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Becoming Un-orthodox

Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews

By: Lynn Davidman

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Becoming Un-orthodox

Stories of Ex-Hasidic Jews

By: Lynn Davidman

Lynn Davidman offers an in-depth study of defectors from Orthodox Judaism, showing how they negotiate the difficult passage away from their families and communities and reconstruct their identities in new social contexts.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199380503

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Imperial Encounters

The Politics of Representation in North-South Relations

By: Roxanne Lynn Doty

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Imperial Encounters

The Politics of Representation in North-South Relations

By: Roxanne Lynn Doty

Developed/underdeveloped, " "first world/third world, " "modern/traditional" - although there is nothing inevitable, natural, or arguably even useful about such divisions, they are widely accepted as legitimate ways to categorize regions and peoples of the world. In Imperial Encounters, Roxanne Lynn Doty looks at the way these kinds of labels influence North-South relations, reflecting a history of colonialism and shaping the way national identity is constructed today. Employing a critical, poststructuralist perspective, Doty examines two "imperial encounters" over time: between the United States and the Philippines and between Great Britain and Kenya. The history of these two relationships demonstrates that not only is the more powerful member allowed to construct "reality, " but this construction of reality bears an important relationship to actual practice. Doty considers the persistence of representational practices, particularly with regard to Northern views of human rights in the South and contemporary social science discourses on North-South relations. Important and timely, Imperial Encounters brings a fresh perspective to the debate over the past - and the future - of global politics.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816627630

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Facing Human Capital Challenges of the 21st Century

Education and Labor Market Initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates

By: Gabriella C. Gonzalez,Lynn A. Karoly,Louay Constant,Hanine Salem,Charles A. Goldman

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Facing Human Capital Challenges of the 21st Century

Education and Labor Market Initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates

By: Gabriella C. Gonzalez,Lynn A. Karoly,Louay Constant,Hanine Salem,Charles A. Goldman

Describes the education and labor market initiatives implemented or under way in four countries in the Arab region--Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates--to address the human resource issues they each face as they prepare their countries for a place in the 21st century global economy. Together, these countries highlight the variety of challenges faced by countries in the region and responses to those challenges.

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Rand Corporation

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083304642X

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Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy

By: Claire Lynn Sahlin

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Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy

By: Claire Lynn Sahlin

Birgitta's religious authority considered, with regard to her prophetic mission and her authenticity as a medium of divine revelation in 14c Europe. This book examines the religious authority of St Birgitta of Sweden, the charismatic moral reformer and controversial female visionary of the fourteenth century, emphasising both representations of her prophetic mission and debates about her authenticity as a medium of divine revelation. It illuminates Birgitta's view of herself as a prophet of moral reform by explaining how her Revelations depict her religious mission and place in salvation history, goingon to reconstruct interactions between Birgitta and her contemporaries, including the significance of her prophetic authority vis-a-vis the priestly authority of her male clerical associates. Finally, it analyses arguments aboutwomen's suitability for mediating the divine word in posthumous attacks and defences of her claims to prophesy. Through a close examination of Birgitta's lengthy Revelations, canonization documents, and texts by her posthumous defenders and detractors, this study demonstrates that members of her audience perceived her to be both a vibrant source of supernatural power and a dangerous transgressor of conventional boundaries. Informed by sociological studies of prophetic authority, it contributes to our knowledge of Birgitta herself as well as to our understanding of the dynamics of women's spiritual authority. Professor CLAIRE SAHLIN teaches at Texas Woman's University.

