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Conflicting Visions of Reform

German Lay Propaganda Pamphlets, 1519-1530

By: Miriam Usher Chrisman

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Conflicting Visions of Reform

German Lay Propaganda Pamphlets, 1519-1530

By: Miriam Usher Chrisman

Cultural and textual analysis of 300 German propaganda pamphlets reveals lay people responding to the Protestant Reformation. They urge changes based on the perceptions and aspirations of their social class, supporting their proposals by personal interpretations of the Bible.

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BRILL

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039103944X

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9780391039445

Deadly Arsenals

Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats

By: Joseph Cirincione,Jon B. Wolfsthal,Miriam Rajkumar

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Deadly Arsenals

Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats

By: Joseph Cirincione,Jon B. Wolfsthal,Miriam Rajkumar

An authoritative study of the dangers nations face today from weapons of mass destruction and the successes and failures of international nonproliferation efforts. This proliferation atlas documents with maps, charts, and graphs the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and missile delivery systems. The book describes the weapons and the regimes that try to control them; it also details the countries that have, want, or have given up weapons of mass destruction.

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Carnegie Endowment

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0870032887

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9780870032882

Reclaiming Feminism

Challenging Everyday Misogyny

By: Miriam E. David

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Reclaiming Feminism

Challenging Everyday Misogyny

By: Miriam E. David

Since second-wave feminism of the 1970s, women's rights and opportunities in education and employment have increased across the globe, but has equality, whether social, political or legal, really been achieved? In this fascinating book, Miriam E. David, a well-known and influential feminist in higher education, celebrates the achievements of international feminists as activists and scholars. She provides a critique of the expansion of global higher education masking their pioneering zeal and zest for knowledge. Looking at the changing zeitgeist, David contends that feminism has yet to have an enduring influence, despite how generations of women have felt empowered. She illustrates the power of patriarchal social relations and how everyday sexism or misogyny is keenly felt. This impassioned book asks whether a feminist-friendly future is possible, or indeed, desirable.

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288

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Policy Press

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1447328191

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9781447328193

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

Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Placing the consumer-subject within mass culture -- Erotic grotesque nonsense as montage -- Japanese modern culture as politics -- The documentary impulse -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa, honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Gonda Yasunoke's Asakusa -- Soeda Azenbo's Asakusa -- Kawabata Yasunari's Asakusa -- Iwasaki Akira's pork cutlet problem (Hollywood as fantasy) -- Ozaki Midori (love for a cane and a hat) -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense.

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Univ of California Press

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0520260082

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9780520260085

Living with AIDS

By: Miriam Cameron

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Living with AIDS

By: Miriam Cameron

Cameron brings us closer to understanding the complex emotions and fragmented, sometimes self-serving decision making of the victims of this twentieth-century plague, and teaches us that in helping them to tell their stories we may help prevent others from being infected. . . . It is clear throughout this remarkable work by an interviewer new to the practice of oral history that her questions helped her subjects think their way through their own problems. Living With Aids can be a guidebook and a source of strength for AIDS victims because of Cameron's use of what she calls "ethical listening and what experienced oral history practitioners often refer to as "non- judgmental" or "empathic" interviewing techniques." """""""""""""""--Oral History Review """"The author's skillful eliciting and selection of these simple and direct expressions of the human conflicts arising from this epidemic will be thought-provoking for people who want to understand it better, whether they are familiar with the issues or not and whether they are health care workers, ethicists or lay people.""""""""""""""""""""--Journal of Medical Ethics""" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" """This two-hundred page paperback provides a fascinating portrait of some of the many questions, concerns and problems with face those with chronic HIV infection and AIDS. . . . The book is fascinating and eminently readable for its account of life for those with HIV infection AIDS. It will be useful for researchers, social scientists, health care workers and, probably above all, people whose lives are in some way affected by HIV.""--Medical Sociology News""""This is an excellent book for practicing nurses and nursingstudents because it invites the reader to be part of each PWAs personal life. It moves the reader far beyond a technical, intellectual approach to AIDS. One is aware of the very human dilemmas facing each of the persons interviewed. . . .It is, in fact, a book for all who are c

