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The Philosophy of Science: A-M

By: Sahotra Sarkar,Jessica Pfeifer

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The Philosophy of Science: A-M

By: Sahotra Sarkar,Jessica Pfeifer

The first in-depth reference to the field that combines scientific knowledge with philosophical inquiry, this encyclopedia brings together a team of leading scholars to provide nearly 150 entries on the essential concepts in the philosophy of science. The areas covered include biology, chemistry, epistemology and metaphysics, physics, psychology and mind, the social sciences, and key figures in the combined studies of science and philosophy. (Midwest).

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0415977096

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The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care

By: Jessica Pierce,Andrew Jameton

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The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care

By: Jessica Pierce,Andrew Jameton

This text aims to bring bioethics and health care squarely into the 21st century. "The book shows how environmental decline relates to human health and to health care practices in the US and other industrialized countries.

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Oxford University Press

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0195139038

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Do Not Erase

Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards

By: Jessica Wynne

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Do Not Erase

Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards

By: Jessica Wynne

A photographic exploration of mathematicians’ chalkboards “A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns,” wrote the British mathematician G. H. Hardy. In Do Not Erase, photographer Jessica Wynne presents remarkable examples of this idea through images of mathematicians’ chalkboards. While other fields have replaced chalkboards with whiteboards and digital presentations, mathematicians remain loyal to chalk for puzzling out their ideas and communicating their research. Wynne offers more than one hundred stunning photographs of these chalkboards, gathered from a diverse group of mathematicians around the world. The photographs are accompanied by essays from each mathematician, reflecting on their work and processes. Together, pictures and words provide an illuminating meditation on the unique relationships among mathematics, art, and creativity. The mathematicians featured in this collection comprise exciting new voices alongside established figures, including Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Alain Connes, Misha Gromov, Andre Neves, Kasso Okoudjou, Peter Shor, Christina Sormani, Terence Tao, Claire Voisin, and many others. The companion essays give insights into how the chalkboard serves as a special medium for mathematical expression. The volume also includes an introduction by the author, an afterword by New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson, and biographical information for each contributor. Do Not Erase is a testament to the myriad ways that mathematicians use their chalkboards to reveal the conceptual and visual beauty of their discipline—shapes, figures, formulas, and conjectures created through imagination, argument, and speculation.

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Princeton University Press

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0691222827

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9780691222820

Fallibilism: Evidence and Knowledge

By: Jessica Brown

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Fallibilism: Evidence and Knowledge

By: Jessica Brown

What strength of evidence is required for knowledge? Ordinarily, we often claim to know something on the basis of evidence which doesn't guarantee its truth. For instance, one might claim to know that one sees a crow on the basis of visual experience even though having that experience does not guarantee that there is a crow (it might be a rook, or one might be dreaming). As a result, those wanting to avoid philosophical scepticism have standardly embraced "fallibilism": one can know a proposition on the basis of evidence that supports it even if the evidence doesn't guarantee its truth. Despite this, there's been a persistent temptation to endorse "infallibilism", according to which knowledge requires evidence that guarantees truth. For doesn't it sound contradictory to simultaneously claim to know and admit the possibility of error? Infallibilism is undergoing a contemporary renaissance. Furthermore, recent infallibilists make the surprising claim that they can avoid scepticism. Jessica Brown presents a fresh examination of the debate between these two positions. She argues that infallibilists can avoid scepticism only at the cost of problematic commitments concerning evidence and evidential support. Further, she argues that alleged objections to fallibilism are not compelling. She concludes that we should be fallibilists. In doing so, she discusses the nature of evidence, evidential support, justification, blamelessness, closure for knowledge, defeat, epistemic akrasia, practical reasoning, concessive knowledge attributions, and the threshold problem.

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Oxford University Press

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0192521918

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Reciting the Goddess

Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal

By: Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz

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Reciting the Goddess

Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal

By: Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz

Reciting the Goddess presents the first critical study of the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century Hindu narrative textual tradition. The extensive SVK manuscript tradition offers a rare opportunity to observe the making of a specific, distinct Hindu religious tradition. Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz argues that the SVK serves as a lens through which we can observe the creation of modern 'Hinduism' in the Himalayas, as the text both mirrored and informed key moments in the self-conscious creation of Nepal as the 'world's only Hindu kingdom' in the late medieval and early modern period. Birkenholtz mines the literary historiography that is contained within the SVK text itself, chronicling the text's literary and narrative development as well as the development of the Svasthani goddess tradition. She outlines the process whereby the SVK gradually transformed into a Purana text, and became a critical source for Nepali Hindu belief and identity. She also examines the elusive character of the goddess Svasthani whose identity is tied to the pan-Hindu goddess tradition, and the representation of women in the SVK and the ways in which the text influenced local and regional debates on the ideal of Hindu womanhood. Reciting the Goddess presents Nepal's celebrated SVK as a micro-level illustration of the powerful ways in which people, place, and literature intersect to produce new ideas and concepts of identity and place, even in a historically non-literate culture.

