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Aproximaciones al estudio del español como lengua de herencia

Aproximaciones al estudio del español como lengua de herencia

Aproximaciones al estudio del español como lengua de herencia reúne diversas perspectivas sobre el estudio del español como lengua de herencia en el contexto de los Estados Unidos. El volumen presenta una amplia gama de enfoques lingüísticos modelos pedagógicos e innovaciones programáticas. Dirigido a investigadores noveles y experimentados al igual que a estudiantes y profesionales de la enseñanza es un volumen ideal para aquellas personas que desean actualizar sus conocimientos del campo y obtener una perspectiva panorámica sobre la investigación y la enseñanza del español como lengua de herencia. Características principales: temas que incluyen entre otros la fonología/la fonética la morfosintaxis la pragmática la enseñanza mediante el enfoque por tareas la literacidad múltiple el translenguar los programas de community college el español para fines específicos y la investigación-acción; contenidos teóricos empíricos y pragmáticos relevantes para la enseñanza del español como lengua de herencia; descripciones y ejemplos que facilitan la adquisición de conocimientos sobre la materia; diferentes secciones que permiten la flexibilidad en cuanto al orden de lectura del volumen; preguntas de reflexión al final de cada capítulo para facilitar la comprensión de los temas presentados. Escrito de manera clara y accesible Aproximaciones al estudio del español como lengua de herencia es un recurso indispensable para cursos de grado y posgrado en español sobre el español como lengua de herencia. Aproximaciones al estudio del español como lengua de herencia brings together a number of diverse scholarly voices and perspectives on the study of Spanish as a heritage language with a focus on the United States context. The volume presents a comprehensive view of this growing and dynamic field with the latest on linguistic approaches pedagogical models and programmatic innovations. Directed to beginning and seasoned researchers as well as to students and practitioners who wish to update their knowledge of the field and gain a fresh perspective on different approaches to researching and teaching Spanish heritage bilinguals. Written in Spanish for a wider audience in the Spanish-speaking world and for the teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish. Key features: A broad range of topics including phonology/phonetics morphosyntax pragmatics task-based language teaching multiliteracy translanguaging community college programs Spanish for specific purposes and action research among others; Clear overviews of theoretical empirical and pragmatic issues relevant to the teaching of Spanish as a heritage language; Every chapter builds on specific core questions central to current understandings of research and practice; Concise descriptions and examples throughout provide readers with the tools they need to understand the subject matter; Organized into three sections that allows for flexibility regarding reading order; A section of reflection questions at the end of each chapter to help readers gain a deeper understanding of the issues at stake. Written in clear and accessible Spanish Aproximaciones al estudio del español como lengua de herencia is a critical resource for those interested in understanding Spanish heritage speakers’ multifaceted linguistic experience in tandem with providing a meaningful educational experience that supports their personal professional and learning goals.

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Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris Shifting Perspectives

Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris Shifting Perspectives

Maria Scott's study of the operation of irony in Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris contends that the principal target of the collection's spleen is its own readership. Baudelaire as one of the most perceptive cultural commentators of the nineteenth century was naturally very keenly aware of the growing dominance of the bourgeoisie in France not least as a market for art and literature. Despite being dependent on this market for his own writing the poet was highly critical of bourgeois values and attitudes. Scott builds on existing criticism of the collection to argue that these are indirectly mocked in Le Spleen de Paris often in the person of the poet's supposed textual alter ego. The contention is that the prose poems betray the trust of readers by way of an apparent transparency of meaning that functions to blind us to their embedded irony. Though focused on Le Spleen de Paris Scott's study engages with the full range of Baudelaire's writings including his art and literary criticism. Her book will be of interest not only to Baudelaire scholars but also to those engaged more generally with nineteenth-century French culture. | Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris Shifting Perspectives

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The Fin-de-Siècle World

The Fin-de-Siècle World

This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siècle from a global perspective. The volume includes pathbreaking essays on how the period was experienced not only in Europe and North America but also in China Japan the Middle East Latin America Africa India and elsewhere across the globe. Thematic topics covered include new concepts of time and space globalization the city and new political movements including nationalism the New Liberalism and socialism and communism. The volume also looks at the development of mass media over this period and emerging trends in culture such as advertising and consumption film and publishing as well as the technological and scientific changes that shaped the world at the turn of the nineteenth century such as the invention of the telephone new transport systems eugenics and physics. The Fin-de-Siècle World also considers issues such as selfhood through chapters looking at gender sexuality adolescence race and class and considers the importance of different religions both old and new at the turn of the century. Finally the volume examines significant and emerging trends in art music and literature alongside movements such as realism and aestheticism. This volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics religion popular and artistic culture social practices and scientific endeavours fitted together in an exciting world of change. It will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Fin-de-Siècle period.

