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  Sustainable Public Management

  Neil Boyd and Eric C. Martin

  Sustainable Public Management explores key issues in public sector sustainable management that span from Nation/State to local government. It highlights state-of-the art articulations of public-private partnerships, public engagement, inter-organizational networks, sustainability policy, strategy, standard setting, and reporting. Sustainable management is an important topic across organizational forms in the private, not-for-profit, and public sectors because of the its practice is tied to some of the most pressing environmental and social problems that exist in the world. The public sector is especially important due to its scale and scope across the globe, the tangible impacts that public service delivery can make in resource efficiency and effectiveness, and in directly tackling critical sustainable development goals.

  This book will be of great value to scholars, students, and policymakers interested in Public Administration and Management, Sustainable Management and Development.

  The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Public Management Review.

  Part I: National & State-Level

  1. Public–private partnerships as instruments to achieve sustainability-related objectives: the state of the art and a research agenda

  Alexander Pinz, Nahid Roudyani and Julia Thaler

  2. Public engagement in governance for sustainability: a two-tier assessment approach and illustrations from New Zealand

  Valentina Dinica

  3. Understanding the puzzle of organizational sustainability: toward a conceptual framework of organizational social connectedness and sustainability

  Alisa Moldavanova and Holly T. Goerdel

  4. Aiming for a sustainable future: conceptualizing public open foresight

  Lisa Schmidthuber and Melanie Wiener

  5. Seeds of distrust: conflicts over sustainable development in a local fracking policy network in New York State

  Junesoo Lee and Jeongyoon Lee

  Part II: Local Government

  6. Sustainability management, strategy and reform in local government

  Eric S. Zeemering

  7. All are not created equal: assessing local governments’ strategic approaches towards sustainability

  Hyunjung Ji and Nicole Darnall

  8. Sustainability standard setting as local government matter: an Italian experience

  Francesca Pepe, Sergio Paternostro and Patrizio Monfardini

  9. Sustainability reporting by local governments: a magic tool? Lessons on use and usefulness from European pioneers

  
  

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  Anthropocene Lullaby

  K. A. Hays

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  Football Nation: The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society

  Bastian Heinsohn, Rebeccah Dawson, Oliver Knabe, and Alan McDougall

  Over the past century, the impact of football on Germany has been manifold, influencing the arts, political debates, and even contributing to the construction of cultural memories and national narratives. Football Nation analyzes the game's fluid role in shaping and reflecting German society, and spans its focus on modern German history, from the Wilhelmine era to the early 21st century. Expounding on topics of gender, class, fandom, spectatorship, antisemitism, nationalism, and internationalism, a diverse group of interdisciplinary scholars offer a novel approach to understanding the many influences of football throughout its extensive history which until recently has only been available to a German-speaking readership. -- publisher

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  The Latin American Crisis and the New Authoritarian State

  Manuel Larrabure

  This book provides a fresh interpretation of the rise and fall of Latin America’s ‘left turn’, or movement towards more progressive economic or social policies. From a historical and comparative perspective, the book argues that Latin America is entering a new phase of authoritarian statism.

  Based on over 10 years of research on Latin American political economy and social movements, including years of fieldwork in Chile, Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina, this book combines the stories of individuals and groups in particular situations with the macro-level political and economic trajectory of the region since the postwar period. The book draws on over 100 interviews with community activists, workers, union leaders, politicians, journalists, and NGOs, as well as archival work. In addition, the book uses up-to-date national and regional economic data, including both standard and heterodox development indicators. By engaging with key case studies including Argentina’s recovered enterprises, Chile’s student movement, Brazil’s free transit movement, and Venezuela’s popular economy, this book analyzes the complex relationship between "post-capitalist struggles" and the governance models of the "pink tide", the wave of left governments that began to sweep the region at the turn of the century.

