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Melanchthon at Erasmus’s Funeral: 1528-1560
Authors: Wengert Timothy J 
Published: November 2023

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Twenty-one years and one week after Erasmus of Rotterdam’s death, a student at the University of Wittenberg, Bartholomew Kalkreuter, recited a declamation, De Erasmo Roterodamo, recently penned for him by Philip Melanchthon.1 In the course of rehearsing Erasmus’s life, he depicted the Dutch humanist’s relation to the Reformation this way: “Afterwards, the whole body of church doctrine was again purified by the voice of that reverend man, Doctor Luther. He [Erasmus] was a preparation for this thing, because the apostolic books and the ancient histories were now in people’s hands.”2 Kalkreuter added that despite their differences, Erasmus agreed with Luther’s attack on church practices, praised Luther’s exegesis, and, in a conversation with Frederick the Wise, insisted that Luther’s greatest errors were attacking “the pope’s crown and the monks’ bellies.”
Heralds of Revolution
Authors: Morrissey Susank 
Published: November 2023

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Reading Russian revolutionary culture through its stories, author Susan Morrissey examines how the quest for consciousness evolved into a master-plot of student radicalism. Based on interdisciplinary sources and extensive research in Russian archives, this study throws new light on the dynamics of political and cultural change in late Imperial Russia and poses provocative questions about the pre-revolutionary antecedents of the founding myths of the Soviet Union. This work will appeal to historians of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as specialists in Slavic culture and literature.
Myths and Memories
Authors: Morrissey Susank 
Published: November 2023

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Georgii Nosar’-chairman of the 1905 St. Petersburg Soviet of Workers’ Deputies under the name Khrustalev-first entered the political fray during the student strike of 1899 at St. Petersburg University. At the very beginning of the protests, before the movement had taken shape, Nosar’ entered the drama from stage right-he was an orator for the moderate group at a skhodka, a prohibited general student meeting. When negotiations with the radicals revealed that he was acting out of “tactical considerations” rather than conviction, he resolved that “the masses were capable of a broader point of view,” switched sides, and joined the strike committee. As a first-year juridical student from Ukraine, Nosar’ could not ground his claim to authority on the seniority and reputation conferred by previous participation in student protests.
“It Is Good to Die Young” Heroic Ends and the Search for a New Story
Authors: Morrissey Susank 
Published: November 2023

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In the decade before the 1905 Revolution, students proclaimed selfsacrifice in the name of the common good to be a worthy feat. While selfsacrifice usually entailed a heroic symbolic act-strike obstructions or fiery speeches leading to arrest-it also acquired a more literal understanding. Between 1897 and 1905, a series of student suicides entered the master plot of student radicalism. Through the narrative genre of hagiography and the staging of protest memorials and funerals, students unveiled the “real” story behind the individual circumstances: the perpetual struggle of idealistic and principled students against the despotism and arbitrariness of the state.
Taward a Christian Social Science in Canada, 1890-1930
Authors: Gauvreau Michael , Christie Nancy 
Published: November 2023

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In the almost total absence of the development of the social sciences in Canadian universities before 1920, the Protestant churches served as the primary vehicles by which the social scientific disciplines entered Canadian culture. The enduring dominance of Canadian churches vis-a-vis the universities stood in marked contrast to the American “social gospel” movement which found itself overwhelmed and marginalized by the coincident rise of the social sciences in the universities during the 1890s.
Making Love Modern
Authors: Miller Nina 
Published: November 2023

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In the teens and twenties, New York was home to a rich variety of literary subcultures. Within these intermingled worlds, gender lines and other boundaries were crossed in ways hardly imaginable in previous decades. Among the bohemians of Greenwich Village, the sophisticates of the Algonquin Round Table and the literati of the Harlem Renaissance, certain women found fresh, powerful voices through which to speak and write. Edna St. Vincent Millay and Dorothy Parker are now best remembered for their colourful lives; Genevieve Taggard, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Helene Johnson are hardly remembered at all. Yet each made a serious literary contribution to the meaning of modern femininity, relationship, and selfhood. Making Love Modern uncovers the deep historical sensitivity and interest of these women’s love poetry. Placing their work in the context of subcultures nested within national culture, Nina Miller explores the tensions that make this literature so rewarding for contemporary readers. A poetry of intimate expression, it also functioned powerfully as public assertion. The writers themselves were high-profile embodiments of femininity, the local representatives of New Womanhood within their male-centred subcultural worlds. Making Love Modern captures the literary lives of these women as well as the complex subcultures they inhabited---Harlem, the Village, and glamorous Midtown. In the end, the book is a much a study of modernist New York as of women’s love poetry during modernism.
Beyond The Bottom Line
Authors: Sandler Martin W , Hudson Deborah A 
Published: November 2023

