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Illuminating the Renaissance

The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe

By: Thomas Kren,Scot McKendrick

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Illuminating the Renaissance

The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe

By: Thomas Kren,Scot McKendrick

This comprehensive and richly illustrated catalogue focuses on the finest illustrated manuscripts produced in Europe during the great epoch in Flemish illumination. During this aesthetically fertile period – beginning in 1467 with the reign of the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold and ending in 1561 with the death of the artist Simon Bening – the art of book painting was raised to a new level of sophistication. Sharing inspiration with the celebrated panel painters of the time, illuminators achieved astonishing innovations in the handling of color, light, texture, and space, creating a naturalistic style that would dominate tastes throughout Europe for nearly a century. Centering on the notable artists of the period – Simon Marmion, the Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy, Gerard David, Gerard Horenbout, Bening, and others – the catalogue examines both devotional and secular manuscript illumination within a broad context: the place of illuminators within the visual arts, including artistic exchange between book painters and panel painters; the role of court patronage and the emergence of personal libraries; and the international appeal of the new Flemish illumination style. Contributors to the catalogue include Maryan W. Ainsworth, curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; independent scholar Catherine Reynolds; and Elizabeth Morrison, assistant curator of manuscripts at the Getty Museum. Illuminating the Renaissance is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Getty Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the British Library to be held at the Getty Museum from June 17 to September 7, 2003, and at the Royal Academy of Arts from November 25, 2003 to February 22, 2004.

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0892367040

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Children of the Laboring Poor

Expectation and Experience Among the Orphans of Early Modern Augsburg

By: Thomas Max Safley

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Children of the Laboring Poor

Expectation and Experience Among the Orphans of Early Modern Augsburg

By: Thomas Max Safley

This volume provides fascinating new insights into the agency of the laboring poor in early modern Europe. Based on more than 5,000 biographical accounts of orphans in the city of Augsburg, it explores their responses to changing social and economic circumstances and their utilization of social institutions and mores.

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0391042246

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Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg

By: Thomas Max Safley

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Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg

By: Thomas Max Safley

This book examines the complex interrelationship between charity, confession, and capital in the orphanages of Augsburg, one of early modern Europe's great manufacturing and mercantile centers. The product of monumental, original research, if offers a thorough-going revision of current historical scholarship on poor relief, social discipline, organization building, and emergent capitalism.

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9004618724

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Musculoskeletal Pain

Basic Mechanisms & Implications

By: Thomas Graven-Nielsen,Lars Arendt-Nielsen

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Musculoskeletal Pain

Basic Mechanisms & Implications

By: Thomas Graven-Nielsen,Lars Arendt-Nielsen

Musculoskeletal Pain: Basic Mechanisms and Implications presents state-of-the-art research into the peripheral and central neurobiological mechanisms in musculoskeletal pain. Presented in three main sections, this publication will update the reader on the clinical perspectives in musculoskeletal conditions; muscle, joint, bone, and fascia nociception; and translational musculoskeletal pain and quantitative models.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496331907

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German Cinema - Terror and Trauma

Cultural Memory Since 1945

By: Thomas Elsaesser

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German Cinema - Terror and Trauma

Cultural Memory Since 1945

By: Thomas Elsaesser

In German Cinema – Terror and Trauma Since 1945, Thomas Elsaesser reevaluates the meaning of the Holocaust for postwar German films and culture, while offering a reconsideration of trauma theory today. Elsaesser argues that Germany's attempts at "mastering the past" can be seen as both a failure and an achievement, making it appropriate to speak of an ongoing 'guilt management' that includes not only Germany, but Europe as a whole. In a series of case studies, which consider the work of Konrad Wolf, Alexander Kluge, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Herbert Achterbusch and Harun Farocki, as well as films made in the new century, Elsaesser tracks the different ways the Holocaust is present in German cinema from the 1950s onwards, even when it is absent, or referenced in oblique and hyperbolic ways. Its most emphatically "absent presence" might turn out to be the compulsive afterlife of the Red Army Faction, whose acts of terror in the 1970s were a response to—as well as a reminder of—Nazism’s hold on the national imaginary. Since the end of the Cold War and 9/11, the terms of the debate around terror and trauma have shifted also in Germany, where generational memory now distributes the roles of historical agency and accountability differently. Against the background of universalized victimhood, a cinema of commemoration has, if anything, confirmed the violence that the past continues to exert on the present, in the form of missed encounters, retroactive incidents, unintended slippages and uncanny parallels, which Elsaesser—reviving the full meaning of Freud’s Fehlleistung—calls the parapractic performativity of cultural memory.

