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Babel and Babylon

Spectatorship in American Silent Film

By: Miriam Hansen

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Babel and Babylon

Spectatorship in American Silent Film

By: Miriam Hansen

Although cinema was invented in the mid-1890s, it was a decade more before the concept of a “film spectator” emerged. As the cinema began to separate itself from the commercial entertainments in whose context films initially had been shown—vaudeville, dime museums, fairgrounds—a particular concept of its spectator was developed on the level of film style, as a means of predicting the reception of films on a mass scale. In Babel and Babylon, Miriam Hansen offers an original perspective on American film by tying the emergence of spectatorship to the historical transformation of the public sphere. Hansen builds a critical framework for understanding the cultural formation of spectatorship, drawing on the Frankfurt School’s debates on mass culture and the public sphere. Focusing on exemplary moments in the American silent era, she explains how the concept of the spectator evolved as a crucial part of the classical Hollywood paradigm—as one of the new industry’s strategies to integrate ethnically, socially, and sexually differentiated audiences into a modern culture of consumption. In this process, Hansen argues, the cinema might also have provided the conditions of an alternative public sphere for particular social groups, such as recent immigrants and women, by furnishing an intersubjective context in which they could recognize fragments of their own experience. After tracing the emergence of spectatorship as an institution, Hansen pursues the question of reception through detailed readings of a single film, D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916), and of the cult surrounding a single star, Rudolph Valentino. In each case the classical construction of spectatorship is complicated by factors of gender and sexuality, crystallizing around the fear and desire of the female consumer. Babel and Babylon recasts the debate on early American cinema—and by implication on American film as a whole. It is a model study in the field of cinema studies, mediating the concerns of recent film theory with those of recent film history.

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Harvard University Press

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0674038290

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Cinema and Experience

Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno

By: Miriam Hansen

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Cinema and Experience

Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno

By: Miriam Hansen

Kracauer. Film, medium of a disintegrating world. -- Curious Americanism. -- Benjamin. Actuality, antinomies. -- Aura: the appropriation of a concept. -- Mistaking the moon for a ball. -- Micky-maus. -- Room-for-play. -- Adorno. The question of film aesthetics. -- Kracauer in exile. Theory of film.

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Univ of California Press

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0520265599

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9780520265592

Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication

Communicating as a Global Citizen

By: Miriam Sobré-Denton,Nilanjana Bardhan

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Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication

Communicating as a Global Citizen

By: Miriam Sobré-Denton,Nilanjana Bardhan

Winner of the National Communication Association's International and Intercultural Communication Division's 2014 Outstanding Authored Book of the Year award This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and future research in the area. It emphasizes the postcolonial perspective in order to raise critical consciousness about the complexities of intercultural communication in a globalizing world, situating cosmopolitanism—the notion of global citizenship—as a multilayered lens for research. Cosmopolitanism as a theoretical repertoire provides nuanced descriptions of what it means to be and communicate as a global citizen, how to critically study interconnectedness within and across cultures, and how to embrace differences without glossing over them. Moving intercultural communication studies towards the global in complex and nuanced ways, this book highlights crucial links between globalization, transnationalism, postcolonialism, cosmopolitanism, social injustice and intercultural communication, and will help in the creation of classroom spaces devoted to exploring these links. It also engages the links between theory and praxis in order to move towards intercultural communication pedagogy and research that simultaneously celebrates and interrogates issues of cultural difference with the aim of creating continuity rather than chasms. In sum, this book orients intercultural communication scholarship firmly towards the critical and postcolonial, while still allowing the incorporation of traditional intercultural communication concepts, thereby preparing students, scholars, educators and interculturalists to communicate ethically in a world that is simultaneously global and local.

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Routledge

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1135136327

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A Spectre is Haunting Arabia

How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen

By: Miriam M. Müller

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A Spectre is Haunting Arabia

How the Germans Brought Their Communism to Yemen

By: Miriam M. Müller

Radical ideologies may manifest differently at first, but they do follow a similar logic: truth claims, promises of salvation and a unifying common enemy. In Yemen's transition process today, the secessionist movement Al-Hirak has summoned the spirit of South Yemen, the only Marxist state in Arabia. This book meticulously describes how East Germany supported the implantation of this alien ideology in Yemen through its policy of »Socialist state- and nation-building«. In the same breath, the analysis captures the GDR's activities in the Middle East and their vital role in Moscow's Cold War strategy. Last but least, the study provides one of the few compact overviews of East German foreign policy in the English language of today.