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Boydell & Brewer

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0851158218

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Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250–1300

Christians, Jews, and Enslaved Muslims in a Medieval Mediterranean Town

By: Rebecca Lynn Winer

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Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250–1300

Christians, Jews, and Enslaved Muslims in a Medieval Mediterranean Town

By: Rebecca Lynn Winer

Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250-1300 investigates the gender system at work in medieval Perpignan. Using a series of notarial registers - unique as surviving records for the social history of the thirteenth-century realms of Aragon and Majorca, the political confederations to which this town belonged - Rebecca L. Winer opens a window onto the experiences of women and their families. Her interpretive framework reveals medieval assumptions about the distinct natures of Christian, Jewish, and enslaved Muslim women by analyzing which actions were curbed, controlled, or fostered in these different groups. Sensitive to questions of social rank and marital status, the book departs from traditional women's history by asking how a woman's religious identity factored in determining her economic and legal options in this society. As a frontier town, Perpignan lends itself well to an analysis of relations among Christians, Jews and Muslim slaves. The later thirteenth century also provides an ideal focus for this inquiry since the politics of Christian expansion and the economics of the western Mediterranean meant that Jewish communities flourished. In contrast, Christian/Muslim relations unfolded particularly tensely due to intermittent conflict and both groups' slave trade almost exclusively in each other's people. Winer reconstructs how the members of these three communities negotiated shared space, conducting all manner of exchanges, making (endogamous) marriages, wills, commercial contracts, and arranging for the care of children whose fathers were lost to war or disease. The first section of the book focuses on women's legal status, work and control of financial resources in the two dominant communities, Christian and Jewish, across the social spectrum. It goes on to compare the ways in which mothers' relationships to their children were understood in the Christian and Jewish communities. The book concludes by entering the homes of Christian

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1351871366

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Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education

Socioculturally Sustaining Practices

By: Elizabeth A. Harkins Monaco,L. Lynn Stansberry Brusnahan,Marcus C. Fuller,Martin O. Odima

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Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education

Socioculturally Sustaining Practices

By: Elizabeth A. Harkins Monaco,L. Lynn Stansberry Brusnahan,Marcus C. Fuller,Martin O. Odima

Disability, Intersectionality, and Belonging in Special Education focuses on preparing educators who use socioculturally sustaining practices, curricula, and instruction through an intersectional lens. This book empowers preservice students and special education practitioners and administrators to meet the needs of disabled individuals. Understanding the full range of requirements relating to socioculturally sustaining practices is imperative to working with individuals with disabilities as well as with their families and caregivers. Being able to understand and explain this complex issue to others is important and often necessary. Social injustices in special education are historical and systemic. Special education practitioners are typically unaware of the importance of intersectional differences because they have been prepared to address cultural perspectives only during awareness days or through specific units in curricula. At other times they discuss the topic diagnostically—for example, as part of an educational plan or when teaching English as a second language. Other issues stem from the value system of the special education practitioners themselves; some are not willing to engage in these concepts, while others prioritize treating all students the same by using the terms “fairness,” “equity,” and “colorblindness” to justify this treatment. Even when special educator practitioners attempt to address injustices on behalf of their students, they tend to center on only the student’s disability, which means they are ignoring or erasing other aspects of their students’ identities. These concerns highlight the importance of building the sociocultural competence of our teaching force. This book will help practitioners build this competence in their own spheres of influence.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538175835

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The Early Origins of the Social Sciences

By: Lynn McDonald

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The Early Origins of the Social Sciences

By: Lynn McDonald

This study traces the methodological foundations, research techniques, and basic concepts of the social sciences from their earliest origins to the beginning of 20th century. It discusses the French Enlightenment, British moral philosophy and includes figures from the 19th century such as Marx.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773514082

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9780773514089

Learned Girls and Male Persuasion

Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy

By: Sharon Lynn James

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Learned Girls and Male Persuasion

Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy

By: Sharon Lynn James

This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed—the docta puella, or learned girl, the poet's beloved. By interpreting the poetry not, as has always been done, from the stance of the elite male writers—as plaint and confession—but rather from the viewpoint of the women—thus as persuasion and attempted manipulation—James reveals strategies and substance that no one has listened for before.

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Univ of California Press

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0520928660

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Legitimacy

Ambiguities of Political Success Or Failure in East and Southeast Asia

By: Lynn T. White

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Legitimacy

Ambiguities of Political Success Or Failure in East and Southeast Asia

By: Lynn T. White

This book documents the bases for a new view of legitimacy in general and in various parts of Asia, including China, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. The authors see legitimacy anywhere as always partial, rather than total, and somewhat measurable.