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Oxford University Press

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0199341184

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The Gendered Face of COVID-19 in the Global South

The Development, Gender and Health Nexus

By: Grugel, Jean,Barlow, Matt,Tallulah Lines,Maria Eugenia Giraudo,Jessica Omukuti

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The Gendered Face of COVID-19 in the Global South

The Development, Gender and Health Nexus

By: Grugel, Jean,Barlow, Matt,Tallulah Lines,Maria Eugenia Giraudo,Jessica Omukuti

In this important book, experts assess what the COVID-19 pandemic means for gender inequalities in the global south, examining how threats to equitable development will impact the most marginalized and at-risk women and girls in particular. The book draws on research across sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America to examine COVID-19-related issues around gender-based violence, work and care, education and health care, and asks whether global responses are enough to mitigate the negative outcomes of deepening gender inequality. It is a guide to stimulate the important debate about how to promote women’s rights during the management and recovery phases of the pandemic.

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Policy Press

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1529218837

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More Than a Health Crisis

Securitization and the US Response to the 20132016 Ebola Outbreak

By: Jessica Kirk

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More Than a Health Crisis

Securitization and the US Response to the 20132016 Ebola Outbreak

By: Jessica Kirk

How the West African Ebola epidemic was transformed from an urgent and distant tragedy into an existential threat to American lives—establishing the dynamics that would later dominate the US response to epidemics such as COVID-19. In 2014 and 2015, the viral Ebola epidemic in West Africa inspired breathless US media coverage and became the subject of heated public debate over just how to understand the security issue that the outbreak presented. Was it a security concern because of the lives at risk in West Africa? Or because of its threat to regional and global stability? Or was it potentially a threat to the American people? In More Than a Health Crisis, Jessica Kirk reveals how these varied positions spoke to divisions within the American public, concerning how we think about and respond to uncertainty, competing expertise, and securitization. Kirk insightfully examines how experts in different fields offered conflicting assessments of the risks posed by Ebola, and then goes on to analyze how the US press undermined the authority of the public health experts who accurately predicted that the virus posed little danger to Americans. Reading the media coverage of the Ebola epidemic as a case study in the biopolitics of fear, Kirk considers how the US response reflected not only anxieties over globalization but also long-held narratives about the “Dark Continent.” Finally, Kirk shows how the US and global public response to the Ebola outbreak challenged traditional models of securitization and identifies patterns that have tragically recurred with subsequent epidemics such as COVID-19 and monkeypox.

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MIT Press

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0262374862

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9780262374866

Don't Suspend Me!

An Alternative Discipline Toolkit

By: Jessica Djabrayan Hannigan,John E. Hannigan

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Don't Suspend Me!

An Alternative Discipline Toolkit

By: Jessica Djabrayan Hannigan,John E. Hannigan

Learn how alternative discipline methods can create long-term change Suspensions don’t work. They don’t improve behavior and they don’t address the social-emotional needs of students. There are better, alternative discipline methods that can create positive, meaningful long-term changes in the behavior of challenging students. Aligned with educational law, Don’t Suspend Me! gives educators the tools they need to apply these alternative methods. Readers will find A toolkit with alternative strategies to use for the most common behavior challenges Case study examples and testimonials from educators in the field Worksheets and exercises for the major discipline incidents that occur in schools Answers to commonly asked questions

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Corwin Press

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1506350399

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The Philosophy of Science: N-Z, Index

By: Sahotra Sarkar,Jessica Pfeifer

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The Philosophy of Science: N-Z, Index

By: Sahotra Sarkar,Jessica Pfeifer

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Taylor & Francis

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041597710X

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Men of War

Masculinity and the First World War in Britain

By: Jessica Meyer

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Men of War

Masculinity and the First World War in Britain

By: Jessica Meyer

Exploring how understandings of masculinity were constructed by British First World war servicemen through examination of their personal narratives, including letters home from the front and wartime diaries. This book presents a nuanced investigation of masculine identity in Britain during and after the First World War.

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Springer

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0230305423

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Applied Conversation Analysis

Social Interaction in Institutional Settings

By: Jessica N. Lester,Michelle O'Reilly

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Applied Conversation Analysis

Social Interaction in Institutional Settings

By: Jessica N. Lester,Michelle O'Reilly

Focusing on applied conversation analysis (CA), Applied Conversation Analysis: Social Interaction in Institutional Settings by Jessica N. Lester and Michelle O’Reilly offers practical insights and guidelines for CA scholars studying social interactions in institutional settings. Written in an accessible style and packed with case studies, examples, activities, and practical tips, the book takes readers through the entire process of planning and carrying out an applied CA research study. By highlighting challenges, debates, and important questions, each chapter provides the theoretical foundation necessary for making informed decisions at every stage of a research project. The book is divided into three sections (context and planning, doing a project using conversation analysis, and disseminating your research) to mirror the research process.

