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Nonnus’ Paraphrase between Poetry, Rhetoric and Theology

Rewriting the Fourth Gospel in the Fifth Century

By: Maria Ypsilanti,Laura Franco

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Nonnus’ Paraphrase between Poetry, Rhetoric and Theology

Rewriting the Fourth Gospel in the Fifth Century

By: Maria Ypsilanti,Laura Franco

This book offers an analysis of the paraphrastic techniques which Nonnus employs for rendering St. John’s Gospel in Homerising verse. The study examines the poem’s dependence on ancient rhetorical theory, its aesthetics and its dialogue with theology

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329

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BRILL

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9004439064

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9789004439061

The Play of Words

Blood Ties and Power Relations in Aeschylus' "Oresteia"

By: Giulia Maria Chesi

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The Play of Words

Blood Ties and Power Relations in Aeschylus' "Oresteia"

By: Giulia Maria Chesi

The play of words" examines the dynamics of interfamilial violence in the Oresteia. It argues that the key element of the play's discourse about violence is to be found in the inquiry for a definition of Clytemnestra's motherhood. The failure of this research challenges the reader with some open questions: who is Clytemnestra? Where is justice if a mother dies? By reading the play's narrative on interfamilial violence and matricide as a narrative of uncertainties in terms of the role of the mother figure, this book illustrates the complexity of the maternal role of Clytemnestra. It also breaks silence among scholars, who have generally portrayed Clytemnestra as the bad mother who kills the children's father and as the bad wife who betrays her husband.

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212

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110390213

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9783110390216

Technology and Critical Literacy in Early Childhood

By: Vivian Maria Vasquez,Carol Branigan Felderman

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Technology and Critical Literacy in Early Childhood

By: Vivian Maria Vasquez,Carol Branigan Felderman

This book explores the intersection of technology and critical literacy, specifically addressing what new technologies afford critical literacy work with young children between ages three to eight.

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130

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Routledge

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0415539501

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9780415539500

Taking Stock of Programs to Develop Socioemotional Skills

A Systematic Review of Program Evidence

By: Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta,Alexandria Valerio,Marcela Gutiérrez Bernal

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Taking Stock of Programs to Develop Socioemotional Skills

A Systematic Review of Program Evidence

By: Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta,Alexandria Valerio,Marcela Gutiérrez Bernal

This book represents a systematic review of the documented impacts of programs aimed at fostering socio-emotional skills in developed and developing countries. It uses a life-cycle approach to organize the findings from rigorous evaluations of more than 80 programs. This includes programs for toddlers and young children before primary school, programs for students enrolled in formal education, and programs targeted at the out-of-school population. The book develops a conceptual framework that helps to identify the program characteristics and participants’ profiles associated with a range of program outcomes. These include health-related, behavioral, academic or cognitive, and economic-related outcomes. The review finds that few of the programs studied focus exclusively on the development of socio-emotional skills. In fact, most efforts to develop socio-emotional skills are embedded within innovative education and training curricula, as well as pedagogical and classroom practices. Evidence shows that programs are particularly effective when targeted to highly vulnerable populations and, in particular, to young children. Overall, findings indicate that high-quality programs for young children tend to foster cognitive abilities in the short run and to impact socio-emotional skills over the long run. Programs for students enrolled in formal education (primary and secondary levels) show positive and significant impacts on the outcomes reviewed. The most successful of these programs are implemented school-wide and follow the SAFE approach: that is, they are appropriately sequenced, active, focused, and explicit. Finally, the review finds that programs for out-of-school children and youth are usually designed as a means of achieving immediate labor market outcomes (e.g., job-placement, formal employment, and higher wages). While some of these programs show positive and statistically significant impacts on socio-emotional skills, the impacts tend to be small.

