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Psych

The Story of the Human Mind

By: Paul Bloom

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Psych

The Story of the Human Mind

By: Paul Bloom

A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale’s most popular courses of all time How does the brain—a three-pound wrinkly mass—give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was Freud right that we are all plagued by forbidden sexual desires? What is the function of emotions such as disgust, gratitude, and shame? Renowned psychologist Paul Bloom answers these questions and many more in Psych, his riveting new book about the science of the mind. Psych is an expert and passionate guide to the most intimate aspects of our nature, serving up the equivalent of a serious university course while being funny, engaging, and full of memorable anecdotes. But Psych is much more than a comprehensive overview of the field of psychology. Bloom reveals what psychology can tell us about the most pressing moral and political issues of our time—including belief in conspiracy theories, the role of genes in explaining human differences, and the nature of prejudice and hatred. Bloom also shows how psychology can give us practical insights into important issues—from the treatment of mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety to the best way to lead happy and fulfilling lives. Psych is an engrossing guide to the most important topic there is: it is the story of us.

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0063096374

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Bloom's How to Write about William Shakespeare

By: Paul Gleed

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Bloom's How to Write about William Shakespeare

By: Paul Gleed

Arguably the most revered and researched author of all time, William Shakespeare has forever changed the face of literature.

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1438112475

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9781438112473

The Sweet Spot

The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

By: Paul Bloom

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The Sweet Spot

The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

By: Paul Bloom

“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It’s an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife One of Behavioral Scientist's "Notable Books of 2021" From the author of Against Empathy, a different kind of happiness book, one that shows us how suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Where do these seemingly perverse appetites come from? Drawing on groundbreaking findings from psychology and brain science, The Sweet Spot shows how the right kind of suffering sets the stage for enhanced pleasure. Pain can distract us from our anxieties and help us transcend the self. Choosing to suffer can serve social goals; it can display how tough we are or, conversely, can function as a cry for help. Feelings of fear and sadness are part of the pleasure of immersing ourselves in play and fantasy and can provide certain moral satisfactions. And effort, struggle, and difficulty can, in the right contexts, lead to the joys of mastery and flow. But suffering plays a deeper role as well. We are not natural hedonists—a good life involves more than pleasure. People seek lives of meaning and significance; we aspire to rich relationships and satisfying pursuits, and this requires some amount of struggle, anxiety, and loss. Brilliantly argued, witty, and humane, Paul Bloom shows how a life without chosen suffering would be empty—and worse than that, boring.

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0062910582

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Just Babies

The Origins of Good and Evil

By: Paul Bloom

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Just Babies

The Origins of Good and Evil

By: Paul Bloom

A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In Just Babies, Paul Bloom argues that humans are in fact hardwired with a sense of morality. Drawing on groundbreaking research at Yale, Bloom demonstrates that, even before they can speak or walk, babies judge the goodness and badness of others’ actions; feel empathy and compassion; act to soothe those in distress; and have a rudimentary sense of justice. Still, this innate morality is limited, sometimes tragically. We are naturally hostile to strangers, prone to parochialism and bigotry. Bringing together insights from psychology, behavioral economics, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Bloom explores how we have come to surpass these limitations. Along the way, he examines the morality of chimpanzees, violent psychopaths, religious extremists, and Ivy League professors, and explores our often puzzling moral feelings about sex, politics, religion, and race. In his analysis of the morality of children and adults, Bloom rejects the fashionable view that our moral decisions are driven mainly by gut feelings and unconscious biases. Just as reason has driven our great scientific discoveries, he argues, it is reason and deliberation that makes possible our moral discoveries, such as the wrongness of slavery. Ultimately, it is through our imagination, our compassion, and our uniquely human capacity for rational thought that we can transcend the primitive sense of morality we were born with, becoming more than just babies. Paul Bloom has a gift for bringing abstract ideas to life, moving seamlessly from Darwin, Herodotus, and Adam Smith to The Princess Bride, Hannibal Lecter, and Louis C.K. Vivid, witty, and intellectually probing, Just Babies offers a radical new perspective on our moral lives.

