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Remaking one nation : the future of conservatism.
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ISBN: 1509539182 9781509539185 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge Polity Press

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Whatis going wrong with our politics, and why is it happening?In this groundbreaking book, Nick Timothy, one of Britain's leading conservativethinkers and commentators, explores the issues behind the publics anger withmainstream politics. Drawing on his experience at the top of government, Timothytraces the crisis of western democracy back to flaws in philosophical liberalism.Sparing no sacred cows, he proposesa new kind of conservatism,respecting personalfreedom but demandingsolidarity, reforming capitalism and rebuilding community,rejecting selfish individualism while embracing our obligations towards others. Onlyby building a mutual web ofduties and a unifying sense of the common good thatbinds us together can we reject both extreme economic andculturalliberalism, healour divisions, and remake onenation. (Provided by publisher)

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Adespota papyracea hexametra graeca (aphex i) : hexameters of unknown or uncertain authorship from graeco-roman egypt
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ISBN: 9783110295030 9783110295085 3110295083 Year: 2020 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca provides a comprehensive corpus of ‘anonymous’ hexameter texts on papyri, parchments, ostraca and tablets that have appeared in the current and past two centuries. The project has three main objectives: i) to retrieve and determine how many and what type of unidentified hexameter poems reached us via Egyptian papyri; ii) to restore a readable and reliable text for these poems, providing straightforward access to material that has been hard-to-reach in print format, is still unavailable online, or has not been previously translated into English or any other modern language; iii) to discuss, insofar as the fragmentary state of the evidence allows, issues of style, metre, and attribution. Overall, it aspires to serve as a fresh and solid starting-point for future assessment of Greek poetry in Egypt from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity.This first volume of papyrus adespota contains: i) a catalogue of hexameter adespota, and ii) critical editions with English translation and commentary of: cosmologies and foundation poems (no. 01–06), astronomical and astrological texts (07–12), didactic and technical poetry (13–16), hymns (17–32), fragments of erotic content (33–38); epithalamia (39–43); and two hexameter anthologies, the Goodspeed papyrus (44) and the so-called Pamprepius codex (45). Future volumes will contain: Encomia and Lamentations (46–67); Bucolic (68–71), and Epic poetry (72–144); assemblages of Homeric verses (145–154); magical verses (155–166); oracles (167–169); fragments of uncertain genre or content (170–204); hexameter quotes from grammatical papyri and ancient commentaries (205–216); παίγνια (217–219); gnomic hexameters (220–221); pangrams (222–235); texts copied or produced within a school context (236–242).

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Estimating the Human Cost of Transportation Accidents
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ISBN: 0128126116 9780128126127 0128126124 9780128126110 Year: 2020 Publisher: Elsevier

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Adornos Lächeln : Das "Glück am Ästhetischen" in seinen literatur- und kulturtheoretischen Essays
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ISSN: 00817236 ISBN: 9783110651539 3110657171 9783110657784 311065153X Year: 2020 Volume: 222 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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Adorno’s works revolve around the sine qua nons a better and more just life. According to Adorno, the central meaning of art is to allow another, more complete world to appear. This study is based on the thesis that Adorno’s literary and cultural theoretical essays contain elements of a theory of happiness that are of decisive importance for his entire thinking.

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Construcciones causativas y labilidad en español
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ISBN: 9783110656190 3110656191 3110653451 9783110653458 9783110653441 3110653443 Year: 2020 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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This volume offers an in-depth investigation of causative constructions in contemporary Spanish, with a special emphasis on lability. Catering to students and researchers of Linguistics, Geolinguistics, Romance Linguistics and Sociolinguistics alike, it is the first study of lability in Spanish – a phenomenon more common in English or in Caucasian languages.