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World Scientific

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9812569340

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Black Legacies

Race and the European Middle Ages

By: Lynn T. Ramey

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Black Legacies

Race and the European Middle Ages

By: Lynn T. Ramey

Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe’s Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race. Using historical, literary, and artistic sources, Lynn Ramey shows that twelfth- and thirteenth-century discourse was preoccupied with skin color and the coding of black as “evil” and white as “good.” Ramey demonstrates that fears of miscegenation show up in all medieval European societies. She pinpoints these same ideas in the rhetoric of later centuries. Mapmakers and travel writers of the colonial era used medieval lore of “monstrous peoples” to question the humanity of indigenous New World populations, and medieval arguments about humanness were employed to justify the slave trade. Ramey even analyzes how race is explored in films set in medieval Europe, revealing an enduring fascination with the Middle Ages as a touchstone for processing and coping with racial conflict in the West today.

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University Press of Florida

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0813055040

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9780813055046

The Cold War Begins

Soviet-American Conflict Over East Europe

By: Lynn Etheridge Davis

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The Cold War Begins

Soviet-American Conflict Over East Europe

By: Lynn Etheridge Davis

A critical issue in the origins of the Cold War—the development of Soviet—American conflict over Eastern Europe from 1941 to 1945—is the subject of Lynn Etheridge Davis's book. Disagreeing with those writers who argue that conflict arose from the determination of the United States to obtain economic markets in Europe or from imprecise assessments of Soviet security interests, the author describes how the United States made an initial commitment to the Atlantic Charter principles in 1941, then continued to promote the creation of representative governments in Eastern Europe without clearly identifying American interests or foreseeing the consequences of these actions. Using recently released documents of the Departments of State and War, Professor Davis explains how the views of U.S. officials on postwar peace precluded approval of Soviet efforts to establish a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe through the imposition of Communist regimes. She describes how American officials interpreted Soviet actions as intent to expand into Western Europe and how the subsequent undermining of Allied cooperation around the world led to the Cold War. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400868025

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The Paradox of Plenty

Oil Booms and Petro-States

By: Terry Lynn Karl

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The Paradox of Plenty

Oil Booms and Petro-States

By: Terry Lynn Karl

In these countries, dependence on petroleum leads to disproportionate fiscal reliance on petrodollars and public spending, at the expense of statecraft.

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Univ of California Press

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0520207726

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9780520207721

Holistic Nursing

A Handbook for Practice

By: Barbara Montgomery Dossey,Lynn Keegan,Cathie E. Guzzetta

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Holistic Nursing

A Handbook for Practice

By: Barbara Montgomery Dossey,Lynn Keegan,Cathie E. Guzzetta

Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice guides nurses in the art and science of holistic nursing and offers ways of thinking, practicing, and responding to bring healing to the forefront of healthcare. Using self-assessments, relaxation, imagery nutrition, and exercise, it presents expanded strategies for enhancing psychophysiology. The Fourth Edition addresses both basic and advanced strategies for integrating complementary and alternative interventions into the clinical practice.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763731838

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9780763731830

Private Property and Public Power

Eminent Domain in Philadelphia

By: Deborah Lynn Becher

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Private Property and Public Power

Eminent Domain in Philadelphia

By: Deborah Lynn Becher

This volume explores the legitimacy of government involvement in private economic actions by presenting a study of property takings. In the first comprehensive study of a city's eminent-domain acquisitions, Debbie Becher explores which properties Philadelphia pursued for private redevelopment and how stakeholders decided that government actions were either a use or abuse of power.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199322554

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Women in the World of the Earliest Christians

Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life

By: Lynn Cohick

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Women in the World of the Earliest Christians

Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life

By: Lynn Cohick

Draws on first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents to examine the lives and experiences of the earliest Christian women.