  This book will be of interest to researchers across politics, development, Latin American studies and social movement studies. The original data and analysis of the relationship between social movements and governments will also benefit policymakers and those working within the NGO sector. -- publisher

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  A Clubbable Man : Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham

  Anthony W. Lee, Greg Clingham, Gary Sojka, Nina Forsberg, Daniel Little, James Rice, and John Rickard

  Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as "a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the "mirrored minds" of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersections of the general and particular in three key eighteenth-century figures. Aaron Hanlon draws parallels between instances of physical rambling and rhetorical strategies in Johnson's Rambler, while Cedric D. Reverand dissects the intertextual strands uniting Dryden and Pope. Contributors take up other topics significant to the field, including post-feminism, travel, and seismology. Whether discussing cultural exchange or textual reciprocities, each piece extends the theme, building on the trope of relationship to organize and express its findings. Rounding out this collection are tributes from Clingham's former students and colleagues, including original poetry-- Provided by publisher.

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  Kinetics of Enzyme Catalysis

  Bruce A. Palfey and Rebecca L. Switzer

  Kinetics of Enzyme Catalysis provides an introduction to the fundamentals of understanding an enzyme's catalytic mechanism and how activity is regulated, which is key to understanding biology and many diseases. Kinetics is at the core of enzymology, as it must be for the study of catalysts. Kinetics of Enzyme Catalysis examines simple kinetics and then applies those ideas to enzyme mechanisms, leading to rate equations for several key mechanisms and, as important, illustrating some key principles. A reader should therefore come away empowered with some mathematical tools allowing the analysis of catalytic cycles not discussed here and also with the understanding to predict some behaviors of enzyme kinetics without any math. Methods are discussed in some detail, and with them some considerations for avoiding pitfalls and collecting reliable data. In addition, introductions are presented to the important areas of studying inhibitors, of the origins of the catalytic power of enzymes, and the use of rapid-reaction technology.

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  Eudora Welty and Mystery : Hidden in Plain Sight

  Harriet Pollack and Jacob Agner

  Eudora Welty’s ingenious play with readers’ expectations made her a cunning writer, a paramount modernist, a short story artist of the first rank, and a remarkable literary innovator. In her signature puzzle-texts, she habitually engages with familiar genres and then delights readers with her transformations and nonfulfillment of conventions. Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight reveals how often that play is with mystery, crime, and detective fiction genres, popular fiction forms often condescended to in literary studies, but unabashedly beloved by Welty throughout her lifetime.

  Put another way, Welty often creates her stories’ secrets by both evoking and displacing crime fiction conventions. Instead of restoring order with a culminating reveal, her story-puzzles characteristically allow mystery to linger and thicken. The mystery pursued becomes mystery elsewhere. The essays in this collection shift attention from narratives, characters, and plots as they have previously been understood by unearthing enigmas hidden within those constructions.

  Some of these new readings continue Welty’s investigation of hegemonic whiteness and southern narratives of race—outlining these in chalk as outright crime stories. Other essays show how Welty anticipated the regendering of the form now so characteristic of contemporary women mystery writers. Her tender and widely ranging personal correspondence with the hard-boiled American crime writer Ross Macdonald is also discussed. Together these essays make the case that across her career, Eudora Welty was arguably one of the genre’s greatest double agents, and, to apply the titles of Macdonald’s novels to her inventiveness with the form, she is its “underground woman,” its unexpected “sleeping beauty.” -- https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/E/Eudora-Welty-and-Mystery

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  SCREEN TIME : Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age

  Richard Rinehart and Phillip Prodger

  Published in conjunction with the exhibition ScreenTime: Photography and video art in the internet age, presented at the Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, January 18 - March 27, 2022. This catalog features a selection of leading international artists whose work engages with and critiques the role of media in contemporary society. The exhibition is cocurated by Richard Rinehart, director of the Samek Art Museum, and Phillip Prodger, executive director of Curatorial Exhibitions.

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  Economic Principles and Problems : a Pluralist Introduction

  Geoffrey E. Schneider

  964-page Principles of Economics book that is unique in taking up mainstream and heterodox perspectives. The book contrasts mainstream models with alternative theories developed by feminist, Marxian, Institutionalist, Austrian, and Post-Keynesian economics to provide the most comprehensive introduction to modern economic ideas. Through providing multiple views of markets and how they work, it leaves readers better able to understand and analyze the complex behaviors of consumers, firms, and government officials, as well as the likely impact of a variety of economic events and policies.

