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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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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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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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Social Work in Health Settings Practice in Context

Social Work in Health Settings Practice in Context

This fully revised and expanded fifth edition of Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context maintains its use of the Practice-in-Context (PiC) decision-making framework to explore a wide range of social work services in healthcare settings. The PiC is updated in this edition to attend to social determinants of health and structural conditions. The PiC framework is applied in over 30 case chapters to reflect varied health and social care settings with multiple populations. Fully updated to reflect the landscape of healthcare provision in the US since the Affordable Care Act was reaffirmed in 2020 the cases are grounded by primer chapters to illustrate the necessary decisional and foundational skills for best practices in social work in health settings. The cases cover micro through macro level work with individuals families groups and communities across the life course. The PiC framework helps maintain focus on each of the practice decisions a social worker must make when working with a variety of clients (including military veterans refugees LGBTQ+ clients). The ideal textbook for social work in healthcare and clinical social work classes this thought-provoking volume thoroughly integrates social work theory and practice and provides an excellent opportunity for understanding particular techniques and interventions. | Social Work in Health Settings Practice in Context

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LatinX Voices Hispanics in Media in the U.S

LatinX Voices Hispanics in Media in the U.S

LatinX Voices is the first undergraduate textbook that includes an overview of Hispanic/LatinX Media in the U. S. and gives readers an understanding of how media in the United States has transformed around this audience. Based on the authors’ professional and research experience and teaching broadcast media courses in the classroom this text covers the evolving industry and offers perspective on topics related to Latin-American areas of interest. With professional testimonials from those who have left their mark in print radio television film and new media this collection of chapters brings together expert voices in Hispanic/LatinX media from across the U. S. and explains the impact of this population on the media industry today. | LatinX Voices Hispanics in Media in the U. S

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Solitary Waves in Plasmas and in the Atmosphere

Solitary Waves in Plasmas and in the Atmosphere

First Published in 1992. This book arose as a result of the authors work on the review ‘Solitary Vortices in Plasmas’ written for the Soviet Journal of Plasma Physics. With the development of nonlinear wave theory some novel concepts came into use such as solitary waves solitary vortices and solitons. There is still some inconsistency in the use of these terms. The study of solitary waves (solitons) should ultimately lead to a better understanding of the internal structure of elementary particles. That is why solitons are attracting great attention from physicists and mathematicians. The material presented in this book shows that solitons are also of interest in plasma physics and geophysics where these concepts have many important applications. | Solitary Waves in Plasmas and in the Atmosphere

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Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti

Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti

This book explores the social political and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how such ideology and practices influence students’ academic achievement. Jean-Pierre provides empirical evidence that a relationship exists between language practices and school underperformance. He takes Haiti as the focus of study finding that students and teachers experience difficulty constructing knowledge in a setting in which the language they speak at home (Creole) differs from the language of instruction (French). The research is based on ethnographic data collected in classrooms in both private and public school settings in addition to different sectors of the society (e. g. state and private institutions). | Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti

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Education and Research in Public Administration in Africa

Education and Research in Public Administration in Africa

Originally published in 1974 this book is a valuable contribution to the literature about the African context of public administration. The application of research to public administration and the communication of research findings are discussed in depth. All aspects of the subject are presented: non-university based non-academic institutes as well as undergraduate and post-graduate programmes. The book concludes with some non-African comparisons from Australia France the USA and UK. | Education and Research in Public Administration in Africa

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Rural Livelihoods in China Political economy in transition

Rural Livelihoods in China Political economy in transition

In recent decades China has undergone rapid economic growth industrialisation and urbanisation concomitant with deep and extensive structural and social change profoundly reshaping the country’s development landscape and urban-rural relationships. This book applies livelihoods approaches to deepen our understanding of the changes and continuities related to rural livelihoods within the wider context of political economy of development in post-socialist China bridging the urban and rural scenarios and probing the local national and global dynamics that have impacted on livelihood in particular its mobility security and sustainability. Presenting theoretically informed and empirically grounded research by leading scholars from across the world this book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on issues central to rural livelihoods development welfare and well-being. It documents and analyses the processes and consequences of change focusing on social protection of mobile livelihoods particularly rural migrants’ citizenship rights in the city and the environmental social and political aspects of sustainability in the countryside. This book contributes to the current scholarly and policy debates and is among the first attempts to critically reflect on China’s market transition and the associated pathways to change. It will be of interest to students in international development studies China studies social policy public health political science and environmental studies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as academics policy makers and practitioners who are concerned with China’s human and social development in general and agriculture and rural livelihoods in particular. | Rural Livelihoods in China Political economy in transition

