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This book examines the experiences and interconnections of the
Reformations, principally in Denmark-Norway and Britain and Ireland
(but with an eye to the broader Scandinavian landscape as well),
and also discusses instances of similarities between the
Reformations in both realms. The volume features a comprehensive
introduction, and provides a broad survey of the beginnings and
progress of the Catholic and Protestant Reformations in Northern
Europe, while also highlighting themes of comparison that are
common to all of the bloc under consideration, which will be of
interest to Reformation scholars across this geographical region.
a powerful sketch of America's Soldiers depicted in their unique
lingo legacy ... a fascinating array of cultural jargon based on a
proud history and known as the language of Grunts ... compelling
leadership lessons built on a legacy fashioned by Warriors,
celebrated by Veterans, shared with families, and intriguing to
citizens ... Americans share the pride of ownership -all
contributing to the rich cultural lingo of our Nation's Army ... a
timely insight into America's Army and her Citizen Soldiers, viewed
through a proud legacy of lingo steeped in tradition and filled
with contemporary influences ... the old, and the new ...
FOUNDATIONALISM IN PHILOSOPHY n his autobiographical work, The
Education of Henry Adams, this I brooding and disillusioned
offspring of American presidents confronted, at age sixty, his own
perplexity concerning the new scientific world-view that was
emerging at the end of the century. He noted that the unity of
things, long guaranteed morally by the teachings of Christianity
and scientifically by the Newtonian world-view, was being
challenged by a newer vision of things that found only
incomprehensible multiplicity at the root of the world: What
happened if one dropped the sounder into the ab yss-let it
go-frankly gave up Unity altogether? What was Unity? Why was one to
be forced to affirm it? Here every body flatly refused help. . . .
Adams] got out his Descartes again; dipped into his Hume and
Berkeley; wrestled anew with his Kant; pondered solemnly over his
Hegel and Scho penhauer and Hartmann; strayed gaily away with his
Greeks-all merely to ask what Unity meant, and what happened when
one denied it. Apparently one never denied it. Every philosopher,
whether sane or insane, naturally af firmed it. I Adams, then
approaching with heavy pessimism a new century, felt instinc tively
that, were one to attack the notion of unity, the entire edifice of
human knowledge would quickly collapse. For understanding requires
the unification of apparently different phenomena."
Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann developed ethics upon a
phenomenological basis. This volume demonstrates that their
contributions to a material ethics of value are complementary: by
supplementing the work of one with that of the other, we obtain a
comprehensive and defensible axiological and moral theory. By
"phenomenology," we refer to an intuitive procedure that attempts
to describe thematically the insights into essences, or the
meaning-elements of judgments, that underlie and make possible our
conscious awareness of a world and the evaluative judgments we make
of the objects and persons we encounter in the world.
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Sean E Kelly
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On an MTV special aired in 2000, young interviewees were asked to
confess the worse thing they were ever told during a romantic
breakup. One person tearfully responded "that I suck in bed. " More
recently, an acquaintance of mine admitted to his new girlfriend
that he "has a mean streak. " She decided not to date him after
that. Another memorable and painful example of openness occurred
years ago when I served as a member of a suicide intervention team.
I was called to a very disturbing scene in an upscale neighborhood
to console a woman who was threaten ing to take her life on the
lawn in front of her children. Her husband had just confessed his
long-term affair to her that morning and she felt that her world
was coming apart. Fortunately, she did not take her life but was
left with the humiliation of haVing her neighbors know about her
private troubles. The question these examples bring to mind is,
"Why do people so often reveal potentially stigmatizing personal
information to others?" The reader probably has an intuitive answer
to this question already. It can seem like such a burden-even
torture-to keep secrets from other people. Hiding such things as
feelings of discontent from a boyfriend or girlfriend, violations
of the law from close friends, and indiscretions from employers can
be alienating. People want others to know them; therefore they
often end up disclosing self-incriminating information."
In 1598, the first English convent to be founded since the
dissolution of the monasteries was established in Brussels,
followed by a further twenty-one foundations, which all
self-identified as English institutions in Catholic Europe. Around
four thousand women entered these religious houses over the
following two centuries. This book highlights the significance of
the English convents as part of, and contributors to, national and
European Catholic culture. Covering the whole exile period and
making extensive use of rarely consulted archive material, James E.
Kelly situates the English Catholic experience within the wider
context of the Catholic Reformation and Catholic Europe. He thus
transforms our understanding of the convents, stressing that they
were not isolated but were, in fact, an integral part of the
transnational Church which transcended national boundaries. The
original and immersive structure takes the reader through the
experience of being a nun, from entry into the convent, to
day-to-day life in enclosure, how the enterprise was funded, as
well as their wider place within the Catholic world.
America's debt is in the trillions--and yet, like those who worry
about borrowing five dollars but not about their unaffordable
mortgage, Americans fail to pay attention to this serious
situation. The press hovers over annual budgets and the associated
deficits (and rare surpluses), but pays little attention to the
national debt and even less to the interest spent serving it.