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SAGE Publications

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150635128X

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In Exile

Geography, Philosophy and Judaic Thought

By: Jessica Dubow

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In Exile

Geography, Philosophy and Judaic Thought

By: Jessica Dubow

In In Exile, Jessica Dubow situates exile in a new context in which it holds both critical capacity and political potential. She not only outlines the origin of the relationship between geography and philosophy in the Judaic intellectual tradition; but also makes secular claims out of Judaism's theological sources. Analysing key Jewish intellectual figures such as Walter Benjamin, Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt, Dubow presents exile as a form of thought and action and reconsiders attachments of identity, history, time, and territory. In her unique combination of geography, philosophy and some of the key themes in Judaic thought, she has constructed more than a study of interdisciplinary fluidity. She delivers a striking case for understanding the critical imagination in spatial terms and traces this back to a fundamental – if forgotten – exilic pull at the heart of Judaic thought.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135015427X

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Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909

By: Emma Goldman,Candace Falk,Barry Pateman,Jessica M. Moran

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Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909

By: Emma Goldman,Candace Falk,Barry Pateman,Jessica M. Moran

This second of a three-volume set documenting Emma Goldman's life and work in the United States covers the years from 1902 through the end of 1909, from the 1901 assassination of President McKinley by a Polish-American anarchist through Goldman's participation in a wider political sphere that began with her launch of the anarchist magazine Mother Earth.

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Univ of California Press

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0520225694

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The Same But Different?

Inter-cultural Trade and the Sephardim, 1595-1640

By: Jessica V. Roitman

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The Same But Different?

Inter-cultural Trade and the Sephardim, 1595-1640

By: Jessica V. Roitman

Using cutting-edge theory regarding trade networks and diaspora, this book offers an innovative analysis of Sephardic merchants in 17th c. Amsterdam’s trade. Challenging views that Sephardic success stemmed from endogamous business relationships, it shows that Sephardic merchants traded with non-Sephardim.

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BRILL

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9004202765

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Everyday Assessment for Special Education and Inclusive Classroom Teachers

A Case Study Approach

By: Frank Dykes,Jessica Rueter,Staci Zolkoski

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Everyday Assessment for Special Education and Inclusive Classroom Teachers

A Case Study Approach

By: Frank Dykes,Jessica Rueter,Staci Zolkoski

Everyday Assessment for Special Education and Inclusive Classroom Teachers: A Case Study Approach provides a foundation in practical research-based methods to help today’s teachers tailor their instruction to meet the needs of all learners. With an easy-to-understand format, Everyday Assessment for Special Education and Inclusive Classroom Teachers combines real-life case studies with practitioner-friendly wording to teach and describe assessment topics in a concise manner. Practical applications for use in classroom settings can also be found throughout the text. What’s included in Everyday Assessment for Special Education and Inclusive Classroom Teachers: Example progress monitoring charts Curriculum-based assessments, behavior charts, and norm-referenced assessments to guide the reader when extracting data and inform everyday teaching practices Activities to practice skills and self-reflect on learning objectives at the end of each chapter Everyday Assessment for Special Education and Inclusive Classroom Teachers: A Case Study Approach pairs rationale and research with real-life case studies and applications for practice to prepare pre-service teachers to meet the unique needs of every learner.

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1040142877

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Murray River Country

An Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners

By: Jessica K. Weir

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Murray River Country

An Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners

By: Jessica K. Weir

Place, country, and care are at the heart of this wise book, which is so astutely responsive to the diverse, active Aboriginal individuals and nations of the Murray-Darling Basin Like the Central Valley of California near where I live, where vast rivers and wetlands have been engineered to produce a precarious and poisoned breadbasket for settler empires, the Murray-Darling Basin cries out for new practices of care from all of its people. Weir's book gives me hope that these blasted places and the lives of so many species, human and not, might again be whole, in new ways and old. Donna Haraway, History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz Murray River Country brings a fresh narrative to Australia's water crisis - the intimate stories of love and loss of the Aboriginal people who know the inland rivers as their traditional country. The Murray River's devastation demands that something fundamental changes in our water philosophies. Weir moves readers beyond questions of how much water will be `returned' to the rivers, to understand that our economy, and our lives, are dependent on river health. She draws on western and Indigenous knowledge traditions to unsettle the boundaries of the current debates. In doing so she shows how powerfully influential yet unacknowledged assumptions continue to trap our thinking and disable us from taking effective action. By engaging with the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia's agricultural heartland, and the Murray River, Australia's greatest river, Murray River Country goes to the heart of our national understandings of how we are to live in this country.