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Ethics in Criminal Justice In Search of the Truth

Ethics in Criminal Justice In Search of the Truth

Introducing the fundamentals of ethical theory Ethics in Criminal Justice: In Search of the Truth Seventh Edition exposes the reader to the ways and means of making moral judgments by exploring the teachings of the great philosophers sources of criminal justice ethics and ethical issues in the criminal justice system. It is presented from two perspectives: a thematic perspective that addresses ethical principles common to all components of the discipline and an area-specific perspective that addresses the state of ethics in criminal justice in the fields of policing corrections and probation and parole. The seventh edition features discussion of current critical issues in criminal justice: accusations of racism police shootings stop and frisk policy marijuana laws mass incarceration life sentences prison privatization the swift and certain deterrence model of probation excessive probation fees and the Good Lives Model in corrections. The seventh edition also offers completely revised coverage of capital punishment and the rehabilitation debate and a discussion of how juvenile justice often fails to live up to its ideals. Finally the book features new case studies of recent ethical dilemmas in criminal justice to enhance students’ understanding of real-life ethics decision-making. Suitable for advanced undergraduates or graduate students in criminal justice programs in the US and globally this text offers a classical view of ethical decision-making and is well-grounded in specific case examples. | Ethics in Criminal Justice In Search of the Truth

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Alcoholism in Perspective

Alcoholism in Perspective

In the 1970s an important change of emphasis had occurred in the field of alcoholism. Instead of seeing alcoholism as an ‘all or none phenomenon’ it was now recognised that a continuum of alcohol problems existed so that individual cases could show different degrees of dependence and different degrees of harm. Originally published in 1979 this book examines the implications of this change of emphasis. It looks at definitional aetiological epidemiological and socio-cultural questions and contains contributions from acknowledged experts in all of these areas. The scientific evidence in each area is fully reviewed and made comprehensible to the non-specialist reader and similarities between trends in thinking in different fields are emphasised. In addition the book analyses the implications of the modern view of alcohol problems in terms of their theoretical basis and their practical application. A rational and pragmatic approach to the problems of working with alcoholics is analysed in some detail so that the links between new ideas and their manifestation in clinical practice are made clear. At the time this book represented a multi-disciplinary approach to a complex problem where previous thinking had been clouded by too ready acceptance of untested hypotheses. | Alcoholism in Perspective

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Leadership in Practice Theory and Cases in Leadership Character

Leadership in Practice Theory and Cases in Leadership Character

Recent financial crises and other high-profile mismanagement cases have brought a spotlight to the quality of leader character in the business sector. Leadership in Practice is the first book to provide an authoritative collection of cases to engage students interested in the importance of the character of business leaders. The authors have compiled a collection of cutting-edge cases and readings situating them within a theoretical landscape so students are familiarized with the concepts as they move through the text. The cases cover a wide range of successful businesses—from the NFL to Apple—and include notable controversies such as those surrounding Enron and Volkswagen. Alongside exclusive interviews and insights into the value of leadership character at individual team organizational and societal levels the book includes learning objectives and discussion questions to facilitate lively debate and interaction in the classroom. This volume will be a valuable supplement for students and instructors in any leadership class as well as researchers and practitioners interested in exploring case studies that illuminate the nature of leadership in a business setting. | Leadership in Practice Theory and Cases in Leadership Character

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Theatre in Towns

Theatre in Towns

Theatre in Towns offers a contemporary perspective on the role of theatre in the cultural life of towns in England. Exploring volunteer-led professional and community theatres this book investigates the rich and diverse ways that theatres in towns serve their locality negotiate their civic role participate in networks of mutual aid and exchange and connect audiences beyond their geographical borders. With a geographical focus on post-industrial seaside commuter and market towns in England the book opens questions about how theatre shapes the narratives of town life and how localism networks and partnerships across and between towns contribute to living sustainably. Each chapter is critically and historically informed drawing on original research in towns including visits to performances and many conversations with townspeople from theatre-makers performers set-builders front-of-house volunteers to audience members and civic leaders. Theatre in Towns asks urgent questions about how the relationships between towns and theatres can be redefined in new and equitable ways in the future. Theatre in Towns brings new research to scholars and students of theatre studies cultural geography cultural and social policy and political sociology. It will also interest artists policy-makers and researchers wanting to develop their own and others’ understanding of the value of active theatre cultures in towns. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license.