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Crown

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0307886859

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Play and the Politics of Reading

The Social Uses of Modernist Form

By: Paul B. Armstrong

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Play and the Politics of Reading

The Social Uses of Modernist Form

By: Paul B. Armstrong

Classrooms and curricula should be structured to foster the playful interaction that can teach students how to negotiate social and political differences in an emancipatory, noncoercive manner.... Teaching reading as a playful exercise of reciprocity with otherness can help prepare students for a democracy understood as a community of communities."—from the "Pedagogical Postscript" Reading is socially useful, in Paul B. Armstrong's view, and can model democratic interaction by a community unconstrained by the need to build consensus but aware of the dangers of violence, irrationality, and anarchy. Reading requires mutual recognition but need not culminate in agreement, Armstrong says; instead, the social potential of reading arises from the active exchange of attitudes, ideas, and values between author and reader and among readers. Play and the Politics of Reading, which has important implications for education, draws on Wolfgang Iser's notion of free play to offer a valuable response to social problems. Armstrong finds that Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Henry James, and James Joyce provide apt examples of the politics of reading, for reasons both literary and political. In making the transition from realism to modernism, these authors experimented with narrative strategies that seek simultaneously to represent the world and to question the means of representation itself. The formal ambiguities and complexities of such texts as Howards End and Ulysses are ways of staging for the reader the difficulties and opportunities of a world of differences. Innovative formal structures challenge readers to reconsider their assumptions and beliefs about social issues.

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Cornell University Press

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1501720651

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9781501720659

Against Empathy

The Case for Rational Compassion

By: Paul Bloom

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Against Empathy

The Case for Rational Compassion

By: Paul Bloom

New York Post Best Book of 2016 We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don’t have enough of it. Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. In AGAINST EMPATHY, Bloom reveals empathy to be one of the leading motivators of inequality and immorality in society. Far from helping us to improve the lives of others, empathy is a capricious and irrational emotion that appeals to our narrow prejudices. It muddles our judgment and, ironically, often leads to cruelty. We are at our best when we are smart enough not to rely on it, but to draw instead upon a more distanced compassion. Basing his argument on groundbreaking scientific findings, Bloom makes the case that some of the worst decisions made by individuals and nations—who to give money to, when to go to war, how to respond to climate change, and who to imprison—are too often motivated by honest, yet misplaced, emotions. With precision and wit, he demonstrates how empathy distorts our judgment in every aspect of our lives, from philanthropy and charity to the justice system; from medical care and education to parenting and marriage. Without empathy, Bloom insists, our decisions would be clearer, fairer, and—yes—ultimately more moral. Brilliantly argued, urgent and humane, AGAINST EMPATHY shows us that, when it comes to both major policy decisions and the choices we make in our everyday lives, limiting our impulse toward empathy is often the most compassionate choice we can make.

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0062339354

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Critical Writings

1953 - 1978

By: Paul De Man

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Critical Writings

1953 - 1978

By: Paul De Man

Twenty-five essays and reviews, not available in earlier collections of de Man's work. His subjects include the work of Montaigne, Rousseau, Keats, Goethe, Holderlin, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Sartre, Gide, and Camus.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452900728

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Chicago Heights

At the Crossroads of the Nation

By: Dominic Candeloro,Barbara Paul

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Chicago Heights

At the Crossroads of the Nation

By: Dominic Candeloro,Barbara Paul

The history of Chicago Heights mirrors the growth and struggles of the entire nation. From determined settlers to visionary industrialists, from the power of rail to the vast intercontinental highway system, this Illinois city of hard workers and dynamic ethnic groups persevered through overwhelming obstacles to claim its place at the center of the Industrial Revolution.

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0738524700

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Language and Deafness

By: Peter V. Paul

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Language and Deafness

By: Peter V. Paul

The Fourth Edition of Language and Deafness covers language and literacy development from preschool through adolescence. Content includes the basics of language development and the relationship between language and cognition. Oral communication methods and English-like signing systems are also covered, along with linguistics/sociolinguistics of American Sign Language. Multicultural aspects, including bilingualism and second-language learning, are covered in detail.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763751049

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The Facts of Life

Stories, 1940-1949

By: Paul Goodman

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The Facts of Life

Stories, 1940-1949

By: Paul Goodman

In these stories and sketches, written when he was establishing himself as a young man of letters in Greenwich Village, plot, character, and setting are secondary to the narrator's criticism of American life and insights into personal psychology--this is fiction as the record of an inward search toward hard-won self-understanding.

