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The Model as Performance

Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture

By: Thea Brejzek,Lawrence Wallen

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The Model as Performance

Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture

By: Thea Brejzek,Lawrence Wallen

The Model as Performance investigates the history and development of the scale model from the Renaissance to the present. Employing a scenographic perspective and a performative paradigm, it explores what the model can do and how it is used in theatre and architecture. The volume provides a comprehensive historical context and theoretical framework for theatre scholars, scenographers, artists and architects interested in the model's reality-producing capacity and its recent emergence in contemporary art practice and exhibition. Introducing a typology of the scale model beyond the iterative and the representative model, the authors identify the autonomous model as a provocative construction between past and present, idea and reality, that challenges and redefines the relationship between object, viewer and environment. The Model as Performance was shortlisted for the best Performance Design & Scenography Publication Award at the Prague Quadrennial (PQ) 2019.

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1474271391

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The New Approach Composition Book

By: Richard Lawrence Wallen

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The New Approach Composition Book

By: Richard Lawrence Wallen

This book offers teachers and students a new and innovative way to promote skills in composition, thinking, and vocabulary. Through a cadre of one hundred poe-ums, students will be challenged to read and think and then answer thought provoking questions. The questions will focus on analysis, application, creativity, evaluation, explanation, and interpretation. It is estimated that over half of high school students are never taught to think on a number of different levels. A poe-um is designed to illuminate topics of interest to teens and scholars. A free-verse style allows for an easy flow of ideas and information. Use of words that rhyme in the context of a short but comprehensive commentary on a wide variety of topics produces a powerful tool for stimulating thinking. Use of a mature vocabulary invites the student to expand his/her own command of word power. Students learn that even one or two key words, when introduced into a composition, can have a dramatic influence and potent effect. Students with high levels of composition and thinking skills have a potentially dominant advantage in our competitive world. Innovative instructional materials such as this book can be a catalyst for development of both composition and the targeted six thinking skills.

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1546270787

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Inheriting As People Think It Should Be

From Money To Mementos

By: Jacqueline J. Goodnow,Jeanette A. Lawrence

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Inheriting As People Think It Should Be

From Money To Mementos

By: Jacqueline J. Goodnow,Jeanette A. Lawrence

What obligations to each other do people have or think they have? That question comes up in relation to family and marriage relationships, to law, and to moral reasoning. This novel and highly readable book takes it up in relation to inheritances: to what people think they should leave or be left, who should receive what, when, how, and why. Making the book novel is its range. Here are views about more than money. Covered are also houses, land and, an often neglected but emotion-laden area, the personal and often indivisible things that mean one is remembered as an individual. Making it novel also is its emphasis throughout on meanings and on what people see as matters of choice or flexibility. Even in countries where the legal codes specify who should receive what after death (many European and most Islamic codes allow far less choice than British-based law does), people still have room for decisions about what they give away to various heirs or spend before death. What makes the book highly readable? One reason is its timeliness. Currently lively, for example, are debates over parents balancing their own needs and wishes against those of their children (“spending the kids’ inheritance”, in one description). Another is the book’s style. The writing is straightforward. Theory is not neglected but there is an absence of jargon. The material is also mostly based on narratives: on people’s own descriptions of arrangements that “worked well” or “did not work well” and on why they thought so. That base makes the book far from dry and far from being an account only of negative feelings, objections, challenges, and family rifts. It also makes it more relevant at times of indecision or misunderstanding. In short, a book for many readers, both within the social sciences and beyond it.

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IAP

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1623962978

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Guillaume de Machaut

A Guide to Research

By: Lawrence Earp

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Guillaume de Machaut

A Guide to Research

By: Lawrence Earp

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1136781773

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Family Life in 20th-Century America

By: Marilyn Coleman Ph.D.,Lawrence H. Ganong,Kelly Warzinik

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Family Life in 20th-Century America

