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Contemporary Translation in Transition

Poems, Theories, Conversations

Edited by Maria Khotimsky, Friederike Reents, Henrieke Stahl-Schwaetzer, William Waters ...

Series series Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
This book investigates the hybrid, multiform nature of contemporary poetry with particular emphasis on recent Russian lyric and its translations into German and English. Poetry translation, thriving and obstinately open-ended, is not so much a defined process as a practice of ongoing transit across linguistic and national borders. The book’s innovative format invites contemporary poets into ... Read more

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This book investigates the hybrid, multiform nature of contemporary poetry with particular emphasis on recent Russian lyric and its translations into German and English. Poetry translation, thriving and obstinately open-ended, is not so much a defined process as a practice of ongoing transit across linguistic and national borders. The book’s innovative format invites contemporary poets into
... Read more
Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass

Remembrance of Things Past and Present

by William E. Waters ...

Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembrance of Things Past and Present is about the captivity, exploitation and suffering of Black people in America, and their triumphs. The author, a history buff, took the challenge to look at the history of Black people in America, who are normally given one month, the shortest month of the year, February, to highlight Black History in America ... Read more

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Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembrance of Things Past and Present is about the captivity, exploitation and suffering of Black people in America, and their triumphs. The author, a history buff, took the challenge to look at the history of Black people in America, who are normally given one month, the shortest month of the year, February, to highlight Black History in America
... Read more
Destination Dissertation

A Traveler's Guide to a Done Dissertation

by Sonja K. Foss, William Waters ...

Demystifying and charting a path from concept to completion, Destination Dissertation has helped thousands of doctoral students emerge on the other side of their dissertation as successful researchers. The third edition supplements the core 29 steps of the dissertation with new discussions of research technologies and now-popular dissertation sections like theoretical perspective, theoretical ... Read more

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Demystifying and charting a path from concept to completion, Destination Dissertation has helped thousands of doctoral students emerge on the other side of their dissertation as successful researchers. The third edition supplements the core 29 steps of the dissertation with new discussions of research technologies and now-popular dissertation sections like theoretical perspective, theoretical
... Read more
The Authority of the Gospel

Explorations in Moral and Political Theology in Honor of Oliver O'Donovan

Edited by Robert Song, Brent Waters ...

Oliver O'Donovan is widely regarded as one of the preeminent Protestant Christian ethicists of our time. His teaching and scholarship have exerted a profound influence on countless moral theologians.This volume honoring O'Donovan shows how the various contributors -- themselves distinguished scholars -- have developed their own thinking through serious engagement with O'Donovan's work. ... Read more

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Oliver O'Donovan is widely regarded as one of the preeminent Protestant Christian ethicists of our time. His teaching and scholarship have exerted a profound influence on countless moral theologians.This volume honoring O'Donovan shows how the various contributors -- themselves distinguished scholars -- have developed their own thinking through serious engagement with O'Donovan's work.
... Read more
The Person Beside the Bed

Encouragement for Informal Caregivers

by Jo Angelia Waters-Williams ...

“ No one really thinks about the person beside the bed. The caregiver is like an empty chair – visitors focus on the person in the bed, and the caregiver becomes invisible.In the United States over fifty million family caregivers provide forty billion dollars in unpaid, informal care annually for adult family members and friends with chronic illnesses or conditions.Informal caregiving can be ... Read more

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“ No one really thinks about the person beside the bed. The caregiver is like an empty chair – visitors focus on the person in the bed, and the caregiver becomes invisible.In the United States over fifty million family caregivers provide forty billion dollars in unpaid, informal care annually for adult family members and friends with chronic illnesses or conditions.Informal caregiving can be
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Prison Vocational Education and Policy in the United States

A Critical Perspective on Evidence-Based Reform

by Andrew J Dick, William Rich, Tony Waters ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation through vocational education required “evidence” to justify policy prescriptions. Yet who determines what constitutes evidence? ... Read more

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This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform efforts to change the purpose of prisons from punishment to rehabilitation through vocational education required “evidence” to justify policy prescriptions. Yet who determines what constitutes evidence?
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Mama Can You Hear Me?

