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  • - Photography, Literature, Film
    av University of California, Los Angeles) Hornby & Louise (Assistant Professor of English
    545

    Casting new light on the relationship between photography and film, Still Modernism articulates the struggle between the still and the kinetic at the center of modernist culture.

  • av University of Waterloo) Harris, Randy Allen (Associate Professor of English & Associate Professor of English
    595,-

    This is an account of the schism that developed in linguistics during the 1960s and 1970s between Noam Chomsky, with his revolutionary ideas about mental structure and universal grammar, and his disciples, who took his ideas in a totally different direction.

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    859

    This volume provides a uniquely comprehensive, systematic, and up-to-date appraisal of Leibniz's thought, thematically organized around its diverse but interrelated aspects. By pulling together the best specialized work in the many domains to which Leibniz contributed, its ambition is to offer the most rounded picture of Leibniz's endeavors currently available.

  • - Knowledge, Continuity, and Social Representations
     
    1 045,-

    This book uses a social representations perspective to understand the relationship between social change and continuity, particularly with the production of shared knowledge and the role of the 'other.' Over the course of the book, patterns and trends emerge to advance our knowledge of how scholars can study social change and knowledge processes as they continuously evolve.

  • - Practice, Equity, Human Rights
    av Joia (Chief Medical Officer at Partners in Health Mukherjee
    789

    An Introduction to Global Health Delivery, Second Edition expands the scope of global health delivery to include Black Lives Matter, climate justice, and COVID-19 as part of its mission to address injustice, reduce global health disparities, and deliver health care as a human right.

  • - Ijtihad and Reformation in Contemporary Times
    av Liyakat (Sharjah Chair in Global Islam Takim
    1 335

    How should contemporary Muslims define the relationship between normative Islamic jurisprudence-worked out by classical jurists over the course of centuries-and the reality that confronts them in their everyday lives? Is there a need for reformation in Islam? If so, where should it begin and how should it proceed? So far, these challenging questions have received little attention from Western scholars. Shi'ism Revisited will address this gap.

  • - Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors
     
    395,-

    Ancient Egypt was a rich tapestry of social, religious, technological, and economic interconnections among numerous civilizations from disparate lands. Ancient Egypt as perceived today was constantly changing-and changing the cultures around it. This work explores the diverse methods of interaction between Egypt and its neighbors during the pharaonic period.

  • - The Key Studies that Form the Foundation of Evidence-Based Medicine
    av Michael E. (Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine Hochman
    699

    50 Studies Every Doctor Should Know presents key studies that have shaped the practice of medicine. Selected using a rigorous methodology, the studies cover topics ranging from dieting to cardiovascular disease, insomnia to obstetrics. This book is a must-read for health care professionals and anyone who wants to learn more about the data behind clinical practice.

  • - Dimensions of Practice
     
    545,-

    General Music: Dimensions of Practice is a practical guide for music teachers and teaching artists. It offers many useful and innovative ideas for performing, connecting, creating, and responding to music in the classroom. Each chapter focuses on a particular area of music teaching and learning, including: songwriting, composing, improvising, singing, moving, playing, listening, analyzing, contextualizing, and connecting.

  • - Dimensions of Practice
     
    1 725

    General Music: Dimensions of Practice is a practical guide for music teachers and teaching artists. It offers many useful and innovative ideas for performing, connecting, creating, and responding to music in the classroom. Each chapter focuses on a particular area of music teaching and learning, including: songwriting, composing, improvising, singing, moving, playing, listening, analyzing, contextualizing, and connecting.

  • av Olufemi O. (Associate Professor of Philosophy Taiwo
    469

    Philosopher Olufemi O. Taiwo presents a bold and original case for reparations, arguing that reparations should best be seen as constructive and future-oriented rather than as restitution for historical wrongs.

  • - Lessons for Caregivers
    av Richard P. (Professor of Medicine and Director McQuellon
    409

    The Art of Conversation in Cancer Care: Lessons for Caregivers offers practical suggestions for health professionals, families, and friends about talking to one who has cancer.

  • - Billy Graham, Mass Evangelism, and the Cold-War West
    av Uta A. (Senior Lecturer in Modern History Balbier
    519

    Billy Graham's ministry is often described as a quintessentially American success story. This book, however, explores how Graham's encounters and perception in Europe shaped what was from the beginning on an international ministry. The revival meetings which Billy Graham held in London, Berlin, and New York in the 1950s provided lively fora for ministers, politicians, and ordinary Christians to imagine and experience the future of faith, the role of religion in theCold War, and the intersections between faith and consumer culture in new ways.

  • - Entangled Ethical and Epistemic Risks in Disorders of Consciousness
    av L. Syd M (Associate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities Johnson
    765

    This is the first book-length, empirically-informed philosophical treatment of disorders of consciousness. The book puts forward a compelling ethical approach focused on uncertainty, epistemic and ethical risk, and justice. Bioethicist L. Syd M Johnson rejects longstanding ethical dogmas about the significance of consciousness for moral standing and personhood, and provides a new approach to medical decision making in the presence of uncertainty. With applications tomedical decisions and beyond, this ethical approach enables surrogate decision makers facing fraught and risky choices to fulfill their obligations as moral and epistemic agents.