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The Suicide Solution

By: Paul Lukas

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The Suicide Solution

By: Paul Lukas

That downward spiral, depression, the depression that would nearly do me in, loomed over my adulthood. The desire to kill myself was as present to me as anything else I knew at the time. And here I still am, trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free. If I could get free, if I could be as happy as I once was, as many people seem to be today, I would be extremely grateful.

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Lulu.com

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125774948X

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The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction

By: Paul Stasi

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The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction

By: Paul Stasi

Form vs. content, aesthetics vs. politics, modernism vs. realism: these entrenched binaries tend to structure work in early 20th century literary studies even among scholars who seek to undo them. The Persistence of Realism demonstrates how realism's defining concerns – sympathy, class, social determination – animate the work of Henry James, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Ralph Ellison. In contrast to the oft-told tale of an aesthetically rich modernism overthrowing realism's social commitments along with its formal structures, Stasi shows how these writers engaged with realism in concrete ways. The domestic novel, naturalist fiction, novels of sentiment, and industrial tales are realist structures that modernist fiction simultaneously preserves and subverts. Putting modernist writers in conversation with the realism that preceded them, The Persistence of Realism demonstrates how modernism's social concerns are inseparable from its formal ones.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009223151

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The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination

Memory, Film and Medievalism

By: Paul B. Sturtevant

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The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination

Memory, Film and Medievalism

By: Paul B. Sturtevant

It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not so simple. Non-specialists in fact learn a great deal from the myriad medievalisms - post-medieval imaginings of the medieval world - that pervade our everyday culture. These, like Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, offer compelling, if not necessarily accurate, visions of the medieval world. And more, they have an impact on the popular imagination, particularly since there are new medievalisms constantly being developed, synthesised and remade. But what does the public really know? How do the conflicting medievalisms they consume contribute to their knowledge? And why is this important? In this book, the first evidence-based exploration of the wider public's understanding of the Middle Ages, Paul B. Sturtevant adapts sociological methods to answer these important questions. Based on extensive focus groups, the book details the ways - both formal and informal - that people learn about the medieval past and the many other ways that this informs, and even distorts, our present. In the process, Sturtevant also sheds light, in more general terms, onto the ways non-specialists learn about the past, and why understanding this is so important. The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination will be of interest to anyone working on medieval studies, medievalism, memory studies, medieval film studies, informal learning or public history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786733579

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The Cast of Characters

A Reading of Ulysses

By: Paul Schwaber

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The Cast of Characters

A Reading of Ulysses

By: Paul Schwaber

Contemporaries in imagination as in fact, James Joyce and Sigmund Freud pondered the complexities and depths of human consciousness and found distinct ways to represent it-the one as a great novelist, the other as the first psychoanalyst. In this book, Paul Schwaber, both a professor of literature and a psychoanalyst, brings a clinician’s attentiveness and a scholar-critic’s literary commitment to the study of characterization in Ulysses.

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Yale University Press

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0300078056

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Teachers and Mentors

Profiles of Distinguished Twentieth-Century Professors of Education

By: Craig Kridel,Robert V. Bullough, Jr.,Paul Shaker

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Teachers and Mentors

Profiles of Distinguished Twentieth-Century Professors of Education

By: Craig Kridel,Robert V. Bullough, Jr.,Paul Shaker

The unique relationship between mentors and students informs the art of teaching and enhances the intellectual vitality of higher education and quality of teacher and student life. This collection of original essays presents autobiographical vignettes of important professors of our time. These essays reflect the appreciation of the authors-now successful academics-for their teachers/mentors, whose drive and creativity had such on influence on the careers of their students. No other collection presents such an autobiographical and biographical portrayal of college of education faculty. The essays examine what it means to be a professor in today's academia, with its erosion of the professoriate and the emergence of a questionable entrepreneurial pragmatism. The writers and their subjects explain their vision of the academic life sustained by a community and perpetuated through the lives of their teachers and their students, a tradition not only in teaching but also in mentoring.

