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Swords Into Plowshares

Theological Reflections on Peace

By: Roger Burggraeve,Marc Vervenne

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Swords Into Plowshares

Theological Reflections on Peace

By: Roger Burggraeve,Marc Vervenne

Roger Burggraeve is professor-in-ordinary at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he teaches moral theology and is chairperson of the Center for the Study of the Theology of Peace. Marc Vervenne lectures at the Catholic University of Leuven in the field of Old Testament studies and serves as Academic Secretary for the University's Faculty of Theology.

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Peeters Publishers

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906831372X

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9789068313727

Ritual and Ethnic Identity

A Comparative Study of the Social Meaning of Liturgical Ritual in Synagogues

By: Jack N. Lightstone,Frederick B. Bird,Simcha Fishbane,Marc P. Lalonde,Victor Levin,Louise Mayer,Madeleine Mcbrearty

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Ritual and Ethnic Identity

A Comparative Study of the Social Meaning of Liturgical Ritual in Synagogues

By: Jack N. Lightstone,Frederick B. Bird,Simcha Fishbane,Marc P. Lalonde,Victor Levin,Louise Mayer,Madeleine Mcbrearty

In this innovative and comprehensive collection of essays Jack Lightstone and Frederick Bird document and interpret ritual practice among contemporary Canadian Jews. They particularly focus on the character and meaning of the public performance of the Sabbath liturgy in six urban Canadian synagogues, ranging from Orthodox to Reform, and from large congregations to a small house synagogue-yeshiva (rabbinic academy). Their examination of synagogue ritual is complemented with accounts of the ritual life of contemporary Canadian Jews outside the synagogue — amongst their families, within their homes and beyond. In contrast with other studies of Jewish observance, Lightstone and Bird document not simply which rituals are practised and how often; rather they stress the meaning, including the social meaning, of these rituals and treat them as complex symbolic systems. Their multidisciplinary approach together with their openness to include a wide variety of phenomena in their study (for example, the organization of the physical setting of the Sabbath, dress codes and patterns of greeting and handshaking) place this work at the very forefront of current research. Ritual and Ethnic Identity will be of great value to historians and sociologists of religion, anthropologists and all those concerned with religion, ritual and Canadian Jewish and ethnic studies.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889207283

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9780889207288

Retail Market Study 2013

By: Marc-Christian Riebe

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Retail Market Study 2013

By: Marc-Christian Riebe

The last year's Retail Market Study reached 20'000 readers. This year we covered 145 Shopping Cities, 500 Shopping Malls, 750 High Streets, 1'000 Retailers & 2'000 Store Openings on 976 pages.

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The Location Group

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3033038492

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Structure of Antigens

By: Marc H. V. Van Regenmortel

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Structure of Antigens

By: Marc H. V. Van Regenmortel

Structure of Antigens discusses a variety of topics dealing with the structural basis of antigenicity. Topics include the analytical methods used to elucidate the structure of antigens, the structure of antibodies, the principles underlying modern immunoassays and the measurement of antibody binding affinity, and physicochemical principles and methodological aspects. The book also considers major groups of antigens distinguished by their functional activity and biological role (e.g., drugs, autoantigens, snake toxins, allergens) or by their association with particular biological systems (e.g., antigens of microorganisms). Structure of Antigens will provide a current, useful, reference for researchers and graduate students in all fields of biological science who need an overview of antigenic specificity. VOLUME II

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CRC Press

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0849388678

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Breast Cancer Husband

How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) during Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond

By: Marc Silver

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Breast Cancer Husband

How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) during Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond