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Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848–1920)

Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848–1920)

This detailed volume explores the role and actions of economists in US Japanese and various European parliaments in the critical period between 1848 and 1920. Featuring chapters written by an international array of contributors from both economics and history the book provides fascinating insights into the parliamentary life in the period. It highlights the often pivotal role of economists within each administration; examines their influence on policy making their relationships with other MPs civil servants external economic associations and looks at the influence of public opinion on economic policy. The book also discusses the nature of the economic discourse practised in the parliamentary arena considering the complex relationships between science and practice and between politics and political economy in light of the evolution of economics during this period. The book is the first of its kind to provide a comparative framework for analysis and will appeal to economists and historians alike. | Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848–1920)

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Graffiti in Antiquity

Graffiti in Antiquity

Ancient graffiti - hundreds of thousands of informal ephemeral texts spanning millennia - offer a patchwork of fragmentary conversations in a variety of languages spread across the Mediterranean world. Cut painted inked or traced in charcoal the surviving graffiti present a layer of lived experience in the ancient world unavailable from other sources. Graffiti in Antiquity reveals how and why the inhabitants of Greece and Rome - men and women and free and enslaved - formulated written and visual messages about themselves and the world around them as graffiti. The sources - drawn from 800 BCE to 600 CE - are examined both within their individual historical cultural and archaeological contexts and thematically allowing for an exploration of social identity in the urban society of the ancient world. An analysis of one of the most lively and engaged forms of personal communication and protest Graffiti in Antiquity introduces a new way of reading sociocultural relationships among ordinary people living in the ancient world.

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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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Microeconomics in Context

Microeconomics in Context

Microeconomics in Context lays out the principles of microeconomics in a manner that is thorough up to date and relevant to students. Like its counterpart Macroeconomics in Context the book is uniquely attuned to economic social and environmental realities. The In Context books offer an engaging coverage of current research and policy issues from economic inequality and climate change to taxes and globalization. Key features include: Up-to-date discussions of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on inequality labor markets and beyond Analysis of recent trade issues and the implications of Brexit Presentation of policy issues in historical environmental institutional social political and ethical contexts—an approach that fosters critical evaluation of the standard microeconomic models Clear explanations of basic concepts and analytical tools with advanced models presented in optional chapter appendices A powerful graphical presentation of various measures of well-being in the United States and other countries including income inequality tax systems educational attainment and environmental quality A focus on human well-being from a multidimensional perspective including traditional economic metrics and factors such as health equity and political inclusion A full complement of student and instructor support materials online. The book combines real-world relevance with a thorough grounding in multiple economic paradigms. It is the ideal textbook for modern introductory courses in microeconomics. The book's companion website is available at: www. bu. edu/eci/micro

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Macroeconomics in Context

Macroeconomics in Context

Macroeconomics in Context lays out the principles of macroeconomics in a manner that is thorough up to date and relevant to students. Like its counterpart Microeconomics in Context the book is uniquely attuned to economic social and environmental realities. The “In Context” books offer engaging coverage of current topics including policy responses to recession and inflation inequality deficits and government debt economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economics of environmental sustainability. This fourth edition includes: Improved and concise discussions of introductory topics especially on key economic activities macroeconomic goals and economic models Further emphasis on inequality environmental sustainability financialization the changing nature of work and international developments such as the role of transnational corporations and supply chain issues Discussion of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on macroeconomic factors like well-being inequality and labor markets Presentation of policy issues in historical environmental institutional social political and ethical contexts including an updated discussion of fiscal policy in relation to the Biden administration’s infrastructure and social investment spending Clear explanations of basic economic concepts alongside more in-depth analysis of macroeconomics models and economic activity This book combines real-world relevance with a thorough grounding in multiple economic paradigms. It is the ideal textbook for modern introductory courses in macroeconomics. The book’s companion website is available at: http://www. bu. edu/eci/macro

