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The Symbolic Representation of Gender

A Discursive Approach

By: Emanuela Lombardo,Petra Meier

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The Symbolic Representation of Gender

A Discursive Approach

By: Emanuela Lombardo,Petra Meier

What is symbolic representation? Since Hanna Pitkin’s seminal The Concept of Representation, the symbolic has been the least studied dimension of political representation. Innovatively adopting a discursive approach, this book - the first full-length treatment of symbolic representation - focuses on gender issues to tackle important questions such as: What are women and men symbols of, and how is gender constructed in policy discourse? It studies what functions symbolic representation fulfils in the construction of gender, what social roles get legitimized in policy discourse, and how this affects power constellations, ultimately revealing much about the relation between symbolic, descriptive, and substantive representation. Emanuela Lombardo and Petra Meier draw on theories of symbolic representation and gender, as well as rich primary material about political debates on labour and care issues, partnership and reproductive rights, gender violence, and quotas. Using this original data, the authors show that reconsidering symbolic representation from a discursive perspective makes explicit issues of (in)equality embedded within particular constructions, as well as their consequences for political representation and gender equality. This important exploration raises relevant new questions regarding the representation of gender that form valuable contributions to the fields of political science, political theory, sociology, and gender studies.

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1317014529

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Guide to Qualitative Research in Parliaments

Experiences and Practices

By: Valentine Berthet,Barbara Gaweda,Johanna Kantola,Cherry Miller,Petra Ahrens,Anna Elomäki

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Guide to Qualitative Research in Parliaments

Experiences and Practices

By: Valentine Berthet,Barbara Gaweda,Johanna Kantola,Cherry Miller,Petra Ahrens,Anna Elomäki

This open access book is a hands-on guide on doing qualitative research in parliaments, exploring achievements and drawbacks for all. From early-career scholars looking for an ‘in’ to start their research to senior academics interested in methodological details, the book offers a novel approach to discussing qualitative methodologies. It presents unique insights based on a large-scale qualitative study in the European Parliament using interview and ethnographic data. Comprehensive yet accessible, the book accounts the step-by-step process of qualitative research in parliaments, offering a reflexive and analytical perspective that moves beyond a textbook or theory-only format.

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Springer Nature

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3031398084

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9783031398087

Balkan Babel

The Disintegration Of Yugoslavia From The Death Of Tito To The Fall Of Milosevic, Fourth Edition

By: Sabrina Petra Ramet

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Balkan Babel

The Disintegration Of Yugoslavia From The Death Of Tito To The Fall Of Milosevic, Fourth Edition

By: Sabrina Petra Ramet

The fourth edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a new chapter, a new epilogue, and revisions throughout the book. Sabrina Ramet, a veteran observer of the Yugoslav scene, traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavia's political and social fabric in the years since 1980, arguing that, while the federal system and multiethnic fabric laid down fault lines, the final crisis was sown in the failure to resolve the legitimacy question, triggered by economic deterioration, and pushed forward toward war by Serbian politicians bent on power - either within a centralized Yugoslavia or within an 'ethnically cleansed' Greater Serbia. With her detailed knowledge of the area and extensive fieldwork, Ramet paints a strikingly original picture of Yugoslavia's demise and the emergence of the Yugoslav successor states.

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Routledge

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0429963955

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9780429963957

Actors, Institutions, and the Making of EU Gender Equality Programs

By: Petra Ahrens

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Actors, Institutions, and the Making of EU Gender Equality Programs

By: Petra Ahrens

This book is an actor-centred sociological study of the EU-level processes that produce gender equality policy. Based on interviews and documentary analysis, the study unpacks the process of the “Roadmap for Equality between Women and Men 2006-2010” to explain the different roles of actors in the making of EU gender equality policies. By analysing policy processes inside institutions and among institutions, the study focuses on the internal working logics in and between EU-level institutions. It highlights the shifting spaces, openings, and constraints for the development of gender equality policies. Concentrating on EU policy programmes helps shed light on the invisible aspects of EU gender equality policy-making and how this process changed regarding actors, structure and content in the late 2000s. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of EU politics, gender politics, and public policy, as well as to institutional and non-governmental actors in the area of gender politics in Europe and the working of EU politics.

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1137570601

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Pedagogies of Resistance

Women Educator Activists, 1880-1960

By: Margaret Crocco,Petra Munro Hendry

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Pedagogies of Resistance

Women Educator Activists, 1880-1960

By: Margaret Crocco,Petra Munro Hendry

The stories of six women for whom a career in education serves as leverage to live their lives as agents of change. By profiling women as educational activists, the book challenges historical interpretations that have cast women as passive in the face of educational change.