By: Marc Silver

A unique guide, like none other on the market-packed with medical information, practical tips, psychological insight, and coping strategies--to help men help the women they love through this trying time. When Marc Silver became a breast cancer husband three years ago, he learned firsthand how frightened and helpless the breast cancer husband feels. He searched in vain for a book that would give him the information and advice he so desperately sought. Now this award-winning journalist has compiled just the kind of emotionally supportive and useful resource that he wished he had been able to consult-to give men the tools they need to help their wives, their families, and themselves through this scary, uncertain time. In his years as a consumer journalist and veteran of the News You Can Use staff at U.S. News & World Report, Marc Silver learned what kind of information and advice on medical crises readers found most valuable. He draws on that experience as he covers in depth all the issues couples coping with breast cancer will have to face during diagnosis, treatment, and beyond. Highlights include: - The shared experiences of other breast cancer husbands - Guidance from top cancer doctors in the country - Advice on when, how, and what to tell your young children - Tips on coping with radiation and chemotherapy - A candid discussion of sex and intimacy following breast cancer surgery More than 200,000 women are diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States. At last, with this book, the men who love them have a road map to help them through a difficult and unprecedented journey.

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Rodale Books

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160529604X

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9781605296043

Biology and Mechanics of Blood Flows

Part I: Biology

By: Marc Thiriet

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Biology and Mechanics of Blood Flows

Part I: Biology

By: Marc Thiriet

This authoritative work presents the basic knowledge and state-of-the-art techniques necessary to carry out investigations of the cardiovascular system using modeling and simulation. The book provides a survey of relevant cell components and processes, with detailed coverage of the electrical and mechanical behaviors of vascular cells, tissues, and organs. Biological and mechanical glossaries are provided.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387748474

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Lowering the Bar

Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture

By: Marc Galanter

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Lowering the Bar

Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture

By: Marc Galanter

What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299213536

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9780299213534

By the Court

Anonymous Judgments at the Supreme Court of Canada

By: Peter McCormick,Marc D. Zanoni

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By the Court

Anonymous Judgments at the Supreme Court of Canada

By: Peter McCormick,Marc D. Zanoni

Any court watcher knows that the Supreme Court of Canada delivers some of its major constitutional judgments in a “By the Court” format. The abandonment of the common law tradition of attributing decisions to individual judges in favour of an anonymous and unanimous approach is unique among Western democracies. By the Court is the first major study of these unanimous and anonymous decisions and features a complete inventory, chronology, and typology of these cases. Some significant examples include the Secession of Quebec reference and the Carter decision on assisted suicide. Peter McCormick and Marc Zanoni also ask where and why the idea emerged and whether it signals a genuinely collegial authorship or simply masks the dominance of the Chief Justice. Ultimately, By the Court explores the purposes and potential future of “By the Court,” framing this practice as the most dramatic form of a modern style that highlights the institution and downplays individual contributions.

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UBC Press

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0774861746

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9780774861748

Quiet Days in Burgundy

A Study of Local Politics

By: Marc Abélès

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Quiet Days in Burgundy

A Study of Local Politics

By: Marc Abélès

In this book Abélès develops a fresh perspective on political life in France, both past and present, from the point of view of anthropology.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521383021

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9780521383028

Perspective and Projective Geometry

By: Annalisa Crannell,Marc Frantz,Fumiko Futamura

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Perspective and Projective Geometry

By: Annalisa Crannell,Marc Frantz,Fumiko Futamura

Through a unique approach combining art and mathematics, Perspective and Projective Geometry introduces students to the ways that projective geometry applies to perspective art. Geometry, like mathematics as a whole, offers a useful and meaningful lens for understanding the visual world. Exploring pencil-and-paper drawings, photographs, Renaissance paintings, and GeoGebra constructions, this textbook equips students with the geometric tools for projecting a three-dimensional scene onto two dimensions. Organized as a series of exercise modules, this book teaches students through hands-on inquiry and participation. Each lesson begins with a visual puzzle that can be investigated through geometry, followed by exercises that reinforce new concepts and hone students’ analytical abilities. An electronic instructor’s manual available to teachers contains sample syllabi and advice, including suggestions for pacing and grading rubrics for art projects. Drawing vital interdisciplinary connections between art and mathematics, Perspective and Projective Geometry is ideally suited for undergraduate students interested in mathematics or computer graphics, as well as for mathematically inclined students of architecture or art. · Features computer-based GeoGebra modules and hands-on exercises · Contains ample visual examples, math and art puzzles, and proofs with real-world applications · Suitable for college students majoring in mathematics, computer science, and art · Electronic instructor’s manual (available only to teachers)