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176

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World Bank Publications

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1464808732

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9781464808739

Dialogic Oriented Shared Book Reading Practices for Immigrant Children in German Kindergartens

By: Maria Teodora Ping

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Dialogic Oriented Shared Book Reading Practices for Immigrant Children in German Kindergartens

By: Maria Teodora Ping

This book describes a doctoral research project which aims at investigating actual practices of dialogic oriented shared book reading targeting immigrant children in German kindergartens. In this particular research project, the potential contributions of these practices to children's German as second language learning were also assessed. The participants of the study were five native German speaking kindergarten teachers (Erzieherinnen) and five groups of four to six children ages 3- 6 years old. The data sources were videotaped shared book reading sessions which were afterwards transcribed and analysed by using content analysis method. The analysis phases of the study revealed the following findings: 1) there were three different forms of interactions found during the observed shared book reading situations; 2) there were various educators' strategies and children's behaviours observed during the videotaped shared book reading situations, which to some extent were congruent; 3) there were potential contributions of different forms of interactions to children's second language learning. Eventually, the findings of this study are expected to give theoretical and methodological contributions to the field of early childhood second language learning. Moreover, it is also expected to be a solid empirical basis to support the improvement of language promotion programs for immigrant children in German kindergartens.

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Universal-Publishers

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1612337864

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9781612337869

City of Champions

A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit

By: Stefan Szymanski,Silke-Maria Weineck

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City of Champions

A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit

By: Stefan Szymanski,Silke-Maria Weineck

The changing fortunes of Detroit, told through the lens of the city's major sporting events, by the bestselling author of Soccernomics, and a prizewinning cultural critic From Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to the Bad Boys, from Joe Louis and Gordie Howe to the Malice at the Palace, City of Champions explores the history of Detroit through the stories of its most gifted athletes and most celebrated teams, linking iconic events in the history of Motown sports to the city's shifting fortunes. In an era when many teams have left rustbelt cities to relocate elsewhere, Detroit has held on to its franchises, and there is currently great hope in the revival of the city focused on its downtown sports complexes—but to whose benefit? Szymanski and Weineck show how the fate of the teams in Detroit's stadiums, gyms, and fields is echoed in the rise and fall of the car industry, political upheavals ushered in by the depression, World War II, the 1967 uprising, and its recent bankruptcy and renewal. Driven by the conviction that sports not only mirror society but also have a special power to create both community and enduring narratives that help define a city's sense of self, City of Champions is a unique history of the most American of cities.

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418

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The New Press

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1620974436

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9781620974438

Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force

Mapping a Chicano/a Art History

By: Ella Maria Diaz

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Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force

Mapping a Chicano/a Art History

By: Ella Maria Diaz

Winner, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award, 2019 The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first. Materializing in Sacramento, California, in 1969 and established between 1970 and 1972, the RCAF helped redefine the meaning of artistic production and artwork to include community engagement projects such as breakfast programs, community art classes, and political and labor activism. The collective’s work has contributed significantly both to Chicano/a civil rights activism and to Chicano/a art history, literature, and culture. Blending RCAF members’ biographies and accounts of their artistic production with art historical, cultural, and literary scholarship, Flying under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force is the first in-depth study of this vanguard Chicano/a arts collective and activist group. Ella Maria Diaz investigates how the RCAF questioned and countered conventions of Western art, from the canon taught in US institutions to Mexican national art history, while advancing a Chicano/a historical consciousness in the cultural borderlands. In particular, she demonstrates how women significantly contributed to the collective’s output, navigating and challenging the overarching patriarchal cultural norms of the Chicano Movement and their manifestations in the RCAF. Diaz also shows how the RCAF’s verbal and visual architecture—a literal and figurative construction of Chicano/a signs, symbols, and texts—established the groundwork for numerous theoretical interventions made by key scholars in the 1990s and the twenty-first century.

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367

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University of Texas Press

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1477312420

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9781477312421

The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)

By: Maria Adamopoulou

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The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)

By: Maria Adamopoulou

Was migration to Germany a blessing or a curse? The main argument of this book is that the Greek state conceived labor migration as a traineeship into Europeanization with its shiny varnish of progress. Jumping on a fully packed train to West Germany meant leaving the past behind. However, the tensed Cold War realities left no space for illusions; specters of the Nazi past and the Greek Civil War still haunted them all. Adopting a transnational approach, this monograph retargets attention to the sending state by exploring how the Greek Gastarbeiter’s welfare was intrinsically connected with their homeland through its exercise of long-distance nationalism. Apart from its fresh take in postwar migration, the book also addresses methodological challenges in creative ways. The narrative alternates between the macro- and the micro-level, including subnational and transnational actors and integrating a diverse set of primary sources and voices. Avoiding the trap of exceptionalism, it contextualizes the Greek case in the Mediterranean and Southeast European experience.

