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Language and Liberation

Feminism, Philosophy, and Language

By: Professor Kelly Oliver

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Language and Liberation

Feminism, Philosophy, and Language

By: Professor Kelly Oliver

Gathers authors with different backgrounds and methods to advance feminist discussions of the relation between language and women's oppression, suggesting promising new directions for further research.

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0791440516

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The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives

By: Eleanor Rose Ty,Professor Department of English Eleanor Ty,Ty Eleanor

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The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives

By: Eleanor Rose Ty,Professor Department of English Eleanor Ty,Ty Eleanor

Through close readings grounded in the socio-historical context of each work, Ty studies how authors and filmmakers meet the gaze of the dominant culture and respond to the assumptions and meanings commonly associated with Orientalized, visible bodies. Ty does not survey Asian Canadian and Asian America literature, but presents readings of selected texts that actively engage with issues of otherness, visibility, and identification. Many of them, she says, are in the process of working out how larger issues of representation, power, and history affect Asian North American subjectivity. Parts of the work have been published previously.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802086047

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9780802086044

Declarations of Interdependence

A Legal Pluralist Approach to Indigenous Rights

By: Professor Kirsten Anker

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Declarations of Interdependence

A Legal Pluralist Approach to Indigenous Rights

By: Professor Kirsten Anker

This book takes up the postcolonial challenge for law and explains how the problems of recognition are tied to an orthodox theory of law. The author focuses on prominent aspects of legal discourse and process and includes case studies and examples principally drawn from Australia and Canada. As a contribution to legal theory the study advances legal pluralist approaches not just by imagining a way to ‘make space for’ indigenous legal traditions but by actually working with their insights in building theory.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409447375

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Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women's Fiction

By: Professor Andrea Adolph

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Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women's Fiction

By: Professor Andrea Adolph

In her feminist intervention into the ways in which British women novelists explore and challenge the limitations of the mind-body binary historically linked to constructions of femininity, Andrea Adolph examines female characters in novels by Barbara Pym, Angela Carter, Helen Dunmore, Helen Fielding, and Rachel Cusk. Adolph focuses on how women's relationships to food (cooking, eating, serving) are used to locate women's embodiment within the everyday and also reveal the writers' commitment to portraying a unified female subject. For example, using food and food consumption as a lens highlights how women writers have used food as a trope that illustrates the interconnectedness of sex and gender with issues of sexuality, social class, and subjectivity-all aspects that fall along a continuum of experience in which the intellect and the physical body are mutually complicit. Historically grounded in representations of women in periodicals, housekeeping and cooking manuals, and health and beauty books, Adolph's theoretically informed study complicates our understanding of how women's social and cultural roles are intricately connected to issues of food and food consumption.

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1409475484

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Zen and the Art of Postmodern Philosophy

Two Paths of Liberation from the Representational Mode of Thinking

By: Carl Olson,Professor of Religous Studies Carl Olson

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Zen and the Art of Postmodern Philosophy

Two Paths of Liberation from the Representational Mode of Thinking

By: Carl Olson,Professor of Religous Studies Carl Olson

Carl Olson is Professor of Religious Studies at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. His previous books include The Indian Renouncer and Postmodern Poison: A Cross-Cultural Encounter and The Theology and Philosophy of Eliade: A Search for the Centre.

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0791446530

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9780791446539

Beyond the Philosopher's Fear

A Cavellian Reading of Gender, Origin and Religion in Modern Skepticism

By: Professor Ludger H Viefhues-Bailey

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Beyond the Philosopher's Fear

A Cavellian Reading of Gender, Origin and Religion in Modern Skepticism

By: Professor Ludger H Viefhues-Bailey

Based on a detailed analysis of gender in Stanley Cavell's treatment of the skeptical problem, this book addresses the relationship between gender and religion in modern skepticism. Engaging in dialogue with Julia Kristeva's philosophy, Viefhues claims that a religious problem underlies Cavell's understanding of the feminine. The feminine which the skeptic fears is construed as a placeholder for the beyond, marking the transcendence of our origins which are elusive yet at the same time part of ourselves. It is argued that a religious question of origins thus lies at the heart of the modern skeptical problem.

