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Bodies of Modernism

Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature

By: Maren Linett

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Bodies of Modernism

Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature

By: Maren Linett

Reveals the links, both positive and negative, between disabled bodies and aspects of modernism and modernity through readings of a wide range of literary texts

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University of Michigan Press

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0472053310

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Mimi's Friends in Canada

By: Maren Jäckel

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Mimi is on her travels again! Together with her friend Comic Cat, in this book she's off to Canada, where they experience numerous exciting adventures, learn about this vast country where the moose live and of course make lots of new friends! After the success of "Mimi's Friends in New York", this is Maren Jäckel's second book. A read aloud story with beautiful illustrations by Rolo from New York City, colored by Edwin, who lives in the Philippines. Suitable for first time readers. Originalfassung der deutschen Ausgabe: Mimi ist wieder unterwegs! Gemeinsam mit ihrem Freund Comic Cat geht es in diesem Buch nach Kanada, wo die beiden zahlreiche spannende Abenteuer erleben, etwas über das große Land mit den Elchen lernen und natürlich viele neue Freunde finden. Nach dem Erfolg von "Mimis Freunde in New York" ist dies das zweite Buch von Maren Jäckel. Eine Vorlesegeschichte mit wunderschönen Illustrationen von Rolo aus New York, koloriert von Edwin, der auf den Philippinen lebt. Für Erstleser geeignet.

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3752688564

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9783752688566

Literary Bioethics

Animality, Disability, and the Human

By: Maren Tova Linett

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Literary Bioethics

Animality, Disability, and the Human

By: Maren Tova Linett

Uses literature to understand and remake our ethics regarding nonhuman animals, old human beings, disabled human beings, and cloned posthumans Literary Bioethics argues for literature as an untapped and essential site for the exploration of bioethics. Novels, Maren Tova Linett argues, present vividly imagined worlds in which certain values hold sway, casting new light onto those values; and the more plausible and well rendered readers find these imagined worlds, the more thoroughly we can evaluate the justice of those values. In an innovative set of readings, Linett thinks through the ethics of animal experimentation in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, explores the elimination of aging in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, considers the valuation of disabled lives in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, and questions the principles of humane farming through reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. By analyzing novels published at widely spaced intervals over the span of a century, Linett offers snapshots of how we confront questions of value. In some cases the fictions are swayed by dominant devaluations of nonnormative or nonhuman lives, while in other cases they confirm the value of such lives by resisting instrumental views of their worth—views that influence, explicitly or implicitly, many contemporary bioethical discussions, especially about the value of disabled and nonhuman lives. Literary Bioethics grapples with the most fundamental questions of how we value different kinds of lives, and questions what those in power ought to be permitted to do with those lives as we gain unprecedented levels of technological prowess.

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NYU Press

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1479801259

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9781479801251

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Gamete Donation and Kinship Knowledge in Germany and Britain

By: Maren Klotz

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Gamete Donation and Kinship Knowledge in Germany and Britain

By: Maren Klotz

Openness about gamete (i.e. sperm or egg) donation and the regulation of donor-anonymity or non-anonymity are new phenomena. How do affected families, clinics, and regulators deal with information about the donors and the donation in Germany and Britain? And how does this ‘knowledge-management’ contribute to the making and doing of kinship? Addressing these questions through an ethnographic exploration, this book makes a comparative contribution to the empirical and theoretical analysis of kin-formation and social change in plural late-modern societies in Europe. The research demonstrates a contemporary re-negotiation of the values of privacy, information-sharing, and connectedness – with transparency as moral imperative, not genetics. Instead of an unambiguously discernible ‘geneticisation’ the findings on donor-non-anonymity and parental openness display a pattern of ‘transparentization’. In ensemble a shift of authority becomes evident, more minute in Germany than in Britain, towards concerned groups, parents-by-donation, and policy-makers, away from a sometimes high handed reproductive medical profession.