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Aboriginal Studies Press

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0855756780

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9780855756789

The Lives in Objects

Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast

By: Jessica Yirush Stern

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The Lives in Objects

Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast

By: Jessica Yirush Stern

In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption. Stern upends the long-standing assertion that Native Americans were solely gift givers and the British were modern commercial capitalists. This traditional interpretation casts Native Americans as victims drawn into and made dependent on a transatlantic marketplace. Stern complicates that picture by showing how both the Southeastern Indian and British American actors mixed gift giving and commodity exchange in the deerskin trade, such that Southeastern Indians retained much greater agency as producers and consumers than the standard narrative allows. By tracking the debates about Indian trade regulation, Stern also reveals that the British were often not willing to embrace modern free market values. While she sheds new light on broader issues in native and colonial history, Stern also demonstrates that concepts of labor, commerce, and material culture were inextricably intertwined to present a fresh perspective on trade in the colonial Southeast.

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UNC Press Books

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1469631490

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A Dog's World

Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World Without Humans

By: Jessica Pierce,Marc Bekoff

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A Dog's World

Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World Without Humans

By: Jessica Pierce,Marc Bekoff

[This book] imagines a post-human future for dogs, revealing how dogs would survive-and possibly even thrive-and explaining how this new and revolutionary perspective can guide how we interact with dogs now. Drawing on biology, ecology, and the latest findings on the lives and behavior of dogs and their wild relatives, [the authors] ... explore who dogs might become without direct human intervention into breeding, arranged playdates at the dog park, regular feedings, and veterinary care. [The authors] show how dogs are quick learners who are highly adaptable and opportunistic, and offer compelling evidence that dogs already do survive on their own--and could do so in a world without us. Challenging the notion that dogs would be helpless without their human counterparts, [this book] enables us to understand these independent and remarkably intelligent animals on their own terms"--

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Princeton University Press

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0691196184

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9780691196183

Non-Ideal Foundations of Language

By: Jessica Keiser

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Non-Ideal Foundations of Language

By: Jessica Keiser

This book argues that the major traditions in the philosophy of language have mistakenly focused on highly idealized linguistic contexts. Instead, it presents a non-ideal foundational theory of language that contends that the essential function of language is to direct attention for the purpose of achieving diverse social and political goals. Philosophers of language have focused primarily on highly idealized linguistic contexts in which cooperative agents are working toward the shared goal of gaining information about the world. This approach abstracts away from important issues like power, ideology, social position, and diversity of goals which are crucial to explaining linguistic phenomena both at the semantic and pragmatic levels. This book begins by examining the work of some of the pioneers of this tradition—primarily David Lewis, Paul Grice, and Robert Stalnaker. The author shows that various problems have their source in idealizations made at the foundational level of linguistic theory and proposes to rebuild from the ground-up. She presents a non-ideal foundational theory of language which retains the major insights of traditional frameworks while rejecting the social idealizations that guide them. Then, she explores the social and political applications of her account to issues such as dog whistling, propaganda, racist speech, silencing, and manipulation. Non-Ideal Foundations of Language will appeal to researchers and advanced students in philosophy of language who are interested in the social and political applications of language, as well as traditional metasemantic theory.

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1000827321

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9781000827323

Advocating Propaganda - Viewpoints from Israel

Social Media, Public Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, Military Psychology and Religious Persuasion Perspectives

By: Dr Ron Schleifer,Jessica Snapper

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Advocating Propaganda - Viewpoints from Israel

Social Media, Public Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, Military Psychology and Religious Persuasion Perspectives

By: Dr Ron Schleifer,Jessica Snapper

A rabbi, a priest, a politician, public servants, a military officer, a student activist and a social media consultant are gathered in this book to discuss the incomprehensible situation of Israel's faltering public image. Rabbi Berl Wine addresses the Jewish diaspora tradition and the lack of religious understanding of the realities of running a sovereign modern state. Pastor Jorgen Buhler discusses the Christian Protestant pro-Israel perspective. Dr Meron Medzini, the biographer of Golda Meir, sets out the state's early policy toward propaganda. Dr. Moshe Yegar, a former deputy director in the Israeli foreign ministry discusses the time when Public Relations was abolished in the ministry by today's president, Shimon Peres. Danny Seman, formerly a head of department in the newly founded Ministry of Information and Government Press Office, tells of his experiences of working for the government without government backup. Barak Raz of the IDF Spokesman Unit gives the military angle. Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, sets out Israeli foreign policy objectives. Yossi Sarid, former senior minister and media personality, provides analysis of hasbara (public diplomacy) in an international perspective. David Olesker, a leading authority on global campus activism, gives a historical survey of anti-Israel campus activities. Eva Rosenstein and David Abitbol discuss professional media and social media perspectives of propaganda advocacy. Ron Schleifer sets out to rectify Israel's international image, through better understanding of historical and contemporary policy, and the political/religious/military philosophy behind the different approaches over the years, presenting media and psychological mechanisms of motivating a more resourceful approach to this increasingly necessary aspect of Israeli statehood.