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1409485293

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In the Company of Books

Literature and Its "classes" in Nineteenth-century America

By: Sarah Wadsworth,Associate Professor of English Sarah Wadsworth

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In the Company of Books

Literature and Its "classes" in Nineteenth-century America

By: Sarah Wadsworth,Associate Professor of English Sarah Wadsworth

Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in 19th century America, this book analyses the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself.

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Liverpool University Press

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155849541X

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Virtual Politics

Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World

By: Andrew Wilson,Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire Andrew Wilson

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Virtual Politics

Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World

By: Andrew Wilson,Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire Andrew Wilson

States like Russia and Ukraine may not have gone back to totalitarianism or the traditional authoritarian formula of stuffing the ballot box, cowing the population and imprisoning the opposition - or not obviously. But a whole industry of 'political technology' has developed instead, with shadowy private firms and government 'fixers' on lucrative contracts dedicated to the black arts of organizing electoral success. This book uncovers the sophisticated techniques of the 'virtual' political system used to legitimize post-Soviet regimes; entire fake parties, phantom political rivals and 'scarecrow' opponents. And it exposes the paramount role of the mass media in projecting these creations and in falsifying the entire political process. Wilson argues that it is not primarily economic problems that have made it so difficult to develop meaningful democracy in the former Soviet world. Although the West also has its 'spin doctors', dirty tricks, and aggressive ad campaigns, it is the unique post-Bolshevik culture of 'political technology' that is the main obstacle to better governance in the region, to real popular participation in public affairs, and to the modernization of the political economy in the longer term.

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Yale University Press

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0300095457

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A Line of Blood and Dirt

Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands

By: Assistant Professor of History Benjamin Hoy,Benjamin Hoy

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A Line of Blood and Dirt

Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands

By: Assistant Professor of History Benjamin Hoy,Benjamin Hoy

This book examines the creation and enforcement of Canada United States border from 1775 until 1939. Built with Indigenous labour and on top of Indigenous land, the border was born in conflict. Federal administrators used deprivation, starvation, and coercion to displace Indigenous communities and undermine their conceptions of territory and sovereignty. European, African American, Chinese, Cree, Assiniboine, Dakota, Lakota, Nimiipuu, Coast Salish, Ojibwe, and Haudenosaunee communities faced a diversity of border closure experiences and timelines. Unevenness and variation served as hallmarks of the border as federal officials in each country committed to a kind of border power that was diffuse and far reaching. Utilizing Historical GIS, this book showcases how regional conflicts, political reorganization, and social upheaval created the Canada-US border and remade the communities who lived in its shadows"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0197528694

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The Self as Enterprise

Foucault and the Spirit of 21st Century Capitalism

By: Professor Peter Kelly

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The Self as Enterprise

Foucault and the Spirit of 21st Century Capitalism

By: Professor Peter Kelly

Twenty first century, flexible capitalism creates new demands for those who work to acknowledge that all aspects of their lives have come to be seen as performance related, and consequently of interest to those who employ them (or fire them). At the start of the 21st century we can identify, borrowing from Max Weber, new work ethics that provide novel ethically slanted maxims for the conduct of a life, and which suggest that the cultivation of the self as an enterprise is the life-long activity that should give meaning, purpose and direction to a life. The book provides an innovative theoretical and methodological approach that draws on the problematising critique of Michel Foucault, the sociological imagination of Zygmunt Bauman and the work influenced by these authors in social theory and social research in the last three decades. The author takes seriously the ambivalence and irony that marks many people’s experience of their working lives, and the demands of work at the start of the 21st century. The book makes an important contribution to the continuing debate about the nature of work related identities and the consequences of the intensification of the work regimes in which these identities are performed and regulated. In a post global financial crisis (GFC) world of sovereign debt, austerity and recession the author’s analysis focuses academic and professional interest on neo-liberal injunctions to imagine ourselves as an enterprise, and to reap the rewards and carry the costs of the conduct of this enterprise.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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1409473570

