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A study exploring the production of historical memory in the region of Puglia after it was subsumed by the new Kingdom of Sicily in 1130, assessing the significance of the apparent disappearance of traditional forms of Pugliese historical writing and analyzing the existence of other historical discourses embedded in surviving local documentation.

Developing Public Service Leaders examines why and how governments and representative bodies for senior staff in public service organizations have mounted major interventions over the last two decades to develop senior staff as leaders.

René Descartes revolutionized the method of intellectual inquiry. Tarek Dika presents a systematic interpretation and defense of Descartes' method and its efficacy, and demonstrates the fruits of this interpretation applied to metaphysics, optics, and mathematics.

This edited volume engages with John Gardner's philosophical work on private law. It assembles a group of contributors with diverse theoretical commitments and acts as a reference point for central debates in private law theory, such as the role of moral duties, the justification of reparative obligations, and the role of reasons in private law.

This book offers a more complete understanding of the making of Michels' major work, Political Parties. It investigates the complex intellectual and political networks in which Michels moved across multiple countries to make sense of his unusual political career.

Lyndsey Stonebridge presents a new way to think about the relationship between literature and human rights that challenges the idea that empathy inspires action.

In the Path of Conquest offers a fresh insight into the conquests of Alexander the Great by attempting to view the events of 336-323 BCE from the vantage point of the defeated.

In this sixth edition of Law 101, Jay Feinman provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the American legal system. In the years since the publication of the fifth edition, there have been many important developments on the legal front. The Supreme Court has become more conservative and is in the process of handing down important decisions that will likely change the law on affirmative action, abortion, gun rights, labor law, and religious rights. Feinman will cover all of this and expand his discussion of originalism, the guiding philosophy of many conservative jurists serving on the federal bench now. He will also address the rapidly changing legal landscape in a variety of issue areas: vaccine mandates, cryptocurrency, and tort reform, among others.

This book provides medical students and junior doctors with everything they need to know to become experts at requesting tests. It will support them in requesting the most appropriate and effective tests, and inform them on how to interpret results, improving patients' outcomes.

The paradox of poverty amidst plenty - namely, that the wealthiest country in the world also has the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations - has plagued the United States throughout the 21st century. In The Poverty Paradox, Mark Rank, one of the nation's leading authorities on the subject, offers a unique analysis to arrive at a compelling answer and from there he suggests potential policy solutions.

How do we find calm in times of stress and uncertainty? How do we cope with sudden losses or find meaning in a world that can easily rob us of what we most value? Drawing on the wisdom of Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and others, Nancy Sherman's Stoic Wisdom presents a compelling, modern Stoicism that teaches grit, resilience, and the importance of close relationships in addressing life's biggest and smallest challenges. A renowned expert in ancient and modern ethics, Sherman relates how Stoic methods of examining beliefs and perceptions can help us correct distortions in what we believe, see, and feel. Her study reveals a profound insight about the Stoics: They never believed, as Stoic popularizers often hold, that rugged self-reliance or indifference to the world around us is at the heart of living well. We are at home in the world, they insisted, when we are connected to each other in cooperative efforts. We build resilience and goodness through our deepest relationships. Bringing ancient ideas to bear on 21st century concerns--from workers facing stress and burnout to first responders in a pandemic, from soldiers on the battlefield to citizens fighting for racial justice--Sherman shows how Stoicism can help us fulfil the promise of our shared humanity. In nine lessons that combine ancient pithy quotes and daily exercises with contemporary ethics and psychology, Stoic Wisdom is a field manual for the art of living well.

This book examines the degree to which restorative justice can contribute to a more enhanced justice response than that currently offered by criminal legal approaches alone to victims, offenders, and their communities in cases of sexual crime.

The United States is home to the most expansive prison system on Earth. In addition to holding nearly a quarter of the world's legal captives, close to two-thirds of those held in U.S. state prisons hold some sort of job while incarcerated. Through insightful first-hand perspectives and rich ethnographic detail, Orange-Collar Labor takes the reader inside the prison workplace, illustrating the formal prison economy as well as the informal black market onwhich many rely to survive. Highlighting moments of struggle and suffering, as well as hard work, cooperation, resistance, and dignity in harsh environments, it documents the lives of America's working prisoners so often obscured from view.