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Liverpool University Press

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1782841601

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9781782841609

Metaphysical Emergence

By: Jessica M. Wilson

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Metaphysical Emergence

By: Jessica M. Wilson

Both the special sciences and ordinary experience suggest that there are metaphysically emergent entities and features: macroscopic goings-on (including mountains, trees, humans, and sculptures, and their characteristic properties) which depend on, yet are distinct from and distinctively efficacious with respect to, lower-level physical configurations and features. These appearances give rise to two key questions. First, what is metaphysical emergence, more precisely? Second, is there any metaphysical emergence, in principle and moreover in fact? Metaphysical Emergence provides clear and systematic answers to these questions. Wilson argues that there are two, and only two, forms of metaphysical emergence of the sort seemingly at issue in the target cases: 'Weak' emergence, whereby a dependent feature has a proper subset of the powers of the feature upon which it depends, and 'Strong' emergence, whereby a dependent feature has a power not had by the feature upon which it depends. Weak emergence unifies and illuminates seemingly diverse accounts of non-reductive physicalism; Strong emergence does the same as regards seemingly diverse anti-physicalist views positing fundamental novelty at higher levels of compositional complexity. After defending the in-principle viability of each form of emergence, Wilson considers whether complex systems, ordinary objects, consciousness, and free will are actually metaphysically emergent. She argues that Weak emergence is quite common, and that there is Strong emergence in the important case of free will.

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Oxford University Press

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0192556975

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Semantic Knowledge Representation for Information Retrieval

By: Winfried Gödert,Jessica Hubrich,Matthias Nagelschmidt

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Semantic Knowledge Representation for Information Retrieval

By: Winfried Gödert,Jessica Hubrich,Matthias Nagelschmidt

This book covers the basics of semantic web technologies and indexing languages, and describes their contribution to improve methods of formal knowledge representation and reasoning. The methodologies included combine the specifics of indexing languages, Web representation languages and intersystem relations, and explain their contribution to search functionalities in information retrieval scenarios. An example oriented discussion, considering aspects of conceptual and semantic interoperability in processes of subject querying and knowledge exploration is provided. The book is relevant to information scientists, knowledge workers and indexers. It provides a suitable combination of theoretical foundations and practical applications.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110329700

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9783110329704

War Crimes

Causes, Excuses, and Blame

By: Matthew Talbert,Jessica Wolfendale

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War Crimes

Causes, Excuses, and Blame

By: Matthew Talbert,Jessica Wolfendale

Why do war crimes occur? Are perpetrators of war crimes always blameworthy? In an original and challenging thesis, this book argues that war crimes are often explained by perpetrators' beliefs, goals, and values, and in these cases perpetrators may be blameworthy even if they sincerely believed that they were doing the right thing.

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019067587X

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Changing Behaviours

On the Rise of the Psychological State

By: Rhys Jones,Jessica Pykett,Mark Whitehead

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Changing Behaviours

On the Rise of the Psychological State

By: Rhys Jones,Jessica Pykett,Mark Whitehead

ÔThis groundbreaking book provides a meticulously-researched history of the rise of a new state that aims to govern people by changing their behaviour through influencing (or at least claiming to influence) their psyche. With examples from finance, transport, health and environment, it also illustrates the struggles of citizens who fight against this new agenda of government. The book shows how deeply the psyche has become a different site of power and hence a different object of knowledge over the last two or three decades.Õ Ð Engin Isin, the Open University, UK Changing Behaviours charts the emergence of the behaviour change agenda in UK based public policy making since the late 1990s. By tracing the influence of the behavioural sciences on Whitehall policy makers, the authors explore a new psychological orthodoxy in the practices of governing. Drawing on original empirical material, chapters examine the impact of behaviour change policies in the fields of health, personal finance and the environment. This topical and insightful book analyses how the nature of the human subject itself is re-imagined through behaviour change, and develops an analytical framework for evaluating the ethics, efficacy and potential empowerment of behaviour change. This unique book will be of interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in a range of different disciplines. In particular, its inter-disciplinary focus on key themes in the social sciences Ð the state, citizenship, the meaning and scope of government Ð will make it essential reading for students of political science, sociology, anthropology, geography, policy studies and public administration. In addition, the bookÕs focus on the practical use of psychological and behavioural insights by politicians and policy makers should lead to considerable interest in psychology and behavioural economics.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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0857936883

