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Landscapes of Encounter : The Portrayal of Catholicism in the Novels of Brian…
Brian Moore (1921-1999) is one of the few novelists whose literary portrayal of Catholicism effectively spans the period prior to and following the Second Vatican Council. His novels—from 1955’s Judith Hearne to his final work, 1997’s The Magician’s Wife—are characterized by an enormously varied portrayal of pre- and post-Vatican II Catholicism. Many critics have discussed how Mooreâ€â€¦
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- 9781552386637
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- 312 halaman
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- 800 GEA l
Language Between God and the Poet : Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century
How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at t…
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- 9780520970144
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- 322 halaman
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- Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship
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- 800 KEY l
Landmarks Revisited : The Vekhi Symposium One Hundred Years On
The symposium entitled Vekhi, or Landmarks, is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Its fame rests on the critique it offers of the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia. It was published in 1909, under the editorship of Mikhail Gershenzon, as a polemical response to the revolution of 1905, the failed outcome of which was deemed by all the Landma…
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- 9781618117021
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- 324 halaman
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- Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
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- 800 AIZ l
The Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet
"The Monastery Rules discusses the position of monks and monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies. Using the monastic guidelines (bca’ yig) as primary sources, this book examines the impact of Buddhist monastic institutions on Tibetan societies by looking at their monastic policies that deal with organization, economy, justice, and public relations. As this type of literature has n…
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Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relation…
Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to celebrating gender transition with selfies. We have been warned about the psychological perils of technology: distraction, difficulty empathizing, and loss of the ability (or desire) to carry on a conversation. But our devices and data are woven into our lives. W…
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- 9780262350396
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Narrative in Urban Planning: A Practical Field Guide
What do planners need to know in order to use narrative approaches responsibly in their practice? This practical field guide makes insights from narrative research accessible to planners through a glossary of key concepts in the field of narrative in planning. What makes narratives coherent, probable, persuasive, even necessary - but also potentially harmful, manipulative and divisive? How can …
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- 9783839466179
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Idle Talk, Deadly Talk : The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature
The first book-length study of gossip’s place in the literature of the multilingual Caribbean reveals gossip to be a utilitarian and deeply political practice—a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles, that mark Caribbean politics and culture. Revising the overly gendered existing critical frame, RodrÃguez Navas argues that gossip is a fundamentally advers…
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- 9780813941622
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- 380 halaman
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The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the Fi…
How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre–World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body. In pre–World War I Europe, individual fitness was increasingly related to building and preserving collective society. Army recruitment offered the most important opportunity to screen male citizens' fitness, raising questions of …
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Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance
ABSTRACT Pressure to achieve work-life "balance" has recently become a significant part of the cultural fabric of working life in United States. A very few privileged employees tout their ability to find balance between their careers and the rest of their lives, but most employees face considerable organizational and economic constraints which hamper their ability to maintain a reasonable "bal…
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- 9781315719191
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The Politics of Mass Digitization
A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory. Today, all of us with internet connections can access millions of digitized cultural artifacts from the comfort of our desks. Institutions and individuals add thousands of new cultural works to the digital sphere every day, creating new central nexuses …
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