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Routledge

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1134627645

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The Industry of Evangelism

Printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther’s Wittenberg

By: Drew B. Thomas

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The Industry of Evangelism

Printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther’s Wittenberg

By: Drew B. Thomas

This monograph examines the rise of the Wittenberg printing industry and analyses how it overtook the Empire’s leading print centres.

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9004462422

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Statistical Tests for Mixed Linear Models

By: André I. Khuri,Thomas Mathew,Bimal K. Sinha

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Statistical Tests for Mixed Linear Models

By: André I. Khuri,Thomas Mathew,Bimal K. Sinha

An advanced discussion of linear models with mixed or randomeffects. In recent years a breakthrough has occurred in our ability todraw inferences from exact and optimum tests of variance componentmodels, generating much research activity that relies on linearmodels with mixed and random effects. This volume covers the mostimportant research of the past decade as well as the latestdevelopments in hypothesis testing. It compiles all currentlyavailable results in the area of exact and optimum tests forvariance component models and offers the only comprehensivetreatment for these models at an advanced level. Statistical Tests for Mixed Linear Models: Combines analysis and testing in one self-containedvolume. Describes analysis of variance (ANOVA) procedures in balancedand unbalanced data situations. Examines methods for determining the effect of imbalance ondata analysis. Explains exact and optimum tests and methods for theirderivation. Summarizes test procedures for multivariate mixed and randommodels. Enables novice readers to skip the derivations and discussionson optimum tests. Offers plentiful examples and exercises, manyof which are numerical in flavor. Provides solutions to selected exercises. Statistical Tests for Mixed Linear Models is an accessiblereference for researchers in analysis of variance, experimentaldesign, variance component analysis, and linear mixed models. It isalso an important text for graduate students interested in mixedmodels.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118164857

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Statistical Tolerance Regions

Theory, Applications, and Computation

By: Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy,Thomas Mathew

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Statistical Tolerance Regions

Theory, Applications, and Computation

By: Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy,Thomas Mathew

A modern and comprehensive treatment of tolerance intervals and regions The topic of tolerance intervals and tolerance regions has undergone significant growth during recent years, with applications arising in various areas such as quality control, industry, and environmental monitoring. Statistical Tolerance Regions presents the theoretical development of tolerance intervals and tolerance regions through computational algorithms and the illustration of numerous practical uses and examples. This is the first book of its kind to successfully balance theory and practice, providing a state-of-the-art treatment on tolerance intervals and tolerance regions. The book begins with the key definitions, concepts, and technical results that are essential for deriving tolerance intervals and tolerance regions. Subsequent chapters provide in-depth coverage of key topics including: Univariate normal distribution Non-normal distributions Univariate linear regression models Nonparametric tolerance intervals The one-way random model with balanced data The multivariate normal distribution The one-way random model with unbalanced data The multivariate linear regression model General mixed models Bayesian tolerance intervals A final chapter contains coverage of miscellaneous topics including tolerance limits for a ratio of normal random variables, sample size determination, reference limits and coverage intervals, tolerance intervals for binomial and Poisson distributions, and tolerance intervals based on censored samples. Theoretical explanations are accompanied by computational algorithms that can be easily replicated by readers, and each chapter contains exercise sets for reinforcement of the presented material. Detailed appendices provide additional data sets and extensive tables of univariate and multivariate tolerance factors. Statistical Tolerance Regions is an ideal book for courses on tolerance intervals at the graduate level. It is also a valuable reference and resource for applied statisticians, researchers, and practitioners in industry and pharmaceutical companies.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470473894