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Routledge

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1135578133

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Engaging EVERY Learner

By: Alan M. Blankstein,Robert W. Cole,Paul D. Houston

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Engaging EVERY Learner

By: Alan M. Blankstein,Robert W. Cole,Paul D. Houston

Join today′s most insightful thinkers as they explore the heart, mind, and soul of educational leadership! This concise volume offers educational leaders key concepts and strategies for framing discussions about closing the equity gap and ensuring high achievement for all learners. As the first volume in The Soul of Educational Leadership series, this unique collection presents: Pedro A. Noguera and Alan M. Blankstein on essential questions and themes Delores B. Lindsey and Randall B. Lindsey on culturally proficient equity audits Antoinette Mitchell on the knowledge base for teaching diverse learners in big-city schools Stephen G. Peters on how to capture, inspire, and teach every learner Thomas R. Guskey on rethinking the work of Benjamin S. Bloom Karen J. Pittman and Merita Irby on readiness for college, work, and life Alan Boyle on helping failing schools to turn around Richard Farson on the paradoxes of risk, challenge, failure, and innovation Pioneering educators and series editors Alan M. Blankstein, Robert W. Cole, and Paul D. Houston offer thought-provoking ideas applicable to all schools, districts, and learning communities and include a complete index for browsing and easy reference.

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Corwin Press

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1452284784

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Reading 'Catch-22'

By: Paul McDonald

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Reading 'Catch-22'

By: Paul McDonald

Comic novelist and critic, Paul McDonald, provides an accessible, revealing guide to Joseph Heller’s seminal anti-war novel, Catch-22. In order to help readers deepen their understanding of this perplexing comedy, McDonald succinctly contextualises it both in relation to the author’s life, and key developments in modern American literature. The book offers a thorough summary and analysis of the plot of Catch-22, addresses important characters such as Colonel Cathcart, Lieutenant Scheisskopf, Milo Minderbinder, Major Major, and Doc Daneeka, and explains the various ways in which Yossarian’s hilarious predicament has been interpreted. Among other things it considers Yossarian’s status as a mythic hero, an individualist hero, and a postmodern hero, assessing his relevance to contemporary America, and his re-emergence in the sequel to Catch-22, Closing Time, published in 1994. It also offers a descriptive bibliography of important secondary sources, and links to useful online texts.

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Humanities-Ebooks

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1471621510

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Literature Against Criticism

University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict

By: Martin Paul Eve

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Literature Against Criticism

University English and Contemporary Fiction in Conflict

By: Martin Paul Eve

This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is becoming increasingly complex and metafictional, moving far beyond the ‘campus novel’ of the mid-twentieth century. Martin Paul Eve’s engaging and far-reaching study explores the novel's contribution to the ongoing displacement of cultural authority away from university English. Spanning the works of Jennifer Egan, Ishmael Reed, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Waters, Percival Everett, Roberto Bolaño and many others, Literature Against Criticism forces us to re-think our previous notions about the relationship between those who write literary fiction and those who critique it.

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Open Book Publishers

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1783742763

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Blindness and Insight

Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism

By: Paul de Man

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Blindness and Insight

Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism

By: Paul de Man

In Blindness and Insight , de Man examines several critics and finds in their writings a gap between their statements about the nature of literature and the results of their practical criticism. Not only are the critics unaware of this gap, says de Man, but their blindness to it often leads to some of their most valuable insights. The central issue of de Man's work is the rhetorical constitution of the text, and this book, with its new introduction by Wlad Godzich and five additional essays by de Man, is meant to challenge readers to a new appreciation of their chosen task as readers of literature. Included in this new edition are the original essays on Binswanger, Poulet, Lukas, Blanchot, the New Critics, and Derrida's `of Grammatology', as well as five more: `The Rhetoric of Temporality', `The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism', `Heidegger's Exegesis of Holderlin', a review of Bloom's `Anxiety of Influence, and `Literature and Language'.

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Routledge

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1135854963

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Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish

Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect

By: Paul Wexler

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Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish

Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect

By: Paul Wexler

The book claims that Yiddish was created when Judaized Sorbs first relexified their language to High German between the 9th-12th centuries; by the 15th century, the descendants of the Judaized Khazars also relexified their Kiev-Polessian (northern Ukrainian and southern Belarusian) speech to Yiddish and German, Yiddish thus uses a mixed West-East Slavic grammar and suggests that converted Khazars were a major component in the Ashkenazic ethnogenesis.

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Walter de Gruyter

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311089873X

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Theory of Literature

By: Paul H. Fry

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Theory of Literature

By: Paul H. Fry

Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them the hermeneutic circle, New Criticism, structuralism, linguistics and literature, Freud and fiction, Jacques Lacan's theories, the postmodern psyche, the political unconscious, New Historicism, the classical feminist tradition, African American criticism, queer theory, and gender performativity. By incorporating philosophical and social perspectives to connect these many trends, the author offers readers a coherent overall context for a deeper and richer reading of literature.