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Numbercrunch

A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World

By: Professor Oliver Johnson

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Numbercrunch

A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World

By: Professor Oliver Johnson

Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all' - Tom Whipple, The Times 'The perfect introduction to the power of mathematics - fluent, friendly and practical' - Tim Harford, bestselling author of How to Make the World Add Up In our hyper-modern world, we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. So, what can we grasp hold of to make sense of it all? Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the myriad data all around us. From the exponential growth of viruses to social media filter-bubbles; from share price fluctuations to the cost of living; from the datafication of our sports pages to quantifying climate change. Not to mention the things much closer to home: ever wondered when the best time is to leave a party? What are the chances of rain ruining your barbecue this weekend? How about which queue is the best to join in the supermarket? Journeying through three sections - Randomness, Structure, and Information - we meet a host of brilliant minds, such Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi and Claude Shannon, and are equipped with the tools to cut through the noise all around us - from the Law of Large Numbers to Entropy to Brownian Motion. Lucid, surprising, and endlessly entertaining, Numbercrunch equips you with a definitive mathematician's toolkit to make sense of your world.

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1788708350

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The Television Entrepreneurs

Social Change and Public Understanding of Business

By: Ms Lisa W Kelly,Professor Raymond Boyle

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The Television Entrepreneurs

Social Change and Public Understanding of Business

By: Ms Lisa W Kelly,Professor Raymond Boyle

With business seemingly everywhere on television, from the risks of the retail and restaurant trade to pitching for investment or competing to become the next 'apprentice', The Television Entrepreneurs draws upon popular business-oriented shows such as The Apprentice and Dragons' Den to explore the relationship between television and business. Based on extensive interviews with key industry and business figures and drawing on new empirical research into audience perceptions of business, this book examines our changing relationship with entrepreneurship and the role played by television in shaping our understanding of the world of business. The book identifies the key structural shifts in both the television industry and the wider economy that account for these changing representations, whilst examining the extent to which television's developing interest in business and entrepreneurial issues is simply a response to wider social and economic change in society. Does a more commercial and competitive television marketplace, for instance, mean that the medium itself, through a particular focus on drama, entertainment and performance, now plays a key role in re-defining how society frames its engagements with business, finance, entrepreneurship, risk and wealth creation? Mapping the narratives of entrepreneurship constructed by television and analysing the context that produces them, The Television Entrepreneurs investigates how the television audience engages with such programmes and the possible impact these may have on public understanding of the nature of business.

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1409495191

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Managing Employee Involvement and Participation

By: Jeff Hyman Bob Mason,Professor Jeff Hyman,Dr Bob Mason

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Managing Employee Involvement and Participation

By: Jeff Hyman Bob Mason,Professor Jeff Hyman,Dr Bob Mason

As issues of employee involvement and participation once more evoke considerable controversy, this textbook provides an accessible overview of the main strands, perspectives and debates in current thinking and practice. It adopts a comparative international approach, addressing developments in the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, the United States and elsewhere. The authors identify two main strands of evolution: one driven by managerial interests in enhancing and controlling employee commitment and performance; the other deriving from employees' attempts to influence high-level organizational decision-making. In particular, they examine and analyze: the background of key concepts, issues and philosophies underpinning these different strands; the range of current employee involvement methods, from the individualistic and management-led to more regulated collective approaches; and the rationales and responses of employees, unions and employers to the various initiatives. Throughout the book the authors evaluate the contrasting philosophies and practices in the context of the rapidly evolving organizational and economic landscapes of advanced industrialized countries. Relevant factors include declines in manufacturing industries, deregulation of labour markets, intensifying international competition and the ever-increasing globalization of enterprise.