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9780857936882

Neuroliberalism

Behavioural Government in the Twenty-First Century

By: Mark Whitehead,Rhys Jones,Rachel Lilley,Jessica Pykett,Rachel Howell

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Neuroliberalism

Behavioural Government in the Twenty-First Century

By: Mark Whitehead,Rhys Jones,Rachel Lilley,Jessica Pykett,Rachel Howell

Many governments in the developed world can now best be described as ‘neuroliberal’: having a combination of neoliberal principles with policy initiatives derived from insights in the behavioural sciences. Neuroliberalism presents the results of the first critical global study of the impacts of the behavioural sciences on public policy and government actions, including behavioural economics, behavioural psychology and neuroeconomics. Drawing on interviews with leading behaviour change experts, organizations and policy-makers, and discussed in alignment with a series of international case studies, this volume provides a critical analysis of the ethical, economic, political and constitutional implications of behaviourally oriented government. It explores the impacts of the behavioural sciences on everyday life through a series of themes, including: understandings of the human subject; interpretations of freedom; the changing form and function of the state; the changing role of the corporation in society; and the design of everyday environments and technologies. The research presented in this volume reveals a diverse set of neuroliberal approaches to government that offer policy-makers and behaviour change professionals a real choice in relation to the systems of behavioural government they can implement. This book also argues that the behavioural sciences have the potential to support much more effective systems of government, but also generate new ethical concerns that policy-makers should be aware of.

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Wounds of Returning

Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation

By: Jessica Adams

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Wounds of Returning

Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation

By: Jessica Adams

From Storyville brothels and narratives of turn-of-the-century New Orleans to plantation tours, Bette Davis films, Elvis memorials, Willa Cather's fiction, and the annual prison rodeo held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Jessica Adams considers spatial and ideological evolutions of southern plantations after slavery. In Wounds of Returning, Adams shows that the slave past returns to inhabit plantation landscapes that have been radically transformed by tourism, consumer culture, and modern modes of punishment--even those landscapes from which slavery has supposedly been banished completely. Adams explores how the commodification of black bodies during slavery did not disappear with abolition--rather, the same principle was transformed into modern consumer capitalism. As Adams demonstrates, however, counternarratives and unexpected cultural hybrids erupt out of attempts to re-create the plantation as an uncomplicated scene of racial relationships or a signifier of national unity. Peeling back the layers of plantation landscapes, Adams reveals connections between seemingly disparate features of modern culture, suggesting that they remain haunted by the force of the unnatural equation of people as property.

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Harlequin Romance August 2015 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Jennifer Faye,Teresa Carpenter,Kandy Shepherd,Jessica Gilmore

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Harlequin Romance August 2015 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Jennifer Faye,Teresa Carpenter,Kandy Shepherd,Jessica Gilmore

Harlequin® Romance brings you four new titles for one great price, available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This Harlequin® Romance box set includes: RETURN OF THE ITALIAN TYCOON (The Vineyards of Calanetti) by Jennifer Fayer When assistant Kayla travels to Angelo Amatucci's beautiful Tuscan village, she never expected to discover a new, very attractive side to her demanding boss… Working together is blissful torture and Kayla can't help but wonder if she'll be promoted…to Mrs. Amatucci! HIS UNFORGETTABLE FIANCÉE by Teresa Carpenter When Grace Delaney meets a handsome stranger with amnesia, she soon finds herself falling, not for the millionaire he's revealed to be, but for the man she's come to know. When Jackson's memory returns, will he forget her…or make her dreams a reality? HIRED BY THE BROODING BILLIONAIRE Kandy Shepherd Since losing his wife Declan has adjusted to a life of isolation… But as caring horticulturist Shelley restores order and beauty to his garden, she also begins to thaw Declan's heart. Can he let Shelley's light in and finally have his second chance at love? A WILL, A WISH…A PROPOSAL by Jessica Gilmore Ellie is living by her rules—not hotshot Max's! But bound together by her godmother's will, their sparks are becoming harder to ignore… Luckily, Ellie makes Max want to be a different man and, down on one knee, he'll prove it! Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Romance!

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Downton Abbey - A Celebration

The Official Companion to All Six Seasons

By: Jessica Fellowes

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Downton Abbey - A Celebration

The Official Companion to All Six Seasons

By: Jessica Fellowes

The official companion to all six seasons"--Jacket.

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Beast

By: Jessica Shope

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Beast

By: Jessica Shope

Every rose bears a hidden thorn, and Princess Belle is no exception. After being blessed with the gifts of kindness, beauty, and music as an infant by three benevolent fairies, she also receives a curse from the duplicitous fairy Methrua: Each night at sunset Belle becomes a beast. Whisked away to Methura's castle deep in the northern woods of Kammira after a bargain is struck between her parents and the mad fairy, she awaits the day when Methura will remove the curse so that she can return home. Little does she know that her fairy guardian has yet another trick up her sleeve, and when Belle at last meets her prince not-so-charming, she realizes that her secret may prove to be more of a liability than she could have ever imagined.

