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"While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public performance of classical drama ceased at the end of antiquity the ideals of Jews and Christians had already been shaped by it in profound and lasting ways. Readers are invited to explore how gods and heroes famous from Greek drama animated the imaginations of ancient individuals and communities as they articulated and reinvented their religious visions for a new era. In this study, Friesen demonstrates that Greek theater's influence is evident within Jewish and Christian intellectual formulations, narrative constructions, and practices of ritual and liturgy. Through a series of interrelated case studies, the book explores how particular plays, through text and performances, scenes, images, and heroic personae, retained appeal for Jewish and Christian communities across antiquity. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach across classical, Jewish, and Christian studies, bringing together these separate avenues of scholarship to produce fresh insights and a reevaluation of theatrical drama in relation to ancient Judaism and Christianity. Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era allows students and scholars of the diverse and evolving religious landscapes of antiquity to gain fresh perspectives on the interplay between gods and heroes-both human and divine-of Greeks and Romans, Jews and Christians as they were staged in drama and depicted in literature"-- Provided by publisher.

• Elements of time scale calculus
• Elements of fractional dynamic calculus on time scales
• Linear inequalities for Riemann-Liouville fractional delta integral operator
• Fractional Young and Holder inequalities
• Fractional inequalities for convex functions
• Opial-type inequalities
• Chebyshev-type inequalities
• Hardy-type fractional inequalities
• Reverse Hardy-type fractional inequalities
• Inequalities for generalized Riemann-Liouville fractional integrals
• Some inequalities
• Jensen inequalities.

• Part I: contexts and concepts
• African refugees in Australia: resettlement and representation
• Education and refugee integration: a capability approach
• Part II: educational attainment
• School education: aspirations, engagement, and transition
• Higher education opportunities: policy visibility of refugees
• Higher education participation: access, experience, and success
• Part III: integration outcomes
• Multiculturalism and refugee integration
• Economic participation, social engagement, and cultural citizenship
• Racial othering
• Improving refugee integration: policy ideas.

• Feminist Perspectives from the African Continent
• Introduction: Literary Herstories of African Women's Lives
• Radical Feminist Synergy and Sexual Exploitation in Nawal El Saadawi's
• Woman at Point Zero and God Dies by the Nile
• Caste, Class, and Women's Identity in Bessie Head's Maru
• Sisters of the Soil: Women's Resistance in Muthoni Likimani's
• Passbook Number F.
• Postcolonial Disjunctures and Urban Spaces in Amma Darko's Faceless
• Voices from the Diaspora in African Women's Fiction
• Unveiling Women's Identities in the African Muslim Diaspora in Leila
• Aboulela's Translator and Minaret
• Ruptured Spaces of the Self in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
• Black Venus Dreams and the Migrant Body in Igiaba Scego's Adua
• Afropolitan Energies in the 21st Century: Immigrants, Dreamers, and
• Marginalized Others in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Conclusion: Narrating African Women's Lives in Africa and the Diaspora.

"Agent Relative Ethics asks what the world would look like if we adopted agent relativity wholeheartedly, clinging to no shred of absolute morality. Alastair MacIntyre's haunting image of a post-apocalyptic world, in which our knowledge of ethics has been fragmented, poses a contrast between modern morality and ancient ethics. The two stand divided along the fault line of the nature of the good. Modern ethics has placed its stake in the absolute good, while ancient ethics rests upon the foundation of the relative good. Following the lead of Bernard Williams, Agent Relative Ethics identifies alienation as a disturbing symptom of the present focus upon absolute goods. It then completes the diagnosis of the malady afflicting modern moral theory by clarifying the difference between absolute and relative goods. The remainder of the book explores how agent relativity can overcome the modern fragmentation of our ethical knowledge. Not just any relative goods can rectify the modern disorder. Only shared goods, belonging to a union of individuals, are sufficiently robust to overthrow the contemporary despotism of neutral goods. These shared goods exhibit many parallels with common sense morality, including partiality, impartiality, punishment, and an antagonism toward harmfully using others together with a more lenient attitude toward foreseeing harm. The final chapters probe the conditions, often unpalatable to the modern mind, by which ethics might be restored. Agent Relative Ethics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics and moral theory, ancient ethics, and the history of philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

• Three Brothers, Three Versions of the Same "Mixture"
• Personal Experiences in the Service of Collective Projects
• Local Populations as Caboclos : The Difficult Naming of a Social Formation
• The Caboclo, a Protean Notion : "Traditional Populations" versus Invisible Beings
• The Implicit Nature of the Caboclo or How to Conceive the "Mixture"
• The "Mixture" and Its "Matrices" : Race through the Prism of Culture.

• Cover
• American Gnosis
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Awakening: An Introduction
• 1. What Is Neo-​Gnosticism and What Is Gnosis?
• 2. Neo-​Gnosticism in American Literature
• 3. Neo-​Gnostic Video
• 4. The Neo-​Gnosticism of Miguel Serrano
• 5. The Neo-​Gnosticism of Samael Aun Weor
• 6. The Enigmatic Dr. Musès
• 7. Psychedelic Gnosis
• 8. American Archontic Neo-​Gnosticism
• 9. Understanding American Gnoses
• 10. Political Religion and the End of Modernity
• 11. Future Gnosis
• 12. Conclusion
• Notes
• Index

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Paganisms
• 2. Communes
• 3. Collaborations
• 4. Partnerships
• 5. Technologies
• 6. Polyamories
• Afterword
• Notes
• Index

"This book examines a variety of arguments that might be thought to support skepticism about the existence of morality, and it explains how these arguments can be answered by those who believe in objective moral truths. The focus throughout is on discussing questions that frequently trouble thoughtful and reflective individuals, including questions like the following: Does the prevalence of moral disagreement make it reasonable to conclude that there aren't really any moral facts at all? Is morality simply relative to particular societies and times? What could objective moral facts possibly be like? If there were moral facts, how could we ever come to know anything about them? Shouldn't belief in the theory of evolution undermine our confidence that our moral intuitions reliably reveal moral truths? Would moral facts ever actually explain anything at all? Can morality really have the motivating and rational force we normally take it to have? How can one possibly find a place for objective moral values in a scientific worldview? The book explores plausible answers to questions like these and it thus aims to show why the belief in objective morality remains an intellectually reasonable one"-- Provided by publisher.

• Dismantling the showcase
• Heritage in exile
• On borders : Deconstructing the modern museum
• A time for the margins : On reconstructing and rehumanising
• Redistributing the museum : Towards a museology of hope
• Reflections for our past's future.

Poems.

• Introduction
• Part 1. Unveiling dancers' artistry. Performing: A transcendent experience
• Breath, movement, emotion and music
• Expressivity, harmony, creativity and artistry
• Technique, training and changes in dancers' brains
• Dealing with challenges
• Part 2. The magical motor system. The science behind the scenes
• Pathways to new skills
• Part 3. The art of training dancers. Our role as ballet teachers
• Skills in cueing and feedback
• Discovering technique
• The speaking body
• Discovering the dancer inside
• Afterword.

• Part I: The Asia Pacific War
• Introduction: Is there, or was there, a so-called 'Just War'?
• The Origins of the Asia Pacific War: 'Honor, Fear, Self-interest'
• The Human Impact of the Asia Pacific War
• The Legacies of the Asia Pacific War
• the Atomic Bombings and Article 9
• Part II : Postwar Reconciliation Introduction: Aspects of Reconciliation
• Reparations, Memorials and Reconciliation at State Level
• Citizens' Reconciliation
• Postwar Reconciliation Through the Arts.

"This book examines key aspects of the Asia Pacific War (1931-1945), that was initially waged between Japan and China, before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor drew in the U.S.-led allied forces from 1941 to 1945. The first half of the book examines three interlocking components, the origins of the war; its impact on combatants and civilians; and its short-term legacy, including the huge changes that took place in the postwar governance of Japan. Part 2 explores the ongoing impact and legacy of the war for those in postwar Japan, and later generations, particularly through the examination of the ambiguity of state-led reconciliation with Japan's neighbors, the growth of dynamic civil reconciliation efforts, and the prominent role of the arts in peace movements. Through a people-centered approach it filters historical events through the lens of the war's impact on individuals, who found themselves players within a larger frame of the social history of Japan and caught up in the international power dynamics of the nuclear age. Featuring studies of contemporary peace activism, this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Modern Asian and U.S. History, as well as those interested in post-war memory and reconciliation"-- Provided by publisher.