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Campus Verlag

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3593500671

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9783593500676

Crossroads of Change

The People and the Land of Pecos

By: Cori Knudten,Maren Bzdek

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Crossroads of Change

The People and the Land of Pecos

By: Cori Knudten,Maren Bzdek

Encompassing nearly seven thousand acres amid the woodlands of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico, the land that is now Pecos National Historical Park has witnessed thousands of years of cultural history stretching back to the Native peoples who long ago inhabited the pueblos of Pecos, then known as Cicuye. Once a trading center where Pueblo Indians, Spanish soldiers and settlers, and Plains Indians encountered one another, not always peacefully, Pecos was a stop on the Santa Fe Trail in the early 1800s and, later, on the first railroad in New Mexico. It was the site of a critical Civil War battle and in the twentieth century became a tourist destination. This book tells the story of how, over five centuries, cultures and peoples converged at Pecos and transformed its environment, ultimately shaping the landscape that greets park visitors today. Spanning the period from 1540, when Spaniards first arrived, into the twenty-first century, Crossroads of Change focuses on the history of the natural and historic resources Pecos National Historical Park now protects and interprets: the ruins of Pecos Pueblo and a Spanish mission church, a stage stop along the Santa Fe Trail, the Civil War battlefield of Glorieta Pass, a twentieth-century cattle ranch, and the national park itself. In an engaging style, authors Cori Knudten and Maren Bzdek detail the transformations of Pecos over time, often driven by the collision of different cultures, such as that between the Franciscan friars and Pecos Indians in the seventeenth century, and by the introduction of new animals, crops, and agricultural practices—but also by the natural forces of fire, drought, and erosion. Located on a natural trade route, Pecos has long served as a portal between different cultures and environments. Documenting this transformation over the ages, Crossroads of Change also, perhaps, shows us Pecos National Historical Park as a portal to the future.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806167777

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9780806167770

Amphibious Shipping Shortfalls

Risks and Opportunities to Bridge the Gap

By: Maren Leed

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Amphibious Shipping Shortfalls

Risks and Opportunities to Bridge the Gap

By: Maren Leed

In this report, the CSIS Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies analyzes the types of capabilities necessary across the range of military operations, and compares that with the characteristics of amphibious ships, as well as those in the Combat Logistics Fleet, Maritime Prepositioning Force, and others. Resulting shortfalls in key capability areas suggest some degree of risk. The study then describes how amenable those risks may be to mitigation and some of the associated implications. This report provides a framework for policymakers to understand those areas in which alternative platforms might be most useful, where risks associated with their employment are most significant, and how readily broadening platforms beyond the uses for which they were designed might be accomplished.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442240296

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Global Governance of Education

The Historical and Contemporary Entanglements of UNESCO, the OECD and the World Bank

By: Maren Elfert,Christian Ydesen

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Global Governance of Education

The Historical and Contemporary Entanglements of UNESCO, the OECD and the World Bank

By: Maren Elfert,Christian Ydesen

This book examines the educational role of three international organizations created as part of the post-World War II multilateral architecture: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Bank, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). These organizations have significantly promoted and shaped education as a fundamental feature of the modernization of society and contributed to the globalization of educational norms, policies and technologies. Drawing on primary source materials and interviews, the book provides novel perspectives to the literature on the global governance of education by focusing on the historical entanglements, relations and power struggles between these three organizations, rather than treating them separately. The study sheds light on the homogenizing effects of globalized educational policy-making and the shifting power dynamics in the global governance of education. ‘This book makes a very distinctive and important contribution to the literature that critically analyses the influence of the global agencies on education globally; it goes beyond the standard discursive analyses of policy texts to also explore the history of those organisations through archival research and in-depth interviews of the key personnel. What emerges is a powerful analysis which locates those agencies within their historical epochs and shines a light on their tensions and micro-politics, both internally and between organisations.’ Paul Morris, Professor of Comparative Education, Institute of Education, University College London, UK ‘A must-read historical account of the intermingling, boundary setting and competition between the three big intergovernmental organizations (IOs) in education: OECD, UNESCO, and the World Bank. Different from other scholars that document how these IOs have transformed themselves in response to external and internal changes, Elfert and Ydesen draw attention to the relational aspect: how have these three IOs navigated conflict, carved niches, and used and abused each other to amplify and expand their own mission? How have they done so in an environment that is crowded with intergovernmental and international organizations, each with a claim to govern education globally?’ Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Professor of Comparative and International Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; UNESCO Chair of Comparative Education Policy of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies 'This volume is a thoughtful and timely work of scholarship. Understanding the roles of UNESCO, the OECD and the World Bank is central to understanding contemporary education in global perspective. Elfert and Ydesen’s historical analysis sets out in rigorous detail how these organisations have evolved, and what has shaped and driven this evolution. The historical analysis is complemented by contemporary interview data, facilitating an actor-level analysis as well as a broader picture. The book is conceptually and theoretically rich while being accessibly written; the authors manage complexity remarkably well. For anyone interested in global governance and the role of international organisations, or anyone who wants to understand in general how global educational agendas have developed and converged, this book is a most valuable read.' Michele Schweisfurth, Professor of Comparative and International Education, University of Glasgow, UK Chapter "UNESCO, the OECD and the World Bank: A Global Governance Perspective” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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Springer Nature