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Part-Architecture The Maison de Verre Duchamp Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris

Part-Architecture The Maison de Verre Duchamp Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris

Part-Architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre Chareau’s Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist artwork Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass. Aligning the two works materially historically and conceptually the book challenges the accepted architectural descriptions of the Maison de Verre makes original spatial and social accounts of its inhabitation in 1930s Paris and presents new architectural readings of the Large Glass. Through a rich analysis which incorporates creative projects into history and theory research the book establishes new ways of writing about architecture. Designed for politically progressive gynaecologist Dr Jean Dalsace and his avant-garde wife Annie Dalsace the Maison de Verre combines a family home with a gynaecology clinic into a ‘free-plan’ layout. Screened only by glass walls the presence of the clinic in the home suggests an untold dialogue on 1930s sexuality. The text explores the Maison de Verre through another radical glass construction the Large Glass where Duchamp’s complex depiction of unconsummated sexual relations across the glass planes reveals his resistance to the marital conventions of 1920s Paris. This and other analyses of the Large Glass are used as a framework to examine the Maison de Verre as a register of the changing history of women’s domestic and maternal choices reclaiming the building as a piece of female social architectural history. The process used to uncover and write the accounts in the book is termed ‘part-architecture’. Derived from psychoanalytic theory part-architecture fuses analytical descriptive and creative processes to produce a unique social and architectural critique. Identifying three essential materials to the Large Glass the book has three main chapters: ‘Glass’ ‘Dust’ and ‘Air’. Combining theory text creative writing and drawing each traces the history and meaning of the material and its contribution to the spaces and sexuality of the Large Glass and the Maison de Verre. As a whole the book contributes important and unique spatial readings to existing scholarship and expands definitions of architectural design and history. | Part-Architecture The Maison de Verre Duchamp Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris

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Manual de fonética y fonología españolas

Manual de fonética y fonología españolas

Written entirely in Spanish Manual de fonética y fonología españolas has a comprehensive scope that touches on all aspects of phonetics and phonology—including acoustic and auditory phonetics phonotactics and suprasegmentals which most often remain untreated. The book provides students with a detailed and accurate yet accessible introduction to Spanish phonetics and phonology. It includes introductory chapters which place these disciplines within the general field of linguistics and which emphasize the role of sounds and their representation in human communication. Key features: Written by trained phoneticians and informed by the current science of phonetics. No prior knowledge of linguistics assumed as a foundation is laid throughout for all linguistic terms and concepts. Each chapter contains a summary a list of concepts and terminology review questions and pedagogically relevant pronunciation exercises keyed to the specific hints and suggestions provided in the chapters. Chapters dealing with the physical production of sounds contain sections with “Pedagogical Hints ” “Practical Suggestions ” and “Pronunciation Exercises” to link theory to the practical aspects of improving pronunciation. A wealth of graphic material to illustrate each concept clearly. Models of how to pronounce the sounds sentences and exercises presented in the text are available online at routledge. com/cw/clegg. Manual de fonética y fonología españolas is a comprehensive introduction designed to be clear and accessible to advanced students of Spanish to help them understand how to improve their pronunciation. It will serve as an excellent book for graduate students as well as a valuable resource for teachers linguists and language professionals.

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Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2

Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2

Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2 constituye una valiosa aportación al estudio de la adquisición y la enseñanza del español LE/L2 desde la perspectiva teórica de la lingüística cognitiva. Se trata de la primera obra escrita en español en la que se ofrece una introducción a la lingüística cognitiva y su aplicación didáctica a la enseñanza del español LE/L2 desde una óptica internacional. Combina una orientación teórico-práctica que incluye diferentes estudios empíricos con pautas para ayudar a los profesores de español a integrar la lingüística cognitiva en la enseñanza de la lengua. Características principales: • Una estructura homogénea y facilitadora de la lectura de los distintos capítulos que sirve para integrar contenidos lingüísticos y gramaticales desde un punto de vista cognitivo; • Cuestiones clave en la enseñanza del español LE/L2 desde la óptica de la lingüística cognitiva: aspectos controvertidos de gramática el desarrollo de la competencia metafórica el aprendizaje del léxico la influencia de la lengua materna el foco en la forma el uso de la traducción pedagógica; • Pautas y sugerencias para aplicar la lingüística cognitiva en la enseñanza de la lengua así como futuras vías de investigación; • Una selección de imágenes gráfi cos e ilustraciones para facilitar la comprensión de los temas y conceptos que se abordan en el volumen; • Un glosario bilingüe (español e inglés) de términos clave para que cualquier lector pueda familiarizarse con los conceptos fundamentales de la lingüística cognitiva. Escrito en español de manera clara y accesible y con abundantes ejemplos Lingüística cognitiva y español LE/L2 es una obra de referencia para docentes de español como LE/L2 estudiantes graduados y formadores de profesores así como para cualquier persona que desee adquirir una perspectiva actual sobre las principales aportaciones teóricas y prácticas de la lingüística cognitiva a la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de segundas lenguas.

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Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture

Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture

The first English-language monograph on the French dancer and model Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture explores the haunting legacy of this intriguing and glamorous figure an international celebrity at the dawn of modern celebrity culture. Situating Mérode at a pivotal moment in the history of fame and visual culture this study analyzes how technological and societal changes led to our star-struck modernity. Mérode was one of the earliest examples of fame born from mass visual culture as newly available postcards circulated her image around the globe. Through Mérode Michael D. Garval illuminates broader trends of the Belle ‰poque: persistent statue fetishism within a vibrant monumental culture rampant exoticism amid unprecedented colonial expansion the rapid growth of the illustrated press the rise of female show business personalities the advent of cinema and x-rays and a burgeoning sense of new visual possibilities. The volume examines how Mérode heralded modern celebrity icons; problematizes the status of women and women's bodies under intense public scrutiny; and exposes the paradoxes of a society captivated by a mass media-driven dream of intimacy from afar. Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture probes the neglected prehistory of a visual culture obsessed with celebrities and their images.

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Introducción a la traducción inglés español

Introducción a la traducción inglés español

Ahora en su segunda edición este manual introduce al lector a la actividad de la traducción de español-inglés/inglés-español adoptando un punto de vista práctico y siguiendo los estándares profesionales actuales. Integrando los últimos avances en la profesión de la traducción con sólidos enfoques pedagógicos Introducción a la traducción explora las competencias necesarias durante el proceso de traducción; desde el conocimiento de las lenguas y las culturas hasta la comprensión de la traducción como actividad y como producto a través de una diversidad de tipos textuales. Cada lección cuenta con una gran cantidad de actividades y ejercicios prácticos. Esta nueva edición ofrece más actividades más ejemplos que reflejan las variedades de español de Latinoamérica contenidos ampliados y nuevos temas de actual relevancia como la interpretación a distancia la localización la traducción automática y la inteligencia artificial. Los estudiantes aumentarán su competencia traductora de una manera sistemática relevante y contextualizada. En esta segunda edición se han aumentado los recursos disponibles en la página web del manual incluyendo nuevas presentaciones de PowerPoint y herramientas de evaluación para los instructores así como más textos para la práctica de la traducción para los estudiantes. Now in its second edition this manual introduces readers to the activity of Spanish-English/English-Spanish translation while adopting a practical perspective aligned with current professional standards. Integrating the latest developments in the translation profession with solid pedagogical approaches Introducción a la traducción explores the competencies needed during the translation process; from knowledge about the languages and cultures to understanding translation as an activity and as a product through a diversity of text types. Each lesson provides ample practice through hands-on activities and exercises. This new edition offers more activities more examples relevant to Latin American varieties of Spanish expanded content and coverage of contemporary topics such as remote interpreting localization machine translation and artificial intelligence. Students will increase their translation competency in a systematic meaningful and contextualized way. In this second edition the companion website provides additional resources including new PowerPoint presentations and assessment tools for instructors and more texts for translation practice for students. | Introducción a la traducción inglés español

