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• The corporation and financial markets
• Introduction to financial statement analysis
• Financial decision making and the law of one price
• The time value of money
• Interest rates
• Valuing bonds
• Investment decision rules
• Fundamentals of capital budgeting
• Valuing stocks
• Capital markets and the pricing of risk
• Optimal portfolio choice and the capital asset pricing model
• Estimating the cost of capital
• Investor behavior and capital market efficiency
• Captial structure in a perfect market
• Debt and taxes
• Financial distress, managerial incentives, and information
• Payout policy
• Capital budgeting and valuation with leverage
• Valuation and financial modeling : a case study
• Financial options
• Option valuation
• Real options
• Raising equity capital
• Debt financing
• Leasing
• Working capital management
• Short-term financial planning
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Corporate governance
• Risk management
• International corporate finance.

• The corporation and financial markets
• Introduction to financial statement analysis
• Financial decision making and the law of one price
• The time value of money
• Interest rates
• Valuing bonds
• Investment decision rules
• Fundamentals of capital budgeting
• Valuing stocks
• Capital markets and the pricing of risk
• Optimal portfolio choice and the capital asset pricing model
• Estimating the cost of capital
• Investor behavior and capital market efficiency
• Captial structure in a perfect market
• Debt and taxes
• Financial distress, managerial incentives, and information
• Payout policy
• Capital budgeting and valuation with leverage
• Valuation and financial modeling : a case study
• Financial options
• Option valuation
• Real options
• Raising equity capital
• Debt financing
• Leasing
• Working capital management
• Short-term financial planning
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Corporate governance
• Risk management
• International corporate finance

"The definitive market leader and decisive text for the field, Michael Barresi's Developmental Biology includes new features and active learning approaches to help students and instructors succeed, including electronic interviews, videos, tutorials, and case studies. Built on the excellent writing, accuracy, and enthusiasm of the original text, the new edition features on line resources that dynamically convey ideas and concepts, and creates an experience that meets the desires of those teaching Developmental Biology to a new generation"-- Provided by publisher.

"For those who treat and diagnose liver disease, whether radiologists, emergency medical physicians, hepatologists, or sonographers, a clear understanding of the strict protocol needed to obtain accurate measurements is essential. Multiparametric Ultrasound for the Assessment of Diffuse Liver Disease offers a practical approach to liver shear wave elastography acquisition from globally recognized leaders in the field. It answers critical questions such as how to use each of the current techniques to best characterize your patients' liver disease, how to deal with the limitations of each of these techniques, and what to ask--and not to ask--of your devices and software"-- publisher's description.

"The Dönme sect--a group of Jewish-Islamic adherents with ancient roots--lives in an isolated community on rural land outside of smalltown Mt. Izmir, Ohio. Self-sustaining, deeply-religious, and heavily-armed, they have followed their self-proclaimed prophet, Natan of Flatbush, from Brooklyn to this new land. But the brutal murder of Natan's teenage son throws their tight community into turmoil. When Zeke Leger, a thirty-year-old writer at a national magazine, arrives from New York for the funeral of a friend, he becomes intrigued by the case, and begins to report on the murder. His college girlfriend Johanna Franklin prosecuted the case, and believes it is closed. Before he knows it, Zeke becomes entangled in the conflict between the Dönme, suspicious local citizens, Johanna, and the law--with dangerous implications for his body and his soul"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: Facing Janus
• On the cusp : American politics and culture in 1979
• Wind shear : the political cultures of 1980
• The closing of Heaven's Gate : Hollywood in transition
• Starting over : pop music's future goes back to the past
• Ebb and flow : tidal shifts in broadcast television
• Turning the page : the publishing industry in 1980
• Inflection point : Autum 1980
• Conclusion: Inaugurating the eighties

"1980 was a turning point in American history. When the year began, it was still very much the 1970s, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, a sluggish economy marked by high inflation, and the disco still riding the airwaves. When it ended, Ronald Reagan won the presidency in a landslide, inaugurating a rightward turn in American politics and culture. We still feel the effects of this tectonic shift today, as even subsequent Democratic administrations have offered neoliberal economic and social policies that owe more to Reagan than to FDR or LBJ. To understand what the American public was thinking during this pivotal year, we need to examine what they were reading, listening to, and watching. 1980: American Culture in Transition puts the news events of the era-everything from the Iran hostage crisis to the rise of televangelism-into conversation with the year's popular culture. Separate chapters focus on the movies, television shows, songs, and books that Americans were talking about that year, including both the biggest hits and some notable flops that failed to capture the shifting zeitgeist. As he looks at the events that had Americans glued to their screens, from the Miracle on Ice to the mystery of Who Shot JR, cultural historian Jim Cullen garners surprising insights about how Americans' attitudes were changing as they entered the 1980s"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Part One. Scope of perianesthesia nursing practice
• Part Two. Principles of perianesthesia practice
• Part Three. Standards of perianesthesia nursing practice
• Part Four. Practice recommendations
• Part Five. ASPAN position statements
• Part Six. ASPAN resources
• Index.

"Since the first publication of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN) Standards of Perianesthesia Nursing Practice in 1984, this publication has provided a framework for the expanding scope of care for a diverse patient population across all perianesthesia settings inclusive of all ages and all phases of care. The Standards are reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis by a team of clinical practice experts and are republished biennially. Each revised edition incorporates current evidence-based practice, emerging regulatory requirements, and reflects changing technology and nursing practice. The 2023-2024 edition of the ASPAN Standards contains principles of safety and ethics in perianesthesia practice, perianesthesia practice standards, practice recommendations, position statements, resources from partnering organizations, and interpretive statements which provide clarity and definition to key elements of the standards. The promotion of normothermia in the adult patient is an updated practice recommendation incorporating current evidence-based practice knowledge. New position statements include a position statement on electronic nicotine delivery systems and vaping products, a position statement on human trafficking, and a timely position statement on emergency preparedness. Each edition of the ASPAN Standards serves perianesthesia nurses as an invaluable resource and provides guidance and support for the expanding scope of perianesthesia nursing practice across the care continuum.--Taken from publisher web site

• The well-tuned guitar / John Schneider
• Transforming the microtonal fingerboard : 'small' frets, LEGO and robots
• Interview with Tolgahan Çoğulu / Richard Perks
• The expanding fretless guitarscape : practice and progress / Richard Perks
• Touching the apple without gloves
• Interview with Cenk Erdoğan / Richard Perks
• Extended range instruments : Towards a new organology of the guitar / Tom Williams
• I should have just learned how to play the organ
• Interview with Charlie Hunter / Richard Perks
• The transformed space of the Ligeti guitar / Katalin Koltai
• Grains, glitches and infinite space : guitar effects pedals, digitization and textural guitar aesthetics / Robert Strachan
• The sonic maelstrom
• Interview with Nels Cline / John McGrath
• "Something seems wrong, should that be happening?" : avantfolk guitar and glitch aesthetics, a practice-based perspective / John McGrath
• "A field of reactivity" : Moog guitar and experimental systems
• Interview with Bill Thompson / John McGrath
• The digital fretboard : remapping and relearning the guitar's pitch matrix with MIDI and Max/MSP / Milton Mermikides
• Augmented reality guitars : extended instruments and notation for a 21st century practice / Amy Brandon

"Examines the diverse physical manifestations of the guitar which have emerged in response to the needs of the modern performer and explores the creative possibilities these new forms afford"-- Provided by publisher