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3031404114

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Oneida

Utopian Community to Modern Corporation

By: Maren Lockwood Carden

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Oneida

Utopian Community to Modern Corporation

By: Maren Lockwood Carden

This volume describes how the initiation of young girls into the sexual practices of the commune became a major source of conflict. The study appraises information about the history, practices, organization, and principles of Oneida.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815605234

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9780815605232

Citrus Heights

By: James Van Maren,Jim Van Maren

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Citrus Heights

By: James Van Maren,Jim Van Maren

Citrus Heights, while only recently incorporated, is a town with roots that go back 150 years. Fields of lavish, green grass and groves of beautiful oak trees greeted earlier settlers, who saw fertile land for farming and sustaining growing families. With early residents' insights for agricultural use and development of roads, schools, and places of worship, Citrus Heights has grown from a farming settlement to a modern suburb and a favorite place for families to thrive in Sacramento County.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738574597

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9780738574592

Social Emergence in International Relations

Institutional Dynamics in East Asia

By: Maren Wagner

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Social Emergence in International Relations

Institutional Dynamics in East Asia

By: Maren Wagner

This book presents a conceptualization of social emergence in international relations as a novel angle to analyse institutional dynamics in East Asia, introducing the concept of emergence from a critical realist perspective. The author examines East Asia’s characteristic mesh work of regional institutions that affect integrative processes and regional policies, exploring how such institutions emerge and acquire their own nature and why this pattern persists over time, an unresolved and contested subject in the field of International Relations. This book suggests that regional institutions are emergent entities of the international system that arise as forms of self-organization by states to achieve certain emergent properties and powers. The author’s approach sheds light on the particular emergent properties and powers of regional institutions and identifies discourse as a key mechanism of social emergence. Besides engaging in relevant questions of the philosophy of science and its methodological implications for studying social emergence in world politics, the book also analyses the concrete case of two East Asian regional institutions: ASEAN Plus Three and the East Asia Summit. This book will engage scholars and postgraduate students of Asian Studies and International Relations.

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Springer

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3319335510

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9783319335513

Energy Policy of the European Union

By: Johannes Pollak,Samuel Schubert,Maren Kreutler

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Energy Policy of the European Union

By: Johannes Pollak,Samuel Schubert,Maren Kreutler

This broad-ranging text provides an analysis and assessment of the European Union's energy policy. It examines the components of the internal energy market alongside energy policy and politics on the international stage, and in doing so outlines the increasing importance of this global issue.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137388846

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9781137388841

The Road to Hell

By: Michael Maren

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The Road to Hell

By: Michael Maren

A stunning personal narrative of best intentions gone awry, Michael Maren, at one time an aid worker and journalist in Somalia, writes of the failure of international charities. Michael Maren spent years in Africa, first as an aid worker, later as a journalist, where he witnessed at a harrowing series of wars, famines, and natural disasters. In this book, he claims that charities, such as CARE and Save the Children, are less concerned with relief than we think. Maren also attacks the United Nation's "humanitarian" missions are controlled by agribusinesses and infighting bureaucrats.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439188416

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9781439188415

Nicole

A Women's Fiction Novella

By: Maren Hill

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Nicole

A Women's Fiction Novella

By: Maren Hill

She's wide-eyed and innocent. He's savvy and unscrupulous. Nicole knows one thing. This stifled, small-town existence is killing her. Will the Big City help satisfy her dreams or put her on a trajectory toward disaster? When she becomes a victim of crime, she fears for her safety. But when an undeniable temptation lures her to an opportunity too good to miss, will she ignore all the warning signs? Caught between finding her true self and living a life of predictability, will she choose humiliation and defeat or the glittery enticement of fulfilling her dreams? But will reaching for what she wants cost her everything she loves? Don't miss the other books in the Verity Child women's fiction trilogy: 1) Nicole, 2) The Troublemakers, and 3) Our Forever Place. Please note: This trilogy contains some limited mature scenes. Nicole, one scene of physical abuse and some sexual experimentation; The Troublemakers, mention of sexual touching; Our Forever Place, mild spice. From workplace horrors in the big city to finding love on the dreamy island of Exuma, this fascinating trilogy takes us on a vivid ride.