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Baker Academic

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0801031729

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A Space for Race

Decoding Racism, Multiculturalism, and Post-Colonialism in the Quest for Belonging in Canada and Beyond

By: Kathy Hogarth,Wendy Lynn Fletcher

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A Space for Race

Decoding Racism, Multiculturalism, and Post-Colonialism in the Quest for Belonging in Canada and Beyond

By: Kathy Hogarth,Wendy Lynn Fletcher

This book explores the impact of unquestioned racial assumptions in the Canadian narrative that have constructed an insider/outsider culture. From that baseline, authors then develop an analytic designed to move beyond racialized othering to a society of genuine inclusivity and universal belonging.

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Oxford University Press

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0190858915

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From the House to the Streets

The Cuban Woman's Movement for Legal Reform, 1898-1940

By: Kathryn Lynn Stoner

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From the House to the Streets

The Cuban Woman's Movement for Legal Reform, 1898-1940

By: Kathryn Lynn Stoner

From the House to the Streets is the first study on feminists and the feminist movement in Cuba between 1902 and 1940. In the four decades following its independence form Spain in 1898, Cuba adopted the most progressive legislation for women in the western hemisphere. K. Lynn Stoner explains how a small group of women and men helped to shape broad legal reforms: she describes their campaigns, the version of feminism they adopted with all its contradictions, and contrasts it to the model of feminism North Americans were transporting to Cuba. Stoner draws on rich primary sources—texts, personal letters, journal essays, radio broadcasts, memoirs from women’s congresses—which allow these women to speak in their own voices. In reconstructing the mentalité of Cuban feminists, who came primarily from a privileged social status, Stoner shows how feminism drew from traditional notions of femininity and a rejection of gender equality to advance a cause that assumed women’s expanded roles were necessary for social progress. She also examines the values of the progressive male politicians who supported feminists and worked to change Cuban laws.

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Duke University Press

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0822381680

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Telling the Truth about History

By: Joyce Appleby,Lynn Hunt,Margaret Jacob

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Telling the Truth about History

By: Joyce Appleby,Lynn Hunt,Margaret Jacob

A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393078914

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9780393078916

Michel Foucault

By: Lynn Fendler

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Michel Foucault

By: Lynn Fendler

Michel Foucault's influential work spanned a wide array of intellectual disciplines, his writings having been widely taken up in philosophy, history, literary criticism and political theory. Focusing on the implications of Foucault's theories for education, whilst characterizing them as provocative, problematizing, poetic and playful, Lynn Fendler describes the historical context for understanding Foucault's ground breaking critiques. Including a discussion of his major theories of disciplinary power, genealogy, discourse and subjectivity, this text provides generative explanations of concepts, using analogies to the Internet and to food, in order to connect Foucault's theories to everyday experience.

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A&C Black

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1441126651

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The Paradox of Plenty

Oil Booms and Petro-States

By: Terry Lynn Karl

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The Paradox of Plenty

Oil Booms and Petro-States

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The Paradox of Plenty explains why, in the midst of two massive oil booms in the 1970s, oil-exporting governments as different as Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Algeria, and Indonesia chose common development paths and suffered similarly disappointing outcomes. Meticulously documented and theoretically innovative, this book illuminates the manifold factors—economic, political, and social—that determine the nature of the oil state, from the coherence of public bureaucracies, to the degree of centralization, to patterns of policy-making. Karl contends that oil countries, while seemingly disparate, are characterized by similar social classes and patterns of collective action. In these countries, dependence on petroleum leads to disproportionate fiscal reliance on petrodollars and public spending, at the expense of statecraft. Oil booms, which create the illusion of prosperity and development, actually destabilize regimes by reinforcing oil-based interests and further weakening state capacity. Karl's incisive investigation unites structural and choice-based approaches by illuminating how decisions of policymakers are embedded in institutions interacting with domestic and international markets. This approach—which Karl dubs "structured contingency"—uses a state's leading sector as the starting point for identifying a range of decision-making choices, and ends by examining the dynamics of the state itself.