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1446231992

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Change and the Curriculum

By: Geva M. Blenkin Gwyn Edwards Albert Victor Kelly,MS Geva M Blenkin,Professor T Gwyn Edwards,Professor A Vic V Kelly

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Change and the Curriculum

By: Geva M. Blenkin Gwyn Edwards Albert Victor Kelly,MS Geva M Blenkin,Professor T Gwyn Edwards,Professor A Vic V Kelly

Through the work of the Schools Council and other national agencies, the difficulties of achieving effective curriculum change through centralized initiatives and directives have been well documented. At the same time the importance of teacher involvement in such activities, and the advantages of curriculum development over revolutionary innovation, have become plain. This knowledge and the understandings it has generated are important today, when unusually sweeping changes are being brought about in the school curriculum. The authors of this book draw together these ideas to assist people promoting curriculum changes, as well as those on the receiving end of such projects.

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1446224244

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Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now

Reading with Hindsight

By: Professor Simon Dentith

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Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now

Reading with Hindsight

By: Professor Simon Dentith

Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own temporal moment, Simon Dentith complicates traditional prejudices against hindsight to approach issues of interpretation and historicity in nineteenth-century literature. Suggesting that the characteristic aesthetic attitude encouraged by the backward look is one of irony rather than remorse or regret, he examines works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, William Morris and John Ruskin in terms of their participation in significant histories that extend to this day. Liberalism, class, gender, political representation and notions of progress, utopianism and ecological concern as currently understood can be traced back to the nineteenth century. Just as today’s critics strive to respect the authenticity of nineteenth-century writers and readers who responded to these ideas within their historical world, so, too, do those nineteenth-century imaginings persist to challenge the assumptions of the present. It is therefore possible, Dentith argues, to conceive of the act of reading historical literature with an awareness of the historical context and of the difference between the past and the present while allowing that friction or difference to be part of how we think about a text and how it communicates. His book summons us to consider how words travel to the reality of the reader’s own time and how engagement with nineteenth-century writers’ anticipation of the judgements of future generations reveal hindsight’s capacity to transform our understanding of the past in the light of subsequent knowledge.

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1472418875

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No Place for Amateurs

How Political Consultants are Reshaping American Democracy

By: Dennis W. Johnson,Professor Emeritus of Political Management Dennis W Johnson

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No Place for Amateurs

How Political Consultants are Reshaping American Democracy

By: Dennis W. Johnson,Professor Emeritus of Political Management Dennis W Johnson

This work details the skills, strategies, and methods - and the extraordinary resources these require - to provide an expose of the highly sophisticated techniques used to reach and persuade voters.

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1135962731

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New Perspectives in Prostate Cancer

By: Arie Belldegrun,Professor Tim Oliver,Roger S Kirby,Donald W W Newling

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New Perspectives in Prostate Cancer

By: Arie Belldegrun,Professor Tim Oliver,Roger S Kirby,Donald W W Newling

A summary of the highlights of the Second International Forum on Prostate Cancer, held in Cambridge in 1998. The contributors include scientists, epidemiologists and clinicians who provide both a North American and a European view of treatment. The patient's perspective is also considered.

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0203091965

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Reassessing Human Resource Management

By: Paul Blyton Peter Turnbull,Professor Paul Blyton,Prof Peter J Turnbull

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Reassessing Human Resource Management

By: Paul Blyton Peter Turnbull,Professor Paul Blyton,Prof Peter J Turnbull

Drawing on a wide range of organizational examples, this book brings a new balance to assessing the role and impact of HRM. It looks at the core assumptions of an HRM perspective, and at what happens when organizations seek to implement HRM. The contributors show that there are a number of tensions and contradictions inherent in an HRM concept that raise central issues for practice. They demonstrate that HRM is one approach to employee management that will tend to prevail in certain contexts and conditions rather than universally. Specific themes include: HRM and competitive success; organizational culture and HRM; HRM, flexibility and decentralization; reward management and HRM; HRM, Just-in-Time manufacturing and new technology; HRM and trade unions; HRM as the management of managerial meaning.