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Sandpiper Press

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1738865800

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The Art of Discovery

Digging Into the Past in Renaissance Europe

By: Maren Elisabeth Schwab,Anthony Grafton

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The Art of Discovery

Digging Into the Past in Renaissance Europe

By: Maren Elisabeth Schwab,Anthony Grafton

A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledge In the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a Benedictine abbey in Padua. The find was greeted with the same enthusiasm as the bones of a Christian saint, and established a pattern that antiquarians would follow for centuries to come. The Art of Discovery tells the stories of the Renaissance antiquarians who turned material remains of the ancient world into sources for scholars and artists, inspirations for palaces and churches, and objects of pilgrimage and devotion. Maren Elisabeth Schwab and Anthony Grafton bring to life some of the most spectacular finds of the age, such as Nero’s Golden House and the wooden placard that was supposedly nailed to the True Cross. They take readers into basements, caves, and cisterns, explaining how digs were undertaken and shedding light on the methods antiquarians—and the alchemists and craftspeople they consulted—used to interpret them. What emerges is not an origin story for modern archaeology or art history but rather an account of how early modern artisanal skills and technical expertise were used to create new knowledge about the past and inspire new forms of art, scholarship, and devotion in the present. The Art of Discovery challenges the notion that Renaissance antiquarianism was strictly a secular enterprise, revealing how the rediscovery of Christian relics and the bones of martyrs helped give rise to highly interdisciplinary ways of examining and authenticating objects of all kinds.

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Princeton University Press

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0691237166

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9780691237169

Wartime Relations

Intimacy, Violence, and Prostitution in Occupied Poland, 1939-1945

By: Maren Röger

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Wartime Relations

Intimacy, Violence, and Prostitution in Occupied Poland, 1939-1945

By: Maren Röger

During the Second World War, all contact between German soldiers and Polish women – considered an ‘inferior race’ – was officially banned. Sexual encounters frequently took place, however. Some were consensual, while others were characterised by brutal violence, and women often sold their bodies as a means of survival. The army and SS constructed purpose-built brothels for their soldiers, but also banned and frequently punished loving relationships. In Wartime Relations, Historian Maren Röger gives a powerful account of these encounters and describes the actions of the army and the SS in regulating relations between soldiers and civilian women. Röger provides new and important insights into everyday life during the occupation, Nazi racial policy, and the fates of the women involved.

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Oxford University Press

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0192549286

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9780192549280

Before the Amen:

Creative Resources for Worship

By: Maren C. Tirabassi,Maria I. Tirabassi

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Before the Amen:

Creative Resources for Worship

By: Maren C. Tirabassi,Maria I. Tirabassi

Before the Amen: Creative Resources for Worship," evolved from the bestselling "Touch Holiness: Resources for Worship." With nine chapters of seasonal materials, three chapters of sacraments and services, and seven chapters oriented by topic, this worship anthology provides fresh language inclusive of gender, ethnicity, race, age, orientation, and ability. Includes materials that come before the "amen," such as resources for the worship service (readings, healing services, and chancel dramas); general resources; and prayers for special issues such as natural disasters, domestic violence, and surrogate parents.

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The Pilgrim Press

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0829820876

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9780829820874

Gifts Of Many Cultures

By: Maren C. Tirabassi,Kathy Wonton Eddy

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Gifts Of Many Cultures

By: Maren C. Tirabassi,Kathy Wonton Eddy

A moving collection of liturgical resources from the global community, "Gifts of Many Cultures" will enrich the worship life of congregations in all denominations. Tirabassi and Eddy have developed an anthology of original prayers, poetry, stories and readings for sermons; invocations; calls to worship; confessions; liturgies for Holy Communion and baptism; guided meditations; songs; drawings; and other resources designed around the seasons of the church year. This book will help enrich worship, encourage cross-cultural appreciation, facilitate church mission programming, and deepen spiritual understanding across the global community.

