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Ethnic Minorities and Regional Development in Asia
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The development experience in the world over the last century has shown that economic growth cannot be sustained without taking into consideration the social and political development of vulnerable populations, including greater recognition of minority rights. Within this context, the objective of this book is initially to support the interdisciplinary discussion that aims to join studies that surrounding the development of minorities in the Asia.Azië is economisch gezien een van de snelst groeiende regio's in de wereld. Dit geldt vooral voor Oost- en Zuidoost- Aziatische landen als China en Vietnam. Toch zijn er tegelijkertijd grote regionale verschillen in welvaart. Huhua Cao stelt dat gelijkberechtiging van de etnische minderheden een voorwaarde is voor de verdere economische bloei van deze regio's. De emancipatie van die minderheden is een enorme uitdaging waar veel Aziatische samenlevingen op dit moment voor staan. Huhua Cao wil met zijn boek een interdisciplinaire discussie op gang brengen over die emancipatie. De gevarieerde hoofdstukken in deze bundel dragen daar het nodige aan bij.
Mary Magdalen: A Chronicle
Edgar Saltus
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A fascinating fictionalisation of the life of the biblical figure Mary Magdalene, written by American writer Edgar Saltus.
Zum Einfluss von Fahrzeug- und Straßenparametern auf die Ausbildung von Straßenunebenheiten
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Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht den Einfluss unterschiedlicher Fahrzeug- und Straßenparameter auf die Ausbildung von longitudinalen Straßenunebenheiten. Hierzu wird ein abstrahiertes Fahrzeugmodell zur Abbildung der Vertikaldynamik von Lkw formuliert sowie ein phänomenologisches Gesetz zur Berechnung der bleibenden Straßenverformung verwendet. Mit Hilfe von analytischen und semianalytischen Methoden wird die Entwicklung einzelner Spektralanteile der Straßenoberfläche prognostiziert.
O poeta-espião: a antilírica de Sebastião Uchoa Leite
Paulo Andrade
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Paulo Andrade analisa nesta obra os procedimentos técnicos, temas e motivos construídos pelo poeta Sebastião Uchoa Leite para refletir sobre seu projeto poético e seu sujeito lírico. O estudo focaliza uma produção poética submetida a certa tensão, por desvios e aproximações, tanto com a tradição moderna quanto com as propostas modernistas, o que impossibilita demarcar limites para classificá-la. O grande mérito do autor é precisamente situar a obra de Uchoa nesse contexto específico.Andrade mostra que Uchoa não concebe o modernismo como força propulsora, mas como forma. O poeta não descarta as conquistas de 1922 e das décadas seguintes, no entanto, empenha-se em transgredi-las, contaminando-as com referências de toda ordem, seja da alta cultura, seja de elementos líricos retomados de tradições mais antigas, como a obra de François Villon, seja da cultura de massa ou de linguagens as mais diversas. Adepto do modernismo, Uchoa centra-se no contexto de seu tempo, e utiliza-se de uma linguagem concisa para expressar as preocupações em relação à cultura contemporânea.A análise de Andrade traz à tona um poeta que alia pensamento e poesia e, fortemente crítico à realidade, coloca-se em permanente desconfiança em relação ao mundo, ao outro e a si próprio. No percurso o estudo também aborda outros temas e procedimentos afins para articular a questão central, como o humor, a ironia, a autoironia e a difícil relação entre a retomada e a transgressão de certa tradição moderna, que faz de Uchoa um herdeiro singular de Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, João Cabral, Carlos Drummond, Manuel Bandeira e dos poetas concretistas.
Walking
Henry David Thoreau
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This essay was presented as a lecture by Thoreau in his later years, but only published after his death. It's best known for its quote "In wildness is the preservation of the world", which has become a rallying cry of the environmental movement. But Thoreau means much more by the phrase then most of his modern admirers realise. "Wildness" is Nature itself, and humankind is seen as an aspect or manifestation of Nature; the rules that apply to one apply to the other.