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    1 699

    This innovative volume brings together contributions from leading experts in the study of luxury to present the full range of perspectives on luxury business, from a variety of social science approaches. Topics include conceptual foundations and the evolution of the luxury industry; the production of luxury goods; luxury branding and marketing; distributing luxury; globalization and markets; and issues of morality, inequality, and environmentalsustainability.

  • - Global Politics and the Power of Language
    av Rosemary (Kenneth Wang Professor of Law Salomone
    469

    The Rise of English is a masterful account of the spread of English as the dominant lingua franca worldwide, its intimate connections with globalization and neoliberalism, and its effects on linguistic justice, opportunity, and identity. Deeply researched and wide-ranging in scope, this book shows how English has privileged some and disadvantaged others, but ultimately offers the promise of transcending cultural and linguistic borders in amultilingual world.

  • - Keys to Creativity in Mind and Life
     
    945

    The pandemic, and our response to it, has shown how unpredictable, irrational, illogical, suddenly changing, and muddled human interactions can be in a time of crisis. How can we make sense of such confusing and baffling behavior? This book reveals how chaos and nonlinear dynamics might be the answer, bringing new understanding to everyday topics in social sciences.

  • - A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach, Workbook
    av Ann M. (Professor Steffen
    789

    Written to be used in collaboration with a qualified mental health professional, Treating Later-Life Depression: Workbook is designed to address and alleviate depression and related concerns (chronic pain, sleep problems, anxiety, brain health, family caregiving and grief) in middle-aged and older adults.

  • - Conversation in Mortal Time
    av Richard P. (Professor of Medicine and Director McQuellon
    489,-

    Nell M. came to her therapist with an unusual problem. She was disappointed that her metastatic breast cancer was not progressing as predicted. She had hoped breast cancer would lead to death, preventing her from witnessing her spouse''s mental deterioration from Alzheimer''s disease. This is how Nell''s story began. As Nell became increasingly aware of her death on the near horizon, the therapy sessions with the author were recorded and transcribed. The Nell Dialogues: Conversation in Mortal Time consists of twelve of Nell''s illness narratives that explore the challenges of managing the physical and emotional demands of cancer, relationship issues with family and health care professionals, and disturbing, anxiety provoking thoughts as well as the mourning that accompanies the end of life. These dialogues trace Nell''s acceptance of, and struggle with, the practical obstacles to achieving a good death. They also offer a window onthe world of patients and their caregivers facing a life-threatening illness together. A commentary by the author accompanies each dialogue, giving the reader insights on the therapist''s thinking during the counselling sessions and offering context and lessons learned from them.Nell''s vibrant voice is a beacon throughout the narratives, sometimes sad, yet always hopeful for a good death. Her ability to navigate the difficult territory of mortal time and dying informs the reader about how death might be approached with grace and dignity.

  • av Rifat (Professor of Global Health Systems Atun
    719

    Through global case studies and detailed guidance, Building a High-Value Health System provides analytical tools and functional skills for designing and implementing a health system that fits a population's needs.

  • - A Commentary
    av Ludovic (Professor of International Law and Director of the Institute for International Humanitarian Studies Hennebel
    4 169

    This book offers a systematic commentary on the principal human rights treaty of the inter-American system: the American Convention on Human Rights. The Convention was adopted in 1969, and has been ratified mostly by Latin American States, with 23 States Parties. The commentary provides an understanding of how the human rights protected by this treaty have been interpreted in the various cases examined by the protection bodies, the Inter-American Commission on HumanRights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It also explains the workings of the protection system, including the individual complaints mechanism.

  • - A History of the Warship that Transformed the US Navy and Inspired Herman Melville's Billy Budd
    av James P. (Senior Vice President Delgado
    385,-

    A detailed and riveting account of the U.S. Navy''s greatest mutiny and its wide-ranging cultural and historical impactThe greatest controversy in the history of the U.S. Navy of the early American Republic was the revelation that the son of the Secretary of War had seemingly plotted a bloody mutiny that would have turned the U.S. brig Somers into a pirate ship. The plot discovered, he and his co-conspirators were hastily condemned and hanged at sea. The repercussions of those acts brought headlines, scandal, a fistfight at a cabinet meeting, a court martial, ruined lives, lost reputations, and tales of a haunted ship ΓÇ£bound for the devilΓÇ¥ and lost tragically at sea with many of its crew. The ΓÇ£Somers affairΓÇ¥ led to the founding of the U.S. Naval Academy and it remains the Navy''s only acknowledged mutiny in its history. The story also inspired Herman Melville''s White-Jacket and Billy Budd. Others connected to theSomers included Commodore Perry, a relation and defender of the Somers'' captain Mackenzie; James Fenimore Cooper, whose feud with the captain, dating back to the War of 1812, resurfaced in his reportage of the affair; and Raphael Semmes, the Somers'' last caption who later served in the Confederate Navy. The Curse of the Somers is a thorough recreation of this classic tale, told with the help of recently uncovered evidence. Written by a maritime historian and archaeologist who helped identify the long-lost wreck and subsequently studied its sunken remains, this is a timeless tale of life and death at sea. James P. Delgado re-examines the circumstances, drawing from a rich historical record and from the investigation of the ship''s sunken remains. What surfaces is an all-too-human talethat resonates and chills across the centuries.