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SAGE

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0803947798

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9780803947795

Casualties of Care

Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France

By: Miriam I. Ticktin

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Casualties of Care

Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France

By: Miriam I. Ticktin

This book explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin focuses on France and its humanitarian immigration practices to argue that a politics based on care and protection can lead the state to view issues of immigration and asylum through a medical lens. Examining two "regimes of care"—humanitarianism and the movement to stop violence against women—Ticktin asks what it means to permit the sick and sexually violated to cross borders while the impoverished cannot? She demonstrates how in an inhospitable immigration climate, unusual pathologies can become the means to residency papers, making conditions like HIV, cancer, and select experiences of sexual violence into distinct advantages for would-be migrants. Ticktin’s analysis also indicts the inequalities forged by global capitalism that drive people to migrate, and the state practices that criminalize the majority of undocumented migrants at the expense of care for the exceptional few.

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Univ of California Press

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0520950534

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9780520950535

The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh

Critical Appraisal of Legal Framework and Jurisprudence

By: Miriam Beringmeier

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The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh

Critical Appraisal of Legal Framework and Jurisprudence

By: Miriam Beringmeier

The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh was established in 2010 with the aim of bringing to trial perpetrators of crimes committed during the Liberation War in 1971, through which the country seceded from Pakistan. The International Crimes Tribunal is a domestic tribunal based on the International Crimes Tribunals Act from 1973 and the rules of procedure enacted by the Tribunal itself. The initiation of these trials almost 40 years after the war entails several challenges. The publication examines to what extent the Tribunal's legal framework as well as its jurisprudence comply with international standards as established in international treaties, customary international law and in the jurisprudence of international criminal law. To this end, the substantive law and its interpretation as well as the procedural standards applied at these trials are examined thoroughly. At the same time, the analysis takes into account the political environment surrounding the Tribunal's work and assesses its impact on the country?s process of coming to terms with the past."--

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BWV Verlag

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383053860X

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9783830538608

Making History / Making Blintzes

How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America

By: Mickey Flacks,Miriam Hartman Flacks,Dick Flacks,Richard Flacks

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Making History / Making Blintzes

How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America

By: Mickey Flacks,Miriam Hartman Flacks,Dick Flacks,Richard Flacks

This book chronicles the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard and Miriam Flacks. Their story, rooted in 'old left' childhoods, shaped by the sixties New Left, and culminating in intellectual and community leadership, is a valuable first-hand account of how progressive American activism has evolved over the last 100 years.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813589223

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9780813589220

Governance & Grievance

Habsburg Policy and Italian Tyrol in the Eighteenth Century

By: Miriam J. Levy

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Governance & Grievance

Habsburg Policy and Italian Tyrol in the Eighteenth Century

By: Miriam J. Levy

Governance and Grievance touches on various aspects of Habsburg domestic policy, focusing on how the rulers influenced and were influenced by developments in both Italian and German Tyrol, and how they used to advantage the competing regional interests.

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Purdue University Press

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0911198865

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9780911198867

Family Life in the Seventeenth Century

The Verneys of Claydon House

By: Miriam Slater

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Family Life in the Seventeenth Century