• Assimilation in conservatory education
• Transforming the White racial frame
• Concrete advice for leadership and staff
• Equity
• Interviews with young professionals.

"Leading Change engages with an existential question for American conservatories and orchestras: what does it mean to diversify Western classical music? Many institutions have focused solely on diversifying the demography of their participants, but without a deeper conversation about structural oppression in classical music, this approach continues to isolate and exclude students of color. Rooted in the author's experience working with BIPOC students at a major American conservatory, this book articulates the issues facing minority students in conservatories and schools of music, going beyond recruitment to address the cultural issues that alienate students. The author argues that the issue of diversity should be approached through the lens of aesthetics, and that the performance and pedagogy of Western classical music must change if a more diverse membership is to thrive in this genre. Reflecting on the author's experience through the lens of recent critical theory in music education, this volume presents the viewpoints of Black and Latinx music students in their own words. Addressing the impact of racialized aesthetics on the well-being of BIPOC music students, the author shows how students are alienated when attempting to assimilate into conservatory environments, and envisions an alternative, integrative approach to conservatory education. Offering a deep dive into the psychological and cultural reasons for the racialization of Western classical music, and potential institutional solutions, this concise book is relevant to performers, students, and institutional leaders"-- Provided by publisher.

"This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was 'unthinkable' in ancient Greece, demonstrating instead that atheism was not only thinkable but inextricably embedded in the Greek religious environment. Through careful analysis of a wide range of source material provided in modern English translation, and drawing on philosophy, theology, sociology, and other disciplines, Ford unpicks a two and a half thousand-year history of marginalisation, clearing the way for a new analysis. He lays out in clear terms the nature and form of ancient Greek atheism as the ancient Greeks conceived of it, through a series of themes and lenses. Topics such as religious socialisation, the interaction of atheist philosophy and theology, identity formation through alterity, and the use of atheism in scapegoating are considered not only in broad terms, using a synthesis of modern scholarship to mark out an overview in line with modern consensus, but also by drawing on the unique perspective of ancient atheism Ford is able to provide innovative theories about a range of subjects. Atheism at the Agora is of interest to students and scholars in Classics, particularly Greek religion and culture, as well as those studying atheism in other historical and contemporary areas, religious studies, philosophy, and theology"-- Provided by publisher.

"Attending to the Literary: The Distinctiveness of Literature is a foray into current debates about the nature of the literary. What is literary? Is literarity a thing? Are there still aesthetic standards of taste? Is the category of literary aesthetics an obstacle to understanding the uses of literature? What does it mean to count the reading of literature as an experience in its own right? What would be the deficits to human experience without literature? Attending to the Literary addresses all of these questions with a view to challenging the notion of literarity as merely representative of experience. On the contrary, Alan Singer shows how literarity is an enacting of experience. Through close readings of an eclectic repertoire of literary sentences-culled from the genres of fiction, poetry and drama--Singer demonstrates how syntax stages human capacities for attending ever more consequentially to the world of practical experience. These stagings of forms of attention involve readers in the drama of reason giving and expand the possibilities of rational imagination. Attending to the Literary speaks to a broad audience of readers for whom the question "Why literature matters?" remains an urgent intellectual challenge"-- Provided by publisher.

"Traces of audience responses to propaganda in the Third Reich are particularly sparse given that the public sphere was so highly regulated. By taking an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to found historical sources of audiences' responses, the contributions to Audiences of Nazism critically approach the effectiveness of the Nazi media. The volume presents a comprehensive array of case studies including, but not limited to, Jewish responses to anti-Semitic media, personal reports from Nazi party rallies, responses to "degenerate art" exhibitions, and the afterlife of visual documentations of Nazi crimes. It uncovers the target groups of certain Nazi media products; how effective these products were in disseminating propaganda; and their chances to win over readers, listeners, and spectators not yet convinced of Nazism"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : our enduring quest for authenticity
• Casting reality television : stages of self-disclosure
• Social media designs : the amateur ideal
• Pop music's sponsorship play : the art of selling out
• The commercial brand sell : humanizing the corporate
• The rise of influencers : corporatizing the human
• Performative politics : unscripting the identity show
• Populist politics : technologies of informality
• Conclusion : the business of keeping it "real".

• On the margins: understanding peripheral journalism
• Strong state, weak field: the forces shaping journalism in Rwanda
• Founding myths: stories as building blocks of journalism practice
• Underbaked or unrealized: "underdevelopment" as a journalistic keyword
• Money matters: the news values of business pressure
• Bridging worlds: working global while living local
• Conclusion: What is weak journalism good for? The power and potential of peripheral practice.

"The book presents a different history of the Russian avant-garde and its cultural encounters with the sciences. It is focusing on the entanglements of architects, filmmakers and philosophers with experimental psychologists and physiologists in the 1920s which are hardly known yet. Famous avant-garde artists like El Lissitzky, Vassily Kandinsky and Dziga Vertov helped propagate a movement in Russia - psychotechnics -, that was actually coming from Germany and America and can be characterized as "psychotechnical boom". At the end of the story told in this book, it becomes clear, that this boom has not finished until today. By analyzing concrete co-operations between artists and scientists and on the basis of not yet published archival material, this book challenges the notion of
socialist sciences. At the same time, it gives an entirely new picture of what was thought to be modern art and makes clear, that artistic experimentation had much more than a metaphorical meaning in the arts of the Russian 1920s. In 2007 the book was acknowledged with an award for interdisciplinary research by the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Society, Grossbothen. In 2011 the book received funding by the VolkswagenStiftung to be translated into English and Russian (the Russian edition was published by NLO books in 2019). The book got reviews in NZZ, NTM, Derive, Junge Welt, Sehepunkte"-- Provided by publisher.

• The emperors of banking have no clothes
• How borrowing magnifies risk
• The dark side of borrowing
• Is it really "a wonderful life"?
• Banking dominos
• What can be done?
• Is equity expensive?
• Paid to gamble
• Sweet subsidies
• Must banks borrow so much?
• Too fragile still
• Bailouts and central banks
• Bailouts forever
• Above the law?.

"Explores the surprising and complicated legacy of the brilliant strategist of the civil rights movement - Bayard Rustin"-- Provided by publisher.

Novel.

• Hypocritical blame
• Complications and defeaters of standing
• What, if anything, makes hypocritical blame morally wrong?
• Other ways of not having standing to blame
• Praising
• Forgiving
• Morality, normativity, and standing.

• What is a corporation's purpose?
• Corporate law basics
• How are BCs and PBCs different?
• What public purposes can benefit corporations serve?
• Purpose enforcement mechanisms
• Should entrepreneurs choose a hybrid form?
• Should investors support hybrid forms?
• How should benefit corporations balance profit and public good?
• The publicly traded public benefit corporation.

" Pairing necessary detail with concise readability, Berne & Levy Physiology, 8th Edition, provides a perfect balance of content to deliver an in-depth understanding of the body's dynamic processes. Long respected for its scientifically rigorous approach, this highly regarded, mid-size text offers essential physiology with integrated coverage of biophysics andkey experimental observations and examples—all designed to provide a solid scientific foundation in physiology for future scientists and clinicians. Uses a logical, organ system-based approach that clearly describes all of the mechanisms that control and regulate bodily function. Includes new clinical case examples, as well as In the Clinic and At the Molecular Level boxes that highlight practical aspects of this fundamental science. Provides key experimental observations and examples that offer a rich understanding of the body's dynamic processes. Discusses recent discoveries such as the role of lymphatics in the nervous system. Begins each chapter with a bulleted list of questions and ends with key concepts covered in that chapter. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices. " -- Provided by publisher.