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Redefining Development

Resolving Complex Challenges in Developing Countries

By: Jessica Kritz

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Redefining Development

Resolving Complex Challenges in Developing Countries

By: Jessica Kritz

In 2015, the Old Fadama slum of Accra, Ghana was a government 'no-go zone' due to the generally lawless environment. Participatory action researchers (PAR) began working with three stakeholders to resolve complex challenges facing the community and city. In three years, they created a PAR cross-sector collaboration intervention incorporating data from 300 research participants working on sanitation. In 2018–2019, the stakeholders addressed the next priorities: community violence, solid waste, and a health clinic. The PAR intervention was replicated, supporting kayayei (women head porters) in Old Fadama, the Madina slum of Accra and four rural communities in northern Ghana. The process expanded, involving 2,400 stakeholders and an additional 2,048 beneficiaries. Cross-sector collaboration worked where other, more traditional development interventions did not. This PAR intervention provides developing-country governments with a solution for complex challenges: a low-cost, locally-designed tool that dramatically improved participation and resulted in projects that impact the public good. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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The American Way of Death Revisited

By: Jessica Mitford

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The American Way of Death Revisited

By: Jessica Mitford

Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade." Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession's lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh's novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb. "Brilliant--hilarious. . . . A must-read for anyone planning to throw a funeral in their lifetime."--New York Post "Witty and penetrating--it speaks the truth."--The Washington Post

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Harlequin Romance September 2016 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Marion Lennox,Jessica Gilmore,Teresa Carpenter,Leah Ashton

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An Anthology

By: Marion Lennox,Jessica Gilmore,Teresa Carpenter,Leah Ashton

Harlequin® Romance brings you four new titles for one great price, available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This Harlequin® Romance box set includes: #4535 STEPPING INTO THE PRINCE’S WORLD by Marion Lennox Caretaker Claire Tremaine finds a handsome soldier shipwrecked on her shores, and is soon won over by his kindness and kisses. But when she learns he’s the royal prince of Marétal, she'scertain they can't be together! That is, until Prince Raoul whisks her off to his royal palace! #4536 UNVEILING THE BRIDESMAIDby Jessica Gilmore New York artist Gael is convinced that love is a sham. But after spending time with shy Hope McKenzie, who has thrown herself into planning her sister’s wedding, he begins to wonder if this beautiful bridesmaid is what he’s been missing all along… #4537 THE CEO’S SURPRISE FAMILY by Teresa Carpenter When CEO Jethro Calder discovers he is a father, he doesn't believe he can be the parent his daughter needs. But to ensure that Lexi Malone—the woman caring for his daughter—is, he invites her to stay, and soon finds that happy families do exist! #4538 THE BILLIONAIRE FROM HER PAST by Leah Ashton Mila Molyneux always harboured a secret crush on childhood friend Sebastian Fyfe, until he married another woman! When she meets him years later—now widowed and as gorgeous as ever—she finds their connection is still strong… Will this reunion be Mila’s opportunity to tell Seb she wants more than friendship?

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Contemporary Australian Business Law

By: Mark Giancaspro,Gabrielle Golding,Beth Nosworthy,David Brown,Jessica Viven-Wilksch,Alexandra Wawryk,Sylvia Villios,Paula Zito

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Contemporary Australian Business Law

By: Mark Giancaspro,Gabrielle Golding,Beth Nosworthy,David Brown,Jessica Viven-Wilksch,Alexandra Wawryk,Sylvia Villios,Paula Zito

Contemporary Australian Business Law makes key legal concepts accessible to business students, while maintaining academic rigour.

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Run, Spot, Run

The Ethics of Keeping Pets

By: Jessica Pierce

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Run, Spot, Run

The Ethics of Keeping Pets

By: Jessica Pierce

44. Enriching Animals' Lives -- 45. Which Animals Should Be Pets? -- 46. Offering Better Protection -- 47. Speaking for Spot -- 48. So, Is Pet Keeping Ethical? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Groups as Epistemic and Moral Agents

By: Jessica Brown

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Groups as Epistemic and Moral Agents

By: Jessica Brown

Organised groups such as governments, corporations, charities and courts are an integral part of our lives. They provide services, sell goods, employ people, raise taxes, wage wars, and issue legal judgements. In our interactions with them, we routinely ascribe them mental states, speaking of what they know, want and intend. And we use these ascriptions in predicting what groups will do and assessing their responsibility for outcomes. For instance, in morally assessing the government's performance in the coronavirus pandemic, we might ask what the government knew about the virus at key decision points. And in attempting to predict Russia's response to the current war in Ukraine, we might ask what Russia believes about the West's resolve to defend Ukraine. This book takes these ordinary ways of thinking and talking seriously, assuming that at least some groups are agents with mental states on which they act. In particular, the book examines groups both as epistemic and moral agents providing non-summative accounts of group evidence, group belief, group justified belief, group knowledge, what it is for a group to act or believe for one reason rather than another, and when a group has an excuse for wrongdoing from blameless ignorance. These phenomena are crucial to the evaluation of the beliefs and actions of groups. Whether a group's belief is justified depends on its evidence and the reason for which it believes; whether it's praiseworthy or blameworthy for its actions depends on the reason for which it acted, as well as whether it is blamelessly ignorant of any wrongdoing. By providing a clearer view of central group phenomena, the book will help us assess the beliefs and actions of the powerful groups at work in our lives, whether governments, corporations, public sector bodies or third sector actors.