Ecological Form
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Hensley and Steer look to join the conceptual tools of contemporary ecocriticism with the rich archive of nineteenth century thinking about imperial and ecological intertwinement. This collection of essays draws on that archive to demonstrate the relevance of Victorian thought for current theory and practice. Ecological Form argues that ecology, the empire, and literary thinking were inseparable during the Victorian period; and its claim that connections among these domains challenge the methodological assumptions of both contemporary ecocriticism and literary and cultural studiesThis book is made open access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books
Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility
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In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to examine as yet unexhausted ways to boost the resilience of the principle of liberalism. Critically reviewing the last 200 years of the philosophy of freedom, it revises the principle of liberty in order to revive it. It discusses many different aspects that fall under its three main topics: the metaphysics of freedom, quantitative freedom and qualitative freedom. Open societies worldwide have come under increasing pressure in the last decades. The belief that politics and markets fare best when guided by the principle of liberty presently faces multiple challenges such as terrorism, climate warming, inequality, populism, and financial crises. In the view of its critics, the idea of freedom no longer offers adequate guidance to meet these challenges and should be partially corrected or even entirely replaced by countervailing values. Against the reduction of freedom to the merely quantitative question as to how much liberties individuals call their own, this book draws attention to the qualitative concerns which and whose opportunities society should foster. It argues that, correctly understood, the idea of liberty commits us to defend as well as advance the freedom of each and every world citizen.
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Franz von Ottenthal (1818-1899)
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Dr. Franz von Ottenthal served as a General Practitioner in Sand, in the South Tyrolean Tauferer Ahrntal from 1847 to 1899, over a period lasting more than 50 years. From 1861 until 1882, in a period of great regional and imperial tensions, he even was member of the Tyrolean Landtag (diet).In 1837/8 he began his medical studies at the University of Vienna, where important physicians from the "Zweite Wiener Medizinische Schule" like Carl von Rokitansky, Joseph Skoda and Philipp Semmelweis were teaching.Ottenthal worked as a medical expert in Windisch-Matrei (East Tyrol) for almost two years. Then he went back home and became a General Practitioner in Neumelans, the residence of his family.This biography treats particularly the career as a physician, his engagement in the medical service and the difficulties during the collaboration with medical authorities. On the other side it contains further an analysis of the medical records and the letters of his patients for a better patient view. Further this biography discusses open questions like medical development, fees, properties of a noble rural physicians in the second part of the 19 century and the competition with other physicians and healers. A big space is dedicated to the treatment of mental illness. Ottenthal wasn't a 'psychiatrist', but he was as well responsible for the care and the treatment of persons with mental disease. With a report by a physician began - crossing a lot of other institutions - the way in the asylum.The Ottenthal family, whose everyday life has tried to be reconstructed along private correspondence, is a typical example of a family from the second part of the 19th century between nobility and bourgeoisie characterized on the one hand by qualification, know-how and a lucrative job and on the other by a nobility title, fortune and landed property.Franz von Ottenthal wasn't a famous physician like Rudolf Virchow, Robert Koch or Carl von Rokitansky. Nevertheless he was a modern, political engaged, self-confident practitioner and he is a very good example for the fusion of nobility and bourgeoisie in a rural life of the 19th century.This publication should be a contribution to the exploration of rural medical practice, which is little known and often poor of sources. It will even be a starting-point for further comparative studies of other medical biographies and legacies.Franz von Ottenthal war ein Landarzt in Sand in Taufers, im Tiroler (heutigen Südtiroler) Tauferer-Ahrntal, und von 1861 bis 1883, also in einer Zeit großer landes- und reichspolitischer Spannungen, als Abgeordneter im Tiroler Landtag tätig. Ab dem Studienjahr 1837/38 studierte er Medizin an der Universität Wien. Unter seinen Lehrern und Studienkollegen finden sich einige große Namen der "Zweiten Wiener Medizinischen Schule", wie Carl von Rokitansky, Joseph Skoda oder