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Teachers College Press

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0807762970

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Engendering Curriculum History

By: Petra Hendry

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Engendering Curriculum History

By: Petra Hendry

Disrupting dominant notions of history as linear, as inevitable progress, and as embedded in the individual, this book examines how curriculum history can be re-envisioned from a feminist, poststructuralist perspective.

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Taylor & Francis

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113688159X

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Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations

A comprehensive bibliography

By: Petra Campe

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Case, Semantic Roles, and Grammatical Relations

A comprehensive bibliography

By: Petra Campe

This is the first of a series of 6 books dealing with case phenomena in different languages, both Indo- and non-Indo-European, resulting from work by a team of 20 specialists at the University of Leuven. It is the first time such a large-scale investigation into case has been undertaken, and a remarkable feature of the project is the use of computer corpora of authentic material. This bibliography presents the many dimensions involved in research into case and case-related phenomena. This includes not only morphological case markers, but also the crossconstituent (semantic and grammatical) relations expressed by morphological case or by its various counterparts; morpho-syntactic processes such as transitivity and passivization; and pragmatic and textual considerations. In addition, the bibliography reflects the implications of case research for other disciplines, such as foreign language teaching and artificial intelligence. More than 6000 publications are listed. An extensive Subject Index provides easy access to all the topics and major concepts covered. A Language Index and a Guide to Languages/Language Families conclude the book. The other volumes in the series include The Dative (2 vols), The Genitive, The Nominative and Accusative, and Non-nuclear Cases.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027282048

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Salome's Modernity

Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression

By: Petra Dierkes-Thrun

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Salome's Modernity

Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression

By: Petra Dierkes-Thrun

Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salom has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression is the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism and Salom as a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde's Salom marks a major turning point from a dominant traditional cultural, moral, and religious outlook to a utopian aesthetic of erotic and artistic transgression. Wilde and Salom are seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarm , Pater, and Nietzsche to modernist and postmodernist literature and philosophy and our contemporary culture. Dierkes-Thrun addresses subsequent representations of Salome in a wide range of artistic productions of both high and popular culture through the works of Richard Strauss, Maud Allan, Alla Nazimova, Ken Russell, Suri Krishnamma, Robert Altman, Tom Robbins, and Nick Cave, among others.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472036041

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9780472036042

UN Law on International Sales

The UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods

By: Peter Schlechtriem,Petra Butler

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UN Law on International Sales

The UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods

By: Peter Schlechtriem,Petra Butler

This book describes and analyses the rules and provisions of the United Nation Convention on the International Sale of Goods of 1980 - CISG-. The authors explain the details of the CISG’s text, report the essence of the scholarly discussions of its issues, and, in particular, present numerous cases decided by courts and arbitration tribunals both as illustrations of problems arising under the CISG and as case law interpreting the Convention. The book is mainly intended to be used in teaching, but it can also help practitioners to understand the structure and basic solutions of sales law issues encoded in the CISG.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354049992X

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9783540499923

Bonhoeffer

God’s Conspirator in a State of Exception

By: Petra Brown

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Bonhoeffer

God’s Conspirator in a State of Exception

By: Petra Brown

Theologian. Conspirator. Martyr. Saint. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was killed in the waning days of World War II, having been implicated in the July 20th assassination attempt on Hitler. Since his death, Bonhoeffer’s life and writings have inspired contradictory responses. He is often seen as a model for Christian pacifist resistance, and more recently for violent direct political action. Bonhoeffer’s name has been invoked by violent anti-abortion protestors as well as political leaders calling for support on a ‘war on terror’ in the aftermath of 9/11. Petra Brown critically analyses Bonhoeffer’s writing preceding and during his conspiracy involvement, particularly his recurring concept of the ‘extraordinary.’ Brown examines this idea in light of ‘the state of exception,’ a concept coined by the one-time Nazi jurist and political theorist, Carl Schmitt. She also draws on the existentialist philosopher Sören Kierkegaard to consider what happens when discipleship is understood as obedience to a divine command. This book aims to complicate an unreflective admiration of Bonhoeffer’s decision for conspiracy, and draws attention to the potentially dangerous implications of his emerging political theology.