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This book brings to the management of nonprofit organizations and public sector organizations the kind of concepts that have long been applied to commercial firms. Management thinking has long been concentrated on the problems of managing commercial organizations. Authors Sandler and Hudson set out to study the best managed nonprofit and government organizations and to determine what they did to achieve their success. The authors found that there is a close similarity between the management thinking of these organizations and that of profit-making firms. Each type of firm defined who their customers were and how to best serve them. They looked for ways of selling their particular product. They formed partnerships with other organizations in pursuit of their ultimate goals. They encouraged innovation among their workers. They diffused power down through the organizations to the lowest level possible. They created an atmosphere that made their workers feel valued. And they had extensive systems for communicating within and outside the organizations. The book develops these concepts in separate chapters and describes the organizations the authors study as examples. Sandler and Hudson are experienced writers who have produced a straightforward, non-technical work that analyzes the special problems and concerns that these organizations share and offers a set of effective organizing principles to improve their management.
God And The Land
Authors: Nelson Stephanie A 
Published: November 2023

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The Works and Days of Hesiod and Vergil’s Georgics are fundamental texts in the classical canon. Here Nelson brings them together with a metaphysical eye, showing how the two writers each viewed the farming lifestyle as a system of belief unto itself. She represents the ethos of the farm as a way of understanding the earth, the gods, and man between them in vital relation to each other. This study also includes a sparkling new translation of Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene.
Changing the Game
Authors: Flamholtz Eric G , Randle Yvonne 
Published: November 2023

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How do companies like Microsoft and Wal-Mart rise to the top of their industries and dominate year after year, while others like People Express and LA Gear burn out after promising starts? In Changing the Game, Eric Flamholtz and Yvonne Randle, two leading management consultants, reveal that the key to success lies in how you transform your organization. Virtually all organizations face critical transition points in their life cycle, when they must change how they play the game, or perish. Flamholtz and Randle focus here on three critical moments: the move from entrepreneurial to professional management, when a firm reaches a stage of growth where it can no longer operate in an informal, unstructured way; the revitalization of an established business that is losing ground to competitors; and a radical change in a business vision. The authors show, for instance, how American Century Investors made the transformation from a $50 million entrepreneurship to a professionally managed company with a market value of $2 billion; how IBM, one of the great American corporations, was forced by the proliferation of PCs in the 1980s to overhaul its business to survive; and how Starbucks Coffee, originally a Seattle coffee-bean store, was inspired by Milans romantic coffee bars to recreate itself and transformed an entire industry. The book concludes with a look at how one company--Bell Carter Olive Company--pulled together all the concepts and tools presented in the book and successfully changed the game. Changing the Game provides a comprehensive framework and a set of tools for the strategic management of organizational transformation. It will help managers meet the challenges of an increasingly competitive business environment.
Changing the Game
Authors: Flamholtz Eric G , Randle Yvonne 
Published: November 2023

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Every so often, such a profound change occurs in the way a competitive game (such as chess or basketball or football) is played that it constitutes not just an innovation but a fundamental transformation of the game. For example, John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach, whose teams won ten NCAA titles, transformed the game of basketball by introducing a concept called “the zone press.” The zone press was not just a tactic, but also a strategic vision of how the game ought to be played. Specifically, it consisted of an attacking defense. Instead of the offense having the initiative and momentum, the defense took the initiative and, at least psychologically, if not literally, put the offense on the “defensive.” The offense had to fear that the ball would be stolen, and, accordingly, tended to play more cautiously and less aggressively. When mistakes were made and turnovers occurred, the offense became increasingly frustrated and more cautious. As a result, the tone of the game was actually changed.
Building Successful Organizations
Authors: Flamholtz Eric G , Randle Yvonne 
Published: November 2023

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This chapter presents a framework that we can use as a lens to understand and plan what must be done to build an organization with a high probability of long-term success. This framework provides the foundation for understanding how to manage organizational transformations successfully. We ask you to think about organizations in a different way—specifically, we view the development of organizations in terms of four critical “factors” that influence the design of a successful business enterprise: 1. The “business concept” that defines the business a company is in. 2. Six key “building blocks” of organizational success. 3. The “size” of the enterprise. 4. The “environment” (markets, competition, and trends) in which the enterprise will exist.
Anatomy of Unsuccessful Transformations
Authors: Flamholtz Eric G , Randle Yvonne 
Published: November 2023

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In Chapters 3 to 5, we examined a number of organizations that have made successful transformations, or are at least in that process with the promise of future success. Unfortunately, not all organizational transformations succeed. Many companies have tried to transform themselves and have failed, while others have experienced significant difficulties. We can learn a great deal from their experiences. In some instances, the concept or vision behind the intended transformation was good, but there were problems with the execution. In other cases, the vision itself was faulty.
Changing the Game
Authors: Flamholtz Eric G , Randle Yvonne 
Published: November 2023