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transcript Verlag

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3839432251

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The Politics and Everyday Practice of International Humanitarianism

By: Miriam Bradley

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The Politics and Everyday Practice of International Humanitarianism

By: Miriam Bradley

Through a combination of detailed case studies of humanitarian emergencies and thematic chapters which cover key concepts, actors and activities, this book explores the work of the largest international humanitarian agencies. Its central argument is that politics play a fundamental role in determining humanitarian needs, practices, and outcomes. In making this argument, the book highlights the many challenges and dilemmas facing humanitarian agencies in the contemporary world. It covers significant ground-temporally, geographically and thematically. The book is divided into four sections, providing a wide-ranging survey of contemporary international humanitarianism. The first section begins by presenting chapter-length case studies of the international responses to eleven humanitarian emergencies from the 1960s to the present day across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe; the second explains key concepts and trends in international humanitarianism; the third discusses how the work of international humanitarian agencies interacts with a range of other actors-including media, celebrities, donors, states, civil society, military forces and armed groups-who have significant impacts on humanitarian response and outcomes; and the fourth turns to the operations and activities undertaken by aid agencies on a daily basis. Ideally suited as a high-level introduction for students of international humanitarianism, the empirical detail and lucid analysis additionally make The Politics and Everyday Practice of International Humanitarianism an invaluable point of reference for more established scholars.

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Oxford University Press

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0192577190

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Babel and Babylon

Spectatorship in American Silent Film

By: Miriam Hansen

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Spectatorship in American Silent Film

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Soil Mapping and Process Modeling for Sustainable Land Use Management

By: Paulo Pereira,Eric Brevik,Miriam Muñoz-Rojas,Bradley Miller

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Soil Mapping and Process Modeling for Sustainable Land Use Management

By: Paulo Pereira,Eric Brevik,Miriam Muñoz-Rojas,Bradley Miller

Soil Mapping and Process Modeling for Sustainable Land Use Management is the first reference to address the use of soil mapping and modeling for sustainability from both a theoretical and practical perspective. The use of more powerful statistical techniques are increasing the accuracy of maps and reducing error estimation, and this text provides the information necessary to utilize the latest techniques, as well as their importance for land use planning. Providing practical examples to help illustrate the application of soil process modeling and maps, this reference is an essential tool for professionals and students in soil science and land management who want to bridge the gap between soil modeling and sustainable land use planning. - Offers both a theoretical and practical approach to soil mapping and its uses in land use management for sustainability - Synthesizes the most up-to-date research on soil mapping techniques and applications - Provides an interdisciplinary approach from experts worldwide working in soil mapping and land management

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Elsevier

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0128052015

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9780128052013

Analytical Methods for PFAS in Products and the Environment

By: Schöpel, Miriam,Jacobs, Griet,Jordens, Jan,van Ermen, Guido,Voorspoels, Stefan,Krause, Maren

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Analytical Methods for PFAS in Products and the Environment

By: Schöpel, Miriam,Jacobs, Griet,Jordens, Jan,van Ermen, Guido,Voorspoels, Stefan,Krause, Maren

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2022-510/ Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a large group of substances that have been widely used in articles since many years. They are found wherever extreme conditions prevail and particularly high demands are placed on materials. Their use spans over many different sectors ranging from fire-fighting foams to the manufacture of everyday articles like water-repellent outdoor jackets or stain-proofing agents.On the other side, PFASs are not easily degradable and can remain in the environment for decades. In addition, the use of PFASs has raised human and environmental concerns. In Europe, some PFASs are therefore classified as persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) and very persistent and very bioaccumulative (vPvB) under the REACH Regulation. The following report provides an overview of currently available analytical methods for PFASs in different matrices.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289372613

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9789289372619

The Union of Their Dreams

Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement

By: Miriam Pawel

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The Union of Their Dreams

Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement

By: Miriam Pawel

Named one of the Best Books of 2009 by the San Francisco Chronicle A Los Angeles Times Notable Book

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608190994

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Anti-Judaism and Early Christian Identity

A Critique of the Scholarly Consensus

By: Miriam S. Taylor

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Anti-Judaism and Early Christian Identity