• He who gets slapped (1924)
• Greed (1924)
• The big parade (1925)
• Putting pants on Philip (1927)
• White shadows in the south seas (1928)
• The Broadway melody (1929)
• Hallelujah (1929)
• Freaks (1932)
• Tarzan the ape man (1932)
• Grand hotel (1932)
• Dancing lady (1933)
• The good earth (1937)
• Love finds Andy Hardy (1938)
• The wizard of oz (1939)
• Gone with the wind (1939)
• Puss gets the boot (1940)
• Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• Song of Russia (1944)
• Meet me in St Louis (1944)
• The postman always rings twice (1946)
• On the town (1949)
• Battleground (1949)
• The red badge of courage (1951)
• Singin' in the rain (1952)
• The blackboard jungle (1955)
• Forbidden planet (1956)
• Jailhouse rock (1957)
• Cat on a hot tin roof (1958)
• Ben-hur : a tale of the Christ (1925)
• Ben-hur (1959)
• North by northwest (1959)
• How the west was won (1962)
• Dr. No (1963)
• The man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968)
• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• Blow-up (1966)
• How the grinch stole Christmas! (1966)
• The dirty dozen (1967)
• : a space odyssey (1968)
• Shaft (1971)
• Hollywood : the dream factory (1972)
• The phantom of Hollywood (1974)
• That's entertainment! (1974)
• Rocky (1976)
• Coma (1978)
• Heaven's gate (1980)
• Hero at large (1980), or Being there (1979), or The formula (1980)
• Pennies from heaven (1981)
• Running scared (1986)
• Get shorty (1995)

"Discusses the films that, for one reason or another, changed the trajectory of MGM and the film industry in general"-- Provided by publisher

• Machine generated contents note: PART I. A Citizen Diplomat Prepares. Introduction; Copland and the Beginnings of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy ; Copland as Good Neighbor : A Musical Diplomat and the OIAA
• PART II. Copland, Latin America, and World War II. Diplomat "in the Field" ; Copland in Argentina ; Copland in Brazil ; Copland in Chile ; "The Fiery Trial Through Which We Pass" : The Americas at War
• PART III. Copland, Latin America, and the Postwar. Copland, Latin America, and the Early Cold War ; Shifting Ground : Copland, Latin America, and the Crisis of Modernism ; A "Living Refutation to Communist-Inspired Lies" : Copland in Latin America in the Sixties ; Latin American Classical Music and Memory

"Between 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention at home and abroad. Interviews with eyewitnesses, previously untapped Latin American press accounts, and Copland's diaries inform Carol A. Hess's in-depth examination of the composer's approach to cultural diplomacy. As Hess shows, Copland's tours facilitated an exchange of music and ideas with Latin American composers while capturing the tenor of United States diplomatic efforts at various points in history. In Latin America, Copland's introduced works by U.S. composers, including himself, through lectures, radio broadcasts, live performance, and conversations. Back at home, he used his celebrity to draw attention to regional composers he admired. Hess's focus on Latin America's reception of Copland provides a variety of outside perspectives on the composer and his mission. She also teases out the broader meanings behind reviews of Copland and examines his critics in the context of their backgrounds, training, aesthetics, and politics"-- Provided by publisher

• Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 * "The Urgent Need to Regulate Departures": Federal-Level Administration of the Bracero Program 2 * "According to the Jurisdiction's Necessities": State-Level Administration of the Bracero Program 3 * "Long-Standing Political and Religious Differences": Political-Religious Conflicts and Bracero Migration in the Greater Bajio 4 * "Lack of Work and Lands to Sow": The Agrarian Reform and Bracero Migration in the Greater Bajio 5 * A "Mockery of Responsibility": Municipal-Level Administration of the Bracero Program Conclusion
• Notes Bibliography Index .
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Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico, historian Alberto Garcia uncovers previously unexamined political factors that shaped the direction of the program, including how officials administered the bracero selection process and what motivated campesinos from central states to migrate. Notably, Garcia's book reveals how and why the Mexican government's delegation of Bracero Program-related responsibilities, the powerful influence of conservative Catholic opposition groups in central Mexico, and the failures of the revolution's agrarian reform all profoundly influenced the program's administration and individuals' decisions to migrate as braceros.
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• 1. Baghdad and the Rise of Interest in Foreign Sciences
• 2. Creating A Myth
• 3. Dissecting the Myth
• 4. What to Call a Library in Arabic?
• 5. What was the Abbasid Caliph's Library Called?
• 6. Was the House of Science an Arena for Debates?
• 7. What was the Reality?
• 8. What Happened to the House of Wisdom?
• 9. The Impact
• 10. Concluding Remarks.
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This book places the palace library within the framework of the multifaceted cultural and scientific activities in the era of the caliphs, Harun al-Rashid and al-Ma'mun, generally regarded as the Golden Age of Islamic civilization.
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"Volume IX of the Baptists in Early North America Series provides a unique window into the inner life of the Sandy Creek Baptist Tradition. The records of Sandy Creek Baptist Church in North Carolina were destroyed by a fire, leaving a gap in the historical record. Baptists in Early North America--Abbott's Creek, North Carolina, Baptist Church, Volume IX, containing the records of the first church founded by Shubal Stearns and Daniel Marshall after their Separate Baptist movement took off at Sandy Creek, helps to fill this gap. Abbott's Creek, like many churches in the Sandy Creek tradition, experienced significant growth during the Second Great Awakening. This growth was followed by an increase in church discipline, then controversy, and eventually schism over the newly formed convention system among North Carolina Baptists. The church split in 1832 with Abbott's Creek Primitive Baptist Church continuing with the majority of members and Abbott's Creek Missionary Baptist Church forming a new congregation a few hundred yards away. The records contained in this volume begin in 1783 when the church was reconstituted following the Revolutionary War and continue through 1836. The records cover the ministries of George Pope and Ashley Swaim and the church's controversy over mission methods focusing on the work of Samuel Wait. The annotations included along with the transcribed minutes include information about the work of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association, of which Abbott's Creek was a founding member. An extensive bibliography and indexes are included"-- Provided by publisher

• Glossary.
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Justice at the threshold of rights: the construction of abortion rights in america
• 3. 'If abortion is a crime, then the state is criminal': trajectories in korea and china
• 4. 'Take your rosaries out of our ovaries': religion, activism and the state in abortion discourse in poland, argentina and ireland
• 5. Abortion in south asia: 'choice', language and identity in india and bangladesh
• 6. Race, democratic transition and access: abortion legality in south africa
• 7. Abortion in new zealand: precarious pasts, and contemporary change
• 8. Conclusion. Index.
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This book looks at the trajectories of reproduction and abortion rights in diverse socio-cultural contexts in various countries, and the regional concerns which animate these discourses. Abortion as practice and rhetoric has historically drawn attention to the reproductive body in the public sphere. This book traces the continuities and discontinuities in the debates around abortion rights, and its relationship with the State, in different countries - US, Korea, China, Poland, Argentina, Ireland, India, Bangladesh, South Africa, and New Zealand. It presents a comparative analysis that is grounded thematically around issues of race, class, technology, politics, and law, through interactions with institutionalized religion and the state. Central to this endeavour is an understanding of feminist mobilization on issues of abortion rights, in different cultural-historical contexts and its implications for the articulation of reproductive justice. For instance, it looks at the specific and diverse ways in which religion and culture intersect with state practice and national identities; the emergence of social action, activism and mobilization; the international politics of population control; and the place of reproductive justice and feminist resistance in processes of democratization. Lucid and topical, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of gender studies, sociology, political science, human rights, policy around reproductive and women's rights, law, and reproductive justice.
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Clint Smith's vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world. There are poems that interrogate the ways our lives are shaped by both personal lineages and historical institutions. There are poems that revel in the wonder of discovering the world anew through the eyes of your children, as they discover it for the first time. There are poems that meditate on what it means to raise a family in a world filled with constant social and political tumult. Above Ground wrestles with how we hold wonder and despair in the same hands, how we carry intimate moments of joy and a collective sense of mourning in the same body. Smith's lyrical, narrative poems bring the reader on a journey not only through the early years of his children's lives, but through the changing world in which they are growing up--through the changing world of which we are all a part