• The unique physical and cultural geography system of the Dai in Xishuangbanna
• The status of Dai monastic education in Xishuangbanna before the integration of school education
• The present situation of monastic education and school education of the Dai in Xishuangbanna
• An analysis of the causes of the conflicts between monastic education and school education of the Dai people in Xishuangbanna
• Measures dealing with the conflicts between monastic education and school education of the Dai ethnicity in Xishuangbanna.

"How to deal with the relationship between tradition and modernity has become a global concern under the impact of pluralism. This book explores the relationship between traditional Dai culture and modern school education through a field study in the Dai region of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. The study analyses the reasons for conflicts between monastic education and modern school education in the Dai region of Xishuangbanna. It also discusses the logic behind the formation of the Dai people's belief in Southern Theravada Buddhism and its importance in Dai culture. Through the analysis of the changes in monastic education before and after the intervention of the modern school system, the study finds symbiosis in the differences and conflicts between these two forms of education. The author proposes a symbiosis theory of multiple education forms in ethnic areas and offers targeted solutions to specific problems between the Dai monastic education and modern school education in Xishuangbanna. This book will be a great read to students and scholars of Chinese studies, ethnic studies, education, and those who are interested in multi-ethnicity issues in general"-- Provided by publisher.

• Alberti's house-city
• Building blocks : from house to city
• Designing buildings as little cities
• Conclusions : house-city as ecosystem.

• Introduction
• Extreme Right, Bolsonarismo, and the multiple bodies of conservatism in Brazil
• Bolsonarismo and the battle against globalism: Neoconservatism as a transnational alliance
• Moral geopolitics: Neo-Pentecostalism, Christian Zionism, and the internationalization of salvation
• Domestic and international pacification: Militarism, peacekeeping operations, and enemy formation in Brazil
• Authoritarian meritocracy: Bolsonarismo, the Establishment of an entrepreneurial nation, and the privatization of the family
• Conclusion: Bolsonarismo after Bolsonaro
• From institutional new leaders to evangelical paramilitary groups.

"Bolsonarismo: The Global Origins and Future of Brazil's Far Right documents the rise of the far-right alliance that emerged in Brazil in 2020 around the figure of former President Jair Bolsonaro. Unlike a cohesive organization with a broad variety of ideologies, Fernando Brancoli delves deeply into how Bolsonarismo has developed a specific political orientation through its partnerships with other groups, practices, and subjectivities within Brazil, as well as internationally. Through interviews, archival research, and newly available public documents, this book presents a comprehensive and compelling portrait of the new evangelical pastors, military personnel, and meritocratic ideologues that are the actors behind the far-right movement. Adding to our understanding of Bolsonarismo's grown in Brazilian politics and the contributing factors behind it, the book also sheds light on the impact of Bolsonarismo on world politics. As a prominent leader of the far-right movement, Jair Bolsonaro's political views and policies have reverberated beyond Brazil's borders, influencing the discourse on issues such as climate change, democracy, and human rights around the world"-- Provided by publisher.

"This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan. With a strong consciousness of gender and socio-historic contexts, contributors to the book adopt an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the writing of authors whose works break free from the confines of hegemonic Japanese literary endeavour. By demonstrating how the texts analysed step outside the space of 'Japan', they accordingly foreground the volatility of textual expression related to that space. Authors discussed include Takahashi Mutsuo and Nagai Kafū, both of whom take literary inspiration from geographical sites outside Japan Several chapters examine the work of exemplar border-crossing poet, novelist and essayist, Itō Hiromi. There are discussions of the work of Tawada Yōko whose ability to publish in German and Japanese marks her also as a representative writer of border-crossing texts. Two chapters address works by Murakami Haruki who, although clearly affiliating with western cultural form, is rarely discussed in specific border-crossing terms. The chapter on Ainu narratives invokes topics such as translation, indigeneity and myth, while an analysis of Japanese prisoner of war narratives notes the language and border-crossing nexus. A vital collection for scholars and students of Japanese literature"-- Provided by publisher.

• Boric and the generational left / Carlos Peña
• Boric and the legal-constitutional path / Javier Couso
• Boric and the populist temptation / Patricio Navia
• Boric and the centre-left : from vilification to a tactical alliance / Patricio Silva
• Boric's triumph and disputes within the Chilean right / Cristóbal Roviera Kaltwasser
• Boric and the dispute for governability in Chile / José Joaquín Brunner
• Social (de)mobilisation in Boric's government / Camila Jara Ibarra
• Boric and the challenges for the Chilean economy / Mauricio G. Villena
• Social policies in Gabriel Boric's government / Rossana Castiglioni
• Public security challenges in Boric's government / Claudio Fuentes
• The challenges of the Boric's government / Carlos Peña and Patricio Silva.

• The lactating woman : breastfeeding and motherhood in antiquity and early Byzantium / Stavroula Constantinou and Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou
• Breast rules : the body of the wet nurse in ancient and early Byzantine discourses / Stavroula Constantinou and Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou
• The breast as locus for punishment / Dionysios Stathakopoulos
• Breastmilk as a therapeutic agent in ancient, late antique, and early Byzantine medical literature / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
• Weaning and lactation cessation in late antiquity and the early Byzantine period : medical advice in context / Laurence Totelin
• "Galaktology" and genre : simple literary forms on milk and breastfeeding in ancient and early Byzantine medical treatises / Stavroula Constantinou and Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou
• Images of breastfeeding in early Byzantine art : form
• context
• function / Maria Parani
• Empowering breasts : women, widows, and prophetesses-with-child at Dura-Europos / Barbara Crostini
• Roman charity : Nonnos of Panopolis, support for parents, and questions of gender / Tim Parkin
• Children in distress : agonizing mothers as intercessors in early Byzantine miracle collections / Andria Andreou.

"This volume offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary, and intercultural examination of the lactating woman - biological mother and othermother - in antiquity and early Byzantium. Adopting methodologies and knowledge deriving from a variety of disciplines, the volume's contributors investigate the close interrelationship between a woman and her lactating breasts, as well as the social, ideological, theological, and medical meanings and uses of motherhood, childbirth, and breastfeeding, along with their visual and literary representations. Breastfeeding and the work of mothering are explored through the study of a great variety of sources, mainly works of Greek-speaking cultures, written and visual, anonymous and eponymous, which were mostly produced between the first and the seventh century AD. Due to their multiple interdisciplinary dimensions, ancient and early Byzantine lactating women are approached through three interconnected thematic strands having a twofold focus: society and ideology, medicine and practice, and art and literature. By developing the model of the lactating woman, the volume offers a new analytical framework for understanding a significant part of the still unwritten cultural history of the period. At the same time, the volume significantly contributes to the emerging fields of breast and motherhood studies. The new and significant knowledge generated in the fields of ancient and Byzantine studies may also prove useful for cultural historians in general and other disciplines, such as literary studies, art history, history of medicine, philosophy, theology, sociology, anthropology and gender studies"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. The Vow That Starts the Story / Andy Rotman
• 2. Creative Tensions in the Past Lives of the Buddha / Naomi Appleton
• 3. The Final Birth / Reiko Ohnuma
• 4. A Timeless Love Story / Vanessa R. Sasson
• 5. A Great Departure / Kristin Scheible
• 6. Around the Tree of Awakening / Todd Lewis & Jinah Kim
• 7. The Buddha's Teachings and Miracles / David Fiordalis
• 8. Sorrow and its Ending in the Buddha's Last Days / Maria Heim
• 9. The Buddha's Story Continues: Afterlives of the Relics / Stephen C. Berkwitz
• 10. Overstory: First There is a Buddha, Then There is No Buddha, Then There is / John S. Strong
• Bibliography
• Index.

• Politics / Joseph Hone
• Religion / Ian Higgins
• Bodies and gender / Liz Bellamy
• Science, empire, and observation / Gregory Lynall
• Popular fiction / J. A. Downie
• Satire / Pat Rogers
• Travel writing / Dirk F. Passmann
• Philosophical tale / Paddy Bullard
• Advertisements and authorship / Brean Hammond
• A voyage to Lilliput / Melinda Alliker Rabb
• A voyage to Brobdingnag / Nicholas Seager
• A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, &c. / Barbara M. Benedict
• A voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms / Judith Hawley
• Critical reception / Jack Lynch
• Further voyages / Daniel Cook
• Visual culture / Ruth Menzies
• Screen media / Emrys Jones.

Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, has shocked and delighted readers worldwide since its publication in 1726. At turns a humorous and harrowing indictment of human behaviour, it has been endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted across media by other artists. The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels comprises 17 original chapters by leading scholars, written in a theoretically-informed but accessible style. As well as providing detailed close readings of each part of the narrative, this Companion relates Gulliver's Travels to the political, religious, scientific, colonial, and intellectual debates in which Swift was engaged, and it assesses the form of the book as a novel, travel book, philosophical treatise, and satire. Finally, it explores the Travels' rich and varied afterlives: the controversies it has fuelled, the films and artworks it has inspired, and the enduring need authors have felt to 'write back' to Swift's original, disturbing, and challenging story.

The first three hundred years of the common era witnessed critical developments that would become foundational for Christianity itself, as well as for the societies and later history that emerged thereafter. The concept of 'ancient Christianity,' however, along with the content that the category represents, has raised much debate. This is, in part, because within this category lie multiple forms of devotion to Jesus Christ, multiple phenomena, and multiple permutations in the formative period of Christian history. Within those multiples lie numerous contests, as varieties of Christian identity laid claim to authority and authenticity in different ways. The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity addresses these contested areas with both nuance and clarity by reviewing, synthesizing, and critically engaging recent scholarly developments. The 27 thematic chapters, specially commissioned for this volume from an international team of scholars, also offer constructive ways forward for future research.

The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology explores the key developments in both Protestant and Catholic theology ca. 1475-1650. Exploring the various settings and schools in which theology was formulated and taught, and the social backgrounds of its exponents-including women and non-university-trained men, as well as writers both in and outside Europe-it establishes how the major denominations took their positions and participated in a broader discourse. The volume examines specific theological themes from different denominational perspectives, demonstrating how theology affected the lives of believers via pastoral theology, canon law, and spirituality, and how theological ideas were linked to politics, warfare, science, and the arts. Written by an international team of leading scholars in the field, this History expands the range of theological discourse by introducing new topics and spokespersons, as well as global and ecumenical perspectives. It will remain the definitive place to begin any further study of theology during this period for years to come.

Volume I examines the history of the European Union from an outside-in perspective, asking the following questions: how does the European Union look from the outside, and which outside forces shaped and guided the process of European integration? Split into three parts, the first addresses the main external events that have steered the European integration process, with emphasis placed on critical junctures following the Second World War, such as the division and reunification of Germany and the Eastern enlargement. Part II considers the various international trends that have shaped European integration, with particular focus on globalisation and geopolitics. While the first two parts pay special attention to institutions, countries, international organisations and the main actors, Part III focuses on the role of ideas, networks, public opinion and memory that influenced the development of the European Union.

Volume II examines the history of the European Union from an inside-out perspective, focusing on the internal developments that shaped the European integration process. Split into three parts, Part I covers the principles that have defined European integration, exploring the treaties and their changes through time, with Brexit being a core milestone. Part II considers the different instruments within the architecture of European integration, with special focus on the development of policies, the euro and enlargement. Part III concentrates on the various narratives surrounding European integration, in particular the concepts, goals and ideas that both spoke and failed to speak to the hearts and minds of Europeans. This includes the 'longue durée' concept, peace, European culture, (the absence of) religion, prosperity and (a lack of) solidarity and democracy.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. A Poet of the "Ethics of the Real"
• 3.A Poet of the Language Crisis
• 4. A Poet of the "Part With No Part"
• 5. A Poet Who Announces the Event
• 6. A Poet of the Communist Event
• 7. A Poet of "Lost Causes"
• 8. Vallejo and Political: Art Beyond Death (Conclusions).

• Part I: the history of the intact mind
• Introduction
• Valuing the disabled child: the emergence of disability parent memoirs
• Whose fault is it? Psychoanalysis and the first autism parent memoirs
• Is there a "key"? Biomedical discourse and second-generation autism memoirs
• Part II: the case studies
• The fight to eliminate 14(c)
• The erosion of guardianship
• The resurgence of facilitated communication.

• Introduction
• Domestic and International Resources
• Pre-Event Topics
• Event Response Topics
• Mechanical Operations in Disasters
• Post-Event Topics
• Topics Unique to Terrorist Events and High-Threat Disaster Response
• Operational Medicine
• Natural Disasters
• Nuclear and Radiation Events
• Chemical Events
• Biologic Events: Bacterial
• Biologic Events: Viral
• Biologic Events: Toxins
• Biologic Events: Other Biologic Events
• Events Resulting in Blast Injuries
• Events Resulting in Burn Injuries
• Events Resulting in Ballistic Injuries
• Events Associated With Structural Collapse/Crashing/Crushing
• Other Events/CombinationEvents.

While medical specialists in disaster mitigation, preparedness, and response are needed worldwide, the initial phase of disaster response is almost entirely dependent upon local resources—making it essential that all healthcare personnel have a working knowledge of the field and stand ready to integrate into the response system. Ciottone's Disaster Medicine, 3rd Edition, is the most comprehensive reference available to help accomplish these goals in every community. It thoroughly covers isolated domestic events as well as global disasters and humanitarian crises. Dr. Gregory Ciottone and more than 200 worldwide authorities share their knowledge and expertise on the preparation, assessment, and management of both natural and man-made disasters, including lessons learned by the responders to contemporary disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Australian and western U.S. wildfires, European heatwaves, the Beirut explosion, recent hurricanes and typhoons, and the global refugee crisis.

• Introduction
• Definitions and Basic Properties
• Minimization of Variables: Exact Method
• Minimization of Variables: Heuristic Method
• Two-Class Functions
• Linear Decomposition
• Data Mining and Machine Learning
• Functions with Multi-Valued Inputs
• Easily Reconstructable Functions
• Functions with Continuous Variables
• References
• Conclusions

This book introduces a novel perspective on machine learning, offering distinct advantages over neural network-based techniques. This approach boasts a reduced hardware requirement, lower power consumption, and enhanced interpretability. The applications of this approach encompass high-speed classifications, including packet classification, network intrusion detection, and exotic particle detection in high-energy physics. Moreover, it finds utility in medical diagnosis scenarios characterized by small training sets and imbalanced data. The resulting rule generated by this method can be implemented either in software or hardware. In the case of hardware implementation, circuit design can employ look-up tables (memory), rather than threshold gates. The methodology described in this book involves extracting a set of rules from a training set, composed of categorical variable vectors and their corresponding classes. Unnecessary variables are eliminated, and the rules are simplified before being transformed into a sum-of-products (SOP) form. The resulting SOP exhibits the ability to generalize and predict outputs for new inputs. The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated through numerous examples and experimental results using the University of California-Irvine (UCI) dataset. This book is primarily intended for graduate students and researchers in the fields of logic synthesis, machine learning, and data mining. It assumes a foundational understanding of logic synthesis, while familiarity with linear algebra and statistics would be beneficial for readers

"This book explores how and why innovative climate policies spread across sub-national regions and between governance levels in China. Despite the significance of emerging economies in a pathway to a zero-carbon future, research to date on China's transformation governance remains limited. Drawing on a theoretical framework for policy diffusion and based on extensive data from expert interviews with Chinese decision makers and policy practitioners, Lina Li and Maia Haru Hall focus on the policy of emissions trading systems (ETS) and two key case studies: Shanghai and Hubei. The authors examine the role of the national government and how much freedom the sub-national regions have in developing ETS policy, as well as pinpointing key actors and the role of policy and knowledge diffusion mechanisms. Overall, this book sheds light on the competition between China and the West in the transition to climate-friendly societies and economies, highlighting opportunities for cooperation between them. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics and policy, climate change, urban studies, and Chinese studies more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.