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Univ of California Press

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052091869X

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9780520918696

Between States

Interim Governments in Democratic Transitions

By: Yossi Shain,Juan J. Linz,Lynn Berat

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Between States

Interim Governments in Democratic Transitions

By: Yossi Shain,Juan J. Linz,Lynn Berat

Between States is the first book that assesses systematically the broad implications of interim governments in the establishment of democratic regimes and on the existence of states. Based on historical and contemporary democratisation experiences, the book presents four ideal types of interim government: opposition-led provisional governments, power-sharing interim governments, incumbent-led caretaker governments, and international interim government by the United Nations. The first part explores the theoretical problems of each of these models from a broad comparative perspective. It uses as illustrations historical and contemporary cases that present a wide spectrum of contexts for comparison. The second part provides extensive case studies that are intended to illustrate, appraise, amplify and criticise the analysis in volume one. These include Iran, East Germany, Portugal, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521484987

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Education and Conflict

Complexity and Chaos

By: Lynn Davies

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Education and Conflict

Complexity and Chaos

By: Lynn Davies

This text provides a critical review of education in an international context. Based on the author's research and experience of education in several areas afflicted by conflict, the book explores the relationship between schooling and social conflict and looks at conflict internal to schools.

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Routledge

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1134408986

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Cruel World

The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web

By: Lynn H. Nicholas

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Cruel World

The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web

By: Lynn H. Nicholas

To be a child in mid-twentieth-century Europe was to be not a person but an object, available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. Very soon after Adolf Hitler came to power, policies of eugenic selection and euthanasia began to weed ill or disabled children out of the New Order by poison, gas, and starvation. Defect-free “good blood” children were subjected to an “education” based on racism, propaganda, and the glorification of the Führer, and were deliberately deprived of free time that would allow independent thought or action. Once the war began, “Nordic”-looking children were kidnapped from families in the conquered lands and subjected to “Germanization.” Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of “bad blood” children—Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians(were separated from their families and condemned to forced migration, slave labor, sadistic experiments, starvation, and mass execution. At the end of the war, uprooted children of every origin wandered the bombed-out cities and countryside, some having been taken from home at such a young age that they did not know where they had come from or even their own names. Millions surged into and out of DP camps, exploited by political and religious groups, while the Allies and the fledgling United Nations tried mightily to put families back together and to find new homes for the orphans. All the riveting narrative skill and impeccable scholarship that distinguished Lynn Nicholas’s first book, The Rape of Europa (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction), are present in her study of these terrible crimes against humanity. To research this story she has delved into the governmental and military archives of many nations, and has interviewed countless individuals. She shows the relationship of the deadly Nazi policies to the brutal tactics used in the USSR in the 1930s and to their rehearsal in the Spanish Civil War, and vividly describes the abject failure of Hitler’s campaign to plant Germanizing colonies in the conquered nations. She gives us the stories of survivors of ghastly war-spawned famines(in Greece and Russia in the 1940s, Holland in the “Hunger Winter” of 1945, and Berlin in the Airlift year of 1949(and of British, French, and Dutch children who were evacuated to the countryside; boys and girls sent alone from Europe to England on the Kindertransports; the teenaged soldiers of the Reich; the small veterans of the quarries, the factories, and the camps as well as those who survived in lonely hiding. In Cruel World Lynn Nicholas shows us clearly, and with passionate empathy for the innocent victims, the crimes against children that inevitably result when ideology overwhelms humanity. This powerful book, as it recounts the waking nightmare that enmeshed the lives of Europe’s boys and girls, bears witness to our own responsibility to the children of the twenty-first century.

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Vintage

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0307793826

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Judging Justice

How Victim Witnesses Evaluate International Courts

By: James David Meernik,Kimi Lynn King

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Judging Justice

How Victim Witnesses Evaluate International Courts

By: James David Meernik,Kimi Lynn King

Some injustices are so massive, so heinous, and so extraordinary that ordinary courts are no longer adequate. The creation of international courts and tribunals to confront major violations of human rights sought to bring justice to affected communities as well as to the entire world. Yet if justice is a righting of the imbalance between what has happened and what is reflected in the law, no amount of punishment and no judgment could compensate for that suffering and loss. In order to understand the meaning of justice, James David Meernik and Kimi Lynn King studied the perspective of witnesses who have testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Using a unique survey, Meernik and King look at the identity of the victims and their perception of the fairness of ICTY. Because of the need to justify the practical and emotional difficulties involved in testifying before an international tribunal, witnesses look not just to the institution to judge its effectiveness, but also to their own contribution, by testifying effectively. The central elements of the theory Meernik and King develop—identity, fairness, and experience—transcend specific conflicts and specific countries and are of importance to people everywhere.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472131265