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0829820639

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9780829820638

Transferences

The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship

By: Maren Scheurer

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Transferences

The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship

By: Maren Scheurer

Why are psychoanalysts fascinated with literature and other arts? And why do so many novels, plays, films, and television series feature therapy sessions? Transferences investigates the interdisciplinary attraction between psychoanalysis and the arts by exploring the therapeutic relationship as a recurring figure in psychoanalytic discourse, literature, theater, and television. In addition to close readings of psychoanalytic and critical texts, the book presents a new approach to examining psychoanalytic themes and formal devices in texts like Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K, Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, Peter Shaffer's Equus, and the HBO series In Treatment. Transferences argues that psychoanalysts as well as writers and other artists are fascinated by the therapeutic relationship because it provides a unique site to negotiate the narrative and artistic underpinnings of psychoanalysis and reflect and reinvent the aesthetic and poetic potentiality of art.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501352458

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9781501352454

New Energy, New Geopolitics

Background Report 2: Geopolitical and National Security Impacts

By: Sarah O. Ladislaw,Maren Leed,Molly A. Walton

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New Energy, New Geopolitics

Background Report 2: Geopolitical and National Security Impacts

By: Sarah O. Ladislaw,Maren Leed,Molly A. Walton

The second background report in the New Energy, New Geopolitics series, this report evaluates the geopolitical and national security impacts of the dramatic increase in the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United States. It examines how the unconventional energy trend has already impacted U.S. national security and geopolitics and then posits several possible energy futures that could emerge from the unconventional revolution. This report pairs with the original "New Energy, New Geopolitics" report and two other background reports, all available from Rowman & Littlefield: New Energy, New Geopolitics: Balancing Stability and Leverage New Energy, New Geopolitics: Background Report 1: Energy Impacts New Energy, New Geopolitics: Background Report 3: Scenarios, Strategies, and Pathways

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1442228520

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9781442228528

Backpacker Hidden Gems

100 Greatest Undiscovered Hikes Across America

By: Maren Horjus,Backpacker Magazine

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Backpacker Hidden Gems

100 Greatest Undiscovered Hikes Across America

By: Maren Horjus,Backpacker Magazine

Nothing against the Bright Angel Trail, the Narrows, the Presidential Traverse, or Half Dome, which are all certainly worth of their popularity, but hikers don’t need another resource pointing them toward those conga lines. It’s time we rewrite the backpacker’s life list. Enter Backpacker Hidden Gems. For the first time ever, here is a collection of Mother Nature’s best kept secret hikes, chockful of life-list worthy views, campsites, waterfalls, wildlife, and more. This book spills every secret and pulls back the curtain to reveal the top 100 trips across the country, with information on how to reach them, when to go, and what you’ll see. With color topographic maps and over 200 gorgeous photographs to complete the package, this book is the perfect keepsake for anyone looking to expand his hiking horizons.

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1493033875

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9781493033874

Fundamentals of Arts Management

By: Pam Korza,Maren Brown

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Fundamentals of Arts Management

By: Pam Korza,Maren Brown

Anchoring the book are eleven tried and true chapters providing principles and best practices for managing and governing community arts organizations; raising funds; and presenting, promoting, and evaluating arts programs. Four new chapters cover fundamentals of personnel management, writing successful funding proposals, advocating effectively for the arts, and maximizing the arts' role in the economic development of communities. Nationally recognized leaders and authors in the community arts field offer historical and contemporary context regarding the role of the arts in community, as well as insights about arts education and cultural access--two important dimensions of local arts agencies' work. Also new are Online Companions to several chapters. Easily accessed Online Companions offer expanded exploration of subject matter; worksheets and other practical tools that can be downloaded and used or adapted; and valuable resource listings that point to organizations, publications, and websites."--From publisher description.

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Arts Extension Service

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0945464142

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9780945464143

Resistance, Power and Conceptions of Political Order in Islamist Organizations

Comparing Hezbollah and Hamas

By: Maren Koss

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Resistance, Power and Conceptions of Political Order in Islamist Organizations

Comparing Hezbollah and Hamas

By: Maren Koss

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Islamist organizations' conceptions of political order based on a comparative case study of the Shiite Lebanese Hezbollah and the Sunni Palestinian Hamas. Connecting Islamism research, Critical Constructivist norm research, and resistance studies from the field of International Relations Theory, it demonstrates that resistance constitutes both organizations' core norm and is relevant for their conceptions of political order. Based on primary Arabic data the book illustrates that the core norm of resistance, deeply intertwined with both organizations' interactions towards power preservation and the specific political context they are engaged in, characterizes Hezbollah's and Hamas' respective conceptions of political order and explains the differences between them. In contrast to common perceptions presented in research, politics, and the media, the book shows that in the case of both Hezbollah and Hamas the religious orientation, i.e. Shiite and Sunni Islamist political thought, plays a secondary role only when it comes to explaining Islamist organizations' political orientation. Bringing new insights from cases that lie beyond the Western liberal world order into Critical Constructivist norm research and resistance studies, the book establishes a theoretical framework that enables scholars to comprehensively analyze Islamist organizations' political orientation in different cases without being caught in limited analytical categories. It will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations Theory, Middle East Studies, and Global Governance.