The Verneys of Claydon House

By: Miriam Slater

The great issues and conflicts of the early seventeenth century were played out not only on the stages of the Court and Parliament, and, latterly, on the battlefield, but within the confines of the family. Originally published in 1984, in this pioneering study of the Verney family, based on more than 10,000 family letters and papers, Professor Miriam Slater shows how a family of country gentry lived and behaved in a time of political and social crisis. Most of their energies were directed within the family, their concerns with marriage and children, with relationships between members of the Verney clan, with managing their estates and property. They emerge as real people with passions and hatreds, made to live their lives by correspondence when the head of the family was forced to live abroad as an exile and casualty of the political tumults. But their misfortunes have created a unique archive which allows the author to delve deep into the very heart of their personal lives, and to create an extraordinary collective portrait of a family in times of troubles. Professor Slater describes and analyses the way in which Verney family members actually treated each other, and gives an account of their ideas – on marriage, from both the male and female points of view; on the roles of children and parents; on the relationships among adult siblings; on the place of servants within the family. She offers a detailed and systematic examination of family psychological dynamics, and the values, attitudes and goals which affected individual behaviour. She also moves beyond individual idiosyncrasies by linking the nature of personal interaction within the family to the wider social structures of the society, including laws of inheritance, patriarchal control, the different treatment of men and women, and financial arrangements and family strategies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000894215

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9781000894219

Work in the Digital Age

A Coursebook on Labor, Technology, and Regulation

By: Miriam A. Cherry

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Work in the Digital Age

A Coursebook on Labor, Technology, and Regulation

By: Miriam A. Cherry

The first of its kind, this coursebook examines the work of the future. Work in the Digital Age: A Coursebook on Labor, Technology, and Regulation focuses on certain technologies: the platform economy and gig work, big data and people analytics, gamification, artificial intelligence and algorithmic management, blockchain technology, drones, and 3D printing. The book provides perspectives on these new and emerging technologies from employers, unions, individual workers, national courts and governments, and international organizations. Altogether, the book questions whether current systems of labor and employment regulation are adequate and appropriate to respond to these new technologies. Finally, the book examines potential policy solutions to technological unemployment including universal basic income, shorter hours, and job guarantees. The best way to shape the future of work is to create the policy changes that we wish to see now, and this book provides a blueprint for thinking about a future of work that is productive, efficient, equitable, and sustainable. Professors and student will benefit from: A focus on certain technologies: The platform economy and gig work Big data and people analytics Gamification Artificial intelligence and algorithmic management Blockchain technology Drones 3D printing Global perspectives on these new and emerging technologies from employers, unions, individual workers, national courts and governments, and international organizations Exploration of whether new systems of labor and employment regulation are necessary to better respond to these new technologies Discussion of potential policy solutions to technological unemployment including universal basic income, shorter hours, and job guarantees Notes and Questions, Problems, Exercises, and Examples, to help reinforce concepts and issues

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710

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Aspen Publishing

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1543823289

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9781543823288

Changing Song

The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu

By: Miriam Silverberg

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Changing Song

The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu

By: Miriam Silverberg

Nakano Sigeharu (1902-1979), leading twentieth-century Japanese poet and social critic, transformed the revolutionary culture movement of the 1920s. Positioning Nakano's thought within the very history of Japanese Marxism, Miriam Silverberg applies textual analyses to his pre-war writings to form a new perspective on the history of the politics and culture of the Japanese left. Her book relates Nakano to the Western Marxist tradition, recognizes the existence of a Japanese Marxist theory of commodity culture, and uses this theory to illuminate the era. In particular, Silverberg addresses how Nakano, like his European contemporaries, worked toward a critique of mass culture, illustrating how Japanese thinkers in the 1920s and 1930s adoped Marxism as the dominant method of political and intellectual inquiry. This book draws on Marx's writings and those of Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Antonio Gramsci, Bertolt Brecht, and Mikhail Bakhtin to present Nakano as a Marxist critic and poet. Close reading of Nakano's essays, poems (most of them appearing for the first time in English), fiction, and prison letters trace Nakano's "changing song" or consciousness through four stages--from his "discovery of history" in the mid-1920s to his refusal to be silenced during the late 1930s, when he produced a series of scthing attacks on intensifying state repression. Miriam Silverberg is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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0691656673

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9780691656670

Mothers and Education: Inside Out?

Exploring Family-Education Policy And Experience

By: Rosalind Edwards,Mary Hughes,Jane Ribbens,Miriam E David,Wei Xu,Kevin Blackburn

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Mothers and Education: Inside Out?