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3030056988

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Gender Equality in Politics

Implementing Party Quotas in Germany and Austria

By: Petra Ahrens,Katja Chmilewski,Sabine Lang,Birgit Sauer

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Gender Equality in Politics

Implementing Party Quotas in Germany and Austria

By: Petra Ahrens,Katja Chmilewski,Sabine Lang,Birgit Sauer

This book provides a timely and unique contribution to current debates on how effectively voluntary party quotas address the persistent underrepresentation of women in legislatures. Using a most similar case design and a mixed-methods approach, the authors draw attention to the ways in which electoral systems and party regulations interface with voluntary party quotas in Germany and Austria. All quota parties in these countries support the goal of equal participation of women and men in elected office, and quotas are presented as a means to precisely that end. In order to assess parties’ commitment to their declared goals, and the effectiveness of quotas, the book introduces the concept of the post-quota gender gap and defines it as the difference between a party’s adopted quota and the actual share of women in legislative bodies at the national and regional level. Complementing the existing literature on recruitment and socio-cultural legacies, the authors argue that the problem of voluntary party quotas lies at the intersection of party quota design and electoral law. Either parties need to design quotas that actually work within a given electoral system, or we need legislative action geared toward advancing parity not just in candidate selection, but in the composition of legislatures. The book draws on gendered candidate and election data, on the party statutes of federal and state-level party organizations, and on interviews with party officials and party women’s organizations.

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Springer Nature

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3030348954

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All Because the Lady Loves... Wedding Cake

By: Petra Kluske

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All Because the Lady Loves... Wedding Cake

By: Petra Kluske

Michelle was just twenty-one when she married the first love of her life. She appeared to have it all worked out The big house in the country, secure job with great career prospects, adoring husband and plans to start a family or at least thats what she thought, until her world came crashing down with the discovery of an affair. In the twelve years that follow from then on, you can join her on the journey, experiencing such life challenges as anxiety and depression, experimenting with sexuality, boob jobs and Botox, happiness and heart-break and IVF treatment. She gives an honest, heart felt account of her experiences, which you will undoubtedly be able to relate to in your own life, somewhere along the line.

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Author House

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1467879673

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Inside the Third World Village

By: Petra Weyland

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Inside the Third World Village

By: Petra Weyland

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1134880081

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9781134880089

Bio- and Multifunctional Polymer Architectures

Preparation, Analytical Methods, and Applications

By: Brigitte Voit,Rainer Haag,Dietmar Appelhans,Petra B. Welzel

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Bio- and Multifunctional Polymer Architectures

Preparation, Analytical Methods, and Applications

By: Brigitte Voit,Rainer Haag,Dietmar Appelhans,Petra B. Welzel

This reference/text addresses concepts and synthetic techniques for the preparation of polymers for state-of-the-art use in biomedicine, synthetic biology, and bionanotechnology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119192684

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9781119192688

The Nature Cure

A Doctor's Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine

By: Andreas Michalsen,Petra Thorbrietz

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The Nature Cure

A Doctor's Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine

By: Andreas Michalsen,Petra Thorbrietz

We are living longer than ever before. But our prolonged lives have come at a price: a rise in chronic diseases like digestive disorders, high blood pressure, heart disease, arthritis, and cancer. These diseases pose a challenge to conventional medicine, which controls symptoms but doesn't address the underlying cause. But there is a solution: naturopathy. In The Nature Cure, Dr. Michalsen shares the incredibly potential of naturopathy and shows how it has already been proven to help those living with chronic illness.

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Viking

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0525561277

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9780525561279

Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust

Writing Life

By: Petra M. Schweitzer

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Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust

Writing Life

By: Petra M. Schweitzer

Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life begins with the premise that writing proves virtually synonymous with survival, bearing the traces of life and of death carried within those who survived the atrocities of the Nazis. In reading specific testimonies by survivor-writers Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, Olga Lengyel, Gisella Perl, and Dan Pagis, this text seeks to answer the question: How was it possible for these survivors to write about human destruction, if death is such an intimate part of the survivors’ survival? This book shows how the works of these survivors arise creatively from a vigorous spark, the desire to preserve memory. Testimony for each of these writers is a form of relation to oneself but also to others. It situates each survivor’s anguish in writing as a need to write so as to affirm life. Writing as such always bears witness to the life of the one who should be dead by now and thus to the miracle of having survived. This book’s claim is that the act of writing testimony manifests itself as the most intensive form of life possible. More specifically, its exploration of writing’s affirmation of life and assertion of identity focuses on the gendered dimension of expression and language. This book does not engage in the binary structure of gender and the hierarchically constructed roles in terms of privileging the male over the female. The criteria that guide its discussion on Gendered Testimonies emerge out of Levinas’s concept of maternity.

