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Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction

By: Sabina Knight

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Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction

By: Sabina Knight

Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. Embracing traditional Chinese understandings of literature as encompassing history and philosophy as well as poetry and poetics, storytelling, drama, and the novel, Sabina Knight discusses the philosophical foundations of literary culture as well as literature's power to address historical trauma and cultivate moral and sensual passions. From ancient historical records through the modernization and globalization of Chinese literature, Knight draws on lively examples to underscore the close relationship between ethics and aesthetics, as well as the diversity of Chinese thought. Knight also illuminates the role of elite patronage; the ways literature has served the interests of specific groups; and questions of canonization, language, nationalism, and cross-cultural understanding. The book includes Chinese characters for names, titles, and key terms.

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Oxford University Press

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0199913137

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The Heart of Time

Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

By: Sabina Knight

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The Heart of Time

Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

By: Sabina Knight

By examining how narrative strategies reinforce or contest deterministic paradigms, this work describes modern Chinese fiction’s unique contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. How does Chinese fiction express the desire for freedom as well as fears of attendant responsibilities and abuses? How does it depict struggles for and against freedom? How do the texts allow for or deny the possibility of freedom and agency? By analyzing discourses of agency and fatalism and the ethical import of narrative structures, the author explores how representations of determinism and moral responsibility changed over the twentieth century. She links these changes to representations of time and to enduring commitments to human-heartedness and social justice. Although Chinese fiction may contain some of the most disconsolate pages in the twentieth century’s long literature of disenchantment, it also bespeaks, Knight argues, a passion for freedom and moral responsibility. Responding to ongoing conflicts between the claims of modernity and the resources of past traditions, these stories and novels are often dominated by challenges to human agency. Yet read with sensitivity to traditional Chinese conceptions of moral experience, their testimony to both the promises of freedom and the failure of such promises opens new perspectives on moral agency.

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BRILL

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1684174422

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9781684174423

A Carnivore's Inquiry

A Novel

By: Sabina Murray

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A Carnivore's Inquiry

A Novel

By: Sabina Murray

From a PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author, The Caprices, seduces readers with a thriller praised as “dazzling . . . lovely, literate and deeply unnerving” (The New York Times Book Review). When we meet Katherine, the winning—and rather disturbing—twenty-three-year-old narrator, she has just left Italy and arrived in New York City, but what has propelled her there is a mystery. She soon strikes up an affair with a middle-aged Russian émigré novelist she meets on the subway, and almost immediately moves into his apartment. Katherine’s occasional allusions to a frighteningly eccentric mother and tyrannical father suggest a somberness at the center of her otherwise flippant and sardonic demeanor. Soon restless, she begins journeying across the continent, trailed, everywhere she goes, by a string of murders. As the ritualistic killings begin to pile up, Katherine takes to meditating on cannibalism in literature, art, and history. The story races toward a hair-raising conclusion, while Katherine and the reader close in on the reasons for both her and her mother’s fascination with aberrant, violent behavior. A brilliantly subtle commentary on twenty-first-century consumerism and Western culture’s obsession with new frontiers, A Carnivore’s Inquiry is an unsettling exploration of the questionable appetites that lurk beneath the veneer of civilization. “Murray paces her psychological thriller with consummate control, keeping the reader enthralled through subtle suggestion and a scattering of grisly details . . . Readers will be hooked by Murray’s classy treatment of her sexy-sinister subject matter.” —Publishers Weekly

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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155584703X

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9781555847036

Essays on Ethics and Culture

By: Sabina Lovibond

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Essays on Ethics and Culture

By: Sabina Lovibond

These essays discuss various ontological and epistemological questions in moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the later Wittgenstein, and Iris Murdoch, though without seeking to weave these into any unified system. The general approach is realist or objectivist, paying some attention to the role of imaginative literature (especially the novel) in ethical formation. A common theme is the lived experience of the socially situated subject, including our capacity for engagement with the values present in an inherited tradition or 'form of life'. Such engagement, once raised to consciousness, may contain elements both of affirmation and of cultural critique. In the book as a whole, the critical theme predominates, with a certain emphasis on discourses of social disruption. But it is always assumed that the right place to stand as an observer of the domain of value is within that domain, and that moral critique will be immanent with respect to the culture addressed—that is, it will make do with just the conceptual and linguistic resources available to ordinary participants in moral, political, or aesthetic conversation.