  Most principles of economics textbooks cover only mainstream economics, ignoring rich heterodox ideas. They also lack material on the great economists, including the important ideas of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek. Mainstream books tend to neglect the kind of historical analysis that is crucial to understanding trends that help us predict the future. Moreover, they focus primarily on abstract models more than existing economic realities. This engaging book addresses these inadequacies. Including explicit coverage of mainstream economics and the major heterodox schools of economic thought—institutionalists, feminists, radical political economists, post-Keynesians, Austrians, and social economists—it allows the reader to choose which ideas they find most compelling in explaining modern economic realities.

  Written in an engaging style and focused on real-world examples, this textbook brings economics to life. Multiple examples of how each economic model works, coupled with critical analysis of the assumptions behind them, enable students to develop a sophisticated understanding of the material. Digital supplements are also available for students and instructors. Economic Principles and Problems offers the most contemporary and complete package for any pluralist economics class. -- publisher

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  Rilke's Hands : an Essay on Gentleness

  Harold Schweizer

  This is a book of meditative reading. Each of the sixty-one aphoristic entries aims to interpret Rilke’s poetry as a musician might play Debussy’s Clair de lune, to transpose into the key of language the song, the melody, and the refrain of Rilke’s gentle disposition: his recognition of the transience of things; his acknowledgment of the vulnerability and fragility of people, animals, and flowers; his empathy toward those who suffer.

  The cut flowers gently laid out on the garden table "recovering from their death already begun" in one of theSonnets to Orpheus form a thread now visible now faint through most of this book. And because of the flowers, the concept of gentleness forms another thread, and because of gentleness, hands—agents of gentleness throughout Rilke’s poetry—enfold these pages. The German word leise (gentle, tender, quiet) weaves the first thread; the second is woven by flowers, then by girls’ hands, then by angels, the beloved, the poor, the dying and the dead, animals, birds, dogs, fountains, things, vanishings. The purpose of this essay is to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades Rilke’s work, how his poetry might gently inspire us to become more gentle people. -- https://www.routledge.com

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  Topics in Musical Interpretation

  Sezi Seskir

  While interpretation of musical scores is amongst the most frequent of musical activities, it is also, strangely, one of the least researched. This collection of essays seeks to remedy this deficit by illuminating ways in which today’s curious musician – interested in probing beyond the dictates of a faintly understood score – can engage more deeply and thoughtfully with the act of interpretation. Skilful musical interpretation draws on a vast range of knowledges. The chapters of this collection accordingly address a similarly broad set of issues, including notation, rhetoric, theory, historiography, performers past and present, instrument builders, concert presenters, reception history, and more.

  Written by leading experts from a variety of musical subdisciplines, these essays are designed to be accessible and practically relevant for musical performance. Many of the chapters utilize case studies and, as such, will be useful for university and conservatory level students as well as music scholars.

  The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Musicological Research. -- p. [i]

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  Fearless : Wilma Soss and America's Forgotten Investor Movement

  Janice Traflet and Robert E. Wright

  Shareholder activist Wilma Soss rocketed to fame in the 1950s fighting for the rights of the individual investor. But over the years, her legacy was almost forgotten.

  Based on archival documents, this is the true story of how a disparate group of activist investors-from a PR star to a Holocaust survivor-found each other and became the advocates Fortune 500 management loved to hate.

  Soss and her band of activists, including the incomparable Evelyn Y. Davis, leveraged the media to promote the rights of small shareholders. The idea was simple: buy one share of stock to gain access to shareholder meetings and remind management whom they really serve.

  These "corporate gadflies" were determined to speak their minds, even if it meant bringing their own megaphones or being dragged out of public meetings. But their message was undeniable, and ultimately changed corporate America for the better. Increased opportunities in the workplace, improved shareholder voting rights and greater corporate transparency were just some of the reforms Wilma Soss and her Federation kicked off in the post-war era.