By: Marilyn Coleman Ph.D.,Lawrence H. Ganong,Kelly Warzinik

No other century promoted such rapid change in American families than the twentieth century did. Through most of the first half of the century families were two-parent plus children units, but by the 1980s and 1990s divorce was common in half of the homes and many families were single-parent or included step-parents, step-siblings and half-siblings. The major changes in opinions and even some laws on race, gender and sexuality during the 1960s and 1970s brought change to families as well. Some families were headed by gay parents, lived in communes or other non-traditional homes, were of mixed race, or had adopted children. Family life had changed dramatically in less than 50 years. The change in the core make-up of what was considered a family ushered in new celebrations and holidays, ways of cooking, eating, and entertainment, and even daily activities. In this detailed look at family life in America, Coleman, Ganong and Warzinick discuss home and work, family ceremonies and celebrations, parenting and children, divorce and single-parent homes, gay and lesbian families, as well as cooking and meals, urban vs. suburban homes, and ethnic and minority families. Reference resources include a timeline, sources for further reading, photographs and an index. Volumes in the Family Life in America series focus on the day-to-day lives and roles of families throughout history. The roles of all family members are defined and information on daily family life, the role of the family in society, and the ever-changing definition of the term family' are discussed. Discussion of the nuclear family, single parent homes, foster and adoptive families, stepfamilies, and gay and lesbian families are included where appropriate. Topics such as meal planning, homes, entertainment and celebrations, are discussed along with larger social issues that originate in the home like domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, and divorce. Ideal for students and general readers alike, books in this series bring the history of everyday people to life.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313042969

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Refugee Learner Experiences. A Case Study of Zimbabwean Refugee Children

By: Lawrence Meda

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Refugee Learner Experiences. A Case Study of Zimbabwean Refugee Children

By: Lawrence Meda

This study is a presentation of Zimbabwean refugee learner experiences. Children escaped political persecution and economic problems which affected Zimbabwe in the year 2008. Many of these children were abused and witnessed traumatic experiences, their close relatives and neighbours being executed in cold blood. This study was guided by three critical questions: i) who are the Zimbabwean refugee learners? ii) what were Zimbabwean refugee learners’ migration experiences? and iii) what were Zimbabwean refugee learners’ school experiences? The study employed Bronfenbrenner’s Social Ecological Model as its overarching theoretical framework. Each stage of the refugee experience was described at each point in time.

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Anchor Academic Publishing

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3960676670

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Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology Primer of Molecular Biology in Cancer

By: Vincent T. DeVita,Theodore S. Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

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Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology Primer of Molecular Biology in Cancer

By: Vincent T. DeVita,Theodore S. Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

Recent scientific advances have revolutionized cancer research and practice, creating a body of molecular biology information that is important to research scientists and clinical oncologists alike. Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology: Primer of the Molecular Biology of Cancer, 3rd Edition, keeps you up to date with all that’s new in this rapidly changing field. Derived from DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg’s Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology – widely regarded as the definitive clinical reference in oncology – the third edition of this popular Primer provides a single-volume, highly focused reference on every important frontier in the molecular biology of cancer.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975149130

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DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer

By: Vincent T. DeVita,Steven A. Rosenberg,Theodore S. Lawrence

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DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer

By: Vincent T. DeVita,Steven A. Rosenberg,Theodore S. Lawrence

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Now updated online for the life of the edition, DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg's Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, 11th Edition keeps you up to date in this fast-changing field. Every quarter, your eBook will be updated with late-breaking developments in oncology, including new drugs, clinical trials, and more.

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149639464X

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Defeating Lee

A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac

By: Lawrence A. Kreiser

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Defeating Lee

A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac

By: Lawrence A. Kreiser

“Kreiser breathes new life into this most important of Union Army units. . . . A remarkably well-written and superbly researched account.” —David E. Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln’s Re-election and the End of Slavery Fair Oaks, the Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Petersburg—the list of significant battles fought by the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac, is a long and distinguished one. This absorbing history of the Second Corps follows the unit’s creation and rise to prominence, the battles that earned it a reputation for hard fighting, and the legacy its veterans sought to maintain in the years after the Civil War. More than an account of battles, Defeating Lee gets to the heart of what motivated these men, why they fought so hard, and how they sustained a spirited defense of cause and country long after the guns had fallen silent. “[An] excellent contribution to Civil War history shelves.” —Midwest Book Review “Lawrence Kreiser tells the Second Corps’ story with verve and attention to personal as well as bureaucratic details.” —Civil War Librarian