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Oxford University Press

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0192668854

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9780192668851

Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair, the Mozart of Kathakali

By: Mohan Gopinath,Sabina Zacharias

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Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair, the Mozart of Kathakali

By: Mohan Gopinath,Sabina Zacharias

This book presents novel insights into the work and practice of the actor Krishnan Nair, who was unique in the field of Kathakali, the dance drama of South India. It shows how, because of his superb ability to connect with his audiences and the sheer charisma of his personality, Nair was able to achieve his burning ambitions. It highlights how Nair was able to ensure that Kathakali performers were invested with status and were paid a decent wage, allowing them to live in reasonable comfort.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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152759078X

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9781527590786

Zara Hossain Is Here

By: Sabina Khan

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Zara Hossain Is Here

By: Sabina Khan

Zara's family has waited years for their visa process to be finalized so that they can officially become US citizens. But it only takes one moment for that dream to come crashing down around them. Seventeen-year-old Pakistani immigrant, Zara Hossain, has been leading a fairly typical life in Corpus Christi, Texas, since her family moved there for her father to work as a pediatrician. While dealing with the Islamophobia that she faces at school, Zara has to lay low, trying not to stir up any trouble and jeopardize their family's dependent visa status while they await their green card approval, which has been in process for almost nine years. But one day her tormentor, star football player Tyler Benson, takes things too far, leaving a threatening note in her locker, and gets suspended. As an act of revenge against her for speaking out, Tyler and his friends vandalize Zara's house with racist graffiti, leading to a violent crime that puts Zara's entire future at risk. Now she must pay the ultimate price and choose between fighting to stay in the only place she's ever called home or losing the life she loves and everyone in it. From the author of the "heart-wrenching yet hopeful" (Samira Ahmed) novel, The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali, comes a timely, intimate look at what it means to be an immigrant in America today, and the endurance of hope and faith in the face of hate.

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338581481

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9781338581485

Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921

A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works

By: Sabina Teller Ratner

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Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921

A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works

By: Sabina Teller Ratner

Camille Saint-Sa ns 1835-1921: A Thematic Catalogue of his Complete Works defines the achievement of this great French composer. All his musical works are presented: the well-recognized masterpieces, the childhood sketches, the unpublished compositions, and the previously unknown pieces now revealed for the first time. This comprehensive collection fully documents the composer's extraordinary contribution to the musical world. Volume 1 concentrates specifically on his Instrumental output, while the two later volumes will cover Dramatic Works and Choral & Vocal Works respectively.

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Oxford : Oxford University Press

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0198163207

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9780198163206

Fields Of Lies

Darkest secrets are buried the past, but the truth can't stay hidden for long.

By: Sabina Gabrielli Carrara

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Fields Of Lies

Darkest secrets are buried the past, but the truth can't stay hidden for long.

By: Sabina Gabrielli Carrara

Michael and Bernadette are living a perfect life in the dormant little Irish village of Seacross, but things are not always as they look. Husband and wife are actually living parallel lives. Michael had embarked on a dangerous affair and Bernadette had let the past back in her life. A past she cannot make amend with without endangering the present. Bernadette knows the path she had taken had no coming back and that it will change things forever, but it is her only chance to start a new chapter with Shane, her long-lost lover. But is Shane Flynn back for love or revenge? Soon they will be all trapped in a spiral of lies, secrets and lust, and when someone goes as far as murder the castle of lies built in the last twenty-four years is destined to collapse with devastating consequences.

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Sabina Gabrielli Carrara

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1916266002

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Data-Centric Biology

A Philosophical Study

By: Sabina Leonelli

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Data-Centric Biology

A Philosophical Study

By: Sabina Leonelli

In recent decades, there has been a major shift in the way researchers process and understand scientific data. Digital access to data has revolutionized ways of doing science in the biological and biomedical fields, leading to a data-intensive approach to research that uses innovative methods to produce, store, distribute, and interpret huge amounts of data. In Data-Centric Biology, Sabina Leonelli probes the implications of these advancements and confronts the questions they pose. Are we witnessing the rise of an entirely new scientific epistemology? If so, how does that alter the way we study and understand life—including ourselves? Leonelli is the first scholar to use a study of contemporary data-intensive science to provide a philosophical analysis of the epistemology of data. In analyzing the rise, internal dynamics, and potential impact of data-centric biology, she draws on scholarship across diverse fields of science and the humanities—as well as her own original empirical material—to pinpoint the conditions under which digitally available data can further our understanding of life. Bridging the divide between historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science, Data-Centric Biology offers a nuanced account of an issue that is of fundamental importance to our understanding of contemporary scientific practices.