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Princeton University Press

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0691197385

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The Royal Touch (Routledge Revivals)

Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France

By: Marc Bloch

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The Royal Touch (Routledge Revivals)

Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France

By: Marc Bloch

First published in English in 1973, The Royal Touch explores the supernatural character that was long attributed to royal power. Throughout history, both France and England claimed to hold kings with healing powers who, by their touch, could cure people from all strands of society from illness and disease. Indeed, the idea of royalty as something miraculous and sacred was common to the whole of Western Europe. Using the work of both professional scholars and of doctors, this work stands as a contribution to the political history of Europe.

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Routledge

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1317517725

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Civil Society, Communication, and Global Governance

Issues from the World Summit on the Information Society

By: Marc Raboy,Normand Landry

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Civil Society, Communication, and Global Governance

Issues from the World Summit on the Information Society

By: Marc Raboy,Normand Landry

In 2003 and again in 2005, the international community was called to take part in a World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). This two-phase United Nations summit placed an unprecedented global spotlight on information and communication issues. Civil Society, Communication and Global Governance provides a sweeping portrait of the players, structures and themes of the WSIS, as well as a critical analysis of the summit's first phase, the issues it raised and the groundbreaking role played by civil society. Including an extensive bibliography, list of relevant web sites and key documents, this will be a basic reference source for everyone interested in the role of information and communication on shaping twenty-first-century societies.

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Peter Lang

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0820481122

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9780820481128

Early Poverty Row Studios

By: E.J. Stephens and Marc Wanamaker

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Early Poverty Row Studios

By: E.J. Stephens and Marc Wanamaker

The history of Hollywood is often seen only through the lens of the major studios, forgetting that many of Tinseltown's early creations came from micro-studios stretched along Sunset Boulevard in an area disparagingly known as Poverty Row. Here, the first wave of West Coast moviemakers migrated to the tiny village of Hollywood, where alcohol was illegal, actors were unwelcome, and cattle were herded down the unpaved streets. Most Poverty Row producers survived from film to film, their fortunes tied to the previous week's take from hundreds of nickelodeon tills. They would routinely script movies around an event or disaster, often creating scenarios using sets from more established productions, when the bosses weren't looking, of course. Poverty Row quickly became a generic term for other fly-by-night studios throughout the Los Angeles area. Their struggles to hang on in Hollywood were often more intriguing than the serialized cliffhangers they produced.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467132586

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The Politics of Aesthetics

Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism

By: Marc Redfield

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The Politics of Aesthetics

Nationalism, Gender, Romanticism

By: Marc Redfield

This book suggests that modern cultural and critical institutions have persistently associated questions of aesthetics and politics with literature, theory, technics, and Romanticism. Its first section examines aesthetic nationalism and the figure of the body, focusing on writings by Benedict Anderson, J. G. Fichte, and Matthew Arnold, and arguing that uneasy acts of aestheticization (of media technology) and abjection (of the maternal body) undergird the production of the national body as “imagined community.” Subsequent chapters on Paul de Man, Friedrich Schlegel, and Percy Shelley explore the career of the gendered body in the aesthetic tradition and the relationship among aesthetics, technics, politics, and figurative language. The author accounts for the hysteria that has characterized media representations of theory, explains why and how Romanticism has remained a locus of extravagant political hopes and anxieties, and, in a sequence of close readings, uncovers the “anaesthetic” condition of possibility of the politics of aesthetics.

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Stanford University Press

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0804747504

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9780804747509

Playing with the Guys

Masculinity and Relationships in Video Games

By: Marc A. Ouellette

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Playing with the Guys

Masculinity and Relationships in Video Games

By: Marc A. Ouellette

A lot of work has been done talking about what masculinity is and what it does within video games, but less has been given to considering how and why this happens, and the processes involved. This book considers the array of daily relationships involved in producing masculinity and how those actions and relationships translate to video games. Moreover, it examines the ways the actual play of the games maps onto the stories to create contradictory moments that show that, while toxic masculinity certainly exists, it is far from inevitable. Topics covered include the nature of masculine apprenticeship and nurturing, labor, fatherhood, the scapegoating of women, and reckoning with mortality, among many others.