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Lexington Books

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0739190083

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9780739190081

Faithfully Urban

Pious Muslims in a German City

By: Petra Kuppinger

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Faithfully Urban

Pious Muslims in a German City

By: Petra Kuppinger

In the southern German city of Stuttgart lives a pious Muslim population that has merged with the local population to create a meaningful shared existence. In this ethnographic account, the author introduces and examines the lives of ordinary residents, neighborhoods, and mosque communities to analyze moments and spaces where Muslims and non-Muslims engage with each other and accommodate their respective needs. These accounts show that even in the face of resentment and discrimination, this pious population has indeed become an integral part of the urban community.

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Berghahn Books

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1782386572

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9781782386575

The Politics of Peace

A Global Cold War History

By: Petra Goedde

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The Politics of Peace

A Global Cold War History

By: Petra Goedde

A study of the emerging politics of peace, both as an ideal and as a pragmatic aspect of international relations during the early Cold War, this book argues that a transnational politics of peace emerged through the dynamic interaction among three global actors: Cold War states, peace advocacy groups, and anti-colonial liberationists.

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019537083X

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Supportive Oncology E-Book

By: Mellar P. Davis,Petra Feyer,Petra Ortner,Camilla Zimmermann

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Supportive Oncology E-Book

By: Mellar P. Davis,Petra Feyer,Petra Ortner,Camilla Zimmermann

Supportive Oncology, by Drs. Davis, Feyer, Ortner, and Zimmermann, is your practical guide to improving your patients‘ quality of life and overall outcomes by integrating palliative care principles into the scope of clinical oncologic practice at all points along their illness trajectories. A multidisciplinary editorial team, representing the dual perspectives of palliative medicine and oncology, offers expert guidance on how to effectively communicate diagnoses and prognoses with cancer patients and their families, set treatment goals, and manage symptoms through pharmacological therapies, as well as non-pharmacological therapies and counselling when appropriate. Integrate complementary palliative principles as early as possible after diagnosis with guidance from a multidisciplinary editorial team whose different perspectives and collaboration provide a well-balanced approach. Effectively communicate diagnoses and prognoses with cancer patients and their families, set treatment goals, and manage symptoms through pharmacological therapies, as well as non-pharmacological therapies and counseling when appropriate. Improve patients’ quality of life with the latest information on pain and symptom management including managing side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, rehabilitating and counselling long-term survivors, and managing tumor-related symptoms and other complications in the palliative care setting. Prescribe the most effective medications, manage toxicities, and deal with high symptom burdens.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437735940

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Eco Soma

Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters

By: Petra Kuppers

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Eco Soma

Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters

By: Petra Kuppers

Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants in a shared sociocultural world. Reading contemporary performance encounters and artful engagements, this book models a disability culture sensitivity to living in a shared world, oriented toward more socially just futures. Eco soma methods mix and merge realities on the edges of lived experience and site-specific performance. Kuppers invites us to become moths, sprout gills, listen to our heart’s drum, and take starships into crip time. And fantasy is central to these engagements: feeling/sensing monsters, catastrophes, golden lines, heartbeats, injured sharks, dotted salamanders, kissing mammoths, and more. Kuppers illuminates ecopoetic disability culture perspectives, contending that disabled people and their co-conspirators make art to live in a changing world, in contact with feminist, queer, trans, racialized, and Indigenous art projects. By offering new ways to think, frame, and feel “environments,” Kuppers focuses on art-based methods of envisioning change and argues that disability can offer imaginative ways toward living well and with agency in change, unrest, and challenge. Traditional somatics teach us how to fine-tune our introspective senses and to open up the world of our own bodies, while eco soma methods extend that attention toward the creative possibilities of the reach between self, others, and the land. Eco Soma proposes an art/life method of sensory tuning to the inside and the outside simultaneously, a method that allows for a wider opening toward ethical cohabitation with human and more-than-human others.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452966877

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Multiparadigm Constraint Programming Languages

By: Petra Hofstedt

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Multiparadigm Constraint Programming Languages

