The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Kate Ezra,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Tantalizing trivia. this Hitler, spoiling everything?

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870996339

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9780870996337

A Draft of XXX Cantos

By: Ezra Pound

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A Draft of XXX Cantos

By: Ezra Pound

The Cantos have been called Ezra Pound's intellectual diary, composed over the course of sixty years. Long out of print as a separate volume--it was originally published in 1933--this epic of nine groupings of poems is now being issued as a New Directions Paperbook.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811211282

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9780811211284

Heat Kernels and Dirac Operators

By: Nicole Berline,Ezra Getzler,Michèle Vergne

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Heat Kernels and Dirac Operators

By: Nicole Berline,Ezra Getzler,Michèle Vergne

In the first edition of this book, simple proofs of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem for Dirac operators on compact Riemannian manifolds and its generalizations (due to the authors and J.-M. Bismut) were presented, using an explicit geometric construction of the heat kernel of a generalized Dirac operator; the new edition makes this popular book available to students and researchers in an attractive paperback.

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384

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540200622

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9783540200628

Elektra

By: Sophocles,Ezra Pound,Rudd Fleming

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Elektra

By: Sophocles,Ezra Pound,Rudd Fleming

Early in 1949, while under indictment for treason and hospitalized by court order at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., Ezra Pound collaborated with Rudd Fleming, a professor at the University of Maryland, on a new version of Sophokles' Elektra. Pound's decision to focus on this play of imprisonment and justice at such a crucial juncture in his own life and art throws both the play and the poet into stark and ironic relief. Rediscovered and finally produced to great acclaim in 1987 by New York's Classic Stage Company, the Pound/Fleming translation of Elektra is now available in an acting edition prepared by the CSC Repertory's artistic director. Carey Perloff says of the translation: "It is energetic, slightly outrageous, and very American .... It's very chiseled, very spare, not flowing or lyrical. It's sort of 'cowboy.' But line for line, it is Sophokles." Ms. Perloff also gives suggestions for staging and casting which will be invaluable to other producers and directors.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811211142

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9780811211147

One Step Ahead in China

Guangdong Under Reform

By: Ezra F. Vogel

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One Step Ahead in China

Guangdong Under Reform

By: Ezra F. Vogel

One Step Ahead in China is a groundbreaking book, unique in its detailed coverage of Guangdong, the first socialist dragon to follow in the path of South Korea and Taiwan. 6 maps, 7 tables.

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Harvard University Press

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0674639111

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9780674639119

Beyond the Electoral Connection

A Reassessment of the Role of Voting in Contemporary American Politics

By: Kim Ezra Shienbaum

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Beyond the Electoral Connection

A Reassessment of the Role of Voting in Contemporary American Politics

By: Kim Ezra Shienbaum

American voting behavior has long been paradoxical. Although levels of voter participation increase with age, income, and education, middle- and upper-class voters—those who profess to hold the electoral process in the highest regard—still tend to cast their ballots by "image" rather than issue. Beyond the Electoral Connection provides a comprehensive analysis and systematic explanation of this fundamental paradox. Kim Ezra Shienbaum's unusually broad perspective leads her to conclude that the nature of American democracy has been altered in fundamental ways over the past thirty years. She asserts that voters have rationally adjusted their political behavior to cope with a system in which public policy outcomes are determined largely by judicial and bureaucratic politics rather than through electoral politics. Shienbaum concludes that for the average "smart" voter, a trip to the polls is little more than an act of political ritualism: a demonstration of support for the status quo.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512807508

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9781512807509

Pension Fund Excellence

Creating Value for Stockholders

By: Keith P. Ambachtsheer,Don Ezra

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Pension Fund Excellence

Creating Value for Stockholders

By: Keith P. Ambachtsheer,Don Ezra

Neue Ideen für mehr Erfolg! Alles, was ein Manager über Rentenfonds wissen muß - die Zusammenstellung effektiver Fonds, ihr Management, die optimale Wertsteigerung - wird hier anhand in- und ausländischer Fallbeispiele eingängig erklärt. Nutzerfreundlich werden die wichtigsten Schritte in Übersichten zusammengestellt. Verschiedene moderne Ansätze zum Rentenfondsmanagement werden kritisch bewertet.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471246557

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9780471246558

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