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Pronunciaciones del español

Pronunciaciones del español

Pronunciaciones del español es una introducción accesible a la fonética y la fonología del español que destaca la diversidad de pronunciaciones empleadas en el mundo hispanohablante. Con explicaciones claras y gráficos detallados este libro guía al estudiante en el aprendizaje de conceptos claves de fonética articulatoria y acústica. El libro presta especial atención a la variación sociolingüística a partir de ejemplos que cubren pronunciaciones típicas de variedades estándares y de variedades generalmente consideradas no normativas. Una abundante selección de ejercicios y actividades permite al estudiante reforzar la comprensión de conceptos claves y practicar las pronunciaciones comentadas. Un glosario bilingüe (español-inglés) archivos de audio y recursos pedagógicos se encuentran disponibles en línea en www. routledge. com/9781138657540. El libro es idóneo para estudiantes que inician estudios al nivel avanzado de español y de lingüística hispánica y que buscan familiarizarse con las pronunciaciones de diferentes variedades de español. Pronunciaciones del español is an accessible introduction to the linguistic diversity of Spanish phonetics and phonology. With clear explanations and detailed illustrations this book guides students through key concepts in articulatory and acoustic phonetics. Particular attention is paid throughout to sociolinguistic variation with examples covering pronunciations typical of standard varieties as well as varieties generally considered to be non-normative. A rich array of exercises and activities allow students to reinforce understanding of key concepts and practice the pronunciations as described. A bilingual glossary accompanying audio files and teaching resources are available online at www. routledge. com/9781138657540. This book is ideal for advanced students of Spanish and Hispanic Linguistics looking to develop familiarity with the pronunciation of different varieties of Spanish.

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Time Temporality and Violence in International Relations (De)fatalizing the Present Forging Radical Alternatives

Time Temporality and Violence in International Relations (De)fatalizing the Present Forging Radical Alternatives

Time transforms the way we see world politics and insinuates itself into the ways we act. In this groundbreaking volume Agathangelou and Killian bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to tackle time and temporality in international relations. The authors – critical theorists artists and poets – theorize and speak from the vantage point of the anticolonial postcolonial and decolonial event. They investigate an array of experiences and structures of violence – oppression neocolonization slavery war poverty and exploitation – focusing on the tensions produced by histories of slavery and colonization and disrupting dominant modes of how we understand present times. This edited volume takes IR in a new direction defatalizing the ways in which we think about dominant narratives of violence ‘peace’ and ‘liberation’ and renewing what it means to decolonize today’s world. It challenges us to confront violence and suffering and articulates another way to think the world arguing for an understanding of the ‘present’ as a vulnerable space through which radically different temporal experiences appear. And it calls for a disruption of the everyday politics of expediency in the guise of neoliberalism and security. This volume reorients the ethical and political assumptions that affectively imaginatively and practically captivate us simultaneously unsettling the familiar but dubious promises of a modernity that decimates political life. Re-animating an international political the authors evoke people’s struggles and movements that are neither about redemption nor erasure but a suspension of time for radical new beginnings. | Time Temporality and Violence in International Relations (De)fatalizing the Present Forging Radical Alternatives

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The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

The studies in which history of art and theatre are considered together are few and none to date investigate the evolution of the representation of clouds from the early Renaissance to the Baroque period. This book reconsiders the origin of Italian Renaissance and Baroque cloud compositions while including the theatrical tradition as one of their most important sources. By examining visual sources such as paintings frescos and stage designs together with letters guild-ledgers descriptions of performances and relevant treatises a new methodology to approach the development of this early modern visuality is offered. The result is an historical reconstruction where multiple factors are seen as facets of a single process which led to the development of Italy’s visual culture. The book also offers new insights into Leonardo da Vinci’s theatrical works Raphael’s Disputa Vasari’s Lives and Pietro da Cortona’s fresco paintings. The Spectacle of Clouds 1439-1650 examines the different ways Heaven has been conceived imagined and represented from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century crossing over into the fields of history religion and philosophy. | The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

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Ecological Epistemologies and Spiritualities in Brazilian Ecovillages In the Labyrinth of an Environmental Anthropology

Ecological Epistemologies and Spiritualities in Brazilian Ecovillages In the Labyrinth of an Environmental Anthropology