Federal politicians seem as powerless to control the debt as they
are uninformed about its nature. After tracing fluctuations in the
finances of the country from its beginning until 1940, this book
examines the administrations of the next 12 presidents (FDR through
George W. Bush) and the annual budget deficits and interest
expenses that fed the national debt. The startup debt of each
administration is shown; then the change in debt through the end of
the administration is analyzed to show what areas of government
incurred overspending and how much was overspent. Also included are
brief biographies of each president, and discussions of foreign and
domestic situations, including judicial decisions and sociological
changes, that affected fiscal policies and fueled the urge to
overspend.
Only recently recognized for its many contributions to ceramics
found throughout the world, the Scottish pottery industry has
existed for more than two hundred years. Rather than compete with
England's famed potteries to the south, Scotland focused on the
export market, sending its colorful and decorative wares to
America, Canada, and many parts of Southeast Asia. Widely enjoyed,
these popular and affordable wares were usually not marked. Their
Scottish origin, therefore, remained largely unknown and--until
now--unappreciated. This book sets the record straight. Over 630
striking color photographs showcase the multi-hued dinnerware,
vases, plaques, figurines, and other ceramic items that can now be
rightfully attributed to the prolific Scottish potteries. Separate,
descriptive chapters feature brief histories of the most important
potteries, a discussion of the wares produced, listings of the
pottery descriptions and patterns, plus relevant readings.
Additional chapters highlight spongeware techniques, Scottish jugs,
and the "Glasgow Girls"--talented pottery painters from the late
nineteenth century. This invaluable resource also includes values
for all items, a helpful glossary, and a detailed index.
This book, first published in 1982, aims to re-examine the
phenomenon of job redesign in a series of different but related
contexts by including accounts, often using case study material,
from people trained in a range of social science disciplines
utilising different frames of reference. Thus job redesign is
considered in relation to social policy, payment systems,
collecting bargaining arrangements and trade unions, new
technology, the process of change, organisational structures and
functions, information and control systems, and the whole issue of
emancipation at work. This title will be of interest to students of
business studies and human resource management.
Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities
of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important
centres of religious and secular activity in the aftermath of the
Protestant Reformation. This collection aims to explore new
perspectives on the British and Irish conventual, mendicant and
monastic movements in mainland Europe and rediscover their roles
and wider impact within early modern European Catholicism. Building
on recent scholarship, the book addresses a historiographical
imbalance, which has led to an over-emphasis being placed on the
role of the Society of Jesus in the development of British and
Irish Catholicism following the Protestant Reformation. The stable
communities of religious in mainland Europe also acted as important
centres of religious and secular activity. This volume explores the
ways in which British and Irish conventuals and monastics, both men
and women, engaged with the seismic religious and philosophical
developments of the early modern period, such as the Catholic
Reformation and the Enlightenment in mainland Europe, as well as
important political developments at 'home', exploring the
connections between centres and peripheries. Building on recent
movements within the field to 'decentralise' the Catholic
Reformation and recognize the international nature of Catholicism,
the volume aims to change the perception that the activities of
British and Irish religious were 'peripheral', bringing the
islands' experience in line with work on their European confreres
and the broader global network of the religious orders.
Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence
that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern
Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe
and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish
realism to Russian symbolism. Six of these plays are appearing in
their first English-language translation. Playwrights include: *
Anne-Charlotte Leffler Edgren (Sweden) * Amelai Pincherle Rosselli
(Italy) * Elsa Berstein (Germany) * Elizabeth Robins (Britain) *
Marie Leneru (France) * Alfonsina Storni (Argentina) * Hella
Wuolijoki (Finland) * Hasegawa Shigure (Japan) * Rachilde (France)
* Zinaida Gippius (Russia) * Djuna Barnes (USA) * Marita Bonner
(USA) This groundbreaking anthology explodes the traditional canon.
In these plays, the New Woman represents herself and her crises in
all of the styles and genres available to the modern dramatist.
Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection which no
scholar, student or lover of modern drama can afford to miss.
This book, first published in 1982, aims to re-examine the
phenomenon of job redesign in a series of different but related
contexts by including accounts, often using case study material,
from people trained in a range of social science disciplines
utilising different frames of reference. Thus job redesign is
considered in relation to social policy, payment systems,
collecting bargaining arrangements and trade unions, new
technology, the process of change, organisational structures and
functions, information and control systems, and the whole issue of
emancipation at work. This title will be of interest to students of
business studies and human resource management.
Here is a sweeping survey of the popular spongeware ceramics
produced in Scotland, England, Europe, and North America for one
hundred years, illustrated with over 975 color photographs. Often
associated with Pennsylvania German folk art, these tablewares,
serving pieces, tea sets, children's sets, and vases are decorated
in colorful patterns achieved primarily through the simple, yet
engaging, sponge-printing technique. Included are a thorough
definition of spongeware, identifications of the patterns and
potters, their marks, and a bibliography. Current market values are
provided in the captions.