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University of Chicago Press

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022641650X

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9780226416502

Tales of the New World

By: Sabina Murray

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Tales of the New World

By: Sabina Murray

A latest collection of 10 high-seas and "dark continent" adventures by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Caprices is inspired by the ambitions and controversies surrounding some of history's most intrepid pioneers, including Ferdinand Magellan and Zimri Coffin. Original.

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Black Cat

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0802170838

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9780802170835

Valuing Freedoms

Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction

By: Sabina Alkire

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Valuing Freedoms

Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction

By: Sabina Alkire

Part II proposes an alternative participatory method for systematically identifying valued changes in participants' capability sets. Three case studies of women's income generation activities in Pakistan - goat-rearing, adult literacy, and rose cultivation - contrast economic cost-benefit analysis of each activity with capable analysis."--BOOK JACKET.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199283311

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9780199283316

Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy

By: Sabina Lovibond

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Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy

By: Sabina Lovibond

Iris Murdoch was one of the best-known philosophers and novelists of the post-war period. In this book, Sabina Lovibond explores the tangled issue of Murdoch's stance towards gender and feminism, drawing upon the evidence of her fiction, philosophy, and other public statements. As well as analysing Murdoch's own attitudes, Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy is also a critical enquiry into the way we picture intellectual, and especially philosophical, activity. Appealing to the idea of a 'social imaginary' within which Murdoch's work is located, Lovibond examines the sense of incongruity or dissonance that may still affect our image of a woman philosopher, even where egalitarian views officially hold sway. The first thorough exploration of Murdoch and gender, Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy is a fresh contribution to debates in feminist philosophy and gender studies, and essential reading for anyone interested in Murdoch's literary and philosophical writing.

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Routledge

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1136819355

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9781136819353

Vignettes Relating to Kathakali and Shakespeare

The Thirasheela versus the Curtain

By: Mohan Gopinath,Vellinezhi Achuthan Kutty,Nagesh Bharadwaj,Asha Prabhakaran,Sabina Zacharias

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Vignettes Relating to Kathakali and Shakespeare

The Thirasheela versus the Curtain

By: Mohan Gopinath,Vellinezhi Achuthan Kutty,Nagesh Bharadwaj,Asha Prabhakaran,Sabina Zacharias

This book is written for all lovers of the performing arts, especially those who love Kathakali, the dance drama of Kerala, the southern state in India. While other texts have been written about the history of the dance drama in English, this book uniquely brings in Shakespearean plays and characters, comparing them to the stories and characters in Kathakali to give it a completely new perspective.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527579018

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9781527579019

Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City

By: Sabina Andron

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Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City

By: Sabina Andron

This book explores the ownersheir authorship and management, and their role in struggles for the right to the city. Includes a critical history of graffiti and street art as contested surface discourses. Interdisciplinary appeal.

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Taylor & Francis

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100098964X

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9781000989649

Ornamental Plants

By: Sabina George

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Ornamental Plants

By: Sabina George

This is a sincere effort to record the major ornamental plants raised in gardens and landscapes of today. The main classes of plants are described in the introductory chapter. A comprehensive account of trees, shrubs, herbs, climbers, creepers and taxonomic groups that share characteristics such as bulbous plants, cacti, succulents, bromeliads, ferns, and their allies, grasses bamboos, sedges as well as ornamental water garden plants are given.

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New India Publishing

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8190851268

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9788190851268

Hildegard of Bingen

A Visionary Life

By: Sabina Flanagan

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Hildegard of Bingen

A Visionary Life

By: Sabina Flanagan

Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard's life from the time of her entrance into an anchoress's cell--where a woman would remain in pious isolation--to her death as a famed visionary and writer, abbess and confidante of popes and kings, more than seventy years later. Against this background the author explores Hildegard's vast creative work, encompassing theology, medicine, natural history, poetry, and music.