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1446235173

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Empowering the Feminine

The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812

By: Eleanor Rose Ty,Professor Department of English Eleanor Ty

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Empowering the Feminine

The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812

By: Eleanor Rose Ty,Professor Department of English Eleanor Ty

That focus invests these attributes with new meaning, making supposed female weaknesses potentially active forces for social change.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802043623

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Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

By: Professor Thomas Tracy

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Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

By: Professor Thomas Tracy

In The Wild Irish Girl, the powerful Irish heroine's marriage to a heroic Englishman symbolizes the Anglo-Irish novelist Lady Morgan's re-imagining of the relationship between Ireland and Britain and between men and women. Using this most influential of pro-union novels as his point of departure, Thomas J. Tracy argues that nineteenth-century debates over what constitutes British national identity often revolved around representations of Irishness, especially Irish womanhood. He maps out the genealogy of this development, from Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent through Trollope's Irish novels, focusing on the pivotal period from 1806 through the 1870s. Tracy's model enables him to elaborate the ways in which gender ideals are specifically contested in fiction, the discourses of political debate and social reform, and the popular press, for the purpose of defining not only the place of the Irish in the union with Great Britain, but the nature of Britishness itself.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409475190

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Metropolitan Governance in America

By: Professor Donald F Norris,Prof Dr Don Phares

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Metropolitan Governance in America

By: Professor Donald F Norris,Prof Dr Don Phares

Metropolitan government and metropolitan governance have been ongoing issues for more than sixty years in the United States. Based on an extensive survey and a review of existing literature, this book offers a comprehensive overview of these debates. It discusses how the centrifugal forces in local government, and in particular local government autonomy, have produced a highly fragmented governmental landscape throughout America. The book uncovers the extent of metropolitan government and governance, the possibility for its existence, what attempts (if any) have been made in the past, and the problems and issues that have arisen due to the lack of adequate metropolitan governance.

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1409421929

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Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot

By: Professor Elizabeth Sabiston

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Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot

By: Professor Elizabeth Sabiston

Emily Dickinson's poem, 'This is my letter to the World/ That never wrote to Me --', opens the Introduction, which focuses on the near-anonymity of nineteenth-century women novelists. Close readings of works by five British novelists—Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot—offer persuasive accounts of the ways in which women used stealth tactics to outmaneuver their detractors. Chapters examine the 'hidden manifesto' in Austen's works, whose imaginative heroines defend women's writing; the lasting impact of Jane Eyre, with its modest heroine who takes up the pen to tell her own story, even on male writers outside the English tradition; Cathy's testament as the 'ghost-text' of Wuthering Heights; and the shifting gender roles in Daniel Deronda, with its silenced heroine and androgynous hero. Though the focus is on British novelists, Sabiston's discussion of the Anglo-American connections in the factory novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and the slavery writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe has particular relevance for its demonstration of how the move from the private to the public sphere enables and even compels the blurring of national and ethnic boundaries. What emerges is a compelling argument for the relevance of these novelists to the emergence in our own time of hitherto-silenced female voices around the globe.

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1409474968

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Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred

Representation and Change

By: Dr Elizabeth Poole,Dr Teemu Taira,Professor Kim Knott

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Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred

Representation and Change

By: Dr Elizabeth Poole,Dr Teemu Taira,Professor Kim Knott

Is it true that Christianity is being marginalised by the secular media, at the expense of Islam? Are the mass media Islamophobic? Is atheism on the rise in media coverage? Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred explores such questions and argues that television and newspapers remain key sources of popular information about religion. They are particularly significant at a time when religious participation in Europe is declining yet the public visibility and influence of religions seems to be increasing. Based on analysis of mainstream media, the book is set in the context of wider debates about the sociology of religion and media representation. The authors draw on research conducted in the 1980s and 2008–10 to examine British media coverage and representation of religion and contemporary secular values, and to consider what has changed in the last 25 years. Exploring the portrayal of Christianity and public life, Islam and religious diversity, atheism and secularism, and popular beliefs and practices, several media events are also examined in detail: the Papal visit to the UK in 2010 and the ban of the controversial Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, in 2009. Religion is shown to be deeply embedded in the language and images of the press and television, and present in all types of coverage from news and documentaries to entertainment, sports reporting and advertising. A final chapter engages with global debates about religion and media.

