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Native Tongues

Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation

By: Sean P. Harvey

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Native Tongues

Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation

By: Sean P. Harvey

Sean Harvey explores the morally entangled territory of language and race in this intellectual history of encounters between whites and Native Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Misunderstandings about the differences between European and indigenous American languages strongly influenced whites’ beliefs about the descent and capabilities of Native Americans, he shows. These beliefs would play an important role in the subjugation of Native peoples as the United States pursued its “manifest destiny” of westward expansion. Over time, the attempts of whites to communicate with Indians gave rise to theories linking language and race. Scholars maintained that language was a key marker of racial ancestry, inspiring conjectures about the structure of Native American vocal organs and the grammatical organization and inheritability of their languages. A racially inflected discourse of “savage languages” entered the American mainstream and shaped attitudes toward Native Americans, fatefully so when it came to questions of Indian sovereignty and justifications of their forcible removal and confinement to reservations. By the mid-nineteenth century, scientific efforts were under way to record the sounds and translate the concepts of Native American languages and to classify them into families. New discoveries by ethnologists and philologists revealed a degree of cultural divergence among speakers of related languages that was incompatible with prevailing notions of race. It became clear that language and race were not essentially connected. Yet theories of a linguistically shaped “Indian mind” continued to inform the U.S. government’s efforts to extinguish Native languages for years to come.

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Harvard University Press

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0674745388

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Saints Preserve Us!

Everything You Need to Know About Every Saint You'll Ever Need

By: Sean Kelly,Rosemary Rogers

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Saints Preserve Us!

Everything You Need to Know About Every Saint You'll Ever Need

By: Sean Kelly,Rosemary Rogers

Hilarious and comprehensive, the ultimate guide to the universe of saints—and what each one means. Cross-referenced by birthdays, professions, and ailments, this is a must-have for any true believer with a proper sense of fun. Your name . . . your birthday . . . your nationality . . . your job . . . your hobby, each entitles you to the Papally Prescribed, Perpetual Personal Protection of a Plethora of Powerful Patrons in Paradise. Whatever your problem—social, sexual, or spiritual—or illness—mental or physical, chronic or acute—a Holy Host of Heavenly Helpers is at Hand. And you don’t even have to be Catholic! All you do need to discover the identities of Your Very Own Patron Saints, and to avail yourself of their Guaranteed Supernatural Assistance, is this Blessed Book. • Religiously researched! • Fanatically comprehensive! • Compulsively cross-indexed! • Incredibly credulous!

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Random House

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0307780260

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Native American Literature

A Very Short Introduction

By: Sean Kicummah Teuton

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Native American Literature

A Very Short Introduction

By: Sean Kicummah Teuton

Along the way readers encounter the diversity of Indigenous peoples who, owing to their differing lands, livelihoods, and customs, evolved literatures adapted to a nation's specific needs. While, in the nineteenth century, public lecture and journalism fortified eastern Indigenous writers against removal west, nearly a century later autobiography enabled western Indigenous authors to tell their side of the winning of the west. Throughout he treats Indigenous literature with such complexity. He describes the single-handed invention of a written Indigenous language, the first Indigenous language newspaper, and the literary occupation of Alcatraz Island. Returning to contemporary poetry, drama, and novel by authors such as D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Silko, Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich, Craig Womack, Teuton demonstrates that, like Indigenous people, Indigenous literature survives because it adapts, honoring the past yet reaching for the future.

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Oxford University Press

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0199944520

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On the Logic and Learning of Language

By: Sean A. Fulop

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On the Logic and Learning of Language