A Critique of the Scholarly Consensus

By: Miriam S. Taylor

Against the scholarly consensus that assumes early Christians were involved in a rivalry for converts with contemporary Jews, this book shows that the target of patristic writers was rather a symbolic Judaism, and their aim was to define theologically the young church's identity. In identifying and categorizing the hypotheses put forward by modern scholars to defend their view of a Jewish-Christian "conflict", this book demonstrates how current theories have generated faulty notions about the perceptions and motivations of ancient Christians and Jews. Beyond its relevance to students of the early church, this book addresses the broader question of Christian responsibility for modern anti-Semitism. It shows how the focus on a supposedly social rivalry, obscures the depth and disquieting nature of the connections between early anti-Judaism and Christian identity.

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BRILL

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9004509488

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South American Cinematic Culture

Policy, Production, Distribution and Exhibition

By: Miriam Ross

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South American Cinematic Culture

Policy, Production, Distribution and Exhibition

By: Miriam Ross

This study of South American cinema offers a new way of approaching the variety of films available in the region. It brings to light the interconnectivity between state-run institutions (film councils, cinemateques, archives), altruistic bodies (film festival funds, NGOs) and commercial organisations (production companies, exhibitors and distributors). Examples of filmmakers, policy initiatives, funding sources and alternative film networks combine to produce a rich overview of one of the most significant sites for non-Western filmmaking in the twenty-first century. There is an awareness of the place South American cinema has on the international stage and, for this reason, the study involves an in depth look at the way film products are circulated within national boundaries and through external global circuits. Drawing on scholarship from studies on Latin American culture, cultural policy, indigeneity, digital technology, globalisation, transculturation and the public sphere, new links are traced between the various fields.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443825379

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9781443825375

Social Change And Applied Anthropology

Essays In Honor Of David W. Brokensha

By: Miriam Chaiken,Anne K. Fleuret

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Social Change And Applied Anthropology

Essays In Honor Of David W. Brokensha

By: Miriam Chaiken,Anne K. Fleuret

This collection of essays in the honor of David Brokensha focuses on issues which had concerned him throughout his professional career as an anthropologist. He emphasized on combining indigenous perspectives and knowledge in development planning and on sustainable natural resource management.

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Routledge

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1000311678

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Pragmatics in Translation

Mediality, Participation and Relational Work

By: Daria Dayter,Miriam A. Locher,Thomas C. Messerli

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Pragmatics in Translation

Mediality, Participation and Relational Work

By: Daria Dayter,Miriam A. Locher,Thomas C. Messerli

This Element addresses translation issues within an interpersonal pragmatics frame. The aims of this Element are twofold: first, we survey the current state of the field of pragmatics in translation; second, we present the current and methodologically innovative avenues of research in the field. We focus on three pragmatics issues – relational work, participation structure, and mediality – that we foreground as promising loci of research on translational data. By reviewing the trajectory of pragmatics research on translation/interpreting over time, and then outlining our understanding of the Pragmatics in Translation as a field, we arrive at a set of potential research questions which represent desiderata for future research. These questions identify the paths that can be productively explored through synergies of the linguistic pragmatics framework and translation data. In two case study chapters, we offer two example studies addressing some of the questions we identified as suggestions for future research. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009261231

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Dreams for Dead Bodies

Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction

By: Miriam Michelle Robinson

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Dreams for Dead Bodies

Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction

By: Miriam Michelle Robinson

Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction offers new arguments about the origins of detective fiction in the United States, tracing the lineage of the genre back to unexpected texts and uncovering how authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Rudolph Fisher made use of the genre’s puzzle-elements to explore the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America. The author constructs an interracial genealogy of detective fiction to create a nuanced picture of the ways that black and white authors appropriated and cultivated literary conventions that coalesced in a recognizable genre at the turn of the twentieth century. These authors tinkered with detective fiction’s puzzle-elements to address a variety of historical contexts, including the exigencies of chattel slavery, the erosion of working-class solidarities by racial and ethnic competition, and accelerated mass production. Dreams for Dead Bodies demonstrates that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature was broadly engaged with detective fiction, and that authors rehearsed and refined its formal elements in literary works typically relegated to the margins of the genre. By looking at these margins, the book argues, we can better understand the origins and cultural functions of American detective fiction.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472900609