Exploring Family-Education Policy And Experience

By: Rosalind Edwards,Mary Hughes,Jane Ribbens,Miriam E David,Wei Xu,Kevin Blackburn

Examines the various aspects of the relationships between mothers and education at different levels in the education system. In particular, mothers of young children in relation to various educational policies are looked at in interaction with their children's schools and teachers.

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Springer

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1349230065

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9781349230068

Feminism, Gender and Universities

Politics, Passion and Pedagogies

By: Miriam E. David

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Feminism, Gender and Universities

Politics, Passion and Pedagogies

By: Miriam E. David

Feminism, Gender and Universities demonstrates the positive and robust impacts that feminism has had on higher education, through the eyes and in the words of the participants in changing political and social processes. Drawing on the ’collective biography’ of leading feminist scholars from around the world and current evidence relating to gender equality in education, this book employs methods including biographies, life histories, and narratives to show how the feminist project to transform women’s lives in the direction of gender and social equality became an educational and pedagogical one. Through careful attention to the ways in which feminism has transformed feminist academic women’s lives, the author explores the importance of education in changing socio-political contexts, raising questions about further changes that are necessary. Delving into the deeper and more ’hidden’ echelons of education, the book examines the contested nature of current managerial or business approaches to university and education, revealing these to be incompatible with feminist thought. A plea for more careful attention to education and the ways in which the processes of knowledge-making influence (and are influenced by) gender and sexual relations, Feminism, Gender and Universities will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in gender, pedagogy and modern academic life.

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Routledge

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1317135814

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9781317135814

Critical Reading in Higher Education

Academic Goals and Social Engagement

By: Karen Manarin,Miriam Carey,Melanie Rathburn,Glen Ryland

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Critical Reading in Higher Education

Academic Goals and Social Engagement

By: Karen Manarin,Miriam Carey,Melanie Rathburn,Glen Ryland

Faculty often worry that students can't or won't read critically, a foundational skill for success in academic and professional endeavors. "Critical reading" refers both to reading for academic purposes and reading for social engagement. This volume is based on collaborative, multidisciplinary research into how students read in first-year courses in subjects ranging from scientific literacy through composition. The authors discovered the good (students can read), the bad (students are not reading for social engagement), and the ugly (class assignments may be setting students up for failure) and they offer strategies that can better engage students and provide more meaningful reading experiences.

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Indiana University Press

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0253018986

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9780253018984

Omnidirectional Stereo Vision for Autonomous Vehicles

By: Schoenbein, Miriam

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Omnidirectional Stereo Vision for Autonomous Vehicles

By: Schoenbein, Miriam

Environment perception with cameras is an important requirement for many applications for autonomous vehicles and robots. This work presents a stereoscopic omnidirectional camera system for autonomous vehicles which resolves the problem of a limited field of view and provides a 360° panoramic view of the environment. We present a new projection model for these cameras and show that the camera setup overcomes major drawbacks of traditional perspective cameras in many applications.

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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3731503573

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Book's by Miriam Rapp

Conflicting Visions of Reform

Conflicting Visions of Reform

Deadly Arsenals

Deadly Arsenals

Reclaiming Feminism

Reclaiming Feminism

Erotic Grotesque Nonsense

Erotic Grotesque Nonsense

Living with AIDS

Living with AIDS

Casualties of Care

Casualties of Care

The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh

The International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh

Making History / Making Blintzes

Making History / Making Blintzes

Governance & Grievance

Governance & Grievance

Family Life in the Seventeenth Century

Family Life in the Seventeenth Century

Work in the Digital Age

Work in the Digital Age

Changing Song

Changing Song

Mothers and Education: Inside Out?

Mothers and Education: Inside Out?

Feminism, Gender and Universities

Feminism, Gender and Universities

Critical Reading in Higher Education

Critical Reading in Higher Education

Omnidirectional Stereo Vision for Autonomous Vehicles

Omnidirectional Stereo Vision for Autonomous Vehicles

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