In 1598, the first English convent was established in Brussels and
was to be followed by a further 21 enclosed convents across
Flanders and France with more than 4,000 women entering them over a
200-year period. In theory they were cut off from the outside
world; however, in practice the nuns were not isolated and their
contacts and networks spread widely, and their communal culture was
sophisticated. Not only were the nuns influenced by continental
intellectual culture but they in turn contributed to a developing
English Catholic identity moulded by their experience in exile.
During this time, these nuns and the Mary Ward sisters found
outlets for female expression often unavailable to their secular
counterparts, until the French Revolution and its associated
violence forced the convents back to England. This
interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the cultural importance
of the English convents in exile from 1600 to 1800 and is the first
collection to focus solely on the English convents.
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English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part II, vol 4 (Hardcover)
Caroline Bowden, Katrien Daemen-de Gelder, James E. Kelly, Richard G Williams, Carmen M. Mangion, …
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Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for
a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and
America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation
and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female
intellectualism. The nuns' writings from this time form a unique
resource.
Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for
a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and
America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation
and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female
intellectualism. The nuns' writings from this time form a unique
resource.
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English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part II, vol 6 (Hardcover)
Caroline Bowden, Katrien Daemen-de Gelder, James E. Kelly, Richard G Williams, Carmen M. Mangion, …
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Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for
a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and
America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation
and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female
intellectualism. The nuns' writings from this time form a unique
resource.
This book contains an Open Access Chapter In 1995, the Fourth World
Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace
affirmed the need to address gender inequalities and foster gender
integration. Ever since, the field of gender professionals has been
growing, yet the experiences, insights and data gathered have not
been systematically examined and incorporated into an accessible
body of knowledge. Working to address this, expert contributors
demonstrate the depth and breadth of gender and practice. Including
examples from Brazil, Cameroon, Ecuador, Nigeria, Sao Tome and
Principe, the USA, and Vietnam, as well as chapters that take a
global perspective, the research here looks at issues and
activities relating to infusing gender in knowledge management,
training, and practice. Including subjects such as education,
agricultural production, and tourism, this volume offers a variety
of perspectives that will appeal to any researcher in gender.
Throughout the volume, expert practitioners situate their
real-world experiences in the broader intersectional framework
employed by their academic colleagues, offering policy makers,
students, scholars, practitioners, and activists concrete examples
of how and why gender is central to development.
This book examines the experiences and interconnections of the
Reformations, principally in Denmark-Norway and Britain and Ireland
(but with an eye to the broader Scandinavian landscape as well),
and also discusses instances of similarities between the
Reformations in both realms. The volume features a comprehensive
introduction, and provides a broad survey of the beginnings and
progress of the Catholic and Protestant Reformations in Northern
Europe, while also highlighting themes of comparison that are
common to all of the bloc under consideration, which will be of
interest to Reformation scholars across this geographical region.
Business and Professional Communication Playbook teaches students
the essentials of business communication and necessary skillset
that employers look for today. Michelle Violanti and Stephanie
Kelly use engaging examples, provide tips on how to carry yourself
professionally, and incorporate real-life experiences from recent
graduates to teach students how to communicate like a professional.
Focused, bite-sized chapters on the most important topics in
business communication, such as interviewing, writing resumes, and
leading team presentations will motivate students to read and
prepare ahead of time so instructors can focus on skill-building
during class. By using this simple and flexible format, this text
will provide students and instructors with an excellent foundation
for a successful Business Communication course. This title is
accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package
in SAGE Vantage, an intuitive learning platform that
instructors and students actually love.
Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann developed ethics upon a
phenomenological basis. This volume demonstrates that their
contributions to a material ethics of value are complementary: by
supplementing the work of one with that of the other, we obtain a
comprehensive and defensible axiological and moral theory. By
"phenomenology," we refer to an intuitive procedure that attempts
to describe thematically the insights into essences, or the
meaning-elements of judgments, that underlie and make possible our
conscious awareness of a world and the evaluative judgments we make
of the objects and persons we encounter in the world.
On an MTV special aired in 2000, young interviewees were asked to
confess the worse thing they were ever told during a romantic
breakup. One person tearfully responded "that I suck in bed. " More
recently, an acquaintance of mine admitted to his new girlfriend
that he "has a mean streak. " She decided not to date him after
that. Another memorable and painful example of openness occurred
years ago when I served as a member of a suicide intervention team.
I was called to a very disturbing scene in an upscale neighborhood
to console a woman who was threaten ing to take her life on the
lawn in front of her children. Her husband had just confessed his
long-term affair to her that morning and she felt that her world
was coming apart. Fortunately, she did not take her life but was
left with the humiliation of haVing her neighbors know about her
private troubles. The question these examples bring to mind is,
"Why do people so often reveal potentially stigmatizing personal
information to others?" The reader probably has an intuitive answer
to this question already. It can seem like such a burden-even
torture-to keep secrets from other people. Hiding such things as
feelings of discontent from a boyfriend or girlfriend, violations
of the law from close friends, and indiscretions from employers can
be alienating. People want others to know them; therefore they
often end up disclosing self-incriminating information.
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