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Routledge

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1351599402

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9781351599405

The Mainline in Late Modernity

Tradition and Innovation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

By: Maren Freudenberg

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The Mainline in Late Modernity

Tradition and Innovation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

By: Maren Freudenberg

In the last fifty years, religion in America has changed dramatically, and Mainline Protestantism is following suit. This book reveals a fundamental transformation taking place in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The ELCA is looking to postdenominational Christianity for inspiration on how to attract people to the pews, but is at the same time intent on preserving its confessional, liturgical tradition as much as possible in late modernity. As American religion grows increasingly experiential and individualistic, the ELCA is caught between its church heritage and a highly innovative culture that demands participative structures and a personal relationship with the divine. In the midst of this tension, the ELCA is deflating its church hierarchy and encouraging people to become involved in congregations on their own terms, while it continues to celebrate its confessional, liturgical identity. But can this balance between individual and institution be upheld in the long run? Or will the democratization and pluralization of the faith ultimately undermine the church? This book explores how the ELCA attempts to resist the forces of Americanization in late modernity even as it slowly but surely comes to resemble mainstream American religion more and more.

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Lexington Books

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1498555853

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9781498555852

UNESCO’s Utopia of Lifelong Learning

An Intellectual History

By: Maren Elfert

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UNESCO’s Utopia of Lifelong Learning

An Intellectual History

By: Maren Elfert

With a focus on lifelong learning, this book examines the shifts that UNESCO’s educational concepts have undergone in reaction to historical pressures and dilemmas since the founding of the organization in 1945. The tensions between UNESCO’s humanistic worldview and the pressures placed on the organization have forced UNESCO to depart from its utopian vision of lifelong learning, while still claiming continuity. Elfert interprets the history of lifelong learning in UNESCO as part of a much bigger story of a struggle of ideologies between a humanistic-emancipatory and an economistic-technocratic worldview. With a close study of UNESCO’s two education flagship reports, the Faure and Delors reports, Elfert sheds light on the global impact of UNESCO’s professed humanistic goals and its shifting influence on lifelong learning around the world.

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1315278111

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Pharmacology for the Primary Care Provider - E-Book

By: Marilyn Winterton Edmunds,Maren Stewart Mayhew

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Pharmacology for the Primary Care Provider - E-Book

By: Marilyn Winterton Edmunds,Maren Stewart Mayhew

Written by and for nurse practitioners, this practical textbook focuses on what primary care providers need to learn and practice drug therapy. With an overall emphasis on patient teaching and health promotion, you will learn how to provide effective patient teaching about medications and how to gain patient compliance. Drug coverage focuses on “key drugs rather than “prototype drugs, so you can find important information about the most commonly used drugs rather than the first drug in each class. You will also find discussions on the legal and professional issues unique to nurse practitioners and other primary care providers. The 3rd edition also features an expanded emphasis on established clinical practice guidelines and evidence-based practice, plus two new chapters that cover drugs for ADHD and drugs for dementia. UNIQUE! Written specifically for nurse practitioners with an overall emphasis on patient teaching and health promotion. UNIQUE! Covers specific topics such as prescriptive authority, role implementation, and writing prescriptions. Presents comprehensive coverage of the drugs most commonly prescribed in – and the issues most relevant to – primary care practice. UNIQUE! Identifies the Top 200 drugs in chapter openers with a special icon and covers them in-depth to familiarize you with the most important, need-to-know drug information. Uses a consistent heading scheme for each prototype drug discussion to make it easier to learn and understand key concepts. Includes an introductory chapter on “Design and Implementation of Patient Education that highlights content on patient teaching and compliance. Includes specific “Patient Education sections in each drug chapter. Provides extensive coverage of drug therapy for special populations to alert you to special considerations based on age, pregnancy, race and other factors. A separate chapter on “Complementary and Alternative Therapies discusses the available complementary and alternative modalities, including detailed information on actions, uses, and interactions of commonly used herbs. Drug Overview tables at the beginning of each chapter outline the classifications of drugs discussed and provide a handy reference of drug classes and subclasses, generic names, and trade names. Clinical Alerts highlight essential information that primary care providers must remember in order to avoid serious problems, including cautions for prescribing, information about drug interactions, or warnings about particularly ominous adverse effects. An entire unit covers drugs for health promotion to introduce you to drugs commonly seen in outpatient primary care settings and to prepare you for practice in a society increasingly focused on health promotion and disease prevention. Includes separate chapters on Immunizations and Biologicals, Weight Management, Smoking Cessation, Vitamins and Minerals, Over-the-Counter Medications, and Complementary and Alternative Therapies.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323063160