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Indiana University Press

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0253001706

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9780253001702

Techniques for Teaching Thinking

By: Arthur L. Costa,Lawrence F. Lowery

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Techniques for Teaching Thinking

By: Arthur L. Costa,Lawrence F. Lowery

Originally published in 1989 the purpose of this title was to provide information and ideas for: Staff Developers and Teacher Educators, as they consider program content to prepare teachers to teach thinking skills. Teachers, as they assess their own abilities to create classroom conditions for thinking and their readiness to implement a curriculum for developing thinking skills. Curriculum Developers, as they decide how the curriculum should be organized and sequenced according to children’s developmental levels. Administrators, as they assess and provide leadership for improving the conditions in their schools and classrooms, which allows the stimulating teaching of thinking. Although written some time ago the information is still valid today.

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Routledge

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1317270002

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Opera and Modern Culture

Wagner and Strauss

By: Lawrence Kramer

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Opera and Modern Culture

Wagner and Strauss

By: Lawrence Kramer

An essay on opera and modernity, using the seminal figures of Wagner and Strauss as case studies.

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Univ of California Press

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Obscene Gestures

Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century

By: Patrick Lawrence

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Obscene Gestures

Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century

By: Patrick Lawrence

Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner, and others. Patrick S. Lawrence dives into notorious obscenity debates to reconsider the divergent afterlives of artworks that were challenged or banned over their taboo sexual content to reveal how these controversies affected their critical reception and commercial success in ways that were often determined at least in part by racial, gender, or sexual stereotypes and pernicious ethnographic reading practices. Starting with early postwar touchstone cases and continuing through the civil rights, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements, Lawrence demonstrates on one level that breaking sexual taboos in literary and cultural works often comes with cultural cachet and increased sales. At the same time, these benefits are distributed unequally, leading to the persistence of exclusive hierarchies and inequalities. Obscene Gestures takes its bearings from recent studies of the role of obscenity in literary history and canon formation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, extending their insights into the postwar period when broad legal latitude for obscenity was established but when charges of obscenity still carried immense symbolic and political weight. Moreover, the rise of social justice movements around this time provides necessary context for understanding the application of legal precedents, changes in the publishing industry, and the diversification of the canon of American letters. Obscene Gestures, therefore, advances the study of obscenity to include recent developments in the understanding of race, gender, and sexuality while refining our understanding of late-twentieth-century American literature and political culture.

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Fordham University Press

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1531500110

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9781531500115

The Walla Walla Treaty Council of 1855

By: Lawrence Kip,Bureau of Indian Affairs

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The Walla Walla Treaty Council of 1855

By: Lawrence Kip,Bureau of Indian Affairs

The Official Proceedings at the Council in the Walla Walla Valley and Lawrence Kip's Indian Council in the Walla Walla Valley, along with James Doty's Journal of Operations, are an exlent source of first hand information on the treaty proceedings. Also reprinted are the texts of the three treaties signed at the end of the council, and the text of three more conferences held by the military authorities with several of these tribesman after the battles of 1855 and 1856. These documents provide an insight, however imperfectly translated, into the way the Columbia basin Native Americans viewed what the land they lived on meant to them, and how different their views on land ownership was from the European views of ownership of defined tracts of land.

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Lulu.com

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1312322039

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9781312322035

A Treasury of Jewish Anecdotes

By: Lawrence Jeffrey Epstein

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A Treasury of Jewish Anecdotes