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9780470473894

Mindlessness

The Corruption of Mindfulness in a Culture of Narcissism

By: Thomas Joiner

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Mindlessness

The Corruption of Mindfulness in a Culture of Narcissism

By: Thomas Joiner

A contemplative practice with Buddhist roots, mindfulness is "the awareness that arises from paying attention, on purpose, in the present-moment, non-judgmentally." Practicing mindfulness can be an effective adjunct in treating psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, and addiction. But have we gone too far with mindfulness? Recent books on the topic reveal a troubling corruption of mindfulness practice for commercial gain, with self-help celebrities hawking mindfulness as the next "miracle drug." Furthermore, common misunderstanding of what mindfulness really is seems to be fueled by a widespread cultural trend toward narcissism, egocentricity, and self-absorption. Thomas Joiner's Mindlessness chronicles the promising rise of mindfulness and its perhaps inevitable degradation. Giving mindfulness its full due, both as a useful philosophical vantage point and as a means to address various life challenges, Joiner mercilessly charts how narcissism has intertwined with and co-opted the practice to create a Frankenstein's monster of cultural solipsism and self-importance. He examines the dispiriting consequences for many sectors of society (e.g., mental health, education, politics) and ponders ways to mitigate, if not undo, them. Mining a rich body of research, Joiner also makes use of material from popular culture, literature, social media, and personal experience in order to expose the misuse of mindfulness and to consider how we as a society can back away from the brink, salvaging a potentially valuable technique for improving mental and physical wellbeing.

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Oxford University Press

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0190200642

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Recent Advances in Polymer Nanocomposites: Synthesis and Characterisation

By: Sabu Thomas,Gennady Zaikov,Valsaraj,Meera

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Recent Advances in Polymer Nanocomposites: Synthesis and Characterisation

By: Sabu Thomas,Gennady Zaikov,Valsaraj,Meera

This book examines the current state of the art, new challenges, opportunities, and applications in the area of polymer nanocomposites. Special attention has been paid to the processing-morphology-structure-property relationship of the system. Various unresolved issues and new challenges in the field of polymer nanocompostes are discussed. The infl

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CRC Press

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9047426444

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Structures and Assertions

Ed. by Thomas A. Brady; Heiko A. Oberman; James D. Tracy

By: Thomas Allan Brady,Heiko Augustinus Oberman,James D. Tracy

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Structures and Assertions

Ed. by Thomas A. Brady; Heiko A. Oberman; James D. Tracy

By: Thomas Allan Brady,Heiko Augustinus Oberman,James D. Tracy

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9004097600

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9789004097605

(Un)Believing in Modern Society

Religion, Spirituality, and Religious-Secular Competition

By: Jörg Stolz,Judith Könemann,Mallory Schneuwly Purdie,Thomas Englberger,Michael Krüggeler

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(Un)Believing in Modern Society

Religion, Spirituality, and Religious-Secular Competition

By: Jörg Stolz,Judith Könemann,Mallory Schneuwly Purdie,Thomas Englberger,Michael Krüggeler

This landmark study in the sociology of religion sheds new light on the question of what has happened to religion and spirituality since the 1960s in modern societies. Exposing several analytical weaknesses of today's sociology of religion, (Un)Believing in Modern Society presents a new theory of religious-secular competition and a new typology of ways of being religious/secular. The authors draw on a specific European society (Switzerland) as their test case, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to show how the theory can be applied. Identifying four ways of being religious/secular in a modern society: 'institutional', 'alternative', 'distanced' and 'secular' they show how and why these forms have emerged as a result of religious-secular competition and describe in what ways all four forms are adapted to the current, individualized society.