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Nordic agriculture air and climate

Baseline and system analysis report

By: Antman, Anne,Brubæk, Stein,Andersen, Bente Hessellund,Lindqvist, Kajsa,Markus-Johansson, Miriam,Sørensen, Jacob,Teerikangas, Jenny

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Nordic agriculture air and climate

Baseline and system analysis report

By: Antman, Anne,Brubæk, Stein,Andersen, Bente Hessellund,Lindqvist, Kajsa,Markus-Johansson, Miriam,Sørensen, Jacob,Teerikangas, Jenny

This report constitutes the main outputs of the project “Pathways to a Nordic food system that contributes to reduced emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants”. The overall goals are to present the baseline data regarding the Nordic agricultural sector, its greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions, the regulatory framework and support systems, and conflicts of interest. The report aims to describe pathways to a Nordic food system that contributes to achieving the climate target of below 2 (or 1.5) degrees of warming and the air pollution target of zero exceedance of critical loads and critical levels regarding ammonia emissions. The Nordic region has diverse geological and climatic conditions that make certain types of agricultural production more vulnerable than others. The policy recommendations aim to serve as input to different policies at EU, Nordic and national level.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289343214

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9789289343213

The Syntax and Semantics of Discourse Markers

By: Miriam Urgelles-Coll

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The Syntax and Semantics of Discourse Markers

By: Miriam Urgelles-Coll

Examining the syntax and semantics of discourse markers, this book employs a syntactic approach to describe discourse markers in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), relevant in a theory of discourse because it provides a framework in which all levels of grammar can be integrated. Since discourse markers operate at discourse level, a well developed discourse theory is required - in this case, Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) is adopted. During the course of the book, Minimal Recourse Semantics is explained as it provides an integration of HPSG and SDRT. The approach described is exemplified with an analysis of 'anyway'. This book provides a detailed overview of research on discourse markers covering different areas of linguistics: from a discourse analysis point of view, to a Relevance Theory perspective going through a computational linguistics approach. Containing a precise summary of HPSG and the recently developed SDRT, it will be of great interest to researchers in semantics, pragmatics, grammar and discourse analysis.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441126058

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Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I

The Old and Middle Kingdoms

By: Miriam Lichtheim

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Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I

The Old and Middle Kingdoms

By: Miriam Lichtheim

Praise for the first editions: " "Concise, lucid, and altogether interesting . . ..The notes on the individual texts are unfailingly illuminating."--"Books Abroad" (now "World Literature Today")

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Univ of California Press

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0520248422

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9780520248427

Learning from Experience

Memory and the Teacher's Account of Teaching

By: Miriam Ben-Peretz

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Learning from Experience

Memory and the Teacher's Account of Teaching

By: Miriam Ben-Peretz

This book explores several aspects of learning from experience as reported by retired teachers: the nature of teachers' memories, the structure of teachers' narratives, and the manner in which teachers transform concrete experiences into practical wisdom. Teachers, like other professional practitioners, learn from their experiences, which shape the wisdom of practice enacted in classrooms. Memory of professional events is conceived as providing the basis for the construction of the personal professional knowledge of teachers. The book provides insights into the nature of human memories in a professional context.

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State University of New York Press

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0791496333

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9780791496336

Doing Sociolinguistics

A practical guide to data collection and analysis

By: Miriam Meyerhoff,Erik Schleef,Laurel MacKenzie

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Doing Sociolinguistics

A practical guide to data collection and analysis

By: Miriam Meyerhoff,Erik Schleef,Laurel MacKenzie

Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis provides an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data collection and analysis in the field of sociolinguistics. It offers students the opportunity to engage directly with some of the foundational and more innovative work being done in the quantitative or variationist paradigm. Divided into sixteen short chapters, Doing Sociolinguistics: can be used as a core text in class or as an easy reference whilst undertaking research walks readers through the different phases of a sociolinguistic project, providing all the knowledge and skills students will need to conduct their own analyses of language features excerpts from key research articles; exercises with real data from the authors’ own research; sample answers to the exercises; and further reading is supported by the Routledge Sociolinguistics Companion website (www.routledge.com/textbooks/meyerhoff) which features further online exercises with sound files. Designed to function as both a core text for methods classes in sociolinguistics and as a companion to the Routledge textbook Introducing Sociolinguistics, this book will be essential reading for all students studying and researching in this area.