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Getting Respect

Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel

By: Michèle Lamont,Graziella Moraes Silva,Jessica S. Welburn,Joshua Guetzkow,Nissim Mizrachi,Hanna Herzog,Elisa Reis

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Getting Respect

Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel

By: Michèle Lamont,Graziella Moraes Silva,Jessica S. Welburn,Joshua Guetzkow,Nissim Mizrachi,Hanna Herzog,Elisa Reis

A comparative look at how discrimination is experienced by stigmatized groups in the United States, Brazil, and Israel Racism is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around the world. Getting Respect illuminates their experiences by comparing three countries with enduring group boundaries: the United States, Brazil and Israel. The authors delve into what kinds of stigmatizing or discriminatory incidents individuals encounter in each country, how they respond to these occurrences, and what they view as the best strategy—whether individually, collectively, through confrontation, or through self-improvement—for dealing with such events. This deeply collaborative and integrated study draws on more than four hundred in-depth interviews with middle- and working-class men and women residing in and around multiethnic cities—New York City, Rio de Janeiro, and Tel Aviv—to compare the discriminatory experiences of African Americans, black Brazilians, and Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel, as well as Israeli Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahi (Sephardic) Jews. Detailed analysis reveals significant differences in group behavior: Arab Palestinians frequently remain silent due to resignation and cynicism while black Brazilians see more stigmatization by class than by race, and African Americans confront situations with less hesitation than do Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahim, who tend to downplay their exclusion. The authors account for these patterns by considering the extent to which each group is actually a group, the sociohistorical context of intergroup conflict, and the national ideologies and other cultural repertoires that group members rely on. Getting Respect is a rich and daring book that opens many new perspectives into, and sets a new global agenda for, the comparative analysis of race and ethnicity.

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Inventing George Whitefield

Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon

By: Jessica M. Parr

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Inventing George Whitefield

Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon

By: Jessica M. Parr

Evangelicals and scholars of religious history have long recognized George Whitefield (1714-1770) as a founding father of American evangelicalism. But Jessica M. Parr argues he was much more than that. He was an enormously influential figure in Anglo-American religious culture, and his expansive missionary career can be understood in multiple ways. Whitefield began as an Anglican clergyman. Many in the Church of England perceived him as a radical. In the American South, Whitefield struggled to reconcile his disdain for the planter class with his belief that slavery was an economic necessity. Whitefield was drawn to an idealized Puritan past that was all but gone by the time of his first visit to New England in 1740. Parr draws from Whitefield's writing and sermons and from newspapers, pamphlets, and other sources to understand Whitefield's career and times. She offers new insights into revivalism, print culture, transatlantic cultural influences, and the relationship between religious thought and slavery. Whitefield became a religious icon shaped in the complexities of revivalism, the contest over religious toleration, and the conflicting role of Christianity for enslaved people. Proslavery Christians used Christianity as a form of social control for slaves, whereas evangelical Christianity's emphasis on "freedom in the eyes of God" suggested a path to political freedom. Parr reveals how Whitefield's death marked the start of a complex legacy that in many ways rendered him more powerful and influential after his death than during his long career.

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Growing for Justice

A Developmental Continuum of Leadership Capacities and Practices

By: Eleanor Drago-Severson,Jessica Blum-DeStefano,Deborah Brooks Lawrence

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Growing for Justice

A Developmental Continuum of Leadership Capacities and Practices

By: Eleanor Drago-Severson,Jessica Blum-DeStefano,Deborah Brooks Lawrence

Be the leader you want to see in the world. Educators committed to social justice enter into the work in markedly different ways. Drawing from research with 50 educational leaders from across the United States, Growing for Justice explores how leaders committed to social justice support the growth of others while also developing their own capacities to engage, connect, and lead for change. This groundbreaking book, informed by adult developmental theory and based on a first-of-its-kind study, helps school leaders assess their own strengths and areas for growth—and then take concrete steps toward improvement. Features include: Exploration of meaning-making systems and how they affect leaders’ understandings of diversity, equity, and social justice A research-based, developmental model of justice-centering educational leadership capacities and practices Leaders’ personal stories of growth and development as advocates Planning activities and reflective exercises to drive decision-making, action, and internal capacity-building Wherever you are in your social justice journey, wanting to do better is the first step toward actually doing better. With this book’s help, you’ll outline the supports, stretches, and scaffoldings you need to continually grow for justice.

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