  If you're looking for the intellectual heritage of 2021's WallStreetBets phenomenon or the reason Fearless Girl stands as a symbol of American optimism today, look no further than the life, times and efforts of the fearless shareholder activist, Wilma Soss. -- publisher

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  Biomedical Engineering Design

  Joseph Tranquillo, Jay Goldberg, and Robert Allen

  Biomedical Engineering Design presents the design processes and practices used in academic and industry medical device design projects. The first two chapters are an overview of the design process, project management and working on technical teams. Further chapters follow the general order of a design sequence in biomedical engineering, from problem identification to validation and verification testing. The first seven chapters, or parts of them, can be used for first-year and sophomore design classes. The next six chapters are primarily for upper-level students and include in-depth discussions of detailed design, testing, standards, regulatory requirements and ethics. The last two chapters summarize the various activities that industry engineers might be involved in to commercialize a medical device.

  • Covers subject matter rarely addressed in other BME design texts, such as packaging design, testing in living systems and sterilization methods
  • Provides instructive examples of how technical, marketing, regulatory, legal, and ethical requirements inform the design process
  • Includes numerous examples from both industry and academic design projects that highlight different ways to navigate the stages of design as well as document and communicate design decisions
  • Provides comprehensive coverage of the design process, including methods for identifying unmet needs, applying Design for ‘X’, and incorporating standards and design controls
  • Discusses topics that prepare students for careers in medical device design or other related medical fields

  Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128164440/biomedical-engineering-design#book-description

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  A Bilingual Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati Volume 2, chapters 23-52

  Rivka Ulmer

  Critical edition of Pesiqta Rabbati based upon manuscripts and the first printed edition; includes a modern English translation on facing pages. Homilies fro Jewish holy days and special Sabbaths

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  Moshe Ulmer, Z"L, Philosophical, Ethical, and Spiritual Dimensions of Judaism

  Rivka Ulmer

  CHAPTER 1: Luzzato and Bahya .CHAPTER 2: Moral Objectivity CHAPTER 3: Fackenheim and Samuelson .CHAPTER 4: Elliot N. Dorff .CHAPTER 5: Aron Lichtenstein .CHAPTER 6: Conservative and Reform Judaism .CHAPTER 7: Jewish Ethics .CHAPTER 8: Theological Implications of the Holocaust: Emil Fackenheim and Elie Wiesel .CHAPTER 9: Personal Views on Judaism and Jewish Practice: God, The Existence of Evil, Revelation, and The Chosen People .CHAPTER 10: Why Jews Give .CHAPTER 11: The Book of Ruth .CHAPTER 12: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (A Sermon) .CHAPTER 13: Bamidbar - In the Wilderness (A Sermon) . CHAPTER 14: VaYechi – And he lived (A Sermon) .CHAPTER 15: The End of the World and A New Beginning (A Rosh Ha-Shanah Sermon) .CHAPTER 16: Vignette – A Poem .

  book cover, back: "Rabbi Moshe Ulmer, J.D., D.Div. h.c. (1945-2021) was born in Los Angeles, the son of Hungarian immigrants. He earned a BA in history, graduated from UCLA Law School, and was a member of the bar of New York, Massachusetts, and California. Initially working in New York representing indigents under the VISTA program, he eventually opened his own practice in Newport Beach, CA. Encouraged by Elie Wiesel to become a rabbi, Ulmer obtained ordination and served congregations in Newton Center, Mass., Buffalo, NY, Vancouver, BC, and Palm Springs, CA. He wrote a book on tsedakah and taught at the Bucknell Institute of Lifelong Learning in Lewisburg, PA."

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  Mineralogy of Franklin and Ogdensburg, New Jersey. A Photographic Celebration

  James A. Van Fleet, Vandall T. King, Nathaniel E. King, Philip P. Betancourt, Richard C. Bostwick, Peter Chin, Tema J. Hecht, Steven M. Kuitems, Harold Moritz, Janet D. Nemetz, Anthony J. Nikischer, Stephen Sanford, and Earl R. Verbeek

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  Pink : a Women's March story

  Virginia Zimmerman

  Celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Women's March with this delightful multigenerational picture book about female empowerment. Lina notices her grandmother knitting with pink yarn and soon learns that she’s making special hats to wear at an important march to celebrate women and their rights. Even though she sometimes feels small, Lina learns how to knit her own pink hat, and her confidence begins to build. When Lina and her family join the Women’s March in Washington, DC, she is energized by the crowd and the sea of pink hats. It’s amazing to see so many people all knitted together! And as Lina marches, she feels much bigger than she ever has before.