By: Lawrence Jeffrey Epstein

To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

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Jason Aronson

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0876688903

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9780876688908

Public Health Law

Power, Duty, Restraint

By: Lawrence O. Gostin,Lindsay F. Wiley

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Public Health Law

Power, Duty, Restraint

By: Lawrence O. Gostin,Lindsay F. Wiley

In this bold new edition, Gostin is joined by coauthor Lindsay F. Wiley to analyze the crucial role of law in addressing today's major health threats, including emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism, natural disasters, car fatalities, gun violence, opioid overdoses, and chronic diseases caused by tobacco use, poor diet, and physical inactivity. The book creates an intellectual framework for the modern field of public health law and supports that framework with illustrations of the scientific, political, and ethical issues involved. In proposing innovative solutions for the future of the public's health, Gostin and Wiley's essential study provides a blueprint for coming public and political debates in this dynamic field. New issues covered in this edition: Corporate personhood rights raised in response to regulations of tobacco, food and beverages, alcohol, firearms, prescription drugs, and marijuana; local government authority to protect the public's health; deregulation and harm reduction as modes of public health law intervention; taxation, spending, and alteration of the socioeconomic environment as modes of public health law intervention; access to health care as a strategy for protecting the public's health; taxation, spending, licensing, zoning, and shared-use strategies for chronic disease prevention; the public health law perspective on violence and injury prevention; health justice as a framework for reducing health disparities and protecting the public's health"--Provided by publisher.

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Univ of California Press

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0520282655

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9780520282650

Firefighting in Buncombe County

By: Brian Lawrence

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Firefighting in Buncombe County

By: Brian Lawrence

When Buncombe County was formed in 1792, firefighting efforts were left up to individual landowners and helpful neighbors using buckets and a nearby well or body of water. Not until 1882 was an organized, community-sponsored fire department established; this was the Asheville Fire Department. Other fire departments followed, and no two were the same. Stations appeared in the towns of Weaverville and Black Mountain, while others sprang up in the residential communities of Kenilworth, Biltmore Forest, and George Vanderbilts Biltmore Village. In September 1953, county commissioners formally passed a resolution for county aid and supervision for rural volunteer fire departments. Through photographs that illustrate firefighting in many of its formsrescue squads, wildland firefighting units, ladies auxiliaries, and ambulance servicesFirefighting in Buncombe County showcases and honors the firefighters of this mountainous area who have always worked to keep their communities safe.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439646902

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Innovation was Not Enough

A History of the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA)

By: Lawrence William Jones

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Innovation was Not Enough

A History of the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA)

By: Lawrence William Jones

MURA was responsible for a number of important contributions to the science of particle accelerators, including the invention of fixed field alternating gradient accelerators (FFAG). This title presents a history of the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA) during its lifetime from the early 1950s to the late 1960s.

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World Scientific

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9812832831

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Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge

By: Lawrence Kramer

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Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge

By: Lawrence Kramer

A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music—the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this music is regarded esoterically, removed from real-world interests, it increasingly sounds more evasive than transcendent. Now Lawrence Kramer shows how classical music can take on new meaning and new life when approached from postmodernist standpoints. Kramer draws out the musical implications of contemporary efforts to understand reason, language, and subjectivity in relation to concrete human activities rather than to universal principles. Extending the rethinking of musical expression begun in his earlier Music as Cultural Practice, he regards music not only as an object that invites aesthetic reception but also as an activity that vitally shapes the personal, social, and cultural identities of its listeners. In language accessible to nonspecialists but informative to specialists, Kramer provides an original account of the postmodernist ethos, explains its relationship to music, and explores that relationship in a series of case studies ranging from Haydn and Mendelssohn to Ives and Ravel. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music—the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its

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0520918428

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Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology

Annual Advances in Oncology

By: Vincent T. DeVita Jr.,Theodore Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

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Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology

Annual Advances in Oncology

By: Vincent T. DeVita Jr.,Theodore Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

Announcing the second volume of DeVita, Lawrence and Rosenberg's groundbreaking series, Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology—Annual Advances in Oncology. This series of annual volumes focuses on the most significant changes in oncologic research and practice that have taken place during the preceding year. Each volume identifies scientific and clinical areas in oncology that are rapidly changing and show a high potential for affecting the management of cancer patients in the future. These areas may reflect current controversies in oncology and every effort is made to provide clear direction for the practicing oncologist.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451180748

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9781451180749

Judith

By: Lawrence M. Wills

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Judith

By: Lawrence M. Wills

Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her village and Jerusalem. This short novella was somewhat surprisingly included in the early Christian versions of the Old Testament and has played an important role in the Western tradition ever since. This commentary provides a detailed analysis of the text's composition and its meaning in its original historical context, and thoroughly surveys the history of Judith scholarship. Lawrence M. Wills not only considers Judith's relation to earlier biblical texts--how the author played upon previous biblical motifs and interpreted important biblical passages--but also addresses the rise of Judith and other Jewish novellas in the context of ancient Near Eastern and Greek literature, as well as their relation to cross-cultural folk motifs. Because of the popularity of Judith in art and culture, this volume also addresses the book's history of interpretation in paintings, sculpture, music, drama, and literature. A number of images of artistic depictions of Judith are included and discussed in detail.