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In Search of God the Mother

The Cult of Anatolian Cybele

By: Lynn E. Roller

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In Search of God the Mother

The Cult of Anatolian Cybele

By: Lynn E. Roller

This is the first thorough account of the nature and the spread of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother, and the first to present her worship soberly as a religion rather than sensationally as an orgiastic celebration of self-castrated priest-attendants.

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0520210247

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From the House to the Streets

The Cuban Woman's Movement for Legal Reform, 1898-1940

By: K. Lynn Stoner

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From the House to the Streets

The Cuban Woman's Movement for Legal Reform, 1898-1940

By: K. Lynn Stoner

If you want to find out what a rock critic, a syndicated columnist, and scholars of American literature have to say about one of America's most important contemporary novelists, turn to Introducing Don DeLillo. Placing the author's work in a cultural context, this is the first book-length collection on DeLillo, adding considerably to the emerging critical discourse on his work.Diversity is the key to this striking assemblage of cultural criticism edited by Frank Lentricchia. Special features include an expanded version of the Rolling Stone interview with the author ("An Outsider in this Society.

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Duke University Press

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0822311496

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The Shepheardes Calender

An Introduction

By: Lynn Staley Johnson,Lynn Staley

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The Shepheardes Calender

An Introduction

By: Lynn Staley Johnson,Lynn Staley

The Shepheardes Calender is the poem that launched Edmund Spenser's career and changed the direction of English poetry. In this reappraisal, Lynn Staley Johnson demonstrates that Spenser himself made a self-conscious effort to create a new literature, a new esthetic for a new era. Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, she places the poem in its literary, social, political , and cultural context, contributing to our understanding of the relationship between Spenser and his times. She pays particular attention to the emergence of the myth of Elizabeth and of England during the first half of Elizabeth's reign and the ways in which the young Spenser manipulated the concerns and issues of the time, transforming popular culture into literary expression. By its active engagement with both the present and the past, the Calender suggests Spenser's conception of poetry as informed dialogue designed for social work, offering a reinterpretation of the relationship between the poet and his community. Choosing not to be circumscribed by the voices of his significant historical and literary past, the Calender proclaims the poet, not as transmitter or mediator, but as an active and shaping force, capable of remaking the present by offering his age a picture of a new and potentially more glorious reality. Johnson seeks to bridge the gap between the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by linking Spenser's strategies and themes to those of his medieval forebears, especially Chaucer. Both Edmund Spenser and his enigmatic Calender stand facing two ways, back into the age dubbed &"middle&" and forward, hailing the new; as it's study demonstrates, only by bringing these views into a single focus can we begin to appreciate the radical and innovative nature of a poem that for many heralds the renaissance of English poetry.

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Penn State Press

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0271041005

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Ephesians

By: Lynn H. Cohick

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Ephesians

By: Lynn H. Cohick

Ephesians speaks to our deepest questions about God:the redemptive plan of God written from ages past now revealed; the work of Christ complete and eff ective now and for eternity; the power of the Holy Spirit to change lives and build a community. Th e clear message of God’s unfathomable grace establishes the believer’s hope and under-girds the call for faithful living. Down through the centuries, the clarion call to unity that permeates Ephesians has inspired and challenged the faithful to live out the promises found in Christ. This short letter speaks to the twenty-first century’s longing for friendship and wholeness.

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0718892399

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9780718892395

For Health and Beauty

Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s

By: Mary Lynn Stewart

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For Health and Beauty

Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s

By: Mary Lynn Stewart

She then examines compulsory education in hygiene and gymnastics, the flourishing genre of women's medical and sexual self-help literature, and the commercialization of health, beauty, and fitness products - all contributing to new scientific and commercial representations of the female body.

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JHU Press

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0801864836

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