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McFarland

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1476643490

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9781476643496

The Moral Menagerie

PHILOSOPHY AND ANIMAL RIGHTS

By: Marc R. Fellenz

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The Moral Menagerie

PHILOSOPHY AND ANIMAL RIGHTS

By: Marc R. Fellenz

The Moral Menagerie offers a broad philosophical analysis of the recent debate over animal rights. Marc Fellenz locates the debate in its historical and social contexts, traces its roots in the history of Western philosophy, and analyzes the most important arguments that have been offered on both sides. Fellenz argues that the debate has been philosophically valuable for focusing attention on fundamental problems in ethics and other areas of philosophy, and for raising issues of concern to both Anglo-American and continental thinkers. More provocatively, he also argues that the form the debate often takes--attempting to extend our traditional human-centered moral categories to cover other animals--is ultimately inadequate. Making use of the critical perspectives found in environmentalism, feminism and post-modernism, he concludes that taking animals seriously requires a more radical reassessment our moral framework than the concept of ‘animal rights’ implies.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252091183

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9780252091186

Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals)

Selected Papers

By: Marc Bloch

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Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals)

Selected Papers

By: Marc Bloch

Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe was first published in English in 1967. Throughout the work, the idea that Marc Bloch was not only a historian but a great teacher is exemplified, as is his ability to ask interesting and original questions through his writing. Topics covered include medieval Germany, technical problems in the medieval economy and society, and the medieval class structure.

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Routledge

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1317517385

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A Theory of Minimalism

By: Marc Botha

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A Theory of Minimalism

By: Marc Botha

The explosion of minimalism into the worlds of visual arts, music and literature in the mid-to-late twentieth century presents one of the most radical and decisive revolutions in aesthetic history. Detested by some, embraced by others, minimalism's influence was immediate, pervasive and lasting, significantly changing the way we hear music, see art and read literature. In The Theory of Minimalism, Marc Botha offers the first general theory of minimalism, equally applicable to literature, the visual arts and music. He argues that minimalism establishes an aesthetic paradigm for rethinking realism in genuinely radical terms. In dialogue with thinkers from both the analytic and continental traditions – including Kant, Danto, Agamben, Badiou and Meillassoux – Botha develops a constellation of concepts which together encapsulate the transhistorcial and transdisciplinary reach of minimalism. Illustrated by a range of historical, canonical and contemporary minimalist works of different media, from the caves of early Christian ascetics to Samuel Beckett's late prose, Botha offers a bold and provocative argument which will equip readers with the tools to engage critically with past, present and future minimalism, and to recognize how, in a culture caught between the poles of excess and austerity, minimalism still matters.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472530861

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Post-Keynesian Economics

New Foundations

By: Lavoie, Marc

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Post-Keynesian Economics

New Foundations

By: Lavoie, Marc

This visionary Research Handbook presents the state of the art in research on policy design. By conceiving policy design both as a theoretical and a methodological framework, it provides scholars and practitioners with guidance on understanding policy problems and devising accurate solutions.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1839109629

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9781839109621

Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications

International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications, TLCA '93, March 16-18, 1993, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Proceedings

By: Marc Bezem,Jan F. Groote

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Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications

International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications, TLCA '93, March 16-18, 1993, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Proceedings

By: Marc Bezem,Jan F. Groote

The lambda calculus was developed in the 1930s by Alonzo Church. The calculus turned out to be an interesting model of computation and became theprototype for untyped functional programming languages. Operational and denotational semantics for the calculus served as examples for otherprogramming languages. In typed lambda calculi, lambda terms are classified according to their applicative behavior. In the 1960s it was discovered that the types of typed lambda calculi are in fact appearances of logical propositions. Thus there are two possible views of typed lambda calculi: - as models of computation, where terms are viewed as programs in a typed programming language; - as logical theories, where the types are viewed as propositions and the terms as proofs. The practical spin-off from these studies are: - functional programming languages which are mathematically more succinct than imperative programs; - systems for automated proof checking based on lambda caluli. This volume is the proceedings of TLCA '93, the first international conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications,organized by the Department of Philosophy of Utrecht University. It includes29 papers selected from 51 submissions.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540565175