This book brings together ethnographic field research on four permacultural ecovillages in Brazil to highlight the importance of spirituality and ecological epistemologies as key analytical tools. It demonstrates that ecological spirituality can and should be understood beyond the dichotomy of personal and political between people and nature in the field of environmental anthropology. The book uses a broad philosophical methodology based on the phenomenological theories of Maurice Merleau-Ponty Tim Ingold and Alfred Schutz combined with post-structuralist conceptions of the relationship between person and world individual and society. The field research consisted of ethnographic travel observation and recorded dialogue with individuals based in each ecovillage: Arca Verde situated in Campos de Cima da Serra; Vrinda Bhumi a Vaishnava ecovillage in Baependi-MG; Goura Vrindavana a Vaishnava ecovillage in Paraty-RJ; and Muriqui Assu Ecovillage Project a secular ecovillage in Niterói-RJ. Throughout the book ethnographic research is woven together with poetic interludes images personal narrative experience and phenomenological theory bringing a new understanding and approach to environmental anthropology as a discipline. Including a Preface written by Tim Ingold it will appeal to academics researchers and upper-level students in phenomenology environmental philosophy environmental anthropology religious studies and social sciences more broadly. | Ecological Epistemologies and Spiritualities in Brazilian Ecovillages In the Labyrinth of an Environmental Anthropology

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The Philosophy of Curiosity

The Philosophy of Curiosity

In this book Ilhan Inan questions the classical definition of curiosity as a desire to know. Working in an area where epistemology and philosophy of language overlap Inan forges a link between our ability to become aware of our ignorance and our linguistic aptitude to construct terms referring to things unknown. The book introduces the notion of inostensible reference (or reference to the unknown). Ilhan connects this notion to related concepts in philosophy of language: knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description; the referential and the attributive uses of definite descriptions; the de re/de dicto distinction; and Kripke’s distinction between rigid and accidental designators. Continuing with a discussion of the conditions for curiosity and its satisfaction Inan argues that the learning process—starting in curiosity and ending in knowledge—is always an effort to transform our inostensible terms into ostensible ones. A contextual account is adopted for the satisfaction of curiosity. It then discusses the conditions of successful reference to the object of curiosity and its presuppositions. The book concludes with a discussion on the limits of curiosity and its satisfaction. | The Philosophy of Curiosity

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Community of Citizens On the Modern Idea of Nationality

Community of Citizens On the Modern Idea of Nationality

In this critically acclaimed work for which she was awarded the Prix de L'Assemblee Nationale in 1994 sociologist Dominique Schnapper offers a learned and concise antidote to contemporary assaults on the nation. Schnapper's arguments on behalf of the modern nation represent at once a learned history of the national ideal a powerful rejoinder to its contemporary critics and a masterful essay in the sociological tradition of Ernest Renan Alexis de Tocqueville Emile Durkheim and Raymond Aron. If Schnapper asserts the fate of liberal democracy is coterminous with that of the national ideal then the nation's fate and the answer to this question must be of pressing interest to us all. Reflecting deeply on both the nation's past and future Schnapper places her hopes in what she terms the community of citizens. No mere exercise in sociological abstraction Schnapper's case for the nation also entails a practical political objective. In a time of radical difference the national ideal may be the last great social unifier. This book deserves a place alongside the works of Elie Kedourie Ernest Gellner Anthony Smith and other classics in the study of nationalism and nationality. This work will be of interest to sociologists historians and political scientists alike. | Community of Citizens On the Modern Idea of Nationality

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The Legend of Guy of Warwick

The Legend of Guy of Warwick

This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres manuscript/book production and cultural political and religious emphases by examining one of the most long lived popular legends in England. Guy of Warwick became part of history when he was named in chronicles and heraldic rolls. The power of the Earls of Warwick especially Richard de Beauchamp inspired the spread of the legend but Guy's highest fame came in the Renaissance as one of the Nine Worthies. Widely praised in texts and allusions Guy's feats were sung in ballads and celebrated on the stage in England and France. The first Anglo-Norman romance of Gui de Warewic a Saxon hero of the tenth century was written in the early 13th century; the latest retellings of the legend are contemporary. Examples of Guy's legend can be found in two English translations that survived the Middle Ages a new French prose romance a didactic tale in the Gesta Romanorum and late medieval versions in Celtic German and Catalan as well as English. Guy remained a favorite Edwardian children's story and was featured in the Warwick Pageant an historical extravaganza of 1906. The patriotism of World War II sparked a resurgence of interest that produced several new versions mostly folkloric. | The Legend of Guy of Warwick

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The Portuguese in India and Other Studies 1500-1700