By: Sean A. Fulop

This book presents the author's research on automatic learning procedures for categorial grammars of natural languages. The research program spans a number of intertwined disciplines, including syntax, semantics, learnability theory, logic, and computer science. The theoretical framework employed is an extension of categorial grammar that has come to be called multimodal or type-logical grammar. The first part of the book presents an expository summary of how grammatical sentences of any language can be deduced with a specially designed logical calculus that treats syntactic categories as its formulae. Some such Universal Type Logic is posited to underlie the human language faculty, and all linguistic variation is captured by the different systems of semantic and syntactic categories which are assigned in the lexicons of different languages. The remainder of the book is devoted to the explicit formal development of computer algorithms which can learn the lexicons of type logical grammars from learning samples of annotated sentences. The annotations consist of semantic terms expressed in the lambda calculus, and may also include an unlabeled tree-structuring over the sentence. The major features of the research include the following: We show how the assumption of a universal linguistic component---the logic of language---is not incompatible with the conviction that every language needs a different system of syntactic and semantic categories for its proper description. The supposedly universal linguistic categories descending from antiquity (noun, verb, etc.) are summarily discarded. Languages are here modeled as consisting primarily of sentence trees labeled with semantic structures; a new mathematical class of such term-labeled tree languages is developed which cross-cuts the well-known Chomsky hierarchy and provides a formal restrictive condition on the nature of human languages. The human language acquisition mechanism is postulated to be biased, such that it assumes all input language samples are drawn from the above "syntactically homogeneous" class; in this way, the universal features of human languages arise not just from the innate logic of language, but also from the innate biases which govern language learning. This project represents the first complete explicit attempt to model the aquisition of human language since Steve Pinker's groundbreaking 1984 publication, "Language Learnability and Language Development.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412023815

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A Theory of Catholic Education

By: Sean Whittle

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A Theory of Catholic Education

By: Sean Whittle

Presenting a robust and philosophically based account of education from the Catholic point of view, Sean Whittle engages with important debates and questions concerning the nature and purpose of Catholic education and schooling. The book opens with a review of the criticisms that have emerged about the prevalence of Catholic schools within the state system and, indeed, about the very notion of there being such a thing as 'Catholic education'. The author then goes on to survey official Church teaching on education and the work of key Catholic thinkers, Newman and Maritain, before moving on to discuss the writings of Karl Rahner, a leading twentieth century theologian. A Theory of Catholic Education argues that Rahner's approach, with his focus on the place of mystery in human experience, provides a way forward. Ultimately, Whittle demonstrates how Catholic theology can offer a unique and much needed theory of education.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472581393

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Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020

By: Sean Travers

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Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020

By: Sean Travers

This book examines trauma in late twentieth- and twenty-first century American popular culture. Trauma has become a central paradigm for reading contemporary American culture. Since the early 1980s, an extensive range of genres increasingly feature traumatised protagonists and traumatic events. From traumatised superheroes in Hollywood blockbusters to apocalyptic-themed television series, trauma narratives abound. Although trauma is predominantly associated with high culture, this project shows how popular culture has become the most productive and innovative area of trauma representation in America. Examining film, television, animation, video games and cult texts, this book develops a series of original paradigms through which to understand trauma in popular culture. These include: popular trauma texts’ engagement with postmodern perspectives, formal techniques termed ‘competitive narration’, ‘polynarration’ and ‘sceptical scriptotherapy’, and perpetrator trauma in metafictional games.

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Springer Nature

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3031132874

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Advances in Colorectal Neoplasia, An Issue of Surgical Clinics

By: Sean J. Langenfeld

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Advances in Colorectal Neoplasia, An Issue of Surgical Clinics

By: Sean J. Langenfeld

This issue of Surgical Clinics of North America focuses on Advances in Colorectal Neoplasia, and is edited by Dr. Sean J. Langenfeld. Articles will include: Colorectal cancer screening; Imaging for colon and rectal cancer; The difficult colorectal polyp; Emergency presentations of colorectal cancer; Advances in laparoscopic colorectal surgery; Robotic colorectal surgery; Local excision of rectal cancer; New strategies in rectal cancer; Hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes; Dysplasia and cancer in inflammatory bowel disease; Atypical colorectal neoplasms; Resection of the primary tumor in stage IV colorectal cancer: when is it necessary?; Cytoreduction and HIPEC for colorectal cancer; Molecular markers for colorectal cancer, and more!