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The Quest for Unity

The Adventure of Physics

By: Étienne Klein,Marc Lachièze-Rey

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The Quest for Unity

The Adventure of Physics

By: Étienne Klein,Marc Lachièze-Rey

Contains revelations on how the quest for unity has driven all the great breakthroughs in science and shows how the Greeks searched for the fundamental element in all things.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019512085X

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The Hatchet's Blood

Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life

By: Marc R. Schloss

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The Hatchet's Blood

Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life

By: Marc R. Schloss

Winner of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology The ritual complexes of the Ehing, a farming people of southern Senegal, embody an elaborate set of prohibitions on social behavior and prescribe the general rules of Ehing social organization. Power is distributed and maintained in Ehing culture by the concept of Odieng (“hatchet”), which as a spirit acts upon human beings much as an ax does upon a tree, falling from above to punish its victims for transgression. Marc R. Schloss’s ethnography of the Ehing is a study of the meaning of Odieng’s power, explaining why its rules are so essential to the Ehing way of life.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816551448

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The Development of Antisocial Behavior and Crime

Replication with the Montreal Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Studies

By: Marc Le Blanc

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The Development of Antisocial Behavior and Crime

Replication with the Montreal Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Studies

By: Marc Le Blanc

This innovative and timely work explores how the developmental criminology paradigm can be applied to understandings beyond criminal careers, to the development of more general antisocial behavior. Importantly, the rich data set from 50-years of cross sectional and longitudinal studies provides replication amongst samples, genders, generations and phases in the life span, from cohorts born in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. This work also provides a rich history about the development of the “Developmental Criminology” paradigm, drawing from developmental psychology, and life-course methodologies in Sociology. With a 50-year, multigenerational longitudinal dataset (the Montreal Two Sample Four Generational Cross sectionnal and Longitudinal Studies –MTSFGCLS) the author explores the mechanisms of official and self-reported antisocial behavior. It provides insights into not only criminal behavior, but other types of potentially problematic behavior, including drug and alcohol use, risky sexual behavior, conflict with authority and other forms of antisocial behavior; as well as their decline across the life-course. By examining the developmental mechanisms and trajectories of these behaviors, the author proposes a multidisciplinary theory to explain these phenomenons. This work will be of interested to researchers in Criminology, Sociology and Psychology, particularly within the growing area of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, as well as related fields such as social work, public health and public policy.

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Springer Nature

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3030684296

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9783030684297

Self-Assessment and Training

Guidelines for Pedagogical Supervision

By: Yamina Bouchamma,Marc Giguère,Daniel April

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Self-Assessment and Training

Guidelines for Pedagogical Supervision

By: Yamina Bouchamma,Marc Giguère,Daniel April

This book provides school principals and those responsible for pedagogical supervision the necessary tools for their professional development, whether in formal (continuing education) or informal (self-taught) contexts. It presents for each knowledge, know-how, know-how and know-how to become two sections. The first, titled What the supervisors say, presents testimonials from a research-action-training project (Ministry of Education and Higher Education of Quebec, 2014-2017) which brought together 37 principals of two school boards in professional learning communities (PLCs) to discuss their pedagogical supervision practices in their school. This second section proposes self-assessments grids. The book is also punctuated with practical exercises and reflections to develop the targeted skills in supervision. This book is an essential reference for all supervisors. It presents experiences in teaching, research and training. It is a functional and practical guide to acquiring and consolidating pedagogical supervision skills.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475851006

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Principles and Practice of Geriatric Psychiatry

By: Marc E. Agronin,Gabe J. Maletta

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Principles and Practice of Geriatric Psychiatry

