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  • Developing Interactional Competences at and for Work

    Analyzing Talk-in-Interaction in different Professional and Training Contexts

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores disciplinary connections, continuities and interfaces to understand how interactional competences may be observed and developed in work and training contexts. It presents a range of research contributions that develop an interest in the study of talk-in-interaction, and how it might contribute to the understanding of the learning and development of interactional competences as ... Read more

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  • Revisiting the Historiography of Postwar Avant-Garde Music

    This collection of essays delves into the historiographical traditions that have dominated how the stories of European postwar avant-garde music are told, seeking to approach commonplaces of that history writing from new perspectives. The contributors revisit subjects as varied as the impact of long-playing records on the emergence of open works, Messiaen’s interest in non-European musical ... Read more

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  • Of Words and Water - 2013

    Of Words and Water, #1

    Series Book 1 - Of Words and Water
    Published in support of WaterAid, this delightful selection of short stories and poems has a cohesive theme of water. Donated by an international group of top class authors, there are many styles of writing which will each, in its own way, entertain you. Song lyrics and a poem were donated by renowned folk singer, musician and activist Peggy Seeger,Many of us take water for granted. With a simple ... Read more

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  • Transmitting Jewish History

    Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi in Conversation with Sylvie Anne Goldberg

    Series series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
    The deeply personal reflections of a giant of Jewish history.Scholar Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009) possessed a stunning range of erudition in all eras of Jewish history, as well as in world history, classical literature, and European culture. What Yerushalmi also brought to his craft was a brilliant literary style, honed by his own voracious reading from early youth and his formative ... Read more

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  • Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century

    Series Book 5 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
    This collection of essays seeks to challenge the notion of the supremacy of the brain as the key organ of the Enlightenment, by focusing on the workings of the bowels and viscera that so obsessed writers and thinkers during the long eighteenth-century. These inner organs and the digestive process acted as counterpoints to politeness and other modes of refined sociability, drawing attention to the ... Read more

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  • Clepsydra

    Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism

    Translated by Benjamin Ivry ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    The clepsydra is an ancient water clock and serves as the primary metaphor for this examination of Jewish conceptions of time from antiquity to the present. Just as the flow of water is subject to a number of variables such as temperature and pressure, water clocks mark a time that is shifting and relative. Time is not a uniform phenomenon. It is a social construct made of beliefs, scientific ... Read more

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  • Sacred Inception

    Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth in the Modern World

    This edited volume explores the intersection of spirituality with childbirth from 1800 to the present day from a comparative perspective. It illustrates how over this time period in much of the world, traditional practices, home births, and midwives have been overshadowed and undermined by male dominated obstetrics, hospitalization, and ultimately the medicalization of the birthing process itself. ... Read more

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  • Missing Links in Labour Geography

    Series series The Dynamics of Economic Space
    Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined and illustrated via a wide range of case studies from the 'global north' and ... Read more

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  • Essential Oils as Reagents in Green Chemistry

    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This brief provides a valuable reference for the contribution of essential oils in the green chemistry, mainly in terms of their characteristics corresponding to their compositions, the development of their extraction technologies including both conventional and green process (e.g. microwave, ultrasound), and their sustainable applications as antioxidants, antimicrobials, insecticides, green ... Read more

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    Of Words and Water, #2

    Series Book 2 - Of Words and Water
    A new collection of short stories, poems and non-fiction from the talented members of Words and Water Group. This international group was formed in 2013 to encourage donations to WaterAid. In 2014 there are contributions from many of the original members, and new members have joined. In this very high quality work you will find early morning sunlight glistening in a drop of water, pivotal moments ... Read more

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  • The Irritation

    Well 'whoopy doo!' Here's another little Quick Flash story. Again it's in A and B mind movie form. The B part which is first (logic), tells another little part of a writer's life i.e. usually about handling the huge amounts of money which comes to writers from their armies of adoring fans. Writers you see are traditionally believed to be so broke that when they buy a box of matches to light the ... Read more

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  • Crosscultural Doctoring.On and Off the beaten Path

    In Cross Cultural Doctoring you will read about my career as a successful obstetrician and gynecologist in academic medicine at a major university.You will read why I decided at age 55 to leave my position, jump into the unknown and get off the beaten path. I will relate how my wife, Anne, and I accomplished this and how I kept working for various lengths of time in a number of different cultural ... Read more

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