The Portuguese in India and Other Studies 1500-1700

The studies brought together in this volume were published over the last thirty years and are concerned directly or indirectly with the Portuguese presence in India between about 1500 and 1650. They have been arranged into four groups of which the first 'The Portuguese in India' includes pieces on the changing character of the empire in India Goa in the 17th century the Portuguese India Company of 1628-33 smugglers the great famine of the early 1630s and the ceremonial induction process for new viceroys. A second group focuses on the life career and background of the count of Linhares before during and after his term as viceroy at Goa. The third group consists of studies on travel and communications between India and Portugal both by sea and by land. The collection concludes with studies under the heading of 'historiography and problems of interpretation' on Charles Boxer as a biographer and on Vasco da Gama's reputation for violence. | The Portuguese in India and Other Studies 1500-1700

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Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine

Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine

The thirteen studies in this volume explore critical problems in Fatimid history and historiography many specifically focused on the content of doctrinal writings produced by the Ismaili supporters and agents of this caliphate who worked on behalf of the dynasty both within the empire and outside. Several concern issues in disputes that separated the various factions of Medieval Islam and served to distinguish the Ismailis from the rest often branding the Fatimids with the charge of heterodoxy. Others deal with the consequence of Shiite rule over a largely non-Shiite populace. Yet others involve the relationship between religious ideology and the administration of government. Among the themes featured in this collection there are separate investigations of institutions of learning of succession to the imamate the da`wa the judiciary relations with the Byzantines and with the Abbasids and works on heresiography doctrines of time and the accusation that the Ismailis upheld the metempsychosis of the human soul. The latter topics help to situate the Ismailis and hence the Fatimids within the broader context of Islamic thought. | Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine

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The Family Women and Death Comparative Studies

The Family Women and Death Comparative Studies

Originally published in 1983 and as a second edition in 1993 this book deals with 3 universal but culturally variable phenomena: the family women and death. The book poses questions about our own ways of looking at the family and private life at sex and gender and at death by analysing ancient Greek ideas and by showing how researchers’ presuppositions have been influenced by their own culture and experience. The views of Fustel de Coulanges on the place of tomb-cult in the evolution of the family in the ancient world are critically examined and related to their 19th Century context; the study of the classical Athenian family is related to current historical and sociological debates on the separation between public and private life. | The Family Women and Death Comparative Studies

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Architecture and the Historical Imagination Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc 1814–1879

Architecture and the Historical Imagination Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc 1814–1879

Hailed as one of the key theoreticians of modernism Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was also the most renowned restoration architect of his age a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism. He published some of the most influential texts in the history of modern architecture such as the Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture fran§aise du XIe au XVIe siècle and Entretiens sur l’architecture but also studies on warfare geology and racial history. Martin Bressani expertly traces Viollet-le-Duc’s complex intellectual development mapping the attitudes he adopted toward the past showing how restoration in all its layered meaning shaped his outlook. Through his life journey we follow the route by which the technological subject was born out of nineteenth-century historicism. | Architecture and the Historical Imagination Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc 1814–1879

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Stemming the Torrent Expression and Control in the Victorian Discourses on Emotion 1830-1872

Stemming the Torrent Expression and Control in the Victorian Discourses on Emotion 1830-1872

This title was first published in 2002: Gesa Stedman mines the vein of emotion in Victorian writing to unearth new insights into the ways literature responded to the dramatic social and political changes then taking place. Contemporary research from various disciplines including sociology ethnology and history inform this study which juxtaposes canonical material such as Dickens' Hard Times Charlotte Bronte's Shirley and Germaine de Stael's Corinne with popular novels and non-fictional texts such as The Education of the Heart by Sarah Ellis and Darwin's On the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. The analysis deals with emotions applying to both genders but includes a special section examining the representation of emotion in relation to women. The book aims to provide new insight into the literature of the period and brings to light new material for scholars interested in the philosophy and psychology of emotions. | Stemming the Torrent Expression and Control in the Victorian Discourses on Emotion 1830-1872

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Timber Bridges

Timber Bridges

Bridges built in timber are enjoying a significant revival both for pedestrian and light traffic and increasingly for heavier loadings and longer spans. Timber's high strength-to-weight ratio combined with the ease and speed of construction inherent in the off-site prefabrication methods used make a timber bridge a suitable option in many different scenarios. This handbook gives technical guidance on forms materials structural design and construction techniques suitable for both small and large timber bridges. Eurocode 5 Part Two (BS EN 1995-2) for the first time provides an international standard for the construction of timber bridges removing a potential obstacle for engineers where timber construction for bridges has not – in recent centuries at least – been usual. Clearly illustrated throughout this guide explains how to make use of this oldest construction material in a modern context to create sustainable aesthetically pleasing practical and durable bridges. Worldwide examples include Tourand Creek Bridge Canada; Toijala Finland; Punt la Resgia Switzerland; Pont de Crest France; Almorere Pylon Bridge the Netherlands.