By: Marc E. Agronin,Gabe J. Maletta

Many elderly patients suffer from psychiatric conditions that result from--or are made worse by--existing medical conditions. This new edition integrates clinical expertise needed to evaluate and treat psychiatric, medical and neurologic disorders in the older patient. Both scientific foundations of and clinical approaches to psychiatric disease are discussed by a range of experts who rely on evidence-based clinical guidelines and outcomes data. Most chapters include case studies that illuminate the approaches to diagnosis and treatment. The book's five sections include basic principles of evaluation and treatment for specific disorders; appendices offer further insight into pharmacotherapy and neuroanatomic foundation of psychiatric diseases.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451153813

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9781451153811

Pediatric Neurology

Chapter 110. Brain development and the immune system: an introduction to inflammatory and infectious diseases of the child's brain

By: Tardieu Marc

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Pediatric Neurology

Chapter 110. Brain development and the immune system: an introduction to inflammatory and infectious diseases of the child's brain

By: Tardieu Marc

A short overview of the specificities of immune response within the brain is given as an introduction to subsequent chapters on infectious and inflammatory diseases of the child's brain. The blood–brain barrier starts developing during vascular proliferation of the developing brain during neurogenesis but maturation is not completed until several weeks after birth, and varies in different parts of the brain. The development of postcapillary venules in which cell recruitment occurs seems to be completed at birth. Brain macrophages are detected in brain tissue from the 8th to 12th week of gestation and then exert an important role during neuroblast selection and differentiation, as astrocytes and macrophages acquire the ability to secrete soluble substances. From the third trimester, the fetal brain is able to generate an inflammatory reaction and toll-like receptors can be detected on the surface of fetal neurons and glial cells. Innate immunity maturation occurs within weeks after birth. Although neonates lack preexisting immunological memory and have a small number of immune cells in peripheral lymphoid tissues, they are competent to develop a mature T-cell response, they have a strong CD8 cytotoxic function, and dendritic cells are fully competent.

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Elsevier Inc. Chapters

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0128079118

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9780128079119

Into the Twilight Zone

The Rod Serling Programme Guide

By: Jean-Marc Lofficier,Randy Lofficier

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Into the Twilight Zone

The Rod Serling Programme Guide

By: Jean-Marc Lofficier,Randy Lofficier

Into The Twilight Zone: The Rod Serling Programme Guide includes complete episode guides with cast, credits and story summaries of the original Twilight Zone series, as well as its many film and television revivals, and Rod Serling's Night Gallery. The book features an overview and filmography of Serling's life and career, and interviews with many of his colleagues, including Buck Houghton, Richard Matheson, Frank Marshall, Joe Dante, Phil DeGuere, Wes Craven, Alan Brennert, Paul Chitlik and Jeremy Bertrand Finch. It also includes indices of actors and creative personnel. "The best TV programme guide I have seen." --Ty Power, Dreamwatch "The perfect complement to The Twilight Zone Companion." --David McDonnell, Starlog

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iUniverse

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0595276121

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9780595276127

Missed Opportunities

The Story of Canada's Broadcasting Policy

By: Marc Raboy

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Missed Opportunities

The Story of Canada's Broadcasting Policy

By: Marc Raboy

In Missed Opportunities, Marc Raboy reveals the short-sightedness behind the traditional view of Canadian broadcasting policy as an instrument for promoting a national identity and culture. He argues that Canadian broadcasting policy has served as a political instrument for reinforcing a certain image of Canada against insurgent challenges, such as maintaining the image of Canada as a political entity distinct from the United States and acting against internal threats, most notably from Quebec. It has served as a vehicle for the development of private broadcasting industries and to further the general interests of the Canadian state. Most of the time, Raboy maintains, this policy has been the object of vigorous public dispute.