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164

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111202305

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9783111202303

Transition from Clinician to Educator

By: Maria C. Fressola,G. Elaine Patterson

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Transition from Clinician to Educator

By: Maria C. Fressola,G. Elaine Patterson

As the population continues to age and retire, the shortage of qualified nurse educators continues to grow. Simultaneously, student demand is also increasing. In order to address this current and future need, organizations are looking toward practicing clinicians to fill the gap. Transition from Clinician to Educator: A Practical Approach is a hands-on guide to prepare future educators who are entering the world of education. Written in an accessible style, it focuses on real issues that new educators will face as they move into the classroom. With topics drawn from the authors’ own experiences, it is an essential resource to understanding the intricacies involved in being a successful educator.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284125564

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9781284125566

The Visionary Director, Third Edition

A Handbook for Dreaming, Organizing, and Improvising in Your Center

By: Margie Carter,Luz Maria Casio,Deb Curtis

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The Visionary Director, Third Edition

A Handbook for Dreaming, Organizing, and Improvising in Your Center

By: Margie Carter,Luz Maria Casio,Deb Curtis

Create a larger vision in your child care program and perform your job as a center director with motivation and creativity. Early childhood leaders Deb Curtis, Margie Carter, and Luz Casio provide inspiration and support in this newly updated edition of The Visionary Director. The third edition reflects new requirements and initiatives in early childhood programs adds QR Code access links with short video stories and print resources that further illuminate the ideas under consideration has a stronger focus on creating an organizational culture that is shaped by more diverse perspectives with an anti-racist, anti-bias, equity lens updates content to address current early childhood education trends and leadership for an expanded definition of quality Find a concrete framework for approaching and organizing your work, as well as principles, strategies, and self-directed activities to support your vision for building a strong learning community for your staff and the young children in their care.

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Redleaf Press

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1605547298

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9781605547299

Magic Realism

Social Context and Discourse

By: Maria-Elena Angulo

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Magic Realism

Social Context and Discourse

By: Maria-Elena Angulo

Since the 1930s, Latin American writers have used magic realism to transcend the limits of the fantastic and illuminate social problems within the culture. The author considers five modern Latin American novels. Starting with two canonical texts of magic realism, Alejo Carpentier's El reino de este mundo (1949) and Garcia Marquez's Cien a-os de soledad (1967), the author argues that Los Sangurimas (1934), by the Ecuadorian Jos de la Cuadra, is a seminal work due to de la Cuadra's new approach to reality and his use of marvelous and hyperbolic elements. The author shows the continuation of this example in Ecuador in Demetrio Aguilera-Malta's Siete lunas y siete serpientes (1970) and Alicia Y nez Coss'o's Bruna, soroche y los tios (1972), which elucidate social problems of race, class, and gender through use of magic realism. In selecting for her study well-known writers such as Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, and others, less well-known such as de la Cuadra, Aguilera-Malta and Y nez Coss'o, the author demonstrates that both canonical and noncanonical writers for many years have been working on this new way of writing to interpret in fiction the highly complex Latin American reality.

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166

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Routledge

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1317954238

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9781317954231

The History of Washington County in the Vermont historical Gazetteer

By: Abby Maria Hemenway

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The History of Washington County in the Vermont historical Gazetteer

By: Abby Maria Hemenway

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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998

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385443954

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9783385443952

Book's by Maria Ypsilanti

Nonnus’ Paraphrase between Poetry, Rhetoric and Theology

Nonnus’ Paraphrase between Poetry, Rhetoric and Theology

The Play of Words

The Play of Words

Technology and Critical Literacy in Early Childhood

Technology and Critical Literacy in Early Childhood

Taking Stock of Programs to Develop Socioemotional Skills

Taking Stock of Programs to Develop Socioemotional Skills

Dialogic Oriented Shared Book Reading Practices for Immigrant Children in German Kindergartens

Dialogic Oriented Shared Book Reading Practices for Immigrant Children in German Kindergartens

City of Champions

City of Champions

Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force

Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force

The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)

The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)

Transition from Clinician to Educator

Transition from Clinician to Educator

The Visionary Director, Third Edition

The Visionary Director, Third Edition

Magic Realism

Magic Realism

The History of Washington County in the Vermont historical Gazetteer

The History of Washington County in the Vermont historical Gazetteer

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