"This edited collection explores a diverse range of climate (in)justice case studies from the Majority World - where most of humans and non-humans live. It is also the site of the most severe impacts of climate change and home to some of the key solutions for the climate crisis. The collection brings together twelve chapters featuring the work of over thirty authors from around the globe. The impacts of climate change are disproportionately affecting individuals, communities, and countries in the Majority World who historically have contributed little to rising global temperatures. The twelve chapters focus on a range of cross-cutting themes, demonstrating both individual and collective experiences of climate change and struggles for achieving climate justice from the Majority World. This includes activism, resistance, and social movement organising in India and Brazil, lived experiences and understandings of frontline communities in Bangladesh and South Africa, consequences of and responses to disasters in Mozambique and Puerto Rico, and contested accounts, narratives, and futures in the Maldives and Pakistan, among other topics. By adopting a decolonial lens, this book provides rich empirical content, insightful comparisons, and novel conceptual interventions. It foregrounds climate justice from an intersectional perspective and contributes to the ongoing efforts by scholars and activists to address epistemic injustice in climate change research, policy and practice. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate-level students, academics, activists, policymakers, and members of the public concerned with the impacts and inequalities of climate change in the Majority World. Neil J. W. Crawford is a Research Fellow in Climate Action and member of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, UK. Their research focuses on forced migration and displacement, refugee rights, climate justice and the inequalities of climate change, gender and sexuality, and cities"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• "Open the Floodgates of Heaven": Amazonian Climate Change in Pre-Columbian Times
• The Milpa Cycle as a Sustainable Ecological Resource
• Confronting Climatic Instability in Coastal California Through the Lens of Archaeology and Historical Ecology
• Indigenous People Prevented Climate-Induced Ecological Change for Millennia: Evidence from the Prairie Peninsula and Fire-Loving Forests of Eastern North America
• Indigenous Land Use and Fire Resilience of Southwest USA Ponderosa Pine Forests
• Different Relational Models have Shaped the Biocultural Conservation over Time of Araucaria araucana Forests and Their People
• Ancient and Ongoing Land-Use as Climate Change Mitigation in Ts'msyen, Heiltsuk, and Wuikinuxv Homelands
• Clam Gardens Across Generations and Places Support Social-Ecological Resilience to Global Change
• Ancient Knowledge, Future Wisdom: Archaeological Perspectives of Caribbean Coastal Food and Habitat Security during Times of Climate Crises
• Whose Climate Change Is It? A Thousand-Year Example of Kali'na Responses to Shifting Coastal Landscapes in the Lower Maroni River
• Long-Term Ecological and Climate Changes through Amazonian Indigenous Oral Histories
• Owning Climate Change among the Makushi and Akawaio
• Postface.

"This book offers a comparative analysis of the experiences, responses, and adaptations of people to climate variability and environmental change across the Americas. It foregrounds historical ecology as a structural framework for understanding the climate change crisis throughout the region and throughout time. In recent years Indigenous and local populations in particular have experienced climate change effects such as altered weather patterns, seasonal irregularities, flooding and drought, and difficulties relating to subsistence practices. Understanding and dealing with these challenges has drawn on peoples' longstanding experience with climate variability and in some cases includes models of mitigation and responses that are millennia old. With contributions from specialists across the Americas, the volume will be of interest to scholars from fields including anthropology, archaeology, geography, environmental studies, and Indigenous studies"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book explores the material and cultural history of the Ming Dynasty based on the Chinese magnum opus Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (literally The Story of a Marital Fate to Awaken the World), written under the pseudonym of the seventeenth-century writer Xizhou Sheng. The novel weaves into its narrative, through the characters' personalities and the events it illustrates, important details of Ming material life. Through this literary snapshot of the Ming material culture as reflected in Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan, this work investigates the practices and customs of clothing, food, and travel, three of the "four major concerns of the people's livelihoods," known as yishizhuxing in Chinese. While frequenting economic dimensions and probing the impact that Ming politics had on the ethos and social economy of the period, it sheds significant light on folk customs, legal and religious practices, and the status of women, among other issues. This work aims to enrich the current Western scholarship, done primarily by Timothy Brook, Craig Clunas, and Hok-lam Chan, on the Ming material culture. The book will be of great value to students and scholars of East Asian Studies, Chinese literature and those interested in the history of material culture in general"-- Provided by publisher.

• I. Magazines and Intellectual Movements
• Goan Avant-garde, Indian Renaissance: the Revista da Índia (1913) Manifesto / Duarte Drumond Braga
• Worldly Politics and Cultural Magazines: Subtle Forms of Communal Self-assertion in Colonial Goal (1910s-1920s) / Joana Passos
• Magazines and Intellectual Movements. Literature and Politics in the Goan Periodical O Académico (1940-1943) / Helder Garmes
• The Periodical Colonial Press in Mozambique, 1947-55: Literature and Culture in the Western Indian Ocean / Giulia Spinuzza
• Augusto dos Santos Abranches: Driving Force of Cultural Transits / Ada Milani
• Virgílio de Lemos and the Political, Cultural, and Aesthetic Project of Msaho / Carmen Lúcia Tindó Secco and Marinei Almeida
• Caliban in the Indian Ocean: Rui Knopfli's Role in the Mozambican Literary System / Ana Mafalda Leite and Vanessa Riambau Pinheiro
• II. Press and Politics of Identity
• Goan Literary History in the Periodical Press: The Works of Jacinto Caetano Barreto Miranda and Vicente de Bragança Cunha / Daniela Spina
• Racial Hybrids and the Local Elite: Perceptions and Attitudes towards the "Other" in Portuguese Goa in the Nineteenth Century / Carmen Sharmila Pais
• Catholics, Konkani, and Indian Nationalism: Brief Notes on News and Politics in Goa and Bombay (c. 1890-1960).
• Dale Luis Menezes
• The Foro Indiano: The Application of Law in Goa as Seen from the Novas Conquistas? / Luís Pedroso de Lima Cabral de Oliveira
• Bharat'kar and his attempt towards Saraswat Lusitanisation / Varsha Vijayendra Kamat
• III. Writing colonial conflicts, crisis, and change
• Gatekeeping the News: Press Reports in the Koloniaal Tijdschrift Concerning the Dutch East Indies / Lisa Kuitert
• Modernity as Crisis: Migrants 'writing back' in the Colonial Goan Konkani Newspaper Amchó
• Gão (1929-1933)./ Remy Dias
• Catholic Press within the Politics of Democratization of Goan Catholicism: the Confrarias Polemics at the Newspaper Vauraddeancho Ixtt (1933-51) / Denis Evereth Fernandes
• The Angry Native in Portuguese Timor: The Rebellion of Manufahi in the Australian Press / Lúcio Sousa
• Assolna, Velim, Cuncolim Tri-conglomerate: Rebellious Voices in Gomantak / Sushila Sawant Mendes
• Negotiating Economic Blockade and Food Consumption as seen in Free Goa and the Goan Tribune / Maria de Lourdes Bravo da Costa.

• Introduction : Communication rights in Africa : theoretical and practical Considerations / Tendai Chari and Ufuoma Akpojivi
• Part I : Cultural and minority rights
• Language-cultural barrier in Ubang community : a critical assessment of the communication rights of women and the girl-child / Chike Mgbeadichie
• Silicon savannah or digitising marginalisation? A reflection of Kenya's government digitization policies, strategies and projects / Job Mwaura
• Please do not call it human right : a southern epistemological perspective on the digital inclusion of people with disabilities in South Africa / Lorenzo Dalvit
• The interdependence of communication, political, and socio-economic rights : examining the lived experiences of eigitally marginalised netizens before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos State, Nigeria / Olutobi Akingbade
• Part II : Digital citizenship
• Cabo Delgado Também é Moçambique : the paths of youth digital activism in a restrictive context / Dércio Tsandzana
• Citizen journalism and the entrenchment of communication rights in Zimbabwe / Ernest Mudzengi and Wellington Gadzikwa
• Part III : Freedom, censorship and intellectual property rights
• 'The right to tell my story as I please' : regulation and self-censorship in the Nigerian film industry / Ikechukwu Obiaya
• A critical review of intellectual property rights : the case of Nigeria / Aifuwa Edosomwan
• Internet shutdowns in semi-authoritarian regimes : the case of Cameroon / Ngangum Peter Tiako
• Fake news v Freedom of expression : legislating media trademarks infringements on social media platforms in Kenya and South Africa / Brian Hungwe
• Part IV : Politics of digital infrastructures
• Politics of digital infrastructures in the Global South : the case of #DataMustFall campaign in South Africa / Tendai Chari
• Silence and silent the SóróSoké generation : the politicisation of social media in Nigeria / Akpojivi Ufuoma.