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0773507752

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The Quest for the Invisible

Microscopy in the Enlightenment

By: Marc J. Ratcliff

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The Quest for the Invisible

Microscopy in the Enlightenment

By: Marc J. Ratcliff

The eighteenth century has often been viewed as a period of relative decline in the field of microscopy, as interest in microscopes seemed to wane after an intense period of discovery in the seventeenth century. As such, developments in the field during the Enlightenment have been largely overlooked. This book therefore fills a considerable gap in the study of this life science, providing a thorough analysis of what the main concerns of the field were and how microscopists learned to communicate with each other in relevant ways in order to compare results and build a new discipline. Employing a substantial body of contemporary literature from across Europe, Marc J. Ratcliff is able to present us with a definitive account of the state of research into microscopy of the period. He brings to light the little known work of Louis Joblot, re-evaluates the achievements of Abraham Trembley and gives new weight to Otto-Friedrich Müller's important contributions. The book also connects changes in instrument design to an innovative account of microscopical research during the eighteenth century and the rich social networks of communication that grew during this period. Investigating the history of microscopical research from 1680 up to 1800 also shows how scholars progressively established a modern rule on which to shape their new discipline: balancing microscopical magnification with shared vision. This rule developed in response to the diminishing size of the microscopical object during the course of the eighteenth century, from dry minute organisms such as insects, to aquatic minute bodies such as polyps, and finally to aquatic invisible organisms, thus completing the scholar's quest to study the invisible. This book will be essential reading for historians of microscopy, epistemologists, and for historians of the life sciences in the modern period.

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Routledge

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1317018400

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Instrumentation and Metrology in Oceanography

By: Marc Le Menn

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Instrumentation and Metrology in Oceanography

By: Marc Le Menn

Through research, physical oceanography aims to solve the numerous problems stated by thermal, optical and dynamical properties of the oceans. Instrumentation and Metrology in Physical Oceanography describes the means used in oceanography to determine physical properties of the oceans by medium of in situ measurements. This book explores the theoretical functioning of sensors and instruments, as well as different practical aspects of using these tools. The content of this book appeals directly to technicians or engineers wishing to enhance their knowledge of instrumentation and application to environment surveillance. Instrumentation and Metrology in Physical Oceanography details the functioning of sensors and instruments used to assess the following parameters in oceanography: temperature, conductivity, pressure, sound velocity, current in magnitude and direction, time and position with GPS, height of water and tide, waves, optical and chemical properties (turbidity), dissolved gas (O2, CO2), pH, nutrients and other dissolved elements. Furthermore, this book also elaborates on the different means used to obtain measurements at sea (boats, drifting floats, moorings, undersea platforms, gliders...) and techniques currently being developed.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1848213794

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Computer Science Logic

10th International Workshop, CSL '96, Annual Conference of the EACSL, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 21 - 27, 1996, Selected Papers

By: Dirk van Dalen,Marc Bezem,European Association for Computer Science Logic. Conference

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Computer Science Logic

10th International Workshop, CSL '96, Annual Conference of the EACSL, Utrecht, The Netherlands, September 21 - 27, 1996, Selected Papers

By: Dirk van Dalen,Marc Bezem,European Association for Computer Science Logic. Conference

The related fields of fractal image encoding and fractal image analysis have blossomed in recent years. This book, originating from a NATO Advanced Study Institute held in 1995, presents work by leading researchers. It is developing the subjects at an introductory level, but it also has some recent and exciting results in both fields. The book contains a thorough discussion of fractal image compression and decompression, including both continuous and discrete formulations, vector space and hierarchical methods, and algorithmic optimizations. The book also discusses multifractal approaches to image analysis, segmentation, and recognition, including medical applications.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540631720

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Turning to Political Violence

The Emergence of Terrorism

By: Marc Sageman

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Turning to Political Violence