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Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions. 2 : Intellectual History of Key Concepts
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ISBN: 9783110547825 9783110547139 9783110546446 3110546442 Year: 2020 Volume: 78 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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The three-volume project 'Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions' is a timely review of the history of the study of Chinese religions, reconsiders the present state of analytical and methodological theories, and initiates a new chapter in the methodology of the field itself. The three volumes raise interdisciplinary and cross-tradition debates, and engage methodologies for the study of East Asian religions with Western voices in an active and constructive manner.Within the overall project, this volume addresses the intellectual history and formation of critical concepts that are foundational to the Chinese religious landscape. These concepts include lineage, scripture, education, discipline, religion, science and scientism, sustainability, law and rites, and the religious sphere.With these topics and approaches, this volume serves as a reference for graduate students and scholars interested in Chinese religions, the modern cultural and intellectual history of China (including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese communities overseas), intellectual and material history, and the global academic discourse of critical concepts in the study of religions.

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I decreti dei Demotionidi/Deceleesi ad Atene, IG II2 1237 : testo, traduzione, commento
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ISBN: 9788879169325 Year: 2020 Publisher: Milano : LED,

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Il volume rimette in discussione l’esegesi di un documento, IG II2 1237, relativo alle procedure di ammissione ad una fratria attica, che, nei secoli, ha dato luogo a molteplici interpretazioni. Il titolo stesso, I decreti dei Demotionidi/Deceleesi ad Atene, comunica al lettore l’esistenza di un problema interpretativo, che, linea dopo linea, si dipana in una serie complessa di implicazioni. L’esegesi recente, lasciandosi alle spalle un dibattito i cui fondamenti sono crollati insieme con le posizioni delle varie Scuole sul rapporto tra le unità minori della polis e la formazione dello Stato, per varie vie apre le porte all’ipotesi che in IG II2 1237 possa esserci semplicemente la realtà di una fratria in trasformazione: l’Autrice, pur consapevole della provvisorietà dei risultati di ogni ricerca, si pone su questa linea, evidenziando come sia i Demotionidi sia l’Oikos Dekeleion abbiano prerogative che solo una fratria poteva detenere, e cala l’ipotesi di un processo di fissione o di fusione in atto in un organismo fraterico nella realtà territoriale della Decelea post 403 e nei rapporti tra asty e chora per le fratrie ateniesi che avevano la loro sede avita nella chora. D’altra parte esclude un nesso tra il decreto di Nicomene/Aristofonte – che, senza valore retroattivo, reintroduceva per i cittadini nati dal 403/2 l’obbligo della doppia ascendenza ateniese – ed i primi due decreti della fratria. Al contempo la monografia riprende e sviluppa lo studio su meion e koureion, in grado di portare luce su importanti aspetti della vita istituzionale ateniese.

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Euripides-Rezeption in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike
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ISBN: 9783110677072 9783110677157 9783110671650 Year: 2020 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter,

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During the Imperial Rome Age and late antiquity, Euripides was considered a tragic dramatist par excellence, and, alongside Homer, was the most frequently cited poet. This book examines the reception of complete and partially transmitted Euripidean tragedies into the Greek language vis-à-vis key authors and literary genres of the Imperial Rome Age and late antiquity, situating them in the cultural and literary-historical context of the times.

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives
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ISBN: 9780198809296 0198809298 9780191846762 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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The existence of a political executive is a key feature of any political system: from eminently democratic regimes to totalitarian dictatorships, and every shade in between. In recent decades the long-term trend of putting constitutional and democratic constraints on the political executive is reversed. In addition to an autocratic turn in some countries, internationalization, securitization and a growing need for coordination shift the balance between governments and other political institutions. This re-empowerment of the political executive has contributed to its rediscovery in political science. As the 37 chapters in this volume demonstrate, the past two decades have seen an impressive outpouring of research on political executives. Edited and written by 49 of the most distinguished scholars in the field, this Oxford Handbook of Political Executives combines substantive stocktaking with setting new agendas for the next generation of political executive research. The book is organized around five themes. Part I, Theorizing and Researching Political Executives is devoted to the theoretical and methodological approaches in the study of political executives. Part II looks at The Composition and Life Cycle of Political Executives, from the formation to the termination of successive governments. Part III discusses The Dynamics and Developments within the Executive, such as hierarchical relations and internal political processes. Part