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1472406338

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A Dictionary of Modern Politics

By: David Professor Robertson

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A Dictionary of Modern Politics

By: David Professor Robertson

A comprehensive guide to the complex ideology/terminology which surrounds the world of politics. * Well over 500 extensive definitions * Defines political theories, dogmas and phraseologies * Terms such as Pacifism, Proportional Representation, Jihad, Son of Star Wars, Third Way and Consensual are explained clearly and succinctly * Invaluable for anyone concerned with politics or current affairs.

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Routledge

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131763943X

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Behind the Scenes

Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre

By: Adrian Woods Frazier,Professor Adrian Frazier

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Behind the Scenes

Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre

By: Adrian Woods Frazier,Professor Adrian Frazier

The archival material presented here is important and well-researched, Frazier's writing is lucid and dignified, and the story that unfolds is also exceedingly funny. The comedy is not laid on, it is all there in the material itself. Frazier is simply the first to bring it out."--Malcolm Brown, author of The Politics of Irish Literature

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Univ of California Press

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0520065492

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9780520065499

The Female Thermometer : Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny

Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny

By: Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University

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The Female Thermometer : Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny

Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny

By: Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University

A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198024274

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9780198024279

Multiple-point Geostatistics

Stochastic Modeling with Training Images

By: Professor Gregoire Mariethoz,Jef Caers

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Multiple-point Geostatistics

Stochastic Modeling with Training Images

By: Professor Gregoire Mariethoz,Jef Caers

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to multiple-point geostatistics, where spatial continuity is described using training images. Multiple-point geostatistics aims at bridging the gap between physical modelling/realism and spatio-temporal stochastic modelling. The book provides an overview of this new field in three parts. Part I presents a conceptual comparison between traditional random function theory and stochastic modelling based on training images, where random function theory is not always used. Part II covers in detail various algorithms and methodologies starting from basic building blocks in statistical science and computer science. Concepts such as non-stationary and multi-variate modeling, consistency between data and model, the construction of training images and inverse modelling are treated. Part III covers three example application areas, namely, reservoir modelling, mineral resources modelling and climate model downscaling. This book will be an invaluable reference for students, researchers and practitioners of all areas of the Earth Sciences where forecasting based on spatio-temporal data is performed.

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1118662938

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9781118662939

The Democratization of American Christianity

By: Nathan O. Hatch,Professor Nathan O Hatch

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The Democratization of American Christianity

By: Nathan O. Hatch,Professor Nathan O Hatch

In this prize-winning book Nathan O. Hatch offers a provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic, arguing that during this period American Christianity was democratized and common people became powerful actors on the religious scene. Hatch examines five distinct traditions or mass movements that emerged early in the nineteenth century£the Christian movement, Methodism, the Baptist movement, the black churches, and the Mormons£showing how all offered compelling visions of individual potential and collective aspiration to the unschooled and unsophisticated" -- Publisher description.

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0300044704

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Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment

'Industry, Knowledge and Humanity'

By: Professor Roger L Emerson

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Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment

'Industry, Knowledge and Humanity'

By: Professor Roger L Emerson

The Scottish Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and scientific progress, in a country previously considered to be marginal to the European intellectual scene. Yet the enlightenment was not about politeness or civic humanism, but something more basic – the making of an improved society which could compete in every way in a rapidly changing world. David Hume, writing in 1752, commented that 'industry, knowledge and humanity are linked together by an indissoluble chain'. Collectively this volume of essays embraces many of the topics which Hume included under 'industry, knowledge and humanity': from the European Enlightenment and the Scots relation to it, to Scottish social history and its relation to religion, science and medicine. Overarching themes of what it meant to be enlightened in the eighteenth century are considered alongside more specific studies of notable figures of the period, such as Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, and David Hume, and the training and number of Scottish medical students. Together, the volume provides an opportunity to step back and reconsider the Scottish Enlightenment in its broader context and to consider what new directions this field of study might take.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409480224