Music, Dance and the Archive reimagines records of performance cultures from the archive through collaborative and creative research. In this edited volume, Amanda Harris, Linda Barwick and Jakelin Troy bring together performing artists, cultural leaders and interdisciplinary scholars to highlight the limits of archival records of music and dance. Through artistic methods drawn from Indigenous methodologies, dance studies and song practices, the contributors explore modes of re-embodying archival records, renewing song practices, countering colonial narratives and re-presenting performance traditions. The book's nine chapters are written by song and dance practitioners, curators, music and dance historians, anthropologists, linguists and musicologists, who explore music and dance by Indigenous people from the West, far north and southeast of the Australian continent, and from Aotearoa New Zealand, Taiwan and Turtle Island (North America).Music, Dance and the Archive interrogates historical practices of access to archives by showing how Indigenous performing artists and community members and academic researchers (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) are collaborating to bring life to objects that have been stored in archives. It not only examines colonial archiving practices but also creative and provocative efforts to redefine the role of archives and to bring them into dialogue with contemporary creative work. Through varied contributions the book seeks to destabilise the very definition of "archives" and to imagine the different forms in which cultural knowledge can be held for current and future Indigenous stakeholders. Music, Dance and the Archive highlights the necessity of relationships, Country and creativity in practising song and dance, and in revitalising practices that have gone out of use.As contemporary Australia reckons with its past, this volume is both timely and urgent. We readers are challenged to critically reflect on how history lives on in the present - with implications not only for creativity, heritage, and the arts, but also for prosperous and equitable societies and thriving cultures, now and into the future. This unique and lively collection is a landmark in scholarship on Indigenous performing arts and the archive, with relevance for Australia and beyond.

How to change a culture of exclusion to ensure all are welcome in universities especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students as well as those from low socio economic backgrounds. How educational disadvantage in Australia often begins in school and is still the major barrier to full university participation. The reality that funding for research and major infrastructure requires significant additional funds from nongovernment sources e.g. international student fees A lack of policy recognition that international university students increase Australias social cultural and economic capital. Pathways to making policy decisions wideranging consultative inclusive and inspired rather than politically partisan and ideologically driven. The impact of COVID-19 on universities and particularly how the pandemic and governmental responses exacerbated extant and emerging issues --

Xenophon's Memorabilia and Apology provide a passionate defence of Socrates against the charges brought against him that lead to his execution. The two texts together provide a moving account of what happened immediately before, during, and after his trial.

A Son at the Front offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris during World War I. Wharton's only full-length novel dealing with the war, it portrays the relationship between an American expatriate artist father and his soldier son.

Using the figure of the monster as an interpretive lens across a wide range of fiction, this book shows how young adult fiction contributes to the cultural conversation by offering new ways of thinking about climate change and definitions of citizenship.

Democracies in America collects twenty-five essays from a diverse group of contributors, each centred around a keyword from the language we use to discuss democracy. The relationship between "America" and "democracy" is examined from multi-disciplinary angles and at different moments in 19th century history, while glancing forward to our time.

With 800 million users worldwide, LinkedIn is a powerhouse platform for businesses wanting to build an effective pipeline of leads, clients, and sales. Standing out from the rest of the LinkedIn crowd is a must - and one of the best ways of doing this is to have a truly exceptional profile. The LinkedIn Playbook is the step-by-step guide to planning, optimising and leveraging your LinkedIn profile. Learn how to use LinkedIn's unique features to attract and connect with more of your ideal clients, and discover the processes you can use to engage, connect and convert more leads into sales. Fully updated for 2022, The LinkedIn Playbook is the secret the business community has been looking for. LinkedIn can be your functional and effective lead generation tool that, once put in place, can serve you for years to come. INSIDE YOU WILL DISCOVER: The power of social serving versus social sellingThe importance of creating prominence and positioning yourself as the known and trusted authority in your industryHow to optimise your LinkedIn profile to attract and speak to your ideal clientsHow and when to engage and connect with prospects using LinkedIn's unique featuresEffective ways of moving conversations forward and converting sales

Inferior Politics explores how social policy was created in Britain in a period when central government was not active in making it. Despite the lack of consensus, there was a lively and inclusive 'politics' of social policy-making, in which 'inferior' officers of government (what we might call 'local authorities') figured prominently.

In A Modernist Cinema, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among cinema, modernism across the arts, and modernity in the period 1914 to 1941. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on at least one influential film by a major director from Europe, America, or Asia, including Pastrone, Griffith, Eisenstein, Lang, Hitchcock, Murnau, Dreyer, Vertov, Buñuel, Ozu, Ford Renior, Chaplin,Riefenstahl, and Welles. Contributors explore the formal and aesthetic qualities silent and early sound films in relation to their social, cultural, and political context and with particular attention to the challenges, crises, and promise of modern life in the first half of the 20th century.

The volume focuses on esoteric interpretation as a phenomenon in the field of Qur'anic exegesis. The work shows how it has been manifested in different Muslim traditions and explores the differences and similarities of these approaches.

A spirited and lively introduction to American literature, this book acquaints readers with the key authors, works, and events in the nation's rich and ecclectic literary tradition.

Australian Made is a collection of essays about the writers, the readers and the texts of multicultural Australia. Despite the different approaches they take, the essays address a number of questions that are important for understanding Australian multicultural society and Australia's national literary culture.How does multiculturalism intersect with different genres and generic conventions? How is cultural diversity expressed and enacted within life writing, women's writing, experimental writing, children's literature, poetry, prose and film? What does it mean to be a 'multicultural writer' in Australia today? What is a 'multicultural text'?Presenting the work of critics and scholars from Australia and abroad, this collection creates a synergy between local and international perspectives as it explores what it means for a writer or a reader to be 'Australian' and a text to be 'Australian made'.