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323530346

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9780323530347

Neonatal Formulary

Drug Use in Pregnancy and the First Year of Life

By: Sean Ainsworth

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Neonatal Formulary

Drug Use in Pregnancy and the First Year of Life

By: Sean Ainsworth

Neonatal Formulary provides comprehensive guidance on the safe use of the drugs prescribed during pregnancy and commonly given to babies during labour and delivery, as well as during lactation and the first year of life. Treating the journey from pregnancy to parenthood as a continuous event, the new edition contains updated information on how the drugs affect both mother and baby. The first part of the book focuses on drug storage, drug licensing, and drug prescribing. In addition, it explains to why the metabolism of drugs differs in premature and sick infants, and why the practice of extrapolating doses from adult studies is unsafe. Patient safety, excipients, and therapies that affect drugs are also covered. Part 2 consists of monographs for over 250 drugs that may find use in the neonatal unit, and possibly outside it. Each monograph is divided into sections covering use, pharmacology, treatment, drug interactions or other administration, information, supply and administration, and references. The monographs are evidence-based and include links to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and national guidelines. The third part presents information on additional drugs, and groups of drugs, that are often taken by mothers during pregnancy, labour, or during breast feeding. The drugs discussed in this section all affect the foetus or infant. Containing far more detail than is available in the British National Formulary for Children, and with additional online material featuring updates related to specific drugs and dosing, Neonatal Formulary is an essential guide for neonatologists, neonatal nurses, hospital pharmacists, obstetric staff, advanced nurse practitioners and for all health care professionals caring for pregnant women and their infants in the first year of life.

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Oxford University Press

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0192577271

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The Dominican Republic

By: Sean Harvey,Tom Hutton

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The Dominican Republic

By: Sean Harvey,Tom Hutton

The Rough Guides series contain full color photos, three maps in one, and arewaterproof and tearproof. They contain thousands of keyed listings and brightnew graphics.

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Rough Guides

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1858289122

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A Troubled Marriage

Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas

By: Sean F. McEnroe

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A Troubled Marriage

Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas

By: Sean F. McEnroe

A Troubled Marriage describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule. They served as soldiers, scholars, artists, artisans, and missionaries within early transatlantic empires and later nation-states. These Indian and mestizo men and women wove together cultures, shaping the new traditions and institutions of the colonial Americas. In a comparative study that spans more than three centuries and much of the Western Hemisphere, McEnroe challenges common assumptions about the relationships among victors, vanquished, and their shared progeny.

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University of New Mexico Press

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082636120X

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9780826361202

Tales of Mind & Machine

Vulcanite and Other Stories

By: Fiona Tan Shi Ying,Tessa Tan,Eugene Soong,Jee Kai Yen,Craig Ong,Sean Jou,Theresa Ellsworth

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Tales of Mind & Machine

Vulcanite and Other Stories

By: Fiona Tan Shi Ying,Tessa Tan,Eugene Soong,Jee Kai Yen,Craig Ong,Sean Jou,Theresa Ellsworth

With stories that boggle the mind and tales of battle with machines, be prepared to encounter outer space aliens, ruthless robots, along with superheroes, power hungry dictators and mystical inexplicable phenomena!

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Experiences & Experiments Books Pte Ltd

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9814320870

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The Last Ride of the James–Younger Gang

Jesse James and the Northfield Raid 1876

By: Sean McLachlan

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The Last Ride of the James–Younger Gang

Jesse James and the Northfield Raid 1876

By: Sean McLachlan

It was the beginning of the end for the James gang. In the past ten years Frank and Jesse James had gone from unknown ex-Confederate guerrillas to the most famous outlaws in the world. A string of daring robberies of banks, trains, and stagecoaches had brought them fame, admiration, hatred, and a surprisingly small amount of wealth. In 1876 they planned their most daring raid yet-to ride hundreds of miles from their home state of Missouri to rob the First National Bank at Northfield, Minnesota. This book will tell the story of one of the most daring bank jobs in American history. With most of the gang being former bushwhackers, they used many guerrilla tactics in the planning and execution of the raid, yet failed because of poor discipline and their own fame, which meant that every town in the Midwest had their guns loaded waiting to fight off bandits.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1782003088

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9781782003083

Red Land, Red Power

Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel

By: Sean Kicummah Teuton

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Red Land, Red Power

Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel

By: Sean Kicummah Teuton

DIVA new interpretation of the literature of the Red Power movement that reconceives the role of identity in the political empowerment of Native Americans./div

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Duke University Press

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0822342413

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9780822342410

Holographic Visions

A History of New Science

By: Sean Johnston

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Holographic Visions

A History of New Science

By: Sean Johnston

This is a history of how the new science of holography developed intellectually, socially and culturally. Based on interviews with pioneer holographers and archival research, it shows how science, technology, art and wider culture are entwined in the modern world.