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Routledge

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1134800126

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God in the World

A Guide to Karl Rahner's Theology

By: Thomas O'Meara

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God in the World

A Guide to Karl Rahner's Theology

By: Thomas O'Meara

A century has passed since Karl Rahner's birth, and two decades have passed since his death. Yet this remarkable theologian has left a legacy of wisdom as relevant today as it was during Rahner's time. In God in the World: A Guide to Karl Rahner's Theology, Thomas O 'Meara looks anew at Rahner's insights and theological principles. Through O 'Meara's clear and engaging style, readers will discover 'or rediscover, as the case may be 'how invaluable Rahner is for the church today. Rahner's is a theology that considers both people and history as important. It is a theology that begins with grace as God's self-communication, God's gift of life shared with humankind. It is a theology that directly speaks to some of the tensions we as the church, the people of God, struggle with today: religious pluralism and salvation through Jesus Christ, the roles of priests and lay ecclesial ministers, the offices of bishops and popes, the movements of secular modernity and religious fundamentalism. O 'Meara helps the reader find in Rahner a traditional revolutionary whose theology sees the depth, extent, and vitality of faith, hope and love in the hearts of all people. Thomas O 'Meara, OP PhD, is the William K. Warren Professor of Theology Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He studied with Karl Rahner at the University of Munich and continues to receive numerous invitations to teach and speak on Rahner. Among his recent publications are A Theologian's Journey (Paulist, revised 2002), Theology of Ministry (Paulist, 1999), Thomas Aquinas Theologian (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997).

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Liturgical Press

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0814683843

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The Perversion of Virtue

Understanding Murder-Suicide

By: Thomas Joiner

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The Perversion of Virtue

Understanding Murder-Suicide

By: Thomas Joiner

Of the approximately 38,500 deaths by suicide in the U.S. annually, about two percent--between 750 and 800--are murder-suicides. The horror of murder-suicides looms large in the public consciousness--they are reported in the media with more frequency and far more sensationalism than most suicides, and yet we have little understanding of this grave form of violence. In The Perversion of Virtue, leading suicide researcher Thomas Joiner explores the nature of murder-suicide and offers a unique new theory to explain this nearly unexplainable act: that murder-suicides always involve the wrongheaded invocation of one of four interpersonal virtues: mercy, justice, duty, and glory. The parent who murders his child and then himself seeks to save his child from a fatherless life of hardship; the wife who murders her husband and then herself seeks to right the wrongs he committed against her, and so on. Murder-suicides involve the gross misperception of when and how these four virtues should be applied. Drawing from extensive research as well as real examples from the media, Joiner meticulously examines, deconstructs, and finally rebuilds our understanding of murder-suicide in such a way that brings tragic reason to what may seem an unfathomable act of violence. Along the way, he dispels some of the most enduring myths of suicide--for instance, that suicide is usually an impulsive act (it is almost always pre-meditated), or that alcohol or drugs are involved in most suicides (usually they are not). Sure to be controversial, this book seeks to make sense of one of the most difficult-to-comprehend types of violence in modern society, shedding new light that will ultimately lead to better understanding and even prevention.

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Oxford University Press

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0199334560

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9780199334568

History of Friedrich II of Prussia

Volume 18 - in large print

By: Thomas Carlyle

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History of Friedrich II of Prussia

Volume 18 - in large print

By: Thomas Carlyle

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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3387018053

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Illuminating the Renaissance

Illuminating the Renaissance

Children of the Laboring Poor

Children of the Laboring Poor

Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg

Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg

Musculoskeletal Pain

Musculoskeletal Pain

German Cinema - Terror and Trauma

German Cinema - Terror and Trauma

The Industry of Evangelism

The Industry of Evangelism

Statistical Tests for Mixed Linear Models

Statistical Tests for Mixed Linear Models

Statistical Tolerance Regions

Statistical Tolerance Regions

Mindlessness

Mindlessness

Recent Advances in Polymer Nanocomposites: Synthesis and Characterisation

Recent Advances in Polymer Nanocomposites: Synthesis and Characterisation

Structures and Assertions

Structures and Assertions

(Un)Believing in Modern Society

(Un)Believing in Modern Society

God in the World

God in the World

The Perversion of Virtue

The Perversion of Virtue

History of Friedrich II of Prussia

History of Friedrich II of Prussia

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