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School Leadership

Beyond Education Management

By: Professor Gerald Grace,Gerald Grace

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School Leadership

Beyond Education Management

By: Professor Gerald Grace,Gerald Grace

This text provides a study of the education policy scholarship of leadership. It examines the ways in which concepts of educational leadership and management have evolved historically and culturally, reviewing contemporary debates about the nature of school leadership.; The question of what school leadership could and should be is at the centre of political, ideological and educational debate in many societies. These debates involve cultural conservatives, New Right marketeers, democrats and community educators, feminists and critical theorists as well as school governors, headteachers and teachers, parents, community members and school students.; These debates are reviewed and the theoretical context is illuminated by fieldwork accounts derived from the research participation of 88 headteachers working in English schools, both primary and secondary. Such accounts provide an insight into the challenges of contemporary school leadership as headteachers face new power relationships, new curriculum responsibilities and management and marketing cultures which generate moral, ethical and professional dilemmas for many of them.

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Routledge

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1135718636

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The Bondsman's Burden

An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery

By: Jenny Bourne (Professor of Economics),Jenny Bourne Wahl

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The Bondsman's Burden

An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery

By: Jenny Bourne (Professor of Economics),Jenny Bourne Wahl

Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable. But, by preserving property rights, they sheltered the persons embodied by that property - the slaves themselves. Slave law therefore had unintended consequences: it generated rules that judges could apply to free persons, precedents that became the foundation for laws designed to protect ordinary Americans. The Bondsman's Burden, first published in 1998, provides a rigorous and compelling economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, inspecting thousands of legal disputes heard in Southern antebellum courts, disputes involving servants, employees, accident victims, animals, and other chattel property, as well as slaves. The common law, although it supported the institution of slavery, did not favor every individual slave owner who brought a grievance to court.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521521386

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9780521521383

Centennials

The 12 Habits of Great, Enduring Organisations

By: Professor Alex Hill

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Centennials

The 12 Habits of Great, Enduring Organisations

By: Professor Alex Hill

Start-ups rarely survive their second birthday. Even established firms in the UK and the US average a life of only fifteen years. So how can your company build and sustain success for decades to come? Professor Alex Hill has conducted thirteen years of groundbreaking research into a clutch of organisations that have outperformed their peers for over 100 years - from NASA to the New Zealand All Blacks, from Eton College and the Royal College of Art to the Royal Marines and the Royal Shakespeare Company. And what he has found is that these very different organisations all share remarkably similar strategies when it comes to building and maintaining excellence and success - strategies that frequently fly in the face of conventional business wisdom. Here Professor Hill shares the twelve traits that have set these organisations apart for over a century, from the way they analyse success and failure to their approach to finding the best people and the brightest new ideas. In so doing, he identifies the strategies and habits that you can employ in your company to create a strong and stable core and to ensure the same long-term prosperity. In short, he shows you how to build a promising enterprise into an enduring, great organisation. _____________________________________________ 'An instant classic.' Charles Handy, author of 'The Empty Raincoat' and 'The Second Curve' 'Every CEO should be given a copy with their morning coffee.' Robin Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford 'If you want to learn what it takes to achieve truly sustainable success in an organisation, then this is a book for you.' Shaun Fitzgerald, OBE, Director of the Centre for Climate Repair at the University of Cambridge

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Random House

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1529159172

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A Gentleman of Color : The Life of James Forten

The Life of James Forten

By: Boston Julie Winch Professor of History University of Massachusetts

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A Gentleman of Color : The Life of James Forten

The Life of James Forten

By: Boston Julie Winch Professor of History University of Massachusetts

In A Gentleman of Color, Julie Winch provides a vividly written, full-length biography of James Forten, one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Forten was born in 1766 into a free black family. As a teenager he served in the Revolution and was captured by the British. Rejecting an attractive offer to change sides, he insisted he was a loyal American. By 1810 he was the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia, where he became well known as an innovative craftsman, a successful manager of black and white employees, and a shrewd businessman. He emerged as a leader in Philadelphia's black community and was active in a wide range of reform activities. He was especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and became close friends with William Lloyd Garrison, to whom he lent money to start up the Liberator. Forten was also the founder of a remarkable dynasty. His children and his son-in-law were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War. When James Forten died in 1842, five thousand mourners, black and white, turned out to honor a man who had earned the respect of society across the racial divide. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the pantheon of African-Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198024762