Philipp Semmelweis.Nach einer ersten fast zweijährigen Berufserfahrung als Gerichts- und Gemeindearzt in Windisch-Matrei (heute Matrei in Osttirol) kehrte Franz von Ottenthal in seinen Heimatort Sand in Taufers zurück, wo er in dem von seiner Familie geerbten Ansitz Neumelans eine Ordination eröffnete. Hier wirkte er knapp mehr als 50 Jahre lang von 1847 bis 1899 ununterbrochen als Privatarzt.Die vorliegende Biografie befasst sich vorrangig mit dem Werdegang des Arztes, mit seinem sanitätspolitischen Engagement sowie mit den Schwierigkeiten in der Zusammenarbeit mit den vorgesetzten Sanitätsbehörden. Auf der anderen Seite wurde aber versucht, durch die Analyse der Krankengeschichten und besonders der PatientInnenbriefe auch die noch unterbelichtete Sicht der PatientInnen und das Arzt-Patienten-Verhältnis zu erfassen. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich weiters mit den bisher teilweise noch offenen Fragen der ärztlichen Ausbildung, des Arzthonorars und des Vermögens eines adeligen Landarztes der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts sowie der Konkurrenz durch andere Ärzte und Laienheiler. Einen großen Raum nimmt das Thema der Behandlung von Geisteskrankheiten ein. Ottenthal war, obwohl "psychiatrisch" nicht ausgebildet, zuständig für die Versorgung und Behandlung von psychisch Kranken. Mit seinem Gutachten begann meistens, über mehrere Institutionen, der Weg in die Anstalt. Mit Hilfe der spärlichen Privatkorrespondenz wurde zudem versucht, Einblick in den Alltag der Landarztfamilie von Ottenthal zu nehmen. Dieses typische Beispiel einer adeligen Familie bürgerlichen Stils setzte sich aus Personen zusammen, die im "Schwebezustand" zwischen Adel und Bürgertum waren, die einerseits durch Leistung, Qualifikation, Bildung und einem "Brotberuf" und andererseits durch Adelstitel, Vermögen und Grundbesitz charakterisiert waren.Franz von Ottenthal war keine berühmte Arztpersönlichkeit wie Rudolf Virchow, Robert Koch oder Carl von Rokitansky. Dennoch stellt er - und das zu zeigen ist Ziel dieser Biografie - einen modernen, politisch engagierten, selbstbewussten Arzt dar und ist ein prägendes Beispiel für die Vermischung von Adel und Bürgertum in einem ländlichen Leben des 19. Jahrhunderts.Die vorliegende Publikation soll einen Beitrag zur Erforschung der noch wenig beachteten und teilweise quellenarmen Medizin am Lande besonders der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts leisten. Sie versteht sich als Ausgangspunkt für neue Vergleichsstudien mit ähnlich gut erforschten Arztbiografien bzw. ärztlichen Nachlässen.
Cap'n Warren's Wards
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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Cap'n Warren's Wards is the first book by Joseph C. Lincoln that moves off the fictional towns of Cape Cod (in this case South Denboro) and into the big city hustle of Manhattan. Elijah Warren finds himself the guardian of his brother's children who are rapidly reaching adulthood but haven't had to face the harsh realities of self responsibility due to their father's wealth. Unfortunately now there are a few snags with A. Rodgers Warren's estate and Cap'n Warren decides its best to toughen his wards up and maybe teach them some humility in the process. Returning to his native Cape Cod village after many years of living at sea, Cy Whittaker finds the old homestead no longer the place of his boyhood. So-called "improvements" have been going on in his absence, and he finds it all sadly changed. The old man adopts the little daughter of a worthless drunkard, with the intent of giving the child an education. A Congressman from the district, years before, had appropriated property belonging to the child, and he, together with the father, fights to regain possession of the child. The sympathy of the village goes out to the father, but Cy Whittaker and Phoebe Dawes, the school teacher, manage to outwit the Congressman and the drunken father, and in the end the old bachelor and the school mistress fall in love with each other.
The True Citizen: How to Become One
William Fisher Markwick
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This book, intended as a supplementary reader for pupils in the seventh and eighth grades of school, has been prepared with a view to meeting a real need of the times. While there are a large number of text-books, and several readers, dealing with citizenship from the political point of view, the higher aspects of citizenship--the moral and ethical--have been seriously overlooked. The authors of this work have searched in vain for something which would serve as an aid to the joint development of the natural faculties and the moral instincts, so as to produce a well-rounded manhood, upon which a higher type of citizenship might be built. The development of character appears, to us, to be of far greater importance, in the preparation of the youth for the discharge of the duties of public life, than is mere political instruction; for only by introducing loftier ethical standards can the grade and quality of our citizenship be raised.