  Celebrate the importance of the Women’s March with young children in Virginia Zimmerman’s and Mary Newell DePalma’s remarkable and empowering story about one girl’s journey from knitting a hat to making a difference. -- publisher

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  Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands

  Paul Barba

  In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas—a hotly contested land where states wielded little to no real power—local alliances and controversies, face-to-face relationships, and kin ties structured personal dynamics and cross-communal concerns alike. Country of the Cursed and the Driven brings readers into this world through a sweeping analysis of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo-American slaving regimes, illuminating how slaving violence, in its capacity to bolster and shatter families and entire communities, became both the foundation and the scourge, the panacea and the curse, of life in the borderlands. As scholars have begun to assert more forcefully over the past two decades, slavery was much more diverse and widespread in North America than previously recognized, engulfing the lives of Native, European, and African descended people across the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico. Paul Barba details the rise of Texas’s slaving regimes, spotlighting the ubiquitous, if uneven and evolving, influences of colonialism and anti-Blackness. By weaving together and reframing traditionally disparate historical narratives, Country of the Cursed and the Driven challenges the common assumption that slavery was insignificant to the history of Texas prior to Anglo American colonization, arguing instead that the slavery imported by Stephen F. Austin and his colonial followers in the 1820s found a comfortable home in the slavery-stained borderlands, where for decades Spanish colonists and their Comanche neighbors had already unleashed waves of slaving devastation.

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  Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920-1970. Volume 2

  Rafe Dalleo and Curdella Forbes

  The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary texts of the Anglophone Caribbean. This volume features essays by major scholars as well as emerging voices revisiting important moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Caribbean contributions to the Harlem Renaissance, to the Windrush generation publishing in England after World War II, and to the regional reverberations of the Cuban Revolution all feature prominently in this story. At the same time, we uncover lesser known stories of writers publishing in regional newspapers and journals, of pioneering women writers, and of exchanges with Canada and the African continent. From major writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, George Lamming, and Jean Rhys to recently recuperated figures like Eric Walrond, Una Marson, Sylvia Wynter, and Ismith Khan, this volume sets a course for the future study of Caribbean literature.

  Covers crucial years in the development of Caribbean literature (the 1920s to 1970s) Revisits key moments in Caribbean literary history to look at them from new perspective Includes major scholars in the field as well as emerging voices

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  A Student Handbook for Writing in Biology

  Karin Knisely

  The newest edition of Knisely’s Student Handbook for Writing in Biology is the helping hand your students are looking for, offering the support they need to write within the conventions of biology. Topics range from reading technical literature and writing scientific papers, to preparing lab reports and giving oral presentations of scientific findings. Students get practical advice from MS Office appendices, tutorial videos, and various checklists. Examples and resources throughout the text show not just what to do, but how to do it.

  The newest edition mirrors the ways students use online resources and social media platforms for research, making sure the information is both credible and relevant. A new statistics chapter covers the application of descriptive statistics to actual datasets and selected tests of significance.

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  "You Cannot Imagine What It Is Like In America."

  Karin Knisely and Friedemann Fegert

  The United States. The land of unimagined opportunities. A place of longing for many Germans for decades. This book describes why people from the Bavarian Forest emigrated to the United States from 1841 to 1931. Diverse documents from German and American archives, historical records, and maps, assembled over many years, are augmented by a wealth of authentic, fascinating letters, photographs, and diary entries from the emigrating families.

  Vivid conversations and meetings with present-day descendants bring the story full circle!