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This chapter steps back from the details of the various examples of transformations we have presented to revisit the big picture of key lessons for managing the transformation process. The chapter also focuses on the roles that senior executives, CEOs, boards of directors, and consultants play in managing the process of organizational transformations of the three kinds described throughout this book.
Virginity And Enclosure
Authors: Hills Helen 
Published: November 2023

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The maintenance, protection, and celebration of virginity were central to the conventual economy of perfection. Virginity required certain provisions even as it bestowed spiritual and social blessings. The conventual task was to safeguard and honor virginity to allow virgins to dedicate themselves to God. Virginity and its blessings were not, however, as straightforward as they might appear at first glance. Man and woman’s original innocence is fundamental to the monastic economy of perfection; indeed, the vein of speculation of Christian gnostics over the status of sexuality in Eden is ultimately the source of the ideal of virginity in later Western monasticism. To understand virginity, one must start at the Beginning, since the notion of virginity crucially refers to the perfection of creation and the innocent life of humankind in Eden. The patristics and important commentators on the Fall as recounted in Genesis held that prelapsarian humans were created virginal like the angels, that sin does not constitute human’s first ontological status, and that sexuality is a direct result of their sin: “sin does not define what it is to be a man; beyond his becoming a sinner there is his being created.” There were, of course, disagreements among the Church Fathers over the nature of sexuality in Paradise. However, they shared the quondam aspect of an understanding of virginity: the Fall is associated with an original transgression of a distinctly sexual nature.
The Spectroscopic Detection of Surface Species
Authors: Sposito Garrison 
Published: November 2023

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Surface complexation models have been applied successfully to soil colloids to bring matters full circle; but, like their predecessors, they rely solely on prior molecular concepts and are tested only by goodness-of-fit to adsorption data. Since the model assumptions are so different and the models so plausible, one is left to wonder what physical truth they bear. One fears that the fog will lift only to reveal a Tower of Babel. It is inevitable that methodologies not equipped to explore molecular structure will produce ambiguous results in the study of surface speciation. The method of choice for investigating molecular structures is spectroscopy. Surface spectroscopy, both optical and magnetic, is the way to investigate surface species, and thus to verify directly the molecular assumptions in surface speciation models.
Encounters with God
Authors: McClymond Michael J 
Published: November 2023

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This book offers a broad-based study of Jonathan Edwards as a religious thinker. Much attention has been given to Edwards in relation to his Puritan and Calvinist forebears. McClymond, however, examines Edwards in relation to his eighteenth-century intellectual context. In each of six chapters, he contextualizes and interprets some text or issue in Edwards within the emergent post-Lockean, post-Newtonian culture of the English-speaking world of the 1700s. Among the topics considered are spiritual perception, metaphysics, contemplation, ethics and morality, and apologetics.
Judaism and Human Rights
Authors: Goodman Lenn E 
Published: November 2023

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It is widely supposed that human rights are a modern invention, and if rights are defined narrowly enough, I’m sure that illusion can be preserved. Ancient societies, after all, held slaves, regulated prices, persecuted religious nonconformists, subordinated women, criminalized sexual deviance, and typically espoused norms that set the interests of the community ahead of individual needs. Medieval societies were somehow worse. They burned witches -who were, we are assured, simply early feminists - organized religious crusades and holy wars, and locked up some of their brightest people in monastic orders, where they could not pass on a fair share of their genes. It would be an arduous task to sift truth from propaganda in such seasoned charges, but I think we can recognize that just as excesses were perpetrated in the name of liberty during the Enlightenment, so were there conceptual and normative advances in behalf of liberty in the Middle Ages.
Cosmology and Creation
Authors: Brockelman Paul 
Published: November 2023

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Many people have observed that the “new cosmology” seems to have an affinity to, or at least room for, a religious understanding of reality. Why is this so, and what does it mean for contemporary spirituality? In this book Paul Brockleman argues that the new scientific cosmology also functions as a religious creation story, or “cosmogony”. Traditional creation mythologies, he says, are stories which make available to a particular culture a vision of an ultimately meaningful sacred reality; they show precisely how all of creation (including ourselves) emerges from and is situated within that reality. This understanding can provide the basis for a comprehensive guide to living. Although quite different from earlier creation myths, says Brockleman, the new cosmology is indeed an evolutionary story spanning over twelve to fifteen billion years. This evolutionary story directly parallels the nature, characteristics, and stages involved in the traditional stories: It is an all-inclusive and deep vision of all creation which, like the earlier myths, reveals both a sense of what reality is all about and what the human role and destiny is within it. It stirs feelings of reverence and wonder as well as a sense of gratitude that we are part of the cosmic drama. And it teaches us to be more humble in the face of such an immense reality. Whether and how it is possible to recover a living sense of ultimate Mystery in view of the alleged demystification of the universe by modern science is the great challenge to religion in our time. Paul Brockleman shows that a profound sense of wonder and awe is inseparable from our new understanding of our universe - of its great age, its immensity, and its astonishing complexity. He concludes that this understanding can and will lead to actual transformation in people’s lives - changes not only in how they see life, but how they live out their lives in the light of that vision.
Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy
Authors: Chai Leon 
Published: November 2023