"A literary sensation in Brazil and now a global publishing event, Luiz Schwarcz's wise and tender memoir bravely interrogates the story of his own ordeal of depression in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence-the long echo of the Holocaust across generations When Luiz Schwarcz was a child, he was told little about his grandfather and namesake Láios-"Luiz" in Hungarian. Only later would he learn that his grandfather, a devout Hungarian Jew, had defied his country's Nazi occupiers by holding secret religious services in his home and, after being put on a train to a German death camp with his son André, had ordered André to leap from the train to freedom at a rail crossing while Láios himself was carried on to his death. What Luiz did know was that his father was a very unhappy man, and his melancholia haunted the house. The noise that defined childhood for Luiz was that of his father in the next bedroom, tortured by insomnia, striking his foot against the bed post, seemingly for hours, night after night. Young Luiz assumed responsibility for his parents' happiness, as many children of trauma do, and for a time he seemed to be succeeding: he blossomed into the family prodigy, becoming an outwardly gregarious, athletic, and academically successful young man, eventually growing into a literary publisher of great promise. His house was still filled with silence, but he found a home in that silence-a home that he filled with books and with reading. But then, at a high point of outward success, Luiz was brought low by a devastating mental breakdown against which his resources were pitifully inadequate. The Absent Moon is in part the story of his journey to that point and in part his journey back from it, as Luiz learned to forge a different, more honest relationship with his own mind, with his family, and with their shared past. The culmination of that path is this extraordinary book, which is beautiful, tragic, noble, piercingly honest, and ultimately redemptive-the product of a lifetime's reflection, animated by love and compassion and given powerful literary shape in the refiner's fire by a master storyteller"-- Provided by publisher

"Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The mother is particularly obsessed with the deaths of famous women such as actor Natalie Wood, who died in 1981, and tells the narrator they took their own lives to escape from domineering men. The older Claudia married the narrator's father, Jorge, at 19 when he was 42, and though he's away working most of the time, the younger Claudia reveres him. The older Claudia then begins a secret love affair with her 30-year-old brother in law, which is exposed during a family trip to a seashore city, and Jorge threatens to kick Claudia out. Overhearing this, the narrator changes her view of Jorge, likening him to a monster. Later, the older Claudia's best friend, Gloria dies by suicide, and Claudia's comments on Gloria, who suffered from depression, make the narrator worried about her mother's safety and well-being. Visceral images propel the story ("Mama laughed so wide, you could see the roof of her mouth, hollow and grooved like an underfed torso"), as the narrator grows increasingly concerned about what's going to happen next."-- Provided by publisher

• Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The 500-pound gorilla
• The dream and the deed
• Reading Ashbery reading Ashbery
• Poetry in the teaching machine
• Citational coding
• Archival authorizations
• Coda: Towards an aesthetics of disciplinarity

"The surprising story of the relationship between experimental poetry and literary studies.In The Academic Avant-Garde, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews makes a provocative case for the radical poetic possibilities of the work of literary scholarship and lays out a foundational theory of literary production in the context of the university. In her examination of the cross-pollination between the analytic humanities and the craft of poetry writing, Andrews tells a bold story about some of today's most innovative literary works. This pathbreaking intervention into contemporary American literature and higher education demonstrates that experimental poetry not only reflects nuanced concern about creative writing as a discipline, but also uses the critical techniques of scholarship as a cornerstone of poetic practice. Structured around the concepts of academic labor (such as teaching) and methodological work (such as theorizing), Andrews traces these practices in the works of authors ranging from Claudia Rankine to John Ashbery, providing fresh readings of some of our era's most celebrated and difficult poets. Throughout, Andrews builds upon recent interest in the institutional contexts of cultural production to outline a rich and far-reaching poetic engagement with academic discourse, demonstrating that poetry is at its most poetic when it is critical-and that criticism, thus, contains a type of poetry. From this dialectical (and sometimes polemical) standpoint, The Academic Avant-Garde reframes major characteristics of contemporary experimental literature, opens up new ways of thinking about the relationship between creative writing and literary study, and expands the horizon of possibility for engaging with and teaching the history of poetry"-- Provided by publisher

• Theoretical frameworks
• Mechanical engineering : its nature, the informants and the corpus
• Methodology
• Rhetorical structures of mechanical engineering research articles
• The phraseological profile of mechanical engineering research articles
• Rhetorical variation within the mechanical engineering discipline
• Conclusions and implications.

"This volume examines rhetorical conventions employed in mechanical engineering research to understand the knowledge-making principles of the discipline, as well as their expression within the research article. In particular, the study analyses the organisational pattern of mechanical engineering research articles using Swales's conceptualisation of moves and steps. In addition, the research identifies the phraseology associated with specific moves and steps. The study draws on a corpus of 120 mechanical engineering research articles, equally distributed across two sub-disciplines (mechanical systems and thermal-fluids engineering), three research traditions (experimental, theoretical and mixed methods), and two publication periods (2002-2006 and 2012-2016). It adopts an integrated methodology, intertwining various approaches and perspectives including corpus linguistics, move analysis, discourse analysis and interviews to address two main strands of research enquiry: (i) What are the properties of the rhetorical structures in terms of range, frequency, and length for each section of mechanical engineering research articles? (ii) What effect does sub-discipline, research tradition and publication date have on the rhetorical structure of research articles?"-- Provided by publisher.

• Finding solutions to the intractable ABS problems / Charles Lawson, Fran Humphries and Michelle Rourke
• The CBD's term 'sovereign right(s)' does not necessarily mean sovereignty / Todd Berry
• Common heritage or sovereign resource? : the World Health Organisation's inconsistent approach to pathogen sharing / Mark Eccleston-Turner and Michelle Rourke
• Access and benefit sharing in a pandemic treaty and future international public health agreements / Sam F. Halabi
• Access and benefit sharing and biodiversity conservation : the unrealized connection / Rachel Wynberg and Sarah Laird
• Message in a bottle : DNA computers challenge access and benefit sharing regulation / Fran Humphries, Michelle Rourke and Charles Lawson
• What should we mean by 'open access'? / Marcel Jaspars and Abbe E.L. Brown
• Value judgements and the management of digital sequence information under the international access and benefit sharing regime / Michelle Rourke
• Access and benefit sharing and digital sequence information : unravelling the knot / Christine Frison and Elsa Tsioumani
• Compatible or incompatible? : DSI, open access and benefit / Sharing Rodrigo Sara, Andrew Lee Hufton and Amber Hartman Scholz
• Access and benefit sharing and digital sequence information in Africa : a critical analysis of contemporary concerns in regional governance / Titilayo Adebola and Daniele Manzella
• Biocultural community protocols : making space for indigenous and local cultures in access and benefit sharing? / Christine Frison, Louisa Parks and Elsa Tsioumani
• Access and benefit sharing and biocultural protocols in the Pacific / Daniel Robinson and Margaret Raven
• Biological resources as cultural property and cultural heritage / Solamalemalo Saeumalo, Hai Yuean Faatapepe, Menime Tualima and Kathy Bowrey
• ABS from the perspective of an intellectual property professional at a public research institution / Mukul Ranjan
• Which Nagoya Protocol? : user driven solutions to the legal uncertainty created by Nagoya / Brad Sherman
• The Torres Strait Eight : climate litigation, biodiversity, human rights and Indigenous intellectual property / Matthew Rimmer
• Monitoring compliance with Nagoya : lessons from India on building a techno-legal infrastructure to track bioprospecting activities / Allison Fish

"Addressing the management of genetic resources, this book offers a new assessment of the contemporary Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) regime. Debates about ABS have moved on. The initial focus on the legal obligations established by international agreements like the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the form of obligations for collecting physical biological materials have now shifted into a far more complex series of disputes and challenges about the ways ABS should be implemented and enforced. These now cover a wide range of issues, including: digital sequence information, the repatriation of resources, technology transfer, traditional knowledge and cultural expressions, open access to information and knowledge, naming conventions, farmers' rights, new schemes for accessing pandemic viruses sharing DNA sequences, and so on. Drawing together perspectives from an interdisciplinary range of leading and emerging international scholars, this book offers a new approach to the ABS landscape; as it breaks from the standard regulatory analyses in order to explore alternative solutions to the intractable issues for the Access and Benefit Sharing of genetic resources. Addressing these modern legal debates from a perspective that will appeal to both ABS scholars and those with broader legal concerns in the areas of intellectual property, food, governance, Indigenous issues, and so on, this book will be a useful resource for scholars and students as well as those in government and in international institutions working in relevant areas"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Standards of the accounting profession
• Breach of contract
• Negligence
• Fraud
• RICO-- Breach of fiduciary duty
• Liability under other securities law provisions
• Litigation against accounting firms
• Disciplinary proceedings against accountants
• Professional liability insurance

"How do we experience attraction? What does love mean to us? When did you realise you were ace? This is the ace community in their own words. Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through the rich multitudes of asexual life. With chapters spanning everything from dating, relationships and sex, to mental and emotional health, family, community and joy, the inspirational stories and personal experiences within these pages speak to aces living and loving in unique ways. Find support amongst the diverse narratives of aces sex-repulsed and sex-favourable, alongside voices exploring what it means to be black and ace, to be queer and ace, or ace and multi-partnered - and use it as a springboard for your own ace growth. Do you see a story like your own?" -- Amazon.com

• Expansion and exchange across borders / Dany Chan
• Moving social stature and spirit / Adriana Proser
• Carrying culture across land and sea / Ashley Dimmig.