  • av Mark Evan (Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music Bonds
    145,-

    Proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by understanding his music as an expression of his entire self, not just the iconic scowl Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career - even in the face of deafness - Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, writes the music historian Mark Evan Bonds, provides the key to understanding the composer''s life and works. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him from a variety of perspectives: a melodic idea, a musical genre, a word or phrase, a friend, alover, a patron, money, politics, religion. His ability to unlock so many possibilities from each helps explain the emotional breadth and richness of his output as a whole, from the heaven-storming Ninth Symphony to the eccentric Eighth, and from the arcane Great Fugue to the crowd-pleasingWellington''s Victory. Beethoven''s works, Bonds argues, are a series of variations on his life. The iconic scowl so familiar from later images of the composer is but one of many attitudes he could assume and project through his music. The supposedly characteristic furrowed brow and frown, moreover, came only after his time. Discarding tired myths about the composer, Bonds proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by hearing his music as an expression of his entire self, not just hisscowling self.

  • - Lessons from China's R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO Policy
    av Tim Nicholas (Research Fellow Ruhlig
    999

    Throughout the post-Mao reform era, China has championed the principle of sovereign state control, which holds that states should not intervene in the affairs of other states. Yet as Tim Nicholas R├╝hlig argues in China''s Foreign Policy Contradictions, in recent years they have not actually acted this way. Chinese foreign policy actions fail to match up with official rhetoric, and these inconsistenciesΓÇöin combination with China''s growing power-willhave dramatic effects on the future shape of international order. To explain these contradictions, R├╝hlig draws from a rich battery of in-depth interviews with party-state officials to explain the foreign policy dynamics and processes of the normally opaque Chinese party-state. He demonstrates how different sources of the Chinese Communist Party''s domestic legitimacy compete within the complex and highly fragmented Chinese party-state, resulting in contradictory foreign policies. He focuses on three issue areas: international human rights law and"responsibility to protect" (R2P); China''s role in World Trade Organization (WTO) policymaking; and China''s evolving relationship with Hong Kong. In each area, different factions within the party-state wrestle for control, with domestic legitimacy of the party always being the overriding goal. This incessantcompetition within the state''s institutions often makes the PRC''s foreign policy contradictory, undermining its ability to project and promote a "China Model" as an alternative to the existing international order (and more specifically as a champion of nonintervention). Instead, it often pursues narrowly nationalistic interests. By elucidating how foreign policymakers strategize and react within the context of a massive and complex bureaucratic system that is constantly under pressure from many sides, R├╝hlig shows not only why China''s foreign policy is so inconsistent, but why it is likely to contribute to a more particularistic, plural, and fragmented international order in the years to come. This book represents a significant advance in our understanding of the foreign policymaking process in authoritarianregimes.

  • - Three Logics of Communications and Public Diplomacy for Global Collaboration
    av Zaharna
    445 - 1 199

    Boundary Spanners of Humanity introduces an expansive pan-human, evolutionary perspective of communication and public diplomacy that can enhance global collaboration. R.S. Zaharna reveals how contemporary communication models are based on a nineteenth-century mindset of separateness that divided people into mutually exclusive cultural and national categories. That mindset reinforces human divisions and undermines our current efforts for global collaboration. In a radical break from conventional thinking, Zaharna draws upon multiple disciplines - from ancient cosmologies to neurobiology - to introduce three communication logics that can leverage human diversity and revolutionize how we collaborate globally.

  •  
    2 219

    This work provides a thorough examination of research on the problem of change in the international arena and the reasons why change happens peacefully at times, and at others, violently. It contains over forty chapters, which examine the historical, theoretical, global, regional, and national foreign-policy dimensions of peaceful change. As the world enters a new round of power transition conflict, involving a rapidly rising China and a relatively declining UnitedStates, this Handbook provides a necessary resource for decisionmakers and scholars engaged in this vital area of research.

  • - An Integrated Framework to Promote Data Literacy and Ethical Practices
    av Linnea L. (Professor, Professor, Adjunct Professor, m.fl.
    595 - 1 099

  • av Associate Professor, Temple University) Duckworth & Douglas S. (Associate Professor
    375 - 1 655

    Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature offers a philosophical overview of Tibetan Buddhist thought. Engaging some of the most difficult and critical topics in Buddhist thought, Douglas Duckworth provides a richly textured overview that explores the intersecting nature of mind, language, and world depicted across Tibetan Buddhist traditions.

  • av Boston University) Backman, Clifford R. (Associate Professor of History & Associate Professor of History
    1 145

  • - A History, Revised and Updated Edition
    av Caradonna
    319 - 649,-

    From one of the world's leading experts on the subject, a fully updated introduction to the sustainability movement from the 1600s to today.

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