The Emergence of Terrorism

By: Marc Sageman

What motivates those who commit violence in the name of political beliefs? Terrorism today is not solely the preserve of Islam, nor is it a new phenomenon. It emerges from social processes and conditions common to societies throughout modern history, and the story of its origins spans centuries, encompassing numerous radical and revolutionary movements. Marc Sageman is a forensic psychiatrist and government counterterrorism consultant whose bestselling books Understanding Terror Networks and Leaderless Jihad provide a detailed, damning corrective to commonplace yet simplistic notions of Islamist terrorism. In a comprehensive new book, Turning to Political Violence, Sageman examines the history and theory of political violence in the West. He excavates primary sources surrounding key instances of modern political violence, looking for patterns across a range of case studies spanning the French Revolution, through late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century revolutionaries and anarchists in Russia and the United States, to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the start of World War I. In contrast to one-dimensional portraits of terrorist "monsters" offered by governments and media throughout history, these accounts offer complex and intricate portraits of individuals engaged in struggles with identity, injustice, and revenge who may be empowered by a sense of love and self-sacrifice. Arguing against easy assumptions that attribute terrorism to extremist ideology, and counter to mainstream academic explanations such as rational choice theory, Sageman develops a theoretical model based on the concept of social identity. His analysis focuses on the complex dynamic between the state and disaffected citizens that leads some to disillusionment and moral outrage—and a few to mass murder. Sageman's account offers a paradigm-shifting perspective on terrorism that yields counterintuitive implications for the ways liberal democracies can and should confront political violence.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812293827

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The Law of Medical Negligence in England and Germany

A Comparative Analysis

By: Marc Stauch

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The Law of Medical Negligence in England and Germany

A Comparative Analysis

By: Marc Stauch

This new work adds to the theoretical understanding and discussion of possible solutions to various conceptual and practical problems that arise within the field of medical negligence - an area whose legal treatment is perceived, both in England and Germany, as containing a number of special difficulties and shortcomings. In addition it seeks to make a contribution to the developing field of comparative law, by employing a detailed and closely focused analytical approach in a tightly defined subject area. These twin aims serve to reveal the similarities and differences between two legal cultures in a particularly clear and striking way. The book offers an analysis which is neutral as between the English and German approaches. The issues are dealt with thematically so far as possible, so that the respective treatments in each country of a given matter, eg the standard of care owed by medical practitioners, are discussed side-by-side. The book thus avoids the 'country-report' style, whereby the systems are presented largely separately from each other. What is of particular interest is how, notwithstanding their common starting point in terms of the application of the fault-principle under private law, the detailed rules in the two countries differ markedly. This is true both in the divergent way that claims are structured and argued, and also quite often as regards their substantive outcome. It will be of interest to comparative lawyers, tort and medical lawyers, and practising lawyers working in these areas.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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184731452X

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Becoming Agile

How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability

By: Christopher G. Worley,Veronique Zardet,Marc Bonnet,Amandine Savall

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Becoming Agile

How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability

By: Christopher G. Worley,Veronique Zardet,Marc Bonnet,Amandine Savall

An in-depth example of The Agility Factor in action Becoming Agile: How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability illustrates the process of becoming an agile organization. Reflecting the principles presented in The Agility Factor, readers are taken on a real-world journey of transformation and change. This short-format case study of the French company Brioche Pasquier highlights how one organization successfully implemented the principles of agility using the socio-economic approach to management, detailing each step of the process and describing how every decision brought the goal closer within reach. Readers get inside the heads of decision makers to gain insight into how tough decisions were made, how new, important, and flexible management tools were implemented, and how the necessary changes ultimately benefitted both the organization and the people who made it work. From overarching policy to day-to-day procedure, the story provides a clear example of how an agile organization is developed, giving readers a foundation upon which to implement similar changes in their own organization. Smart companies understand the importance of agility, but identifying where and how to initiate those first steps often leads to paralysis by analysis. This case study allows readers to learn from an organization that got through the inertia and put the principles of agility into action, with incredible results. Understand how the principles of agility can be implemented using a specific intervention strategy Tailor those principles to suit any organization Calculate and convert the "hidden costs" of traditional organizational design into flexible, value added activities Formulate and execute an actionable agility strategy Big changes require a deep understanding of the problem at hand, and a viable plan for steering the organization in a better direction. By seeing how it's been done before, organizations can take a proven approach and tailor it to their specific needs. For those tasked with formulating the agility strategy, Becoming Agile: How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability provides invaluable insight.

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1119011663

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9781119011668

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