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9780323063166

Socio-Cognitive Dynamics in Strategic Processes

By: Maren S. D. Breuer

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Socio-Cognitive Dynamics in Strategic Processes

By: Maren S. D. Breuer

Process-related considerations in strategy research and approaches to managerial cognition constitute two highly valuable, yet still only limitedly integrated, fields of interest in strategic management. To fill this void, the work starts from a cognitive perspective with the overall aim of examining the emergence of organisational strategies in strategic processes. The central research object 'strategy' is thereby conceptualized as shared strategic orientations among an organisation's key actors. The existing gap between strategy process research and cognitive strategy research is closed on a conceptual level first by developing and specifying a socio-cognitive perspective on strategic processes. In recognition of the central importance of social interactions in this context, the focus is then set on a specific core forum for strategic activities, i. e. strategic decision making groups. In this, the nature and the role of social interactions for the developing strategy-related knowledge structures is examined first conceptually, leading to the development of a socio-cognitive model on strategic decision making in groups, followed by a qualitative empirical study in this kind of activity forum. With its truly interdisciplinary nature, the dissertation is of interest for strategy scholars as it enlarges the pool of knowledge in strategic management both content-wise and also method(olog)ically with the innovative empirical research approach adopted. For practitioners contributions are made by detailing the different dimensions of strategic processes and hence sensitizing to important factors for careful overall process designs. At the micro level, concrete suggestions are derived for composing and instructing strategy teams in such a way as to allow for efficient interchanges during the discussions themselves, as well as to enable the effectiveness of these efforts beyond the specific group context and for the performance of the wider organisation.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3899369548

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9783899369540

Methodology of Uniform Contract Law

The UNIDROIT Principles in International Legal Doctrine and Practice

By: Maren Heidemann

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Methodology of Uniform Contract Law

The UNIDROIT Principles in International Legal Doctrine and Practice

By: Maren Heidemann

This book examines uniform contract law in all relevant areas of legal doctrine and practice, and considers the barriers which exist toward it in modern nation states, namely in the German and English legal systems. The author suggests ways to overcome these obstacles, and develops an autonomous methodology of interpretation of transnational contract principles. The book analyses existing uniform transnational law rules, such as the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540444629

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Handbook of Neural Computing Applications

By: Alianna J. Maren,Craig T. Harston,Robert M. Pap

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Handbook of Neural Computing Applications

By: Alianna J. Maren,Craig T. Harston,Robert M. Pap

Handbook of Neural Computing Applications is a collection of articles that deals with neural networks. Some papers review the biology of neural networks, their type and function (structure, dynamics, and learning) and compare a back-propagating perceptron with a Boltzmann machine, or a Hopfield network with a Brain-State-in-a-Box network. Other papers deal with specific neural network types, and also on selecting, configuring, and implementing neural networks. Other papers address specific applications including neurocontrol for the benefit of control engineers and for neural networks researchers. Other applications involve signal processing, spatio-temporal pattern recognition, medical diagnoses, fault diagnoses, robotics, business, data communications, data compression, and adaptive man-machine systems. One paper describes data compression and dimensionality reduction methods that have characteristics, such as high compression ratios to facilitate data storage, strong discrimination of novel data from baseline, rapid operation for software and hardware, as well as the ability to recognized loss of data during compression or reconstruction. The collection can prove helpful for programmers, computer engineers, computer technicians, and computer instructors dealing with many aspects of computers related to programming, hardware interface, networking, engineering or design.

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148326484X

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