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0300183364

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Canons and Contexts

By: Paul Lauter

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Canons and Contexts

By: Paul Lauter

The essays in this volume represent the author's effort to reconstruct American literature by establishing a theory of "canonical criticism", which aims to open up the canon of American literature to the works of women, minorities and working-class writers.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195068327

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Tense Future

Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form

By: Paul K. Saint-Amour

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Tense Future

Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form

By: Paul K. Saint-Amour

Tense Future falls into two parts. The first develops a critical account of total war discourse and addresses the resistant potential of acts, including acts of writing, before a future that looks barred or predetermined by war. Part two shifts the focus to long interwar narratives that pit both their scale and their formal turbulence against total war's portrait of the social totality, producing both ripostes and alternatives to that portrait in the practice of literary encyclopedism. The book's introduction grounds both parts in the claim that industrialized warfare, particularly the aerial bombing of cities, intensifies an under-examined form of collective traumatization: a pretraumatic syndrome in which the anticipation of future-conditional violence induces psychic wounds. Situating this claim in relation to other scholarship on "critical futurities," Saint-Amour discusses its ramifications for trauma studies, historical narratives generally, and the historiography of the interwar period in particular. The introduction ends with an account of the weak theory of modernism now structuring the field of modernist studies, and of weak theory's special suitability for opposing total war, that strongest of strong theories.

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Oxford University Press

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0190200944

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Gardener’s Guide to the Daylily

A Guide to Growing the Hemerocallis

By: Paul R. Wonning

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Gardener’s Guide to the Daylily

A Guide to Growing the Hemerocallis

By: Paul R. Wonning

Gardener’s Guide to the Daylily is a planting guide for gardeners that wish to grow hemerocallis flowers successfully. It covers cultural requirements, propagation tips, problems and many other topics related to growing the daylily. Written for gardeners by a gardener Gardener’s Guide to the Daylily relates how to grow hemerocallis successfully. From seed to division, learn how to propagate this wonderful full sun perennial plant. perennial, garden plants, full sun

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Mossy Feet Books

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1310320217

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The Rough Guide to Ireland

By: Paul Gray

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The Rough Guide to Ireland

By: Paul Gray

Explore every corner of this fascinating island (North and South) with the fully revised 10th edition of the Rough Guide to Ireland, including the clearest maps of any guide. Get inspiration from the introduction on where to go and what to see, from Dublin's elegant Georgian architecture and world-renowned pubs to the spectacular landscapes of the Burren and Connemara. Find in-depth, up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels and B&Bs, restaurants and bars, including the top places to hear Irish music. Learn about Ireland's culture, with expert background on everything from traditional sports and music to history and literature. In addition, you'll find two sections, describing Ireland's exuberant festivals and giving a detailed guide to the best of its under-rated food and drink. Make the most of your time on God's green earth with the Rough Guide to Ireland.

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Penguin

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1405389184

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Gardener’s Guide to Full Sun Perennials

A Manual for the Care of Full Sun Perennial Flower Garden

By: Paul R. Wonning

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Gardener’s Guide to Full Sun Perennials

A Manual for the Care of Full Sun Perennial Flower Garden

By: Paul R. Wonning

Gardener‘s Guide to Full Sun Perennials includes the best nineteen perennial herbaceous plants for the outdoor flower garden. This guide book includes cultural information for plants you can plant outside in the home garden to provide you with beautiful flowers. Perennials Guide book, essential perennials, flower garden, Herbaceous Perennial Plants, full sun perennial plants, full sun flowers, full sun plants for outside

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1458194361

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Waterborne Disease

Epidemiology and Ecology

By: Paul Hunter

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Waterborne Disease

Epidemiology and Ecology

By: Paul Hunter

Water borne disease is responsible for millions of deaths worldwide every year. Within both developed and developing countries the demand for clean drinking and bathing water is ever increasing and the control of water borne disease is therefore of extreme importance. The book first addresses the magnitude of the problem, with subsequent chapters on specific diseases including Crytosporidiosis, Schistosomiasis, legionellosis and viral gastrointeritis. Concluding chapters discuss practical control issues such as basic water treatment and the problems of water borne disease control in less developed countries.

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388

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John Wiley & Sons

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ISBN 10

0471966460

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9780471966463

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