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Fortress Press

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1506463827

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The Treasury of Belusha

By: Bevan Lawrence

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The Treasury of Belusha

By: Bevan Lawrence

A tale, three in one; the story of an adopted child who finds inadvertently, that he is the head of a notorious family. Its also about the history of a chateau, once a castle now a hotel, and its about the origins and the scull-duggery surrounding a hoard of treasure gathered from all over the world to end up in one mans hands. A book of fiction with just enough truth to be believable, written by an author who loves the magic behind a good piratical legend. Today Bevan has a very international house hold at his home in Auckland New Zealand where many folk from around the world have come to stay, he meets and talks and sometimes finds a true story around which he weaves a tale or two. The treasury of Belusha is supposed to be a fun novel about a wealth obsessed Napoleonic General; the affect he has decades later on the life of an ordinary New Zealander, and an obscure man who through his own manipulations joins together the heritages of both men.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493137743

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9781493137749

Teaching Writing in English as a Foreign Language

Teachers’ Cognition Formation and Reformation

By: Huan Zhao,Lawrence Jun Zhang

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Teaching Writing in English as a Foreign Language

Teachers’ Cognition Formation and Reformation

By: Huan Zhao,Lawrence Jun Zhang

This book explores teachers’ cognitions about the teaching of writing in English as a foreign language (EFL) and their teaching practice, as well as factors influencing the formation and reformation process of their cognition. Taking stock of Bakhtin’s dialogism as the theoretical framework, the authors argue that the formation and reformation of teacher cognition is a dialogic process. A systematic analysis of participating teachers’ cognition formation and re-formation process suggests the highly individual nature of teachers’ cognitions. EFL researchers and teachers, teacher educators, teacher education policymakers, university administrators and EFL textbook writers could draw on the findings of the study to provide better resources to implement the teaching of EFL writing more effectively. The study has adopted a mixed-methods approach, whose quantitative results show the patterns and differences of teacher cognition among teachers of different backgrounds and with different schooling, education and working experiences. The qualitative findings show in detail teachers' cognition formation and reformation processes and the factors contributing to such processes, revealing convergence and divergence of teachers’ stated cognitions, with a focus on the discrepancy between teacher cognition and teaching practice. These are useful lenses through which researchers and teachers will find significant implications for offering EFL writing instruction more effectively.

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Springer Nature

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3030999912

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9783030999919

More than Music

Cultural Stirrings From Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon'

By: Lawrence English

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More than Music

Cultural Stirrings From Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon'

By: Lawrence English

Pink Floyd tapped into the deep roots people have in philosophy, psychology, religion, literature, and history, and their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon continues to appeal to people after almost fifty years. This book explains how the album evokes and resonates with so many cultural chords in all of us. "More Than Music is a rigorous examination of one of the most enduring records of all time, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. Analyzing the album from many different avenues, the book provides clear correlations of the music and lyrics to many aspects of human culture, from ancient times to the present. Each song is examined line by line to show how the album evokes and ties together themes from myriad philosophical, mythological, psychological, religious, historical, literary, and other cultural sources. The book shows how William James and Carl Jung, Ecclesiastes and Kierkegaard, D.H. Lawrence and T.S. Eliot, Horace and Orwell, Jesus and Buddha, Beethoven and Strauss, William Blake and Jean-Paul Sartre, The Beatles and Gilbert and Sullivan resonate throughout The Dark Side of the Moon. They are among the most powerful sources of who we are and why. Coming to see how the album knits together so many diverse elements into a seamless whole, the interplay of many factors that make up society is illuminated. This book will give readers a new way of looking at how the factors of philosophy, religion, psychology, mythology, literature and poetry, history and politics derive meaning and depth from each other. Readers will never listen to The Dark Side of the Moon the same way, but they’ll never look at the underlying factors the same way again, either.

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Algora Publishing

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1628944420

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