• Community Museums : Nurturing identities and resilience
• Connecting Regions : Communities and museums co-curating heritage and memory.

"Communities and Museums in the 21st Century brings together innovative, multidisciplinary perspectives on contemporary museology and participatory museum practice that contribute to wider debates on museum communities, heritage, and sustainability. Set within the context of globalisation and decolonization, the book draws upon bi-regional research that will enrich our understanding of the complex relationships between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean through museum studies and practice. Chapters reflect upon the role of museums in defining community identities; the importance of young people's participation and intergenerational work for sustainability; the role of museums in local development; and community-based museums and climate change. Contributors examine these issues through the lens of museum partnerships and practices, as well as testing the continued relevance of the notion of 'integral museum' and its relatives in the form of ecomuseums. With its focus on regional museums in Latin America and Caribbean, the book highlights how the case studies promote greater intercultural dialogue, global understanding and social cohesion. It will also demonstrate how the methodology can be adapted to other communities who are facing the perils of climate change and unsustainable forms of development. Communities and Museums in the 21st Century proposes creative and sustainable strategies relevant to a globalised future. With its focus on global societal challenges, the book will appeal to museologists and museum practitioners, as well as those working in heritage studies, cultural studies, memory studies, art history, gender studies, and sustainable development"-- Provided by publisher.

• E9780128219782v1_WEB
• Cover
• COMPREHENSIVE COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
• CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS FOR VOLUME 1
• Editor Biographies
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• Introduction to "Advanced Electronic Structure Methods in Computational Quantum Chemistry"
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Chapters and Contents
• 3 Summary
• Modern Basis Sets Across the Periodic Table
• Key Points
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Background
• 3 Common Families of Basis Sets
• 3.1 Atomic Natural Orbital Basis Sets
• 3.2 Correlation Consistent Basis Sets
• 3.3 Karlsruhe Basis Sets

• 3.4 Polarization Consistent Basis Sets
• 3.5 nZaP Basis Sets
• 3.6 Sapporo Basis Sets
• 3.7 Dyall Correlation Consistent Basis Sets
• 4 Modern Basis Sets Across the Periodic Table
• 4.1 H, He and the First two Main Group Rows
• 4.2 Alkali and Alkaline Earth Elements
• 4.3 d-Block Elements
• 4.4 Post-d Main Group Elements
• 4.5 f-Block Elements
• 4.6 Superheavy Elements (6d, 7p)
• 5 Summary
• References
• How Coupled-Cluster Theory is Solving the Electron Correlation Problem
• Key Points
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Brief Sketch of CC Theory
• 3 Numerical Applications
• 3.1 Ground States

• 3.1.1 Tailoring T amplitudes
• 3.1.2 Analytic gradients and Hessians
• 3.1.3 Derivative and response theories for properties
• 3.1.4 Molecular dipole static and dynamic polarizabilities and C6 coefficients
• 3.1.5 NMR chemical shifts and indirect spin-spin coupling constants
• 3.1.6 Electron spin (or paramagnetic)-resonance (ESR or EPR) spectra tensors
• 3.1.7 Beyond Born-Oppenheimer approximation (anharmonic frequencies and vibrational effects on ground state properties)
• 3.1.8 Composite Methods
• 3.2 CC Excited States
• 3.2.1 CC excited state methods
• 3.2.2 IP-EOM-CC and EA-EOM-CC

• 3.2.3 Other low scaling EOM-CC methods
• 3.2.4 Analytical gradients of EOM-CC and applications
• 3.2.5 Relativistic effects and Spin-orbit coupling constants
• 4 Concluding Remarks
• Acknowledgment
• References
• Benchmark Accuracy in Thermochemistry, Kinetics, and Noncovalent Interactions
• Key Points
• Glossary
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Accuracy in Quantum Chemical Calculations
• 3 Overview of Composite Ab Initio Methods
• 3.1 Computational Cost of Composite Ab Initio Methods
• 3.2 Accuracy of Composite Ab Initio Methods
• 4 Energy Components in High-Level Composite Ab Initio Methods

• 4.1 Valence CCSD(T) Energy Components
• 4.2 Post-CCSD(T) Energy Components
• 4.3 Secondary Energy Corrections
• 5 Putting it all Together for Thermochemistry, Kinetics, and Noncovalent Interactions
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Modern Density Functionals Derived From First Principles
• Key Points
• 1 Introduction to Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory
• 2 Exact Constraints for the Exchange-Correlation Hole and Energy Functional
• 3 Jacob's Ladder Hierarchy and Some Non-Empirical Functionals on it
• 3.1 Rung 1: Local Spin Density Approximation

• Introduction / Nelson Alusala, Emmaculate Asige Liaga and Martin Revai Rupiya
• A Historical Analysis and Lessons from the 2018 Peace Agreement / Jonikul Onuorah Obodozie
• The Missing Link in Negotiating an End to The South Sudan Conflict / Loice Alusala and Nelson Alusala
• Foreign Policy Convergence Between Sudan and Uganda on The South Sudan Peace Process? Understanding The Interests For Neighbouring States / Martin Revai Rupiya
• The Ethnicisation of The South Sudan Conflict From 2013 to 2018: Will The Peace Agreement Hold / Phalandwa Abraham Mulaudzi
• Constructing A Cohesive Foundation for Sustainable Peacebuilding in South Sudan / Victor Olusegun Fakoya
• Evaluating Splm's Legacies Of Conflict Resolution Initiatives in South Sudan / Joseph Geng Akech
• Who Are The Main External Actors in The Quest For Peace in South Sudan and Why Did They Fail To Achieve Peace in The Young State? / Remegie Gahungu
• Why The Failure of Power-Sharing Agreements in South Sudan (2014 -- 2016) / John Mwangi Githigaro
• Gender And The Conflict in South Sudan / Beatrice M'mboga Akala
• Women, Mediation And Leadership in South Sudan / Litlhare Rabele
• Contextualising Transitional Justice in South Sudan: Whose Justice? / Tendaiwo Peter Maregere
• A Review Of Contemporary Dynamics in Implementation of the Revitalised Agreement / Emmaculate Asige Liaga and Martin Revaya Rupiya
• Conclusion / Nelson Alusala.

• History
• Anterior Eye
• Visual Optics
• Soft Lens Materials
• Soft Lens Manufacture
• Soft Lens Optics
• Soft Lens Measurement
• Soft Lens Design and Fitting
• Soft Toric Lens Design and Fitting
• Soft Lens Care Systems
• Rigid Lens Materials
• Rigid Lens Manufacture
• Rigid Lens Optics
• Rigid Lens Measurement
• Rigid Corneal Lens Design and Fitting
• Rigid Toric Corneal Lens Design and Fitting
• Rigid Scleral and Corneoscleral Lens Design and Fitting
• Rigid Lens Care Systems
• Daily Disposable Lenses
• Reusable Lenses
• Tinted Lenses
• Presbyopia
• Extended Wear
• Sport
• Keratoconus
• High Ametropia
• Babies and Children
• Therapeutic Applications
• Post-surgery
• Orthokeratology
• Myopia Control
• Diabetes
• History Taking
• Diagnostic Instruments
• Preliminary Examination
• Patient Education
• Aftercare
• Complications
• Compliance
• Practice Management.