The William Waters Story

by William Waters ...

This book tells the story of a young man who struggles to find his way in a world that doesn’t seem to want him. He isn't smart enough or handsome enough. His skin is the wrong shade and his shaking nervousness is never understood. From his first steps as a child, he is exposed to life's harsh realities: poverty, violence, sexual abuse, neglect ... until finally, seeking to escape the cruelty and ... Read more

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This book tells the story of a young man who struggles to find his way in a world that doesn’t seem to want him. He isn't smart enough or handsome enough. His skin is the wrong shade and his shaking nervousness is never understood. From his first steps as a child, he is exposed to life's harsh realities: poverty, violence, sexual abuse, neglect ... until finally, seeking to escape the cruelty and
... Read more
The Authority of the Gospel

Explorations in Moral and Political Theology in Honor of Oliver O'Donovan

Edited by Robert Song, Brent Waters ...

Oliver O’Donovan is widely regarded as one of the preeminent Protestant Christian ethicists of our time. His teaching and scholarship have exerted a profound influence on countless moral theologians.This volume honoring O’Donovan shows how the various contributors -- themselves distinguished scholars -- have developed their own thinking through serious engagement with O’Donovan’s work. ... Read more

$45.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Oliver O’Donovan is widely regarded as one of the preeminent Protestant Christian ethicists of our time. His teaching and scholarship have exerted a profound influence on countless moral theologians.This volume honoring O’Donovan shows how the various contributors -- themselves distinguished scholars -- have developed their own thinking through serious engagement with O’Donovan’s work.
... Read more
Memoirs

by Tennessee Williams ...

For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story.When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters, ... Read more

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For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story.When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters,
... Read more

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The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit

A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate

Edited by Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, Mark Williams, Colin P. Summerhayes ...

The Anthropocene, a term launched into public debate by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, has been used informally to describe the time period during which human actions have had a drastic effect on the Earth and its ecosystems. This book presents evidence for defining the Anthropocene as a geological epoch, written by the high-profile international team analysing its potential addition to the ... Read more

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The Anthropocene, a term launched into public debate by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, has been used informally to describe the time period during which human actions have had a drastic effect on the Earth and its ecosystems. This book presents evidence for defining the Anthropocene as a geological epoch, written by the high-profile international team analysing its potential addition to the
... Read more
The Milosevic Trial

An Autopsy

Edited by Timothy William Waters ...

The Milošević Trial - An Autopsy provides a cross-disciplinary examination of one of the most controversial war crimes trials of the modern era and its contested legacy for the growing fields of international criminal law and post-conflict justice. The international trial of Slobodan Milošević, who presided over the violent collapse of Yugoslavia - was already among the longest war crimes trials ... Read more

$85.49 USD

The Milošević Trial - An Autopsy provides a cross-disciplinary examination of one of the most controversial war crimes trials of the modern era and its contested legacy for the growing fields of international criminal law and post-conflict justice. The international trial of Slobodan Milošević, who presided over the violent collapse of Yugoslavia - was already among the longest war crimes trials
... Read more
Unpuzzling History with Primary Sources

Edited by Thomas N. Turner, William B. Russell III, Stewart Waters, Jeremiah C. Clabough ...

Series series Teaching and Learning Social Studies
Recent advances in technology have created easy access for classroom teachers and students alike to a vast store of primary sources. This fact accompanied by the growing emphasis on primary documents through education reform movements has created a need for active approaches to learning from such sources. Unpuzzling History with Primary Sources addresses this need. It looks at the role that ... Read more

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Recent advances in technology have created easy access for classroom teachers and students alike to a vast store of primary sources. This fact accompanied by the growing emphasis on primary documents through education reform movements has created a need for active approaches to learning from such sources. Unpuzzling History with Primary Sources addresses this need. It looks at the role that
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