"The Walters Art Museum is among America's most distinctive museums, forging connections between people and art from cultures around the world that span seven millennia. The museum holds a stunning array of objects, from richly illuminated Qur'ans and images of the Buddha to captivating narrative paintings and artfully crafted ceramics and metalworks. Highlighting the strengths, variety, and sheer wonder of the Walters Art Museum's unique Asian and Islamic collections, Across Asia and the Islamic World is the first volume in a series of titles that break away from the traditional academic approach. It is built around themes that transcend period, form, locale, and medium, and showcases the museum's initiative to develop new ways of interpreting its collections"-- Provided by publisher.

• A séance is arranged
• Watching Carey Mulligan
• Hopkins in his flat
• In the kitchen
• Companions being watched
• Close-up enclosure
• Facing us
• Casting
• Starring the screen
• In support
• I am ordinary, therefore I might be
• Waiting for James Dean
• Astonishing things
• Marlon and Meryl
• For the unknown actor
• Barefoot

"From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film comes an essential work on some of the cinema's finest actors and how they have approached their craft"-- Provided by publisher

• Directors' introduction / Bice Curiger & Gilane Tawadros & Christina Végh
• Between a rock and hard place / Griselda Pollock
• Arenas in which to act / Laura Smith
• Material, process, time / Elizabeth A. T. Smith
• Myth, symbol, ritual / Candy Stobbs
• Being, expression, empathy / Agustin Pérez Rubio
• Performance, gesture, rhythm / Joan M. Marter
• Environment, nature, perception / Iwona Blazwick

At a time when the world was processing the anxieties of the Second World War and navigating a backdrop of deeply conflicted political climates, artists began to express their concerns in a new form of art that embraced personal and political freedom. Ironically, the reach of this 'freedom' has been limited to the white, male, and Western perspective. The overlooked narrative of gestural abstraction is kaleidoscopic, broad in its geographical breadth, in its definition and, crucially, it is female. The book features over eighty artists including American artists Lee Krasner (1908-1984) and Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), alongside lesser-known figures such as Mozambican-Italian artist Bertina Lopes (1924-2012) and South Korean artist Wook-kyung Choi (1940-1985). Exhibition: Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (17.01. - 07.05.2023)

"This interdisciplinary book offers a new analysis of the concepts, spaces and practices of activism that emerge under diverse authoritarian modes of governance in Asia. Demonstrating the limitations of existing conceptual approaches in accounting for activism in Asia, the book also offers new understandings of authoritarian governance practices and how these shape state-civil society relations. In conjunction with its tripartite theoretical framework, the book presents regional knowledge from an array of countries in Asia, with empirically rich contributions from both scholars and activists. Through in-depth case studies, the book offers new scholarly insights that highlight the ways in which activism emerges and is contested across Asia. As such, it will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, law and sociology"-- Provided by publisher

"This book argues that the moral quality of an act comes from the agent's inner states. By arguing for the indispensable relevance of intention in the moral evaluation of acts, the book moves against a mainstream, 'objective' approach in normative ethics. It is commonly held that the intentions, knowledge, and volition of agents are irrelevant to the moral permissibility of their acts. This book stresses that the capacities of agency, rather than simply the label 'agent', must be engaged during an act if its moral evaluation is to be coherent. The author begins with an ontological argument that an act is a motion or a causing of change in something else. He argues that the source of an act's moral meaning is in the agent: specifically, what the agent, if aware of relevant facts around her, aims to accomplish. He then moves to a series of critical chapters that consider arguments for mainstream approaches to act evaluation, including Thomson's dismissal of the agent knowledge and volition requirements, Scanlon's arguments for a derivative relevance of intentions to permissibility, Frowe's "causal roles" of agents in the moral evaluation of acts, and Bennett's explicit defense of the objective approach. The book concludes by offering the author's preferred replacement for the objective approach, an Aristotelian-Thomist view of acts. Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, just war theory, the ethics of self-defense, and philosophy of action"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• All the news that's fit to print
• Libel and the press
• The paper curtain
• Heed their rising voices
• Montgomery v. the New York Times
• Birmingham v. the New York Times
• Doing business in Alabama
• "This new weapon of intimidation"
• A "Civil rights crisis"
• The iron curtain
• Make no law
• Herbert Wechsler
• Before the court
• Arguments
• Actual Malice
• Free, robust, and wide open

"In its landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court held that a public official must prove "actual malice" or reckless disregard of the truth in order to win a libel lawsuit. The case, which grew out of segregationists' attempts to quash reporting on the civil rights movement, revolutionized media reporting and public discourse in America. Drawing on previously unexplored sources, including the papers of the New York Times Company and leaders of the civil rights movement, this book tells the fascinating story of the legal issues and behind-the-scenes maneuvers that led to one of the most important First Amendment rulings in history-a ruling that is more critical and controversial than ever"-- Provided by publisher

"The first major monograph in sixty years on the San Francisco modernist sculptor who developed a unique abstract style rooted in surrealism and inspired by nature. A member of one of the Bay Area's most productive and innovative midcentury artistic groups. Texts by a diverse range of scholars cover such subjects as infinity and movement in Kent's work; the influence of nature; and the diverse artistic milieu at the San Francisco Art Institute and beyond that surrounded Kent and her husband, artist Robert Howard. With an extensive chronology and a wide selection of sculptures, photographs, and rarely seen works on paper and paintings on Hydrocal, the book substantiates Kent's achievement as one of midcentury America's most innovative sculptors, re-excavating her work for younger generations"--publisher's description

Adaptation Before Cinema highlights a range of pre-cinematic media forms, including theater, novelization, painting and illustration, transmedia art, childrens media, and other literary and visual culture. The book expands the primary scholarly audience of adaptation studies from film and media scholars to literary scholars and cultural critics working across a range of historical periods, genres, forms, and media. In doing so, it underscores the creative diversity of cultural adaptation practiced before cinema came to dominate the critical conversation on adaptation. Collectively, the chapters construct critical bridges between literary history and contemporary media studies, foregrounding diverse practices of adaptation and providing a platform for innovative critical approaches to adaptation, appropriation, or transmedia storytelling popular from the Middle Ages through the invention of cinema. At the same time, they illustrate how these forms of adaptation not only influenced the cinematic adaptation industry of the twentieth century but also continue to inform adaptation practices in the twenty-first century transmedia landscape. Written by scholars with expertise in historical, literary, and cultural scholarship ranging from the medieval period through the nineteenth century, the chapters use discourses developed in contemporary adaptation studies to shed new lights on their respective historical fields, authors, and art forms

"A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer, tries to hide her affair with Charles Dickens from her husband. A woman named Ada, imprisoned in a concentration camp at Mittelbau-Dora in 1945, will survive one more day in enforced prostitution. Connected by an unknown but sentient spirit, and a bracelet of fertility beads that each Ada encounters at a pivotal moment in her life, these women share a name and a purpose. As their interwoven narratives converge on a modern day Ada, a young Ghanaian woman who finds herself pregnant, alone, in Berlin, searching for a home before her baby arrives, their shared spirit will find a way to help her break the vicious cycle of injustice. This novel is a feat of imagination and breaks down simplistic notions of history as a straight line; one woman's experience matters to another's 400 years later, on a different continent. In this deeply moving, at times mordantly funny, ultimately hopeful book, there is a connection between all those fighting for love, for family, for justice, for a home"-- Provided by publisher.

"This study examines Adin Ballou and his spiritual quest in New England from 1820 to 1880. The author argues that denominational histories, however important, do not explain what a nineteenth-century Christian became. This book looks at how Ballou exemplifies this paradox"-- Provided by publisher

• General introduction: Mapping attacks targeting culture
• Part 1. State responsibility
• Inter-state claim mechanisms
• Regional human rights courts
• Part 2. Individual criminal responsibility
• War crimes
• Crimes against humanity
• Genocide
• General conclusion: Emerging trends and future promises

• [vol. 1.] Adolphe Adam, master of the opéra-comique, 1824-1856
• [Vol. 2] Adolphe Adam, master of the romantic ballet 1830-1856

"An analysis of the development and range of Adorno's aesthetics, incorporating the influence of other thinkers and musicians"-- Provided by publisher

• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• INTRODUCTION 'Might repay serious excavation . . .': Adrian Brunel as a Subject for Study
• CHAPTER 1 Contextualised Biography of Adrian Brunel, Part I
• CHAPTER 2 A Syndicate of Beggars: Minerva Films Ltd and Independent Short Film Production
• CHAPTER 3 Art, the Trade and The Man Without Desire
• CHAPTER 4 Making Dull Films Jolly: Brunel's Burlesques
• CHAPTER 5 'A war film with a difference': Blighty and Brunel's Negotiation of the British Studio System
• CHAPTER 6 Adaptation and Screen Censorship: The Vortex
• CHAPTER 7 Adaptation and the Power of the Author: The Constant Nymph
• CHAPTER 8 Contextualised Biography of Adrian Brunel, Part II
• CONCLUSION Brunel's Legacy
• Bibliography
• Index

• 0. Introduction: Navigating the Imperial Unknown
• 1. Civilization, Barbarism, and the Tall Tale
• 2. Turning Frontier Fictions into Private Property
• 3. Forest Knowledge Networks
• 4. Natives, Smugglers, Soldiers, Spies
• 5. Sovereign Rule and Its Disenchantments
• 6. The Enlightened Savant and the Black Prospector King
• 7. Diamonds, Love Songs, and the Alchemy of Exploration
• 8. Anthropophagy and the Body Politic
• 9. Ethnological Misadventures
• 10. Epilogue: How to Tame an Empire.
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From 1750 until Brazil won its independence in 1822, the Portuguese crown sought to extend imperial control over the colony's immense, sea-like interior and exploit its gold and diamond deposits using enslaved labor. Carrying orders from Lisbon into the Brazilian backlands, elite vassals, soldiers, and scientific experts charged with exploring multiple frontier zones and establishing royal authority conducted themselves in ways that proved difficult for the crown to regulate. The overland expeditions they mounted in turn encountered actors operating beyond the state's purview: seminomadic Native peoples, runaway slaves, itinerant poor, and those deemed criminals, who eluded, defied, and reshaped imperial ambitions. This book measures Portugal's transatlantic projection of power against a particular obstacle: imperial information-gathering, which produced a confusion of rumors, distortions, claims, conflicting reports, and disputed facts. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship in the fields of ethnohistory, slavery and diaspora studies, and legal and literary history, Hal Langfur considers how misinformation destabilized European sovereignty in the Americas, making a major contribution to histories of empire, frontiers and borderlands, knowledge production, and scientific exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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• Introduction / Daisy Cheung, Michael Dunn & Richard Huxtable
• Advance Directives in Israel / Miriam Bentwich
• Advance Medical Directives in Singapore : a faltering policy for end-of-life care? / Tracey Evans Chan
• South Korea's End-of-life Care Decisions Act : law for better end-of-life care / Ilhak Lee
• The law and practice of Advance Directives in Taiwan / Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai
• Advance Directives : the Thai context / Thitinant Tengaumnuay
• Advance Directives in India : seeking the individual within the community / Kelly Amal Dhru & Ravindra Ghooi
• The proposed new law on Advance Directives in Hong Kong : a piecemeal attempt at codification? / Daisy Cheung & Rebecca Lee
• The law and practice of Advance Directives in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Zain Abbas Syed, Ehsan Shamsi-Gooshki & Alireza Parsapoor
• The law and practice of Advance Directives and end-of-life care in Malaysia / Sharon Kaur, Thomas Tan Hooi Wang, Jenny Yau & Richard Boon Leong Lim
• Advance Directives in the Philippines : in search of a legal framework / Leonardo D. de Castro, Renato B. Manaloto & Alexander Atrio L. Lopez
• Advance Directives and the Turkey context / Yesim Isil Ulman
• Advance Directives in China's mainland : an emerging framework? / Bo Chen
• Guideline-based approach to end-of-life care decisions in Japan : practice, regulation and the place of Advance Directives / Reina Ozeki-Hayashi, Futoshi Iwata, Satoshi Kodama & Miho Tanaka
• Advance Directives in Macao : not legally recognised, but... / Vera Lúcia Raposo & Man Teng Iong
• Advance Directives in Pakistan : religious, cultural and social influences / M. Asim Beg, Erfan Hussain, Noshin Khan, Asma Hamid & Atif Waqar
• Advance Directives in Saudi Arabia : an Islamic approach and practical implications / Ghaiath Hussein & Abdullah Adlan
• Advance Directives in Asia : "towards generative accommodation" / Daisy Cheung & Michael Dunn

"Providing a comprehensive overview of the body of law that regulates the insurance business, this Advanced Introduction evaluates the governing principles, policies, values, and purposes of insurance legislation and related judicial doctrines. It examines the ways in which the industry's origins help us understand the present, and how insurance connects to major public policy issues that will shape the world for future generations."--Publisher's website.

• Sign language corpus linguistics: taking stock of an emerging discipline / Ella Wehrmeyer
• Advances in sign language linguistics. Negative concord in sign language of the Netherlands: a journey through a corpus / Cindy van Boven, Marloes Oomen, Roland Pfau and Lotte Rusch
• Exploring sign-writing contact and multilingualism in the Norwegian deaf community / Lindsay Ferrara, Benjamin Anible and Lena Mei Kalvenes Anda
• Suntactic functions of nonmanials in Russian Sign Language / Svetlana Burkova, Evgeniia Khristoforova and Vadim Kimmelman
• A corpus-based analysis of coordinate structures in Libras / Ronice Müller de Quadros, Jair Barbosa da Silva and Rodrigo Nogueira Machado
• Verb classes in South African Sign Language: a corpus-driven approach / Ella Wehrmeyer
• Exploring regional variation in the DGS corpus / Thomas Hanke, Reiner Konrad and Gabriele Langer
• Studying microdiachronic change with the Catalan Sign Language corpus: A case study on anaphoric chains in narratives
• Advances in sign language corpus construction. Creating a multifaceted corpus of Swedish Sign Language: visual, tactile, and L2 signing / Johanna Mesch
• Overview of and epistemological conditions for building and using LSF corpora / Marie-Anne Sallandre and Brigitte Garcia
• W(h)ither the ASL corpus? Considering trends in signed corpus development / Julie A. Hochgesang, Ryan Lepic and Emily Shaw
• Developing an inventory of handshapes, locations, and movements in Hong Kong Sign Language / Gladys Tang, Joe Mak, Ka Yiu Cheng and Felix Sze
• Utterance unit annotation for the Japanese Sign Language dialogue corpus: towards a method for detecting interactional boundaries in spontaneous sign language dialogue / Mayumi Bono, Tomohiro Okada, Kouhei Kikuchi, Rui Sakaida, Victor Skobov, Yusuke Miyao and Yutaka Osugi.

"This collected volume showcases cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of sign language corpus linguistics in various sign language contexts across the globe. Each chapter provides a detailed account of particular national corpora and methodological considerations in their construction. Part 1 focuses on corpus-based linguistic findings, covering aspects of morphology, syntax, multilingualism, and regional and diachronic variation. Part 2 explores innovating solutions to challenges in building and annotating sign language corpora, touching on the construction of comparable sign language corpora, collaboration challenges at national level, phonological arrangement of digital lexicons, and (semi-)automatic annotation. This unique volume documenting the growth in breadth and depth within the discipline of sign language corpus linguistics is a key resource for researchers, teachers and postgraduate students in the field of sign language linguistics, and will also provide valuable insights for other researchers interested in corpus linguistics, construction grammar, and gesture studies"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Scoping the problem
• Getting grounded : foundational practice tips for recognizing mental illness and stigma
• Ethical pathways to advocacy
• Establishing lawyering tools for advancing equity
• The role of prosecutors in advancing equity
• The role of defense attorneys in advancing equity
• Initial criminal justice involvement and pre-adjudication
• Post-adjudication and the aftermath of criminal justice involvement
• Special considerations for witnesses and survivors of crime
• Navigating authorities to advance equity
• Conclusion

"This book starts the conversation about what attorneys can do to improve both health and justice outcomes for people of diverse backgrounds who have mental illness. Focusing on the role of litigators working in the criminal justice system-particularly prosecutors and defense attorneys-this book offers an overview of foundational concepts, lawyering skills, and legal theories that attorneys can use in day-to-day practice as they work toward achieving fair and equitable access to justice for all"-- Provided by publisher

• Part I . Introduction
• Chapter 1. Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos
• Part II. Health Threats in the Latino Community
• Chapter 2. Applying an Exposome-Wide (ExWAS) Approach to Latino Cancer Disparities
• Chapter 3. Population Health Challenges for Latinos in the US
• Part III. Vulnerable Populations and Cancer Health Disparities
• Chapter 4. Acute and Long-Term Neurological Complications of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) Therapy in Latino Children
• Part IV. Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship in Latinos
• Chapter 5. Supportive Care Needs and Coping Strategies Used by Latino Men Cancer Survivors
• Chapter 6. Cancer Care Delivery Among Breast Cancer Patients: Is It the Same for All?
• Part V. Cancer in the Era of Precision Medicine
• Chapter 7. Genetic Ancestry and Breast Cancer Subtypes in Hispanic/Latina Women
• Chapter 8. Precision Medicine Approaches for Stratification and Development of Novel Therapies of Latin(x) Patients at Risk of Lung Malignancy
• Part VI. Engaging Latinos in Cancer Research
• Chapter 9. Optimizing Engagement of the Latino Community in Cancer Research
• Part VII. Emerging Policies Impacting Latino Care
• Chapter 10. Latino Population Growth and the Changing Demography of Cancer
• Chapter 11. Financial Hardship, Food Insecurity, and Forgone Medical Care
• Part VIII. Implementation Science, Innovative Technologies and the Future of Cancer Care
• Chapter 12. Implementation Science to Enhance the Value of Cancer Research in Latinos: A Perspective from the National Cancer Institute
• Chapter 13. Advancing E-health Interventions in Cancer Control and Survivorship for Hispanic/Latina Breast Cancer Patients
• Part IX. Latino Lifestyles: Acculturation, Nutrition, and Health
• Chapter 14. Impact of Obesity and Related Factors in Breast Cancer Survivorship Among Hispanic Women
• Chapter 15. A Strength-Based Approach to Cancer Prevention in Latinxs
• Part X. Advances in Cancer Therapy and Clinical Trials
• Chapter 16. Overcoming Clinical Research Disparities by Advancing Inclusive Research
• Part XI. HPV Vaccination for Cancer Prevention
• Chapter 17. The Road to Cervical Cancer Elimination
• Part XII. Latino Cancer Health Disparities: Moving Forward
• Chapter 18. Looking Forward: Continuing the Collaboration for Action
• Appendices A-D
• Index.

This open access book is a collection of articles based on presentations from the 2020 Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference that gives an overview of conference outcomes. The vision of the conference has been to unite researchers, scientists, physicians and other healthcare professionals, patient advocates and students from across the world to discuss research advancements, identify gaps, and develop actionable goals to translate basic research findings into clinical best practices, effective community interventions, and professional training programs to decrease cancer risks and eliminate cancer disparities for Latinos. This conference comes at an especially important time when Latinos the largest and youngest minority group in the U.S. are expected to face a 142% rise in cancer cases in the coming years. Disparities continue to impact this population in critical areas: access to preventive and clinical care, changeable risk behaviors, quality of life, and mortality. Each chapter summarizes the presentation and includes current knowledge in the specific topic areas, identified gaps, and opportunities for future research. Topics explored include: Applying an Exposome-Wide (ExWAS) Approach to Latino Cancer Disparities Supportive Care Needs and Coping Strategies Used by Latino Men Cancer Survivors Optimizing Engagement of the Latino Community in Cancer Research Latino Population Growth and the Changing Demography of Cancer Implementation Science to Enhance the Value of Cancer Research in Latinos A Strength-Based Approach to Cancer Prevention in Latinxs Overcoming Clinical Research Disparities by Advancing Inclusive Research Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos: Building Collaboration for Action will appeal to a wide readership due to its comprehensive coverage of topics ranging from basic science and community prevention research to clinical practice to policy. The book is an essential resource for physicians and other medical professionals, researchers, scientists, academicians, patient advocates, and students. It also will appeal to policy-makers, NCI-designated cancer centers, academic centers, state health departments, and community organizations.

"The first book of "a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend ... Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural. But when she's tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she's offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade's kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family's future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God's will. Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there's more to this job, and the girl's disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there's always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power ... and the price might be your very soul"-- Provided by publisher.

The boundless imagination of Terry Gilliam yields a dazzling fantasy of epic proportions. Inspired by the extravagant exploits of the fabled Baron Munchausen, this spectacle born of a famously turbulent production follows the whimsical eighteenth-century nobleman as he embarks on an outlandish quest that takes him from faraway lands to the moon to the belly of a sea monster and beyond, meanwhile waging battle against a vengeful sultan and the tyranny of logic

"In verb second (V2) languages, the finite verb typically appears in the second position of the main clause. Languages displaying this configuration typically also allow patterns in which a nominal element at the left edge of the clause is resumed by a nominal constituent which is an argument inside the sentence, effectively leading to a Verb Third (V3) pattern. Such patterns have been studied for a long time; on the other hand, a similar pattern in which an initial adverbial constituent is resumed by a clause-internal element has been much less studied. The latter pattern is referred to as 'adverbial resumption' and it also has the character of being a V3 phenomenon. Therefore, the pattern is labelled 'adverbial V3 resumption' or 'adverbial V3'. Interestingly, adverbial resumption is absent from languages that do not have a V2 pattern, while those languages do display argumental resumption"-- Provided by publisher

"As societies progress, old generations of social agents die and are replaced by new ones. This book explores what happens in this transition as the old guard instructs the new arrivals about the wisdom of their ways. Do new entrants listen and follow the advice of their elders or dismiss it? Is intergenerational advice welfare-improving or can it be destructive? Does such advice enhance the stability of social conventions or disrupt it? Using the concept of an intergenerational game and the tools of game theory and experimental economics, this study delves into the process of social learning created by intergenerational advice passed from generation to generation. This book presents a unique theoretical and empirical study of the dynamics of social conventions not offered elsewhere"-- Provided by publisher.

"At age 26, Advika Srinivasan considers herself a failed screenwriter. To pay the bills and keep her mind off of the recent death of her twin sister, she's taken to bartending A-list events, including the 2015 Governors Ball, the official afterparty of the Oscars. There, in a cinematic dream come true, she meets the legendary Julian Zelding-a film producer as handsome as Paul Newman and ten times as powerful-fresh off his fifth best picture win. Despite their 41-year age difference, Advika falls helplessly under his spell, and their evening flirtation ignites into a whirlwind courtship and elopement. Advika is enthralled by Julian's charm and luxurious lifestyle, but while Julian loves to talk about his famous friends and achievements, he smoothly changes the subject whenever his previous relationships come up. Then, a month into their marriage, Julian's first wife-the famous actress Evie Lockhart-dies, and a tabloid reports a shocking stipulation in her will. A single film reel and $1,000,000 will be bequeathed to "Julian's latest child bride" on one condition: Advika must divorce him first. Shaken out of her love fog and still-simmering grief over the loss of her sister-and uneasy about Julian's sudden, inexplicable urge to start a family-Advika decides to investigate him through the eyes and experiences of his exes. From reading his first wife's biography, to listening to his second wife's confessional albums, to watching his third wife's Real Housewives-esque reality show, Advika starts to realize how little she knows about her husband. Realizing she rushed into the marriage for all the wrong reasons, Advika uses the info gleaned from the lives of her husband's exes to concoct a plan to extricate herself from Julian once and for all."-- Provided by publisher

• Reading Infrastructure / Kelly Mee Rich, Nicole M. Rizzuto, and Susan Zieger
• Spatial Histories of Racial Capitalism
• Roads, Bridges, and Ports: Infrastructures of Plantation Agriculture in the British Caribbean, 1627-1840 / Ramesh Mallipeddi
• Internal Empire: The Neoclassical Architecture of Racial Capitalism / Louis Moreno
• Infrastructure and Intimacies: Early Black Women's Writing and the Care Work of Colonialism / Samantha Pinto
• Affect and Technologies
• Fine-Tuning Frantz Fanon's Infrastructural Affects / Yanie Fecu
• Embodied Subjects and Infrastructural Failure in Chris Abani's GraceLand / Janice Ho
• Border Zones: Infrastructure and Human Migration in Exit West and EXIT /
• Sangina Patnaik
• An "Elastic Severalty": Distributive Infrastructuralism in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift / Jeannie Im
• Energy, Environment, Extraction
• Poetic Ultrasound: Atmosphere, Photography, and the Natural Aesthetics of Wind Power / Georgiana Banita
• To Be Addressed by Nuclear Reactors: Radiation Exposure and the Aesthetics of Life Itself / Rahul Mukherjee
• Cocaine Logistics and the Neoliberal Art of Credibility / Susan Zieger
• Afterword. Rediscoveries of the Ordinary; or, All That Is Solid . . . / Jennifer Wenzel

A critical reading of the unstable structures that organize biological and social life This timely and radically interdisciplinary volume uncovers the aesthetics and politics of infrastructure. From roads and bridges to harbors and canals, infrastructure is conventionally understood as the public works that allow for the circulation of capital. Yet this naturalized concept of infrastructure, driven by capital's restless expansion, is haunted by imperial tendencies to occupy territory, extract resources, and organize life. Infrastructure thus undergirds the living nexus of modernity in an ongoing project of racialization, affective embodiment, and environmental praxis. Rather than merely making visible infrastructure's modes of power, however, The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure brings literary methods to bear on the interpretive terrain, reading infrastructural space and temporalities to show that their aesthetic and sensorial experience cannot be understood apart from histories of production and political economies. Building on critical infrastructure studies in anthropology, geography, and media studies, this collection demonstrates the field's vitality to scholars working across the humanities, including in literary, visual, and cultural studies. By querying the presumed invisibility of infrastructure's hidden life, the volume's contributors revitalize ongoing literary debates about reading surface and depth. How, they ask, might infrastructure and aesthetics then function as epistemic tools for rethinking each other? And what urgency do they acquire in light of current crises that bear on death, whether biological, social, or planetary?
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• PART I. Prologue ; The Meaning of Music ; The Evolution of Harmony ; The Evolution of Rhythm ; Art and Satanism ; Unity and Equality of the Arts ; Epilogue
• PART II. Introduction ; Sound and Music ; Art and Knowledge
• Conclusion

"Giacinto Scelsi, an innovative and often controversial force in modern music, has been the subject of a vast amount of literary criticism, philosophical discussion, and performance. For the first time, this volume brings selected writings, spanning from the early 1940s to 1987, into English with historical, social, and cultural contextualization"-- Provided by publisher

"Aesthetics of Equality is a theoretical and compositional intervention into the problem of equality. While some of the analysis is concerned with contemporary issues, the book is a primarily a work of political theory and a guide to aesthetic methods, focused on how one can conceive equality issues critically through conceptual engagements with diverse artistic genres: literature, film, music, photography, and architecture. Beginning with the question, "what one can contribute to equality issues by being attentive to aesthetic form in a variety of artistic genres that challenge institutionalized accounts of history," the book proceeds to implement answer by extracting political problematics with analyses of the compositional structures of the textual objects of analysis in the chapter's diverse inquiries. While aesthetic strategies are a main concern in the investigation, it is also shaped by commitments to some substantive political concerns, particularly an attentiveness to persons and voices that tend to be civically invisible The assembled chapters demonstrate the way critical approaches to a variety of media genres make visible and audible the persons and groups that are excluded or disqualified from access to livable domestic space and civic participation. The subject matter is temporally extensive, ranging from ancient Israel and Egypt in the Old Testament's Genesis chapter through the early and later ethno-histories of California and Texas and geographically broad, with chapters on diverse cities: New York, Paris, Istanbul, Los Angeles, and fictional Texas and Mexican border cities"-- Provided by publisher.

When does eating become art? 'The Aesthetics of Taste' answers this question by exploring the position of taste in contemporary culture and the manner in which taste meanders its way into the realm of art. The argument identifies aesthetic values not only in artistic practices, where they are naturally expected, but also in the spaces of everydayness that seem far removed from the domain of fine arts. As such, it seeks to grasp what artists - who offer aesthetic as well as culinary experiences - actually try to communicate, while also pondering whether a cook can be an artist.00Also available in Open Access.

• Introduction
• The anti-dictionary : the verbal non-object and neoconcrete poetry, books, and installation art
• Experiência Neoconcreta : Jornal do Brasil and its cultural supplement, graphic design, and the modern public
• A synergistic phenomenon : The Neoconcrete ballets and abstraction
• New monumentality and collaboration : Neoconcretism and architecture
• Conclusion.

"The 1950s and early 1960s in Brazil gave birth to a period of incredible optimism and economic development. In The Affinity of Neoconcretism, Mariola V. Alvarez argues that the neoconcretists--a group of artists and poets working together in Rio de Janeiro from 1959 to 1961--formed an important part of this national transformation. She maps the interactions of the neoconcretists and discusses how this network collaborated to challenge existing divides between high and low art and between fields such as fine art and dance. This book reveals the way in which art and intellectual work in Brazil emerged from and within a local political and social context, and out of the transnational movements of artists, artworks, published materials, and ideas"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1 Description 1.1 Terminology 1.2 Definitions 1.3 Overview 1.3.1 Indigenous People 1.3.2 Medical Model 1.3.3 Transgender Movement 1.3.4 Nonbinary Movement 1.3.5 Overview of Affirming Practice 1.4 Gatekeeping
• 2 Theories and Models 2.1 Minority Stress Theory 2.1.1 Tailoring Minority Stress Theory to Trans People 2.1.2 Suicide and Minority Stress 2.2 Gender Dysphoria 2.2.1 Reclassifying Gender Dysphoria 2.3 Medical Necessity 2.4 Informed Consent 2.5 Harm Reduction 2.6 Shaping the Therapeutic Dialogue 2.6.1 Introducing Yourself With Your Pronoun(s) 2.6.2 Presentation of Experience and Training 2.6.3 Assumptions About What an Identity Term Means for the Client 2.6.4 Trans Client Fluidity in Their Gender and Sexuality 2.6.5 Assumptions About Transition 2.6.6 How to Respond When You Make a Mistake 2.6.7 Understanding Diverse Experiences Gender 2.6.8 Reviews of Client Experience in Your Practice 2.6.9 Knowledge of Local Resources 2.7 Nuanced Clinical Topics 2.7.1 Grief 2.7.2 Suicide and Trans People 2.7.3 Nonsuicidal Self-Injury 2.7.4 Reasonably Well-Controlled Mental Health 2.7.5 Regret
• 3 Assessment and Treatment Indications 3.1 Assessment 3.1.1 Screening Tools 3.1.2 Outcome Measures 3.1.3 Critique of Personality Assessment Tools 3.1.4 Progress Monitoring Tools 3.1.5 Measures Designed for Trans Clients 3.1.6 Caution When Interpreting Results
• 4 Treatment 4.1 Method of Treatment 4.1.1 Specific Clinical Concerns 4.2 Efficacy and Prognosis 4.2.1 Affirmative Practice 4.2.2 Therapeutic Approaches 4.3 Variations of the Method: Letter Writing 4.4 Problems in Carrying Out Treatments 4.4.1 Trauma 4.4.2 Trans Clients in Rural Locations 4.4.3 Autism Spectrum Disorder in Trans People 4.4.4 Co-Occurring Medical Concerns 4.4.5 Persistence, Insistence, and Consistence 4.5 Multicultural Issues 4.5.1 Intersectionality 4.6 Importance of Interrogating Your Gender 4.7 Problematic Treatments 4.7.1 Conversion Therapy 4.7.2 Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
• 5 Case Vignette
• 6 Further Reading
• 7 References
• 8 Appendix: Tools and Resources.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

• 1 Description 1.1 Terminology 1.2 Definitions 1.3 Overview 1.3.1 Indigenous People 1.3.2 Medical Model 1.3.3 Transgender Movement 1.3.4 Nonbinary Movement 1.4 Gatekeeping
• 2 Theories and Models 2.1 Minority Stress Theory 2.1.1 Challenges With Minority Stress and Trans People 2.1.2 Suicide and Minority Stress 2.2 Gender Dysphoria 2.2.1 Reclassifying Gender Dysphoria 2.3 Medical Necessity 2.4 Informed Consent 2.5 Harm Reduction 2.6 Shaping the Therapeutic Dialogue 2.6.1 Introducing Yourself With Your Pronoun( s) 2.6.2 Presentation of Experience and Training 2.6.3 Assumptions About What an Identity Term Means for the Client topic? 2.6.4 Trans Client Fluidity in Their Gender and Sexuality 2.6.5 Assumptions About Meaning of Transition for a Client 2.6.6 How to Respond When You Make a Mistake 2.6.7 Understanding Diverse Experiences Gender 2.6.8 Reviews of Client Experience in Your Practice 2.6.9 Knowledge of Local Resources 2.7 Shaping the Therapeutic Relationship 2.7.1 Grief 2.7.2 Suicide and Trans People 2.7.3 Nonsuicidal Self-injury 2.7.4 Reasonably Well-Controlled Mental Health
• 3 Assessment and Treatment Indications 3.1 Assessment 3.1.1 Screening Tools 3.1.2 Outcome Measures 3.1.3 Critique of Personality Assessment Tools 3.1.4 Progress Monitoring Tools 3.1.5 Measures Designed for Trans Clients 3.1.6 Caution When Interpreting Results
• 4 Treatment 4.1 Method of Treatment 4.1.1 Conversion Therapy 4.1.2 Specific Clinical Concerns 4.2 Efficacy and Prognosis 4.2.1 Affirmative Practice 4.2.2 Therapeutic 4.3 Variations of the Method: Letter Writing 4.4 Problems in Carrying Out Treatments 4.4.1 Trauma 4.4.2 Trans Clients in Rural Locations 4.4.3 Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria 4.4.4 Autism Spectrum Disorder in Trans People 4.4.5 Co-Occurring Medical Concerns 4.4.6 Persistence, Insistence, and Consistence 4.5 Multicultural Issues 4.5.1 Intersectionality 4.6 Importance of Interrogating Your Gender
• 5 Case Vignette 5.1 Assessing Eliza's Need for Support
• 6 Further Reading
• 7 References
• 8 Appendix: Tools and Resources.
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A how-to guide to affirmative counseling with transgender clients Presents the best evidence-based care Instructions for strategies to improve inclusivity Illustrated with case studies Printable tools for clinical use This volume provides fundamental and evidence-based information on working with transgender and gender diverse people in mental health services. The authors, who are experts in the field, outline the key qualities of affirming mental health services, as well as explore strategies for improving inclusivity and what evidence-based care with trans clients looks like. They also provide insight into current topics, such as working with youth, the harmful and ill-advised approach known as rapid onset gender dysphoria, and whether and how autism is a co-occurring diagnostic concern. Practitioners will find the printable resources provided invaluable for their clinical practice, including sample letters of support for trans clients who are seeking gender affirming medical care.
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• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction: The Idea of Africa
• Part 1: Roman Africa
• Part 2: Alexandria and Egypt
• Part 3: The Davidic Kingdom of the South
• Epilogue: The Meaning of Africa for Christians Today
• Suggested Readings

"When we survey the history of the faith, it is undeniable that the lands of northern Africa were profoundly influential in the development of early Christianity. The faith arrived early in Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Libya, and the territories we now call Eritrea, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. African Christians made decisive contributions in theology, liturgy, biblical studies, and culture." [taken from back cover]

• Formative years in the carceral systems
• From Anomabo to Fredericksburg
• The war on Africa and her diaspora
• The abolitionists
• Liberation, emancipation, and freedom
• The Liberty Line in Darke County, Ohio
• The Liberty Line in Edgewood, Indiana
• Union Literary Institute
• White grievance codes
• Fight or flight
• Ties that bind

"Countless stories about the Liberty Lines (the Underground Railroad) have been written. Still, few ever mention the African abolitionists who established the Liberty Lines and managed the passage of thousands of self-emancipating Africans safely to freedom in the early 1800s. Thornton J. Alexander was an African abolitionist who used the power of his freedom to liberate the physical and intellectual constraints placed on African people in colonial America. His inspirational story transcends the sufferings on bondage. His lifetime of risks guaranteed the promises of liberty for anyone who reached his land. He knew 'Eliza Harris' (Uncle Tom's Cabin) because she made her escape to freedom from his property in Indiana. He allowed Bishop Paul Quinn to establish an AME church behind his family cemetery. In 1845, he donated land to construct the first private black college in the United States called Union Literary Institute (ULI). The first African American U.S. Senator, Hiram Revels, and his brother Willis, were both educated at ULI, as was Rev. John G. Mitchell, a co-founder of Wilberforce University. No longer hidden in the oppressive shadows of American abolitionists, Thornton Alexander's story of resistance, rebellion, and success has finally been reclaimed from the clutches of invisibility"--Back cover

• Acknowledgments and dedication
• Introduction: visibility and inclusivity
• Chapter 1. Sherri L. Smith's "Orleans" and Karen Sandler's "Tankborn": the female leader, the neo-slave, and twenty-first-century young adult Afrofuturism
• Chapter 2. The safety of space in Nnedi Okorafor's "The book of Phoenix" and "Binti"
• Chapter 3. Afrohorror and the gendered narrator: progression and regression of the adolescent female activist character in the "Devil's wake" series and the "Parables" series
• Chapter 4. The biracial female protagonist, trauma, and memory in A. J. Hartley's "Steeplejack"
• Chapter 5. Self-image and narration in the young adult steampunk novels "The black god's drums" and the "Dread nation" series
• Notes
• Works cited
• Index.

"In the wake of the second wave of the Black Lives Matter movement, inequalities and disparities were brought to light across the publishing industry. The need for more diverse, representative young adult literature gained new traction, resulting in an influx of young adult speculative fiction featuring African American young women. While the #BlackGirlMagic movement inspired a wave of positive African American female heroes in young adult fiction, it is still important to acknowledge the history and legacy of enslavement in America and their impact on literature. Many of the depictions of young Black women in contemporary speculative fiction still rely on stereotypical representations rooted in American enslavement. African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative investigates the application of the neo-slave narrative structure to the twenty-first-century young adult text. Author Melanie A. Marotta examines texts featuring a female, adolescent protagonist of color, including Orleans, Tankborn, The Book of Phoenix, Binti, and The Black God's drums, as well as series like the Devil's Wake series, Octavia E. Butler's Parable series, and the Dread Nation series. Taken together, these chapters seek to analyze whether the roles for adolescent female characters of color are changing or whether they remain re-creations of traditional slave narrative roles. Further, the chapters explore if trauma, healing, and activism are enacted in this genre"-- Provided by publisher.