The field of contact lenses continues to evolve at a rapid pace, with new optical designs and vision correction options continually being developed. Additionally, the rapid expansion of clinical instrumentation offers eye care practitioners a wide choice of investigative techniques for assessing in-eye contact lens performance and diagnosing adverse reactions. Now in its fourth edition, Contact Lens Practice has been thoroughly updated and revised to capture these developments and more, and translate them into an organised and easily digestible resource. Written and edited by award-winning author, researcher, and lecturer, Professor Nathan Efron, this title provides a comprehensive, evidence-based overview of the scientific foundations and clinical applications of contact lens fitting. The text has been refreshed by the inclusion of five new authors - a mixture of scientists and clinicians, all of whom are at the cutting edge of their specialty. Serves as an essential companion and guide to current thinking and practice in the content lens field, ideal for use by optometrists, ophthalmologists, orthoptists, opticians, students, and contact lens industry professionals. Presents subject matter in a clear and logical format to allow the reader to quickly identify and comprehend key information. Features highly illustrated chapters in full colour, helping the reader to visualize core concepts. Includes completely rewritten chapters, by new authors, on scleral and corneo-scleral contact lenses, high ametropia, therapeutic applications, post-surgical lens fitting, and practice management. A new chapter on Post-Surgery Management consolidates core information on post-operative management involving contact lenses. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

• History
• Anterior Eye
• Visual Optics
• Soft Lens Materials
• Soft Lens Manufacture
• Soft Lens Optics
• Soft Lens Measurement
• Soft Lens Design and Fitting
• Soft Toric Lens Design and Fitting
• Soft Lens Care Systems
• Rigid Lens Materials
• Rigid Lens Manufacture
• Rigid Lens Optics
• Rigid Lens Measurement
• Rigid Corneal Lens Design and Fitting
• Rigid Toric Corneal Lens Design and Fitting
• Rigid Scleral and Corneoscleral Lens Design and Fitting
• Rigid Lens Care Systems
• Daily Disposable Lenses
• Reusable Lenses
• Tinted Lenses
• Presbyopia
• Extended Wear
• Sport
• Keratoconus
• High Ametropia
• Babies and Children
• Therapeutic Applications
• Post-surgery
• Orthokeratology
• Myopia Control
• Diabetes
• History Taking
• Diagnostic Instruments
• Preliminary Examination
• Patient Education
• Aftercare
• Complications
• Compliance
• Practice Management.

The field of contact lenses continues to evolve at a rapid pace, with new optical designs and vision correction options continually being developed. Additionally, the rapid expansion of clinical instrumentation offers eye care practitioners a wide choice of investigative techniques for assessing in-eye contact lens performance and diagnosing adverse reactions. Now in its fourth edition, Contact Lens Practice has been thoroughly updated and revised to capture these developments and more, and translate them into an organised and easily digestible resource. Written and edited by award-winning author, researcher, and lecturer, Professor Nathan Efron, this title provides a comprehensive, evidence-based overview of the scientific foundations and clinical applications of contact lens fitting. The text has been refreshed by the inclusion of five new authors - a mixture of scientists and clinicians, all of whom are at the cutting edge of their specialty. Serves as an essential companion and guide to current thinking and practice in the content lens field, ideal for use by optometrists, ophthalmologists, orthoptists, opticians, students, and contact lens industry professionals. Presents subject matter in a clear and logical format to allow the reader to quickly identify and comprehend key information. Features highly illustrated chapters in full colour, helping the reader to visualize core concepts. Includes completely rewritten chapters, by new authors, on scleral and corneo-scleral contact lenses, high ametropia, therapeutic applications, post-surgical lens fitting, and practice management. A new chapter on Post-Surgery Management consolidates core information on post-operative management involving contact lenses. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

• Section 1: Reproduction-fetal and placental development. Reproductive anatomy, physiology, and the menstrual cycle ; Genetics ; Fetal and placental development and functioning
• Section 2: Maternal-fetal well-being. Age-related concerns ; Prenatal testing and antepartum fetal surveillance ; Environmental hazards
• Section 3: Antepartum period. Perinatal diversity ; Physiology of pregnancy ; Psychology of pregnancy
• Section 4: Intrapartum period. Essential forces and factors in labor ; Normal childbirth ; Intrapartum fetal assessment
• Section 5: Postpartum period. Physical and psychologic changes after childbirth ; Breastfeeding ; Contraception
• Section 6: The newborn period. Transitional care of the newborn ; The infant at risk
• Section 7: Complications of childbearing. Intimate partner violence ; Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy ; Maternal infections ; Hemorrhagic disorders ; Endocrine and metabolic disorders ; Management of non-obstetrical surgery and trauma in pregnancy ; Perinatal substance use ; Other medical complications ; Labor and delivery at risk ; Postpartum complications
• Section 8: Ethics and issues. Ethics.

• The corporation and financial markets
• Introduction to financial statement analysis
• Financial decision making and the law of one price
• The time value of money
• Interest rates
• Valuing bonds
• Investment decision rules
• Fundamentals of capital budgeting
• Valuing stocks
• Capital markets and the pricing of risk
• Optimal portfolio choice and the capital asset pricing model
• Estimating the cost of capital
• Investor behavior and capital market efficiency
• Captial structure in a perfect market
• Debt and taxes
• Financial distress, managerial incentives, and information
• Payout policy
• Capital budgeting and valuation with leverage
• Valuation and financial modeling : a case study
• Financial options
• Option valuation
• Real options
• Raising equity capital
• Debt financing
• Leasing
• Working capital management
• Short-term financial planning
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Corporate governance
• Risk management
• International corporate finance

• Introduction: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades
• Acting Politically: Counter Revanchist Art in the Public Sphere
• River Crossing: Lin Yilin's Safely Maneuvering Across Lin He Road (1995)
• The View from the Cell: Santiago Sierra's Obstruction of a Freeway with a Truck's Trailer (1998) in the Long Sixties
• 24 Hour Placemaking: Heather Peak and Ivan Morisons' I lost her near Fantasy Island. Life will not be the same (2006) and Journée des Barricades (2008)
• Reflecting the Commons at the Border of Enclosure: The Mirrored Repertoires of Euromaidan, Greenham Common and #NODAPL
• Conclusion: Counter Revanchist Art and the Inauguration of Change.

• Introduction / Monika Meireles, Bruno De Conti and Diego Guevara
• I. Rethinking Development and Financial Dependency: Theoretical Reflections
• 1. Dependency, Finance and Development: Echoes of the Past That Resonate in the Present / Manuel Felipe Martínez Mantilla and José Daniel Saade Figueroa
• 2. International Division of Finance: Functionality and Dependency of the System's Periphery / Édivo de Almeida Oliveira and Bruno De Conti
• 3. Latin America: Between Regressive Structural Change and the Pandemic / Diego Guevara and Emilia Ormaechea
• II. Financialization and Financial Reconfiguration in the Pandemic-- 4. Dependent Financialization of Latin America: A View from the COVID-19 Crisis / Armando Negrete
• 5. Latin American Development Banks in the Pandemic Crisis / Marcos V. Chiliatto and Daniela M. Prates
• 6. They Win in Mexico: Pension Funds and Financial Benefits during the Pandemic / Lizeth Alanis and Monika Meireles
• III. Economic Policy Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
• 7. Potential of Coordination Between Monetary and Fiscal Policy: The Experience of Latin America during COVID-19 / Leonardo Rojas Rodríguez and Santiago Castaño Salas
• 8. Countercyclical Fiscal Policy and Fiscal Impulses: Post-Pandemic Challenges
• The Cases of Brazil and Mexico / Teresa López González and Eufemia Basilio Morales
• 9. Effects of International Liquidity Cycles on Argentina during the Pandemic / Ezequiel Greco Laplane.

• The planetary impact of COVID-19 / Inocent Moyo and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
• Reengaging Power: State responses to Covid 19 and the provision of public goods in Canada and United States of America / Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba and Kgoto Mbele
• COVID-19 and challenges of trauma, transformation and deborderization : ethics, spirituality and alternative planetary futures / Ananta Kumar Giri
• The COVID-19 moment : exacerbation of narrow nationalism and its toxicity to integration aspirations / Zenzo Moyo
• COVID-19 Pandemic, geopolitics of health and security entanglement in West Africa / Olukayonde A. Falaye
• The conundrum of balancing COVID-19 policing and human rights protection in South Africa : responsibility to protect perspective / Patrick Dzimiri
• The Trojan Horse : data colonialism during COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa / Kyle John Bester and Danille Elize Arendse
• Occupational health in the mining industry of South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic / Robert Maseko
• "On est pas de Cobayes" : health transnationalism of Congolese migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic / Leon Tshimpaka Mwamba and Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
• "Corona Jihad" : remanufacturing Islamophobia during COVID-19 in contemporary India / Sayan Dey.