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Routledge

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1134666292

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis

By: Sabina Alkire,José Manuel Roche,Paola Ballon,James Foster,Maria Emma Santos,Suman Seth

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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement and Analysis

By: Sabina Alkire,José Manuel Roche,Paola Ballon,James Foster,Maria Emma Santos,Suman Seth

A systematic conceptual, theoretical, and methodological introduction to multi-dimensional poverty measurement and analysis. It provides a lucid overview of the problems that a range of multidimensional techniques can address and sets out a synthetic introduction of counting and axiomatic approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199689490

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Re-Energize Your Relationship (52 Brilliant Ideas)

By: Sabina Dosani,Peter Cross

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Re-Energize Your Relationship (52 Brilliant Ideas)

By: Sabina Dosani,Peter Cross

52 ways to relight the desire. When the roaring fire of a relationship has been reduced to a smolder, Re- Energize Your Relationship helps couples recapture the magic. From finding time to be together to rediscovering what makes each other tick, the inspiring ideas in this lively guide range from the basic to the bold and brazen: - Idea #2: Search for the hero - Idea #11: Scentsational - Idea #18: Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - Idea #24: Reach out and touch - Idea #29: Unbreak my heart - Idea #48: Domestic detox

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Penguin

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1440678049

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9781440678042

Valiant Gentlemen

A Novel

By: Sabina Murray

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Valiant Gentlemen

A Novel

By: Sabina Murray

A New York Times Notable Book from the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author. “An imaginative exploration of the tragedy of lost friendship” (Los Angeles Times). In prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, Valiant Gentlemen reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; his closest friend, Herbert Ward; and Ward’s extraordinary wife, the Argentinian American heiress Sarita Sanford. Valiant Gentlemen takes the reader on an intimate journey, from Ward and Casement’s misadventurous youth in the Congo—where, among other things, they bore witness to an Irish whiskey heir’s taste for cannibalism—to Ward’s marriage to Sarita and their flourishing family life in France, to Casement’s covert homosexuality and enduring nomadic lifestyle floating between his work across the African continent and involvement in Irish politics. When World War I breaks out, Casement and Ward’s longstanding political differences finally come to a head and when Ward and his teenage sons leave to fight on the frontlines for England, Casement begins to work alongside the Germans to help free Ireland from British rule. What results is tragic and riveting, as both men are forced to confront notions of love and betrayal in the face of the vastly different tracks their lives have taken. Reminiscent of the work of Peter Carey and Michael Ondaatje, Valiant Gentlemen is a uniquely human account of some of early twentieth century’s larger historical figures from a “ravishing” (O, The Oprah Magazine) and “brilliant” voice in fiction today (The Boston Globe).

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802189709

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9780802189707

Reimagining Language Instruction

New Approaches to Promoting Equity

By: Sabina Rak Neugebauer,Emily Phillips Galloway,Christina L. Dobbs

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Reimagining Language Instruction

New Approaches to Promoting Equity

By: Sabina Rak Neugebauer,Emily Phillips Galloway,Christina L. Dobbs

Use this unique volume to transform the learning and teaching of language so that all students are empowered to succeed. This book offers insight into how to teach language--a core component of developing skilled readers and writers across all content areas--in ways that value the rich and diverse language assets students bring to the classroom. The authors provide guidance to help K-12 teachers move beyond current approaches to teaching language in the classroom to support equitable student outcomes in both linguistically diverse and linguistically homogeneous classrooms. The text provides a step-by-step process to uncover conceptions of language and its instruction that undercut opportunities to learn. Readers will gain new strategies for teaching the language of school tasks while integrating students' distinctive language experiences as resources for learning. School leaders will learn how to implement a schoolwide exploration into teaching language that promotes equity, all while building collaboration among administrators, teachers, and students. Book Features: Promotes linguistic equity by providing teaching strategies and whole-school practices critical for optimizing student success and access to instruction, assessment, and reading. Provides classroom examples that show readers how to engage in the core practices described in the book across developmental levels and academic disciplines. Includes reader-friendly and user-supportive features, such as text boxes that describe the principles that undergird the approaches. Offers classroom vignettes depicting common instructional challenges and tensions to show how teachers can engage in equitable, evidence-based practices for student success. Uses reflection questions to help readers track their developing understanding of ideas and to reflect on their own values and teaching goals.

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Teachers College Press

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080776888X

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9780807768884

Defeat Depression (52 Brilliant Ideas)

By: Sabina Dosani

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Defeat Depression (52 Brilliant Ideas)

By: Sabina Dosani

52 ways to beat the blues once and for all. Written by a psychiatrist with years of experience-both professional and personal--Defeat Depression offers real insight into depression, along with practical, proven techniques to help readers or their loved ones regain their energy and joy.

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Penguin

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1440621985

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9781440621987

Model Organisms

By: Rachel A. Ankeny,Sabina Leonelli

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Model Organisms

By: Rachel A. Ankeny,Sabina Leonelli

This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the concept of the 'model organism' in contemporary biology. Thinking about model organisms enables us to examine how living organisms have been brought into the laboratory and used to gain a better understanding of biology, and to explore the research practices, commitments, and norms underlying this understanding. We contend that model organisms are key components of a distinctive way of doing research. We focus on what makes model organisms an important type of model, and how the use of these models has shaped biological knowledge, including how model organisms represent, how they are used as tools for intervention, and how the representational commitments linked to their use as models affect the research practices associated with them. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Cambridge University Press

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110866556X

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Central and Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective

Politics, Economy and Culture

By: Sabina Mihelj

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Central and Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective

Politics, Economy and Culture

By: Sabina Mihelj

Appearing more than twenty years after the revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe, this book could not have come at a more appropriate time; a time to take stock not only of the changes but also the continuities in media systems of the region since 1989. To what extent are media institutions still controlled by political forces? To what extent are media markets operating in Central and Eastern Europe? Do media systems in Central and Eastern Europe resemble media systems in other parts of Europe? The answers to these questions are not the same for each country in the region. Their experience is not homogeneous. An international line up of distinguished experts and emerging scholars methodically examine the different economic, political, cultural, and transnational factors affecting developments in media systems across Central and Eastern Europe. Whereas earlier works in the media system tradition have, in the main, adopted the political framework of comparative politics, the authors argue that media systems are also cultural and economic institutions and there are other critical variables that might explain certain outcomes better. Topics discussed range from political economy to gender inequality to the study of ethno-cultural diversity. This unmatched volume gives you the unique opportunity to study the growing field of comparative media analysis across Eastern and Western Europe. A valuable resource that goes beyond the field of media and cultural analysis which media scholars as well as to area specialists should not go without!

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Routledge

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1317168968

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9781317168966

Re-Energize Your Relationship

Reignite the Spark and Keep It Burning

By: Sabina Dosani,Peter Cross

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Re-Energize Your Relationship

Reignite the Spark and Keep It Burning

By: Sabina Dosani,Peter Cross

A reference for couples seeking to rejuvenate a stalled relationship provides recommendations ranging from practical to more ambitious techniques, in a guide that includes such ideas as finding time to be together and rediscovering one another's individuality. Original. 40,000 first printing.

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0399533273

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A Long Silence

Memories of a German Refugee Child, 1941-1958

By: Sabina De Werth Neu

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A Long Silence

Memories of a German Refugee Child, 1941-1958

By: Sabina De Werth Neu

After more than sixty years, the nightmarish sufferings of so many victims of Germany’s Nazi regime have been documented extensively. Rarely, however, does one hear about the experiences of German children during World War II. Coming of age amidst the chaos, brutality, and destruction of war in their homeland, they had no understanding of what was happening around them and often suffered severe trauma and physical abuse. This haunting memoir tells the riveting story of one such German child. Born in Berlin in 1941, Sabina de Werth Neu knew little during her earliest years except the hardships and fear of a war refugee. She and her two sisters and mother were often on the run and sometimes homeless in the bombed-out cities of wartime Germany. At times they lived in near-starvation conditions. And as the Allies stormed through the crumbling German defenses, the mother and children were raped and beaten by marauding Russian soldiers. After the war, like so many Germans, they wrapped themselves in a cloak of deafening silence about their recent national and personal history, determined to forget the past. The result was that Sabina spent much of her time wrestling with shame and bouts of crippling depression. Finally, after decades of silence, she could no longer suppress the memories and began reconstructing her young life by writing down what had previously seemed unspeakable. Illustrated by vintage black-and-white family photographs, the book is filled with poignant scenes: her abused but courageous mother desperately trying to protect her children through the worst, the sickening horror of viewing Holocaust footage on newsreels shortly after the war, the welcome sight of American troops bringing hot meals to local schools, and the glimmer of hope finally offered by the Marshall Plan, which the author feels was crucial to her own survival and that of Germany as a whole. This book not only recalls the experiences of a now-distant war, but also brings to mind the disrupting realities of present-day refugee children. There is perhaps no more damning indictment of war than to read about its effects on children, its helpless victims.

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Prometheus Books

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161614288X

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9781616142889

The Culinary Canine

Great Chefs Cook for Their Dogs - And So Can You!

By: Kathryn Levy Feldman,Sabina Louise Pierce

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The Culinary Canine

Great Chefs Cook for Their Dogs - And So Can You!

By: Kathryn Levy Feldman,Sabina Louise Pierce

Thirty of America's most talented gourmet chefs reveal themselves as unabashed dog lovers who cook for their own dogs. Thanks to the talents of author Kathryn Levy Feldman and photographer Sabine Louise Pierce, The Culinary Canine brings forth the stories of these chefs, portraits of their spoiled, well-fed canines, and over thirty unique (and doable) recipes! Among the chefs interviewed and featured in this book are restaurant owners and professionals from coast to coast;from New York City, Boston, and Chicago to San Francisco and L.A.;some of whom were former contestants on Top Chef Masters, Iron Chef America, and Chopped!The chefs include: Cosme Aguilar, Karyn Calabrese, Steve Chiappetti, Dominique Crenn, Roberta Deen, Geraldine Gilliland, Carmen González, Troy Graves, Todd and Ellen Gray, Cornelia Cochrane Churchill Guest, Mya May (Christine) Gyaw, Kerry Heffernan, Diane Henderiks, Phyllis Kaplowitz, Nick Lacasse, Matthew Levin, Anita Lo, Tanya Nunes, Marc Pennvenne, Melissa Perello, Georges Perrier, Keith Roberts, Harry Schwartz, Amaryll Schwertner, Nicholas Shipp, Jay Silva, Guillermo Tellez, Dana Tommasino, Eileen Watkin, and Eli Zabar. Keeping the health as well as the gastronomical satisfaction of their canines in mind, the chefs' recipes focus on natural, organic ingredients and sound nutrition. For example, Georges Perrier, the chef proprietor of Le Bec-Fin and Georges' in Philadelphia, offers "Isabelle's ‘TouTou' Food," and Eli Zabar, owner of six chic eateries in New York City conjures up "Bread Soup for Dogs." Each recipe is unique, healthful, and fun to make (and chow down on).You don't need to be a chef (or even a terrible good cook) to master the recipes in this book, and your dog won't mind if you accidentally double the chicken, cheese, or quinoa!

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Biodiversity and Earth History

By: Jens Boenigk,Sabina Wodniok,Edvard Glücksman

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Biodiversity and Earth History

By: Jens Boenigk,Sabina Wodniok,Edvard Glücksman

This uniquely interdisciplinary textbook explores the exciting and complex relationship between Earth’s geological history and the biodiversity of life. Its innovative design provides a seamless learning experience, clarifying major concepts step by step with detailed textual explanations complemented by detailed figures, diagrams and vibrant pictures. Thanks to its layout, the respective concepts can be studied individually, as part of the broader framework of each chapter, or as they relate to the book as a whole. It provides in-depth coverage of: - Earth’s formation and subsequent geological history, including patterns of climate change and atmospheric evolution; - The early stages of life, from microbial ‘primordial soup’ theories to the fossil record’s most valuable contributions; - Mechanisms of mutual influence between living organisms and the environment: how life changed Earth’s history whilst, at the same time, environmental pressures continue to shape the evolution of species; - Basic ideas in biodiversity studies: species concepts, measurement techniques, and global distribution patterns; - Biological systematics, from their historical origins in Greek philosophy and Biblical stories to Darwinian evolution by natural selection, and to phylogenetics based on cutting-edge molecular techniques. This book’s four major sections offer a fresh cross-disciplinary overview of biodiversity and the Earth’s history. Among many other concepts, they reveal the massive diversity of eukaryotes, explain the geological processes behind fossilisation, and provide an eye-opening account of the relatively short period of human evolution in the context of Earth’s 4.6 billion-year history. Employing a combination of proven didactic tools, the book is simultaneously a reading reference, illustrated guide, and encyclopaedia of organismal biology and geology. It is aimed at school- and university-level students, as well as members of the public fascinated by the intricate interrelationship of living organisms and their environment.

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Shakespeare Meets the Indian Epics

Comparative Themes and Interpretations

By: Mohan Gopinath,Sabina Zacharias

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Shakespeare Meets the Indian Epics

Comparative Themes and Interpretations

By: Mohan Gopinath,Sabina Zacharias

This book demonstrates that people writing and creating characters almost 6,000 miles apart, and in different centuries, have a lot more in common than one might expect. It examines the day-to-day themes appearing in two epics, The Ramayanam and The Maha Bharatham, and some of Shakespeare’s plays (without entering into the realm of philosophy). The book reveals that whatever backgrounds people may have, they ultimately tend to tackle life in very similar ways, and this claim is substantiated with many pertinent examples. The perspectives presented in this book will be of interest to all who study literature.

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