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Routledge

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1317527143

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Tragic Modernities

By: Miriam Leonard

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Tragic Modernities

By: Miriam Leonard

Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.

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Harvard University Press

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0674743938

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9780674743939

Religion as a Political Resource

Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in Berlin and Paris

By: Miriam Schader

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Religion as a Political Resource

Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in Berlin and Paris

By: Miriam Schader

Miriam Schader shows that migrants can use religion as a resource for political involvement in their (new) country of residence – but under certain circumstances only. The author analyses the role religious networks and symbols play for the politicization and participation of Muslim and Christian migrants from sub-Saharan Africa in Berlin and Paris. Against the widely held belief that Islam is a ’political religion’ in itself, this study demonstrates that Christian migrants draw on their religion for political action more easily than their Muslim counterparts. It also highlights that it is not religion in general which helps migrants get politically active, but particular forms of religious organisations and particular theological elements.

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Springer

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3658167882

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Giftedness and Talent

What Educators and Psychologists Need to Know

By: Franzis Preckel,Miriam Vock,Paula Olszewski-Kubilius

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Giftedness and Talent

What Educators and Psychologists Need to Know

By: Franzis Preckel,Miriam Vock,Paula Olszewski-Kubilius

Understanding and supporting gifted and talented children and adolescents Answers common questions of professionals and trainees Presents the state-of-art of theory, research, and practice Explores the characteristics of gifted students More about the book What is giftedness? How do talents develop? Are gifted people "different"? How can gifted children be recognized and supported in their development? Based on the authors' many years of expertise in giftedness research and education practice, this book answers these and many other questions about giftedness and talent development in a scientifically sound and at the same time application-oriented way. This new volume offers an up-to-date overview of the theoretical foundations, pioneering studies, and research findings on gifted children and adolescents, and explores evidence-based options for diagnostics and support. The development of giftedness as well as the characteristics of gifted students, such as performance-related attributes and temperament traits, are also examined. This book is of interest to child psychologists and psychiatrists, educational and school psychologists, educators, and students, and is an ideal textbook for self-study or for those training to become a professional.

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Hogrefe Publishing GmbH

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1613346271

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9781613346273

Cultural Impact on Lean Six Sigma and Corporate Success

Causal Analyses Considering the Effects of National Culture and Leadership

By: Miriam Jacobs

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Cultural Impact on Lean Six Sigma and Corporate Success

Causal Analyses Considering the Effects of National Culture and Leadership

By: Miriam Jacobs

To achieve a better understanding of the influence of National Culture, Corporate Culture and Leadership Style on Lean Six Sigma implementation and Corporate Success a quantitative empirical web-based survey with Lean Six Sigma professionals involved in the social professional network LinkedIn was carried out by Miriam Jacobs. The outcome of this survey suggests, that certain constellations of these five factors are more successful than others. Companies with an almost equal balance across different Leadership Styles and types of Corporate Culture achieve the best results, while companies equipped with a Rational and Hierarchical Corporate Culture in the absence of transformational, participative or supportive leadership are likely to fail.

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Springer

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3658073403

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United Kingdom Publications and Theses on Africa 1967-68

By: Miriam Alman

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United Kingdom Publications and Theses on Africa 1967-68

By: Miriam Alman

First Published in 1973. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0714629960

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9780714629964

Introducing Sociolinguistics

By: Miriam Meyerhoff

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Introducing Sociolinguistics

By: Miriam Meyerhoff

Equipping students with the necessary tools for an excellent command of the subject, this new edition explores a range of topics, including language attitudes, gender, and social dialects. Exercises help readers to critically engage with the text. Now supported by The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader, the textbook also shares a common website with interactive exercises, web- and video links to examples, an online glossary and interview with the author.