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Jonathan Edwards has most often been considered in the context of the Puritanism of New England. In many ways, however, he was closer to the thinkers of the European Enlightenment. In this book. Leon Chai explores that connection, analysing Edwards’s thought in light of a number of the issues that preoccupied such Enlightenment figures as Locke, Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz. The book comprises three parts, each of which begins with a detailed analysis of a crucial passage from a classic Enlightenment text, and then turns to a major theological work of Jonathan Edwards in which the same issue is explored.
Advice to the Bride and Groom Plutarch Gives a Detailed Account of His Views on Marriage
Authors: Goessler Lisette 
Published: November 2023

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[44] Plutarch’s Advice to the Bride and Groom1 is addressed to his pupils Pollianus and Eurydice.2 It is both a wedding present for the young couple and a wedding speech, full of advice on how to achieve a happy life together. Plutarch wants to remind the couple of the most important things they have learned while studying with him, and he presents this advice in the form of forty-eight brief”comparisons,” homoidtetes. He begins by explaining, like a kindly teacher, that he has chosen this form so that the main points will be easier to remember, because they are brief and graphic: “I have put together in the form of some brief similitudes, so that they are the more easily remembered, the main points (kephalaia) of the teaching you have often heard in the course of your education in philosophy. These I send as a gift to you both” (Preface, 138C).
Images of Childhood The Evidence of Plutarch
Authors: Bradley Keith 
Published: November 2023

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The superstitious man ... treats everything as a blow from god or an assault of some daemonic power. It does not matter what it is: illness, financial loss, the death of a child, ill-luck or failure in politics. In the catalog of misfortunes that Plutarch can anticipate befalling his superstitious man (Superstition 6), the death of a child is the only one that might strike the modern western reader as possibly odd. Becoming sick, losing money, failing in public life (for those who choose such a career)-these are eventualities that may overtake anyone and comprise just a few of the many risks of ordinary daily life. As far as mortality is concerned, however, people today generally expect to die in generational sequence, so that the death of a child is not an easily predictable event. Most people have their first experience of death as children or young adults when their grandparents die. They then expect in midlife to lose their parents; and when they reach an advanced age and anticipate their own demise most people expect to have children, and often grandchildren, to survive them. Tragedies of course sometimes intervene to disrupt expectations: there is still the fatal illness or accident or crime that takes a child away prematurely. But that is precisely my point: when a child dies the event is tragic because of its abnormality.
In Time
Authors: Pickover Clifford A 
Published: November 2023

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In Time: A Traveler's Guide, Clifford A. Pickover strives to answer the most challenging questions scientists and philosophers ask. What is time? Is time travel possible? Is time real? Does it flow in one direction only? Does it have a beginning or an end? What is eternity? For centuries, these questions have intrigued mystics, philosophers, and scientists. Today physicists would agree that time is one of the strangest properties of our universe. This book allows readers to travel through time and space, and they needn't be experts in physics. By the time readers finish this book they will understand such seemingly arcane concepts as space-time diagrams, light cones, time machines, cosmic moment lines, transcendent infinite speeds, Lorentz transformations, causal linkages, superliminal and ultraliminal motions, Minkowskian space-times, Gödel universes, closed timelike curves, and Tipler cylinders. This book is a resource for science fiction writers and readers, a playground for computer hobbyists, an adventure and education for beginning students in physics or philosophy.
Marriage as a Social Institution
Authors: Nock Steven L 
Published: November 2023

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A marriage is much more than the sum of two spouses. It is also a relationship defined by legal, moral, and conventional assumptions. While one can imagine a variety of close personal affiliations uniting two adults, the variety of marriage affiliations is much narrower because marriage is an institution, culturally patterned and integrated into other basic social institutions, such as education, the economy, and politics. Marriage has rules that originate outside any particular union of two spouses and that establish soft boundaries around the relationship that influence the partners in many ways. The boundaries around marriages are the commonly understood allowable limits of behavior that distinguish marriage from all other kinds of relationships. The social norms that define the institution of marriage identify married spouses in ways that distinguish them from others. Married couples have something that other couples lack: they are heirs to a vast system of understood principles that help organize and sustain their lives.