"The years 1690-1727 represented a period of significant change for Scotland. It was a time of grand colonial endeavours and financial innovation, punctuated by bouts of economic turmoil and constitutional and political uncertainty. The infamous Darien Scheme, the establishment of the Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Anglo-Scots Union, the Hanoverian Succession, and the Jacobite rising of 1715, all occurred during this short time span. It was therefore a period which presented Scotland with opportunities, but one in which the country ultimately lost its autonomy. It was also during these years, and against this unsettled backdrop, that the Scottish Financial Revolution commenced. The complexity of the Scottish situation during the late seventeenth and the early eighteen centuries has historically made the identification of a Scottish Financial Revolution difficult. This monograph, the first dedicated to the topic, addresses this problem, and provides a model for identifying and understanding the revolution through the economic, political, and constitutional contexts of the period. Using examples of financial developments and innovation driven by Scotsmen in Scotland, Europe, and the colonies, this work defines the Scottish Financial Revolution as a series of developments which took place in Scotland when political circumstances allowed, but which also occurred outwith Scotland through the agency of members of the Scottish diaspora. This monograph is therefore the story of how Scotsmen at home and abroad contributed to financial debate and development between 1690 and 1727. Credit, Currency, and Capital: The Scottish Financial Revolution, 1690-1727 will appeal to students and scholars interested in the History of Economics and Finance. It will also be of interest to those studying the history of the Anglo-Scots Union and the complex relationship between Scotland and England"-- Provided by publisher.

• On Working as an Aboriginal Museum Director and Curator of the Berndt Museum / Catherine Speck in conversation with Vanessa Russ
• The Toa of the Dieri / Martin Edmond
• Wrecking Culture: Australian Iconoclash 2020 / Helen McDonald.

"This book is a political and cultural history of the early postwar Japan aiming at exploring how the perception and cultural values of everyday life in the country changed along with the rise of the kasutori culture. Such a process was closely tied with both a refusal of the samurai culture and the interwar debate on modernity, and it resulted in a decadent way of life, exemplified by intellectuals such as Sakaguchi Ango. It depicts a short-lived radical cultural and social alternative, one that forced people to rethink their relationship to the kokutai, modernity, social roles, daily practices, and the production of knowledge. The subjectivity and daily practices in those years were more important in shaping the society and cultural identities of the Japanese than the new public ideology of the nation. This challenges some Euro-American historical notions that the new private sphere has emerged in Japan as an effect of the country's Americanization, rather than from within it. This work looks at the immediate aftermath of WWII from the perspective of Japan, but also try to rethink Westernization in the light of its global appropriation. This volume it is not only addressed to specialists of Japanese or Asian history, but it will also attract historians of the U.S., readers from political and intellectual history, cultural studies, and historiography in general"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Problematising Violence
• Curriculum Studies, Genealogy, and the Power of Life and Death
• Regeneration Through Violence
• Bringing War Home
• The "Great Replacement": International Ethnonationalism
• Non-Violence and the Future of Democracy
• Affirmative Biopower, Truth, and the Prophetic
• Epilogue: The Return to the Self.

• Introduction : cybernetic thinking and modernist literature
• Feedback loops and learning from the past : Erza Pound's poetics of transmission
• The cybernetic information dialectic : patterns, randomness and newsreel in John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
• Black box subjectivity : associative language, affect, and radio blindness in Virginia Woolf's The waves
• Cultural composition, insistent spirals, and definition by contrast : Gertrude Stein as second-order cybernetic anthropologist
• Coda : retrospective and prospective readings of cybernetic aesthetics.

"In Cybernetic Aesthetics, Heather A. Love makes a new contribution to ongoing debates about modern communication networks and information culture. This book draws from cybernetics theory and terminology to interpret experimental modernist texts, illustrating how cybernetic approaches to communication emerged long before World War II"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Revealing cultural confluences
• Language, value, and branding in confluent dance spaces
• Critical engagement with aesthetic systems in dance
• Navigating cultural confluences and envisioning new spaces
• Choreography, improvisation, and "just steps"
• Cultural knowledge production in dance academia.

• Introduction : The constitution, the state, and the law and the epistemologies of the South / Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Sara Araújo and Orlando Aragón Andrade
• Do constitutions matter? : the dilemma of a radical lawyer / Issa G. Shivji
• Healing a wounded Islamic constitutionalism : Sharia, legal pluralism, and unlearning the nation-state paradigm / Asifa Quraishi-Landes
• Nihilisms, contradictions and anomie in new constitutionalisms : a view from India / Upendra Baxi
• Indigenous women : towards a new transformative constitutionalism? / Rosalva Aída Hernandez Castillo-- Modern constitutionalism, legal pluralism and the waste of experience / Sara Araújo-- Legacies and latitudes : past, present and future in South Africa's post-colonial legal order / Heinz Klug
• Shared expeiences from South Africa Constitutional Court / Albie Sachs
• On settler colonialism and post-conquest constitutionness : the decolonising constitutional vision of African Nationalists of Azania/South Africa / Tshepo Madlingozi
• Can silence be a constituent? A reading on the indigenous-communitarian constitutionalism of Bolivia / Salvador Schavelzon
• Plurinational constitutionalism : plurinationality from above and plurinationality from below / Raúl Llasag
• Transformational constitutionalism, interculturality and the reform of the state : looking through the eyes of the originary peoples / Nina Pacari
• Participation and presidentialism in the Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008 / Agustin Grijalva
• Transforming transformative constitutionalism. Lessons from the political-legal experience of Cherán, Mexico / Orlando Aragón Andrade-- The Law of the Excluded : Indigenous justice, plurinationality, and interculturality in Bolivia and Ecuador / Boaventura de Sousa Santos
• Conclusion.

"The modern state, law, and constitution result from a legal canon that (re)produces the abyssal lines dividing the world that is validated from the world whose humanity and epistemological validity are denied. This book aims to contribute to a post-abyssal reflection on law and constitutionalism by considering the structural axes of power that are constitutive of modern law "capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy" alongside the legal plurality of the world. Is it possible to decolonize, decommodify, and depatriarchalize the constitution? The authors speak from multiple geographies, raise different questions, resort to differentiated theoretical approaches, and reveal varying levels of optimism about the possibilities of transforming constitutions. The readers are confronted with critical perspectives on the Eurocentric legal canon, as well as with the recognition of anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-patriarchal legal experiences. The horizon of this publication is the expansion of the possibilities of legal and political imagination"-- Provided by publisher.

• Decolonizing development : from Dadabhai Naoroji to Raúl Prebisch
• Development and social identities : race and caste in Mariátegui and Ambedkar
• Memories of underdevelopment : Miguel Angel Asturias's chronicles on India.

• Introduction : why we need a manifesto : study within as starting remedy for Latinx youth drowning in U.S. whiteness
• A change in focus : from white students to brown students abroad
• Decolonizing study abroad : purposeful design of the program and research approach
• Pedagogical strategies to delve within : a decolonial turn toward renewed community
• Collaborating with local partners and communities : through shared ownership
• How international study creates opportunities for personal/communal solidarity through continued mother tongue maintenance, political consciousness, and identity
• Conclusion : building the loving community : the manifesto's promise.

• The history of personalized learning
• Approaches to personalized learning
• Designing personalized learning experiences using the PL interaction framework
• Designing for learner-content interaction
• Designing for learner-learner interaction
• Designing for learner-small group interaction
• Designing for learner-coach, mentor, or AI interaction
• Designing for learner-social network interaction
• Evaluating your personalized learning designs
• Empowering learners to engage in personalized learning experiences.