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1135284431

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Gendered urban violence among Brazilians

Painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London

By: Cathy McIlwaine,Paul Heritage,Miriam Krenzinger Azambuja,Moniza Rizzini Ansari,Eliana Sousa Silva,Yara Evans

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Gendered urban violence among Brazilians

Painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London

By: Cathy McIlwaine,Paul Heritage,Miriam Krenzinger Azambuja,Moniza Rizzini Ansari,Eliana Sousa Silva,Yara Evans

This book aims to examine the nature of and resistance to gendered urban violence among Brazilian women in London and in the favelas of Maré, Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on the conceptualisation of translocational gendered urban violence framework, it highlights the importance of examining direct forms of gender-based violence across private, public and transnational spheres as interlinked with structural, symbolic and infrastructural violence. The book also explores the embodied and spatialised nature of gendered urban violence, explored through artistic engagements and arts-based methods. In developing a translocational feminist tracing methodological and epistemological approach across the social sciences and the arts, the book argues for the importance of a collaborative approach among academic, civil society organisations, artists and creative researchers with a view to engendering empathetic transformation to address gendered urban violence in the long-term.

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Manchester University Press

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1526175657

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Reconstructing Citizenship

The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France

By: Miriam Feldblum

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Reconstructing Citizenship

The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France

By: Miriam Feldblum

Provides the most comprehensive analysis of the rise of citizenship conflict in contemporary France.

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SUNY Press

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0791442691

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Books Across Borders

UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945–1951

By: Miriam Intrator

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Books Across Borders

UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945–1951

By: Miriam Intrator

Books Across Borders: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945-1951 is a history of the emotional, ideological, informational, and technical power and meaning of books and libraries in the aftermath of World War II, examined through the cultural reconstruction activities undertaken by the Libraries Section of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The book focuses on the key actors and on-the-ground work of the Libraries Section in four central areas: empowering libraries around the world to acquire the books they wanted and needed; facilitating expanded global production of quality translations and affordable books; participating in debates over the contested fate of confiscated books and displaced libraries; and formulating notions of cultural rights as human rights. Through examples from France, Poland, and surviving Jewish Europe, this book provides new insight into the complexities and specificities of UNESCO’s role in the realm of books, libraries, and networks of information exchange during the early postwar, post-Holocaust, Cold War years.

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Springer

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3030158160

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Erotic Grotesque Nonsense

The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times

By: Miriam Silverberg

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Erotic Grotesque Nonsense

The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times

By: Miriam Silverberg

A sumptuously documented book, one that makes innovative use of the principle of montage to generate informative historical readings of Japan's myriad mass cultural phenomena in the early twentieth century. Both in terms of its scholarship and its methodology, this is a truly admirable work."—Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Brown University "As Miriam Silverberg has brilliantly shown here, the modern times of 1920s and ‘30s Japan were rendered in a cacophony of cultural mixing: a period of consumerist desires and Hollywood fantasy-making but also the rise of nationalist empire-building. Excavating its kaleidoscope of everyday culture Silverberg astutely offers a theory of montage for how Japanese subjects 'code-switched' in juggling the mixed cultural/political elements of these times. Utilizing a montage of media, texts, sites, and scholarship, Silverberg leads the reader into the terrain of the 'erotic grotesque nonsense' in a work that is as scintillating as it is theoretically important."—Anne Allison, author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination "Unlike other scholars who merely view ero-guro-nansensu in its literal meanings, Silverberg brilliantly documents it as a complex cultural aesthetic expressed in a spectrum of fascinating mass culture forms and preoccupations. With great erudition and humor, she traces the sensory and conceptual modes that are animated with potency and sophistication through this cultural metaphor. This book is destined to be a classic in Japan scholarship."—Laura Miller, author of Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics

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Univ of California Press

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0520222733

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9780520222731

Disaster Security

Using Intelligence and Military Planning for Energy and Environmental Risks

By: Chad M. Briggs,Miriam Matejova

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Disaster Security

Using Intelligence and Military Planning for Energy and Environmental Risks

By: Chad M. Briggs,Miriam Matejova

Inside view of how and why militaries/intelligence agencies plan for environmental disasters, for practitioners, policymakers and scholars.

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251

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Cambridge University Press

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1108472354

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9781108472357

An Inconvenient Deliberation

The Precautionary Principle's Contribution to the Uncertainties Surrounding Climate Change Liability

By: Miriam Haritz

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An Inconvenient Deliberation

The Precautionary Principle's Contribution to the Uncertainties Surrounding Climate Change Liability

By: Miriam Haritz

This vitally important book asks: Can the precautionary principle make uncertainty judiciable in the context of liability for the consequences of climate change, and, if so, to what extent? Drawing on the full range of pertinent existing literature and case law, the author examines the precautionary principle both in terms of its content and application and in the context of liability law. She analyses the indirect means offered by existing legislation being used by environmental groups and affected individuals before the courts to challenge both companies and regulators as responsible agents of climate change damage"--Page 4 of cover.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9041135219