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International Cases in the Business of Sport

International Cases in the Business of Sport

Contemporary sport is big business. Major teams leagues franchises merchandisers and retailers are in fierce competition in a dynamic global marketplace. Now in a fully revised and updated second edition International Cases in the Business of Sport presents an unparalleled range of cutting-edge case studies that show how contemporary sport business is done and provides insight into commercial management practice. Written by a team of international experts these case studies cover organisations and events as diverse as the NBA the Americas Cup the Tour de France the PGA tour FC Barcelona and the Australian Open tennis. They explore key contemporary themes in sport business and management such as broadcast rights social media strategic development ownership models mega-events sports retailing globalisation corruption and financial problems. Each case study also includes discussion questions recommended reading and links to useful web resources. International Cases in the Business of Sport is an essential companion to any sport business or sport management course and fascinating reading for any sport business professional looking to deepen their understanding of contemporary management.

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Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture. The new worlds that European navigation opened up at the turn of the 16th century elicited a great deal of curiosity and were the subject of a vast range of writings much of them with an empirical basis albeit often subtly fictionalized. In the context of intense literary and intellectual activity that characterized the Renaissance the encounters generated by European colonial activities in fact produced a remarkable variety of images of human diversity. Some of these images were conditioned by the actual dynamics of cross-cultural encounters overseas but many others were elaborated in Europe by cosmographers historians and philosophers pursuing their own moral and political agendas. As the studies included here show the combined effect was in the long term dramatic: interacting with the impact of humanism and of insurmountable religious divisions travel writing decisively contributed to the transformation of European culture towards the concerns of the Enlightenment. The essays illuminate this process through a combination of general discussions and the contextual analysis of particular texts and debates ranging form the earliest ethnographies produced by merchants travelling to Asia with Vasco da Gama to the writings of Jesuit missionaries researching idolatry in India and China or thinkers like Hugo Grotius seeking to explain the origin of the American Indians. | Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

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The canzone villanesca alla napolitana Social Cultural and Historical Contexts

The canzone villanesca alla napolitana Social Cultural and Historical Contexts

The printed debut of the canzone villanesca alla napolitana occurred on 24 October 1537 in Naples. Fifteen anonymous 'rustic songs' were published by Johannes de Colonia in a pocket-sized anthology with a cover featuring three women with hoes tilling the soil. The adjective villanesca (from villano or peasant) in the strict sense of the word means rustic or crude but in this new context it also intimates that Neapolitan poet-musicians had been affected by the instinctive lyrical traditions of everyday people. The articles in this volume trace the Neapolitan origins of this song form and its subsequent development as it spread quickly throughout Italy in a succession of editions published in Venice and Rome providing a diverse repertory of lively songs to amuse the privileged that held and attended academies. Several studies focus on key figures in this process notably Ferrante Sanseverino Prince of Salerno and Orlando di Lasso. At the same time the author relates these developments to the contemporary political context notably the rivalry of Spain and France for control of the Kingdom of Naples. | The canzone villanesca alla napolitana Social Cultural and Historical Contexts

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Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development

Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development

This Handbook gives a comprehensive international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development namely institutional environmental social and economic and calls for greater participation social cohesion justice and democracy as well as limited throughput of materials and energy. The nature of sustainable development and the book’s theorization of the concept underline the need for interdisciplinarity in the discourse as exemplified in each chapter of this volume. The Handbook employs a critical framework that problematises the concept of sustainable development and the struggle between discursivity and control that has characterised the debate. It provides original contributions from international experts coming from a variety of disciplines and regions including the Global South. Comprehensive in scope it covers amongst other areas: Sustainable architecture and design Biodiversity Sustainable business Climate change Conservation Sustainable consumption De-growth Disaster management Eco-system services Education Environmental justice Food and sustainable development Governance Gender Health Indicators for sustainable development Indigenous perspectives Urban transport The Handbook offers researchers and students in the field of sustainable development invaluable insights into a contested concept and the alternative worldviews that it has fostered. | Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development

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