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Oxford University Press

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0198571224

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Celebrity

By: Sean Redmond

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Celebrity

By: Sean Redmond

Celebrity introduces the key terms and concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity. Drawing on two dynamic models from two different modes of enquiry – the circuit of celebrity culture and the circuit of celebrity affect – this book explores the multi-layered, multi-faceted contexts and concepts that sit within and surround the study of celebrity. Through building a critical story about celebrity, Sean Redmond discusses key topics such as identity and representation; the celebrity body; the consumption of celebrity and celebrity culture; and the sensory connection between fans and celebrities, gender, activism, gossip and toxicity. Including case studies on Miley Cyrus, David Bowie, Scarlett Johansson and Kate Winslet, Celebrity is a dynamic and topical volume ideal for students and academics in celebrity and cultural studies.

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Routledge

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1136292624

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Ultimate Reality

You Can’T Get There from Here ...

By: Sean M. Willett

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Ultimate Reality

You Can’T Get There from Here ...

By: Sean M. Willett

The Bible is a book of eternal truth and guidance, yet for many of us, it can be difficult to always glean the Bibles insights and lessons. So what can we do when we become frustrated in life, look for guidance, yet cannot decipher the biblical lessons we need to overcome obstacles and challenges? In Ultimate Reality, author Sean M. Willet shares his own ruminations on the Bible and what it really all means, and he conveys some of the foundational truths from the Word that God has entrusted with him, in hopes that other believers will find valuable truths to add to their lives. Through his own personal salvation in Christ, Sean invites us to see in his journey a way to welcome Christ into our own lives and get a better understanding of our divine purpose. God has entrusted us with a life, and his Word, the Bible, is the guidebook he has given to us to show us the way back to his kingdom. God has and will fulfill his part, and it is now up to us to do our parts to cultivate relationships with the Lord and live lives that glorify his name. Lifeand even the Bible itselfcan be confusing or frustrating, but if we listen to God, then he will show us the truth about what comes next in eternity.

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WestBow Press

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1973620464

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Lebanon

By: Sean Sheehan,Zawiah Abdul Latif

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Lebanon

By: Sean Sheehan,Zawiah Abdul Latif

This book provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Lebanon. All books of the critically-acclaimed Cultures of the World(R) series ensure an immersive experience by offering vibrant photographs with descriptive nonfiction narratives, and interactive activities such as creating an authentic traditional dish from an easy-to-follow recipe. Copious maps and detailed timelines present the past and present of the country, while exploration of the art and architecture help your readers to understand why diversity is the spice of Life.

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Marshall Cavendish

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0761420819

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9780761420811

Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880–1963

By: Sean Redding

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Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880–1963

By: Sean Redding

Violence was endemic to rural South African society from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. But acts of violence were not inherent in African culture; rather, violence resulted from the ways in which Africans navigated the hazardous social and political landscape imposed by white rule. Focusing on the Eastern Cape province, Sean Redding investigates the rise of large-scale lethal fights among men, increasingly coercive abduction marriages, violent acts resulting from domestic troubles and witchcraft accusations within families and communities, and political violence against state policies and officials. Many violent acts attempted to reestablish and reinforce a moral, social, and political order among Africans. However, what constituted a moral order changed as white governance became more intrusive, land became scarcer, and people reconstructed their notions of “traditional” culture. State policies became obstacles around which Africans had to navigate by invoking the idea of tradition, using the state’s court system, alleging the use of witchcraft, or engaging in violent threats and acts. Redding’s use of multiple court cases and documents to discuss several types of violence provides a richer context for the scholarly conversation about the legitimation of violence in traditions, family life, and political protest.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299341208