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Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women’s Geographical Education

By: Professor Judith A Tyner

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Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women’s Geographical Education

By: Professor Judith A Tyner

The period from the late eighteenth century until about 1840 coincided with major changes in educational theories and practices, especially for girls, and this book uses needlework maps and globes to chart a broader discussion of women's geographic education. In this light, map samplers and embroidered globes represent a transition in women's education from 'accomplishments' in the eighteenth century to challenging geographic education and conventional map drawing in schools and academies of the second half of the nineteenth century.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409426351

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9781409426356

Margaret Fuller : An American Romantic Life Volume 1: The Private Years

An American Romantic Life Volume 1: The Private Years

By: Chapel Hill Charles Capper Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina

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Margaret Fuller : An American Romantic Life Volume 1: The Private Years

An American Romantic Life Volume 1: The Private Years

By: Chapel Hill Charles Capper Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina

With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all the first-hand sources, many of them never before used, this volume is filled with original portraits of Fuller's numerous friends and colleagues and the influential movements that enveloped them. Writing with a strong narrative sweep, Capper focuses on the central problem of Fuller's life--her identity as a female intellectual--and presents the first biography of Fuller to do full justice to its engrossing subject. This first volume chronicles Fuller's "private years": her gradual, tangled, but fascinating emergence out of the "private" life of family, study, Boston-Cambridge socializing, and anonymous magazine-writing, to the beginnings of her rebirth as antebellum America's female prophet-critic. Capper's biography is at once an evocative portrayal of an extraordinary woman and a comprehensive study of an avant-garde American intellectual type at the beginning of its first creation.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195364457

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The New England Soul : Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England

Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England

By: Harry S. Stout John B. Madden Master of Berkeley College and Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity Yale University

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The New England Soul : Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England

Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England

By: Harry S. Stout John B. Madden Master of Berkeley College and Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity Yale University

Throughout the colonial era, New England's only real public spokesmen were the Congregational ministers. One result is that the ideological origins of the American Revolution are nowhere more clearly seen than in the sermons they preached. The New England Soul is the first comprehensive analysis of preaching in New England from the founding of the Puritan colonies to the outbreak of the Revolution. Using a multi-disciplinary approach--including analysis of rhetorical style and concept of identity and community--Stout examines more than two thousand sermons spanning five generations of ministers, including such giants of the pulpit as John Cotton, Thomas Shepard, Increase and Cotton Mather, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Mayhew, and Charles Chauncy. Equally important, however, are the manuscript sermons of many lesser known ministers, which never appeared in print. By integrating the sermons of ordinary ministers with the printed sermons of their more illustrious contemporaries, Stout reconstructs the full import of the colonial sermon as a multi-faceted institution that served both religious and political purposes, and explicated history and society to the New England Puritans for one and a half centuries.

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0198021011

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9780198021018

Disabled Women and Domestic Violence

Responding to the Experiences of Survivors

By: Brenda Ellis,Professor Audrey Mullender,Ruth Bashall,Gill Hague,Dr Ravi Thiara

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Disabled Women and Domestic Violence

Responding to the Experiences of Survivors

By: Brenda Ellis,Professor Audrey Mullender,Ruth Bashall,Gill Hague,Dr Ravi Thiara

Domestic violence is encountered by disabled women more frequently than non-disabled women, yet disabled women are less likely to receive appropriate services, and there has been little research on their experiences and how this problem can be addressed. This book, drawing on the first UK national study of disabled women who have suffered domestic violence, highlights the experiences of these women, the nature of the violence perpetrated against them, and the seriousness and range of its impacts. The book draws attention to the gaps in services for disabled women and discusses how professional responses should be developed and improved, pointing to current examples of good practice. It includes first-hand accounts from disabled women and includes contributions from leading disabled women activists. This book will be important reading for students, practitioners, policymakers and academics in the fields of disability and domestic violence.

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0857005588

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9780857005588

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