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Concepts in Composition Theory and Practices in the Teaching of Writing

Concepts in Composition Theory and Practices in the Teaching of Writing

Concepts in Composition is designed to foster reflection on how theory impacts practice allowing prospective teachers to assume the dual role of both teacher and student as they enter the discipline of Writing Studies and become familiar with some of its critical conversations. Now in its third edition the volume offers up-to-date scholarship and a deeper focus on diversity both in the classroom and in relation to Writing Studies and literacy more broadly. This text continues to offer a wealth of practical assignments classroom activities and readings in each chapter. It is the ideal resource for the undergraduate or graduate student looking to pursue a career in writing instruction. | Concepts in Composition Theory and Practices in the Teaching of Writing

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Electoral Corruption in Bangladesh

Electoral Corruption in Bangladesh

This title was first published in 2001. Rigging elections in favour of those in power has become a common practice in Bangladesh. Muhammad Yeahia Akhter focuses on the significance of elections in this ostensibly democratic state and portrays how electoral corruption has damaged the process of democratic consolidation. The author reveals the failure of both civilian and military governments to obtain democratic legitimacy and/or credibility through free and fair elections. The study examines the relatively democratic but largely non-transparent nature of electioneering under non-partisan caretaker governments. The study provides a source of understanding of fair electoral process for the politicians and electoral officials in Bangladesh and other democratizing polities. It provides valuable information to the policy makers and practitioners in order to reform the electoral process in Bangladesh and in other similar countries. | Electoral Corruption in Bangladesh

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Drugs in Sport

Drugs in Sport

Drugs in Sport is the most comprehensive and accurate text on the emotive complex and critical subject of performance enhancement and doping within sport. Thoroughly updated in light of the latest World Anti-Doping Code and taking into account the latest regulations procedures and landmark cases this 8th edition explores the science behind drug use in sport as well as its ethical social political and administrative context. Introducing an increased focus on athletes with specific needs and on corrupt doping practices the book covers key topics including: - an evaluation of the prevalence of doping in sport; - the latest doping control regulations stipulated by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA); - the science and side effects of each major class of drug used in sport; - cutting-edge issues such as drug use by transgender athletes; - medical and anti-doping considerations for athletes with an impairment; - governance and corruption in sport including institutionalised doping; - issues surrounding sport nutrition and supplement use in sport; - medical and pharmaceutical services at major sporting events. Accessibly written and supported throughout with illustrative case studies and data Drugs in Sport provides a crucial and objective resource for students and researchers athletes sports scientists coaches and athlete-support staff journalists sports administrators and policymakers alike.

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Writing in-Between Collaborative Meaning Making in Performative Writing

Writing in-Between Collaborative Meaning Making in Performative Writing

Writing in-Between lies at intersections: between theory and praxis; between fiction and non-fiction; between author and reader; between the personal and the political. Beginning with a conceptual glossary that prepares readers for their journey through the book Dinesh offers two central texts to invite readers to become co-creators. The first F for _____ is written as an “academic novella” and culminates with an interactive section that is composed of guided invitations for the reader/co-creator. The second text Julys takes the form of a “dramatic memoir” and intersperses invitations for readers/co-creators between each of its chapters. Dinesh brings these threads together in an entirely interactive concluding chapter where her hopes for collaborative meaning making take centre stage. In all of its unique invitations to engage Dinesh’s readers/co-creators can either choose to craft their creations in personal notebooks or blank spaces in this work’s physical copy or to engage more publicly via virtual forums that can be accessed via QR codes and accompanying links that are scattered throughout the book. Guided by questions about writing can “do” — questions that have shaped Dinesh’s work as an artist scholar and educator for almost two decades — Writing in Between embodies one central tenet: that the significance of performative writing might be most powerfully experienced through a collaborative process of meaning making between a text’s author and its readers turned co-creators. | Writing in-Between Collaborative Meaning Making in Performative Writing

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