  You will experience
  · the hard life in the Bavarian Forest villages
  · the hopeful letters from America
  · the attempts of the authorities to thwart emigration plans
  · the arduous and often painful preparations for the trip
  · the adventure-filled, transatlantic crossing ‘tween deck
  · the critical examinations on Ellis Island and
  · the difficult new beginning in the New World

  This book forms the basis of the exhibits in the “Born in Schiefweg“ Emigration Museum in the Bavarian Forest. It also found its way into the permanent exhibition of the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven, Germany.

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  Anthems I

  Ryan M. Malone

  Ryan M. Malone, (Assistant Professor of Music, Bucknell University), editor

  Series: Musical treasures from Moravian archives ; v. 4

  A collection of 23 German-language anthems for choir and instruments. With a preface, bibliography and critical report. Peter composed these works for the annual Moravian celebration of the Single Brothers' and Single Sisters' Covenant Day Festivals. This edition is based on a variety of manuscript sources. --https://www.tfront.com/p-507259-anthems-i-edited-by-ryan-m-malone.aspx

  Volume 4 Contents, Johann Friedrich Peter: Anthems I Edited by Ryan M. Malone

  Preface ; 1. Amen, der Herr tue also 2. Bleibet in mir und ich in euch 3. Das Land ist voll Erkenntnis des Herrn 4. Dem aber, der euch kann behüten 5. Der dich gemacht hat ist dein Mann 6. Die Gnade und Wahrheit des Herrn 7. Die mit Tränen säen 8. Die Tage deines Leides 9. Ein jeglicher sei gesinnet 10. Er erquicket meine Seele 11. Es ist ein köstlich Ding 12. Euer Leben ist verborgen 13. Freuet euch Gottes eures Heilandes 14. Gott der Herr ist meine Stärke 15. Gott ist mein Hort 16. Heiliget den Herrn Zebaoth 17. Ich danke Dir ewiglich 18. In allen Dingen lasset uns 19. Kommt lasset uns anbeten 20. Lobe den Herrn meine Seele 21. O Chor des Herrn 22. Sie werden trunken von den reichen Gütern 23. Von Gnade und Recht will ich singen Critical Report-- http://www.steglein.com/Editions/Series/MTMA/MTMA4/mtma4contents.php

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  On Lingering and Literature

  Harold Schweizer

  Lingering and its decried equivalents, such as dawdling, idling, loafing, or lolling about, are both shunned and coveted in our culture where time is money and where there is never quite enough of either. Is lingering lazy? Is it childish? Boring? Do poets linger? (Is that why poetry is boring?) Is it therapeutic? Should we linger more? Less? What happens when we linger? Harold Schweizer here examines an experience of time that, though common, usually passes unnoticed.

  Drawing on a wide range of philosophic and literary texts and examples, On Lingering and Literature exemplifies in its style and accessible argumentation the new genre of post-criticism, and aims to reward anyone interested in slow reading, daydreaming, or resisting our culture of speed and consumption. -- publisher

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  Reciprocity Rules : Friendship and Compensation in Fieldwork Encounters

  Edmund Searles and Michelle C. Johnson

  Focusing on compensation, friendship, and collaboration, this book explores what anthropologists and research participants give to each other in and beyond fieldwork. Contributors argue that while learning and following the local rules of reciprocity are challenging, they are essential to responsible research and efforts to decolonize anthropology -- Provided by publisher.

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  Alcohol in the Early Modern World : a Cultural History

  B. Ann Tlusty

  This book examines how the profound religious, political, and intellectual shifts that characterize the early modern period in Europe are inextricably linked to cultural uses of alcohol in Europe and the Atlantic world. Combining recent work on the history of drink with innovative new research, the eight contributing scholars explore themes such as identity, consumerism, gender, politics, colonialism, religion, state-building, and more through the revealing lens of the pervasive drinking cultures of early modern peoples. Alcohol had a place at nearly every European table and a role in much of early modern experience, from building personal bonds via social and ritual drinking to fueling economies at both micro and macro levels. At the same time, drinking was also at the root of a host of personal tragedies, including domestic violence in the home and human trafficking across the Atlantic. Alcohol in the Early Modern World provides a fascinating re-examination of pre-modern beliefs about and experiences with intoxicating beverages. -- publisher