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9789041135216

Impact of Uganda's National Agricultural Advisory Services Program

By: Samuel Benin,Ephraim Nkonya,Geresom Okecho,Josée Randriamamonjy,Edward Kato,Geofrey Lubadde,Miriam Kyotalimye,Francis Byekwaso

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Impact of Uganda's National Agricultural Advisory Services Program

By: Samuel Benin,Ephraim Nkonya,Geresom Okecho,Josée Randriamamonjy,Edward Kato,Geofrey Lubadde,Miriam Kyotalimye,Francis Byekwaso

In Uganda, agricultural extension has been hotly debated since the implementation of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) program in 2001. Conceived as a demand-driven approach and largely publicly-funded with services provided by the private sector, the NAADS program targets the development and use of farmer institutions. It is a key strategy in the government’s poverty reduction and national development plan. Due to methodological challenges arising from the complex ways that many factors influence the relationship between extension inputs and outcomes, as well as data-quality issues, the effectiveness of agricultural extension in raising agricultural productivity and incomes and reducing poverty is often viewed with skepticism among policymakers and development practitioners. The NAADS program has been no exception. Some initial evaluations, mostly qualitative in nature, indicate the program has had a favorable effect on increasing the use of improved technologies, marketed output, and wealth status of farmers receiving services from the program. However, the program does not appear to be promoting improved soil-fertility management, raising concern about the sustainability of potential productivity increases. Now that the first phase of the program has ended, this study rigorously assess the outcomes and impacts obtained thus far, in order to help inform the current second phase and offer lessons for others implementing or planning to implement demand-driven agricultural advisory services in developing countries. The findings presented here are useful to policymakers of central and local governments, farmer groups, advisory service providers, donors, and others seeking to improve agricultural extension services in Uganda and elsewhere. Program evaluators and policy analysts will find the methods instructive.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896291898

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9780896291898

Strawberry Fields

Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture

By: Miriam J. Wells

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Strawberry Fields

Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture

By: Miriam J. Wells

This book is about social conflict and economic restructuring, and the play of political forces in the relationship between the two. The purpose of the book is to engage and develop social theory through the causal analysis of a particular case, but to increase under-standing of a fascinating and little-known world.

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Cornell University Press

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0801482798

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Rivers of Light

The Life of Claire Myers Owens

By: Miriam Kalman Friedman

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Rivers of Light

The Life of Claire Myers Owens

By: Miriam Kalman Friedman

Growing up in a conservative, middle-class family in Texas, Claire Myers Owens sought adventure and freedom at an early age. At twenty years old, she left home and quickly found a community of like-minded free spirits and intellectuals in New York’s Greenwich Village. There Owens wrote novels and short stories, including the controversial novel The Unpredictable Adventure: A Comedy of Woman’s Independence, which was banned by the New York Public Library for its “risqué” content. Drawn to ideals of selfactualization and creative freedom, Owens became a key figure in the Human Potential Movement along with founder Abraham Maslow and Aldous Huxley, and became an ardent follower of Carl Jung. In her later years, Owens devoted her life to the practice of Zen Buddhism, moving to Rochester, NY, where she joined the Zen Center and studied under Roshi Philip Kapleau. She published her final book, Zen and the Lady, at the age of eighty-three. Friedman’s rediscovery of Owens brings well-deserved attention to her little known yet extraordinary life and passionate spirit. Drawing upon autobiographies, letters, journals, and novels, Friedman chronicles Owens’s robust intellect and her tumultuous private life and, along the way, shows readers what makes her story significant. With very few role models in the early twentieth century, Owens blazed her own path of independence and enlightenment.

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456

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Syracuse University Press

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0815654790

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9780815654797

Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

By: Miriam Horn,Fred Krupp

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Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

By: Miriam Horn,Fred Krupp

How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that’s not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings a surprisingly hopeful message: We can solve global warming. And in doing so, we will build the new industries, jobs, and fortunes of the twenty-first century.In these pages the reader will encounter the bold innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways we use it. These entrepreneurs are poised to remake the world’s biggest business and save the planet—if America’s political leaders give them a fair chance to compete.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393068102

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9780393068108

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