By: Petra Hofstedt

Programming languages are often classified according to their paradigms, e.g. imperative, functional, logic, constraint-based, object-oriented, or aspect-oriented. A paradigm characterizes the style, concepts, and methods of the language for describing situations and processes and for solving problems, and each paradigm serves best for programming in particular application areas. Real-world problems, however, are often best implemented by a combination of concepts from different paradigms, because they comprise aspects from several realms, and this combination is more comfortably realized using multiparadigm programming languages. This book deals with the theory and practice of multiparadigm constraint programming languages. The author first elaborates on programming paradigms and languages, constraints, and the merging of programming concepts which yields multiparadigm (constraint) programming languages. In the second part the author inspects two concrete approaches on multiparadigm constraint programming – the concurrent constraint functional language CCFL, which combines the functional and the constraint-based paradigms and allows the description of concurrent processes; and a general framework for multiparadigm constraint programming and its implementation, Meta-S. The book is appropriate for researchers and graduate students in the areas of programming and artificial intelligence.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642173306

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The Cultural Context of Biodiversity Conservation

Seen and Unseen Dimensions of Indigenous Knowledge Among Q'eqchi' Communities in Guatemala

By: Petra Maass

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The Cultural Context of Biodiversity Conservation

Seen and Unseen Dimensions of Indigenous Knowledge Among Q'eqchi' Communities in Guatemala

By: Petra Maass

How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship between discursive, political, economic, social and ecological facets. By facing these interdependencies across global, national and local dynamics, it draws on an ethnographic case study among Maya-Q'eqchi' communities living in the margins of protected areas in Guatemala. In documenting the cultural aspects of landscape, the study explores the coherence of diverse expressions of indigenous knowledge. It intends to remind of cultural values and beliefs closely tied to subsistence activities and ritual practices that define local perceptions of the natural environment. The basic idea is to illustrate that there are different ways of knowing and reasoning, seeing and endowing the world with meaning, which include visible material and invisible interpretative understandings. These tend to be underestimated issues in international debates and may provide an alternative approach upon which conservation initiatives responsive to the needs of the humans involved should be based on.

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Universitätsverlag Göttingen

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3940344192

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9783940344199

Basics of Blood Management

By: Petra Seeber,Aryeh Shander

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Basics of Blood Management

By: Petra Seeber,Aryeh Shander

To reduce transfusion-related morbidity and mortality, it is recommended that an integrated approach to blood management is employed using all available tools to reduce a patient's exposure to donor blood. Meeting the need for a book covering the concepts of blood management as a trend towards multidisciplinary blood management, this new edition is an important resource, providing healthcare professionals with a tool to develop background knowledge in blood management, its organization, methods and tools. Practicing clinicians will be fully prepared to successfully start and run blood management programs.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111833809X

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Review of the Spirobolida on Madagascar, with descriptions of twelve new genera, including three "fire millipedes" (Diplopoda)

By: Thomas Wesener,Henrik Enghoff,Petra Sierwald

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Review of the Spirobolida on Madagascar, with descriptions of twelve new genera, including three "fire millipedes" (Diplopoda)

By: Thomas Wesener,Henrik Enghoff,Petra Sierwald

This issue of Zookeys deals with millipedes from Madagascar, an understudied group from a still little understood place. Here presented are the findings of a 2007 expedition as well as the results from general inventory programs undertaken on Madagascar in the last 10 years. From Madagascar, only three genera of the order Spirobolida were previously known, most of them described more than 100 years ago. To our great surprise the newly collected material included more than 37 undescribed species and no less than 12 new genera, of which 11 are exclusively based on newly discovered species. All species are endemic to Madagascar. The family Spirobolellidae is for the first time recorded from Madagascar with one endemic genus, while all other 14 known genera belong to the family Pachybolidae. Therefore, more genera of Pachybolidae are now known from Madagascar than from continental Africa and India combined. Up to six different Spirobolida genera occur sympatric in the same forest. Three of the discovered genera contain large-bodied species with a conspicuous pitch-black blood-red colour pattern, the so-called ‘Fire Millipedes’.

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PenSoft Publishers LTD

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9546425060

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9789546425065

Masters of Orion

By: Petra Schlunk,Michael Searle

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Masters of Orion

By: Petra Schlunk,Michael Searle

Title Selling Points Sales Ranking: AA - Proven techniques for eXploring, eXpanding, and eXploiting your empire - Comprehensive stats on every race, ship, and weapon in the galaxy - Essential strategies for diplomacy and politics

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Prima Lifestyles

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0761535101

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9780761535102

The Symbolic Representation of Gender

A Discursive Approach

By: Emanuela Lombardo,Petra Meier

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The Symbolic Representation of Gender

A Discursive Approach

By: Emanuela Lombardo,Petra Meier

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1317014529

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