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9780299341206

Modernity and the Pandemic

Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19

By: Sean Creaven

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Modernity and the Pandemic

Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19

By: Sean Creaven

Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19 applies the tools of critical social theory to make sense of the COVID-19 crisis and presents a critical sociological analysis of aspects of the political and community response to the pandemic. The book focuses on key themes integral to a sociology of pandemics in the ‘global’ age. Firstly, Creaven argues that cultures of individualism and consumerism, and of pervasive and deeply entrenched social inequalities (i.e. decivilization) significantly weaken the cause of public health by weakening the compliance of people with state-mandated non-pharmaceutical interventions (including and especially physical distancing rules) and encouraging vaccine hesitancy. Secondly, Creaven examines how interstate competition and imperial politics has undermined an effective global policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Policy failure with regard to the management of the pandemic is interpreted as being rooted in the dominance of neoliberal ideology and governance in the politics of international relations, particularly in the politics of the leading state actors, by protection of corporate interests at the expense of public health, and in the constraints imposed on state actors by the competitive dynamic of multinational capitalism in the ‘global’ age. Modernity and the Pandemic will appeal to scholars in the humanities and social sciences with interests in neoliberalism and its social, cultural and epidemiological impacts.

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Taylor & Francis

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100381817X

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Evolutionary Wars

By: Sean Jou

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Evolutionary Wars

By: Sean Jou

Nearly 200-over years into the future, the world is torn apart by war. Resources are dangerously low due to overpopulation and the economy is shattered. Governments of entire continents have collapsed; extremists have seized power and are conducting a war of extermination on what they view as the “inferior race” of people. Death and destruction are rampant as the world is engulfed in non-stop killing and fighting. Out of the ashes rises a hero, one who will be the saviour and bring an end to the horrific and terrifying evolutionary wars.

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Experiences & Experiments Books Pte Ltd

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9814320684

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Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities Across Europe

Hope Versus Reality

By: Paul Cairney,Michael Keating,Sean Kippin,Emily St Denny

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Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities Across Europe

Hope Versus Reality

By: Paul Cairney,Michael Keating,Sean Kippin,Emily St Denny

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.There is a broad consensus across European states and the EU that social and economic inequality is a problem that needs to be addressed. Yet inequality policy is notoriously complex and contested. This book approaches the issue from two linked perspectives. First, a focus on functional requirementshighlights what policymakers think they need to deliver policy successfully, and the gap between their requirements and reality. We identify this gap in relation to the theory and practice of policy learning, and to multiple sectors, to show how it manifests in health, education, and gender equitypolicies. Second, a focus on territorial politics highlights how the problem is interpreted at different scales, subject to competing demands to take responsibility. This contestation and spread of responsibilities contributes to different policy approaches across spatial scales. We conclude thatgovernments promote many separate equity initiatives, across territories and sectors, without knowing if they are complementary or contradictory. This outcome could reflect the fact that ambiguous policy problems and complex policymaking processes are beyond the full knowledge or control ofgovernments. It could also be part of a strategy to make a rhetorically radical case while knowing that they will translate into safer policies. It allows them to replace debates on values, regarding whose definition of equity matters and which inequalities to tolerate, with more technicaldiscussions of policy processes. Governments may be offering new perspectives on spatial justice or new ways to reduce political attention to inequalities.

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Oxford University Press

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0192898582

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The Traveling Adventures of the Robin and the Fox Around the world we go!

A Cruise through the Mediterranean

By: Sean Gentile

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A Cruise through the Mediterranean

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German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal

Culture and Politics After 1945

By: Sean A. Forner

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German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal

Culture and Politics After 1945

By: Sean A. Forner

This book examines how democracy was rethought in Germany in the wake of National Socialism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Focusing on a loose network of public intellectuals in the immediate postwar years, Sean Forner traces their attempts to reckon with the experience of Nazism and scour Germany's ambivalent political and cultural traditions for materials with which to build a better future. In doing so, he reveals, they formulated an internally variegated but distinctly participatory vision of democratic renewal - a paradoxical counter-elitism of intellectual elites. Although their projects ran aground on internal tensions and on the Cold War, their commitments fueled critique and dissent in the two postwar Germanys during the 1950s and thereafter. The book uncovers a conception of political participation that went beyond the limited possibilities of the Cold War era and influenced the political struggles of later decades in both East and West.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107627834

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9781107627833

The Rough Guide to the Dominican Republic

By: Sean Harvey

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The Rough Guide to the Dominican Republic

By: Sean Harvey

Explores every corner of the Caribbean's popular destination Dominican Republic, from the largest resort areas to secluded hideaways in the undeveloped hinterlands. This guide includes colour sections highlighting adventure sports - from kite-boarding to mountain climbing - and Dominican music.

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Penguin

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1858288118

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Rise of American Democracy

Jefferson To Lincoln

By: Sean Wilentz

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Rise of American Democracy

Jefferson To Lincoln

By: Sean Wilentz

A political history of how the fledgling American republic developed into a democratic state offers insight into how historical beliefs about democracy compromised democratic progress and identifies the roles of key contributors.

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0393329216

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9780393329216

The Great Nation in Decline

Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France C.1750-1850

By: Sean M. Quinlan

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The Great Nation in Decline

Sex, Modernity and Health Crises in Revolutionary France C.1750-1850

By: Sean M. Quinlan

This book studies how doctors responded to, and helped shape deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850. It uncovers a rich and far-ranging medical debate in which four generations of hygiene activists used biomedical science to transform the self, sexuality and community in order to regenerate a sick and decaying nation--a programme doctors labelled 'physical and moral hygiene'. The study argues that medicine acquired an unprecedented political, social and cultural position in French society, with doctors becoming the primary spokesmen for bourgeois values, and thus helped to define the new world that emerged from the post-revolutionary period.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754660982

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9780754660989

Alchemy & Alchemists

By: Sean Martin

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Alchemy & Alchemists

By: Sean Martin

Alchemy has traditionally been viewed as 'the history of an error', an example of medieval gullibility and greed, in which alchemists tried to turn lead into gold, create fabulous wealth and find the elixir of life. But alchemy has also been described as 'the mightiest secret that a man can possess', and it obsessed the likes of Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, and many of the founders of modern science. This book explores the history of the so-called Royal Art, from its mysterious beginnings in Egypt and China, through the Hellenistic world and the early years of Islam and into mediaeval Europe. Some of the greatest minds of the Middle Ages, figures such as Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, and Thomas Aquinas were drawn to alchemy, and legendary alchemists such as Nicholas Flamel were thought to have actually succeeded in finding The Philosopher's Stone. During the Renaissance, Paracelsus and his followers helped revolutionize medicine, and during the seventeenth century, alchemy played a major role in paving the way for modern science. During the twentieth century, it became a focus of interest for the psychologist Carl Jung and his followers, who believed that the alchemists had discovered the unconscious. In this fully revised edition, Sean Martin has expanded the sections on Chinese and Indian alchemy and has added new material on the relationship between alchemy and early modern science, while also making a fresh assessment of this most enduringly mysterious and fascinating of subjects, to which all others have been described as 'child's play'.

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Oldacastle Books

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1842435388

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Dominican Republic

The Rough Guide

By: Sean Harvey

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Dominican Republic

The Rough Guide

By: Sean Harvey

One of the Caribbean's favorite destinations gets the full Rough Guides treament in this brand new guide. From beaches to baseball, mountains to merengue, this spicy country never stops moving to a lively beat. Rough Guides hits all the hotspots with hundreds of recommendations and reviews in Santo Domingo and elsewhere for all budgets, and ensures that you'll meet the people who call this land home.

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1858284465

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Japan's Green Monsters

Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema

By: Sean Rhoads,Brooke McCorkle

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Japan's Green Monsters

Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema

By: Sean Rhoads,Brooke McCorkle

In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death and destruction on the Japanese capital. Since then Godzilla and other monsters, such as Mothra and Gamera, have gained cult status around the world. This book provides a new interpretation of these monsters, or kaiju-ū, and their respective movies. Analyzing Japanese history, society and film, the authors show the ways in which this monster cinema take on environmental and ecological issues--from nuclear power and industrial pollution to biodiversity and climate change.

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McFarland

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1476663904

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9781476663906

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