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Girls of a Certain Age

By: Maria Adelmann

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A fearless, darkly playful debut exploring the many impossible choices that accompany 21st century femaleness. What is the right way to handle an abusive partner? An unexpected pregnancy? A toxic friendship? Chronic unemployment? Gender dysphoria? A family member going to war? A disability? Anger? Loneliness? Finding themselves in disempowering, frightening, or otherwise unendurable circumstances, the girls, women, and non-binary characters in Maria Adelmann's stories look for ways to free themselves into new lives or, at the very least, new states of feeling. Sometimes they do this by hurting someone else or getting hurt; sometimes by submitting, other times by mounting a rebellion. With a special talent for pressing the sharp up against the tender, Adelmann explores the many pathways through the titular condition. Ranging in style from the magical to the terrifying to the calm tones of a self-help manual, Girls of a Certain Age captures the spectrum of strategies we apply to the pain of life, strategies that we persist in pretending might actually work.

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Little, Brown

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0316450804

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9780316450805

The Man Who Crucified Himself

Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe

By: Maria Böhmer

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The Man Who Crucified Himself

Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe

By: Maria Böhmer

The Man Who Crucified Himself is the history of a sensational nineteenth-century medical case. In 1805 a shoemaker called Mattio Lovat attempted to crucify himself in Venice. His act raised a furore, and the story spread across Europe. For the rest of the century Lovat’s case fuelled scientific and popular debates on medicine, madness, suicide and religion. Drawing on Italian, German, English and French sources, Maria Böhmer traces the multiple readings of the case and identifies various 'interpretive communities'. Her meticulously researched study sheds new light on Lovat’s case and offers fresh insights on the case narrative as a genre - both epistemic and literary.

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313

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BRILL

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9004353607

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9789004353602

Body Criticism

Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine

By: Barbara Maria Stafford

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Body Criticism

Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine

By: Barbara Maria Stafford

In this erudite and profusely illustrated history of perception, Barbara Stafford explores a remarkable set of body metaphors deriving from both aesthetic and medical practices that were developed during the enlightenment for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world. While she focuses on these metaphors as a reflection of the changing attitudes toward the human body during the period of birth of the modern world, she also presents a strong argument for our need to recognize the occurrence of a profound revolution—a radical shift from a textbased to a visually centered culture. Stafford agues, in fact, that modern societies need to develop innovative, nonlinguistic paradigms and to train a broad public in visual aptitude.

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634

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MIT Press

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0262691655

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9780262691659

Elastic and Inelastic Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy on Iron-Based Superconductors

By: Jandke, Jasmin Maria

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Elastic and Inelastic Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy on Iron-Based Superconductors

By: Jandke, Jasmin Maria

Within this work, the pairing mechanism of conventional (Pb) and unconventional superconductors (SrFe2(As1-xPx )2 , FeSe, FeSe/STO) was investigated experimentally by means of elastic and inelastic tunneling spectroscopy at temperatures down to 30 mK. The distinction between elastic and inelastic contributions to tunneling data was elaborated. The results help to identify conventional (phonon-mediated) and unconventional (e.g. spin-?uctuation mediated) superconductivity.

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242

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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3731507471

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9783731507475

Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870

By: Benjamin Maria Baader

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Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870

By: Benjamin Maria Baader

Baader examines changes in practices of prayer and synagogue worship, rabbinic writings that encouraged men to cultivate a Judaism shaped by feminine values, the transformation of exclusively male philanthropic organizations into modern voluntary organizations in which men and women participated, and the new roles assumed by women as educators, activists, and religious writers. By documenting the expansion of women's spaces and women's roles in bourgeoisie Judaism and tracing the feminization of Jewish men's religious practices, Baader provides fresh insights into the gender organization of traditional Jewish culture and modern German middle-class society."--BOOK JACKET.

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322

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Indiana University Press

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0253347343

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9780253347343

Reframing Providence

New Perspectives from Aquinas on the Divine Action Debate

By: Simon Maria Kopf

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Reframing Providence

New Perspectives from Aquinas on the Divine Action Debate

By: Simon Maria Kopf

The doctrine of providence, which states that God guides his creation, has been widely conceived in action terms in recent theological scholarship. A telling example is the so-called Divine Action Debate, which is largely based on two principles: (i) providence is best conceptualised in terms of divine action; and (ii) divine action is best modelled on human action. By examining this debate, and especially the Divine Action Project (1988-2003), which led to the 'scientific turn' of the debate, this study argues that theo-physical incompatibilism, as a corollary of this 'framing' of providence, can be identified as a main reason for the current deadlock in divine action theories - namely, the assumption that just as human (libertarian) free action presupposes causal indeterminism, so, too, does divine action in the world presuppose causal indeterminism. Instead of recalibrating the much-discussed non-interventionist objective divine action (NIODA) approaches, Simon Maria Kopf advocates a 'reframing' of providence in terms of the virtue of prudence. To this end, this book examines the 'prudential-ordinative' theory of Thomas Aquinas and contrasts it with the prevalent 'actionistic', or action-based, model of providence. In this process, Kopf discusses, among other topics, the doctrine of divine transcendence, primary and secondary causation, natural necessity and contingency, and teleology as essential features of this 'prudential-ordinative' theory. How these two approaches fare when applied to the question of biological evolution is the subject of the final part of this book, which revisits the controversy between Stephen Jay Gould and Simon Conway Morris over what would happen if one were to rerun the tape of life.

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321

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Oxford University Press

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0192874985

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9780192874986

Polymer Optical Fiber Bragg Gratings

Fabrication and Sensing Applications

By: Ricardo Oliveira,Lucia Maria Botas Bilro,Rogerio Nunes Nogueira

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Polymer Optical Fiber Bragg Gratings

Fabrication and Sensing Applications

By: Ricardo Oliveira,Lucia Maria Botas Bilro,Rogerio Nunes Nogueira

Polymer optical fibers (POFs) have been regarded as a viable alternative to silica fibers in a variety of sensing applications. Fiber optic sensors offer key advantages over other sensing technologies, which include immunity to electromagnetic interference, compact, lightweight, multiplexing capability, and higher sensitivity. This book gives an overview of the polymer optical fiber Bragg grating (POFBG) technology over the last 20 years, covering aspects related to the fiber Bragg grating fabrication and also sensing applications. The book is split into five chapters, and it is written in such a way that can provide a comprehensive and simple route to new users, scientists and engineers working or wishing to work in the field of POFBGs: Describes the systems commonly employed for producing fiber Braggs gratings (FBGs) in silica fibers that can be used for the production of POFBGs; Explores different laser sources for the inscription of POFBGs; Explores the capability of using this technology at the visible and infrared region, in different fiber types (e.g., step-index, microstructured, unclad, highly birefringent) and in fibers composed of different polymer materials such as PMMA, doped PMMA, PS and ZEONEX; Reports the fabrication of different types of POF gratings, such as uniform, phase-shifted, tilted, chirped, and long-period gratings; Shows the opportunities of POFBGs for a variety of sensing applications. The insight to the use of POFBGs provides a vision for the opportunities of this fiber optic technology.

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CRC Press

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1000734005

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9781000734003

Girls of a Certain Age

By: Maria Adelmann

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By: Maria Adelmann

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Book's by Maria Adelmann

Girls of a Certain Age

Girls of a Certain Age

The Man Who Crucified Himself

The Man Who Crucified Himself

Body Criticism

Body Criticism

Elastic and Inelastic Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy on Iron-Based Superconductors

Elastic and Inelastic Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy on Iron-Based Superconductors

Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870

Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870

Reframing Providence

Reframing Providence

Polymer Optical Fiber Bragg Gratings

Polymer Optical Fiber Bragg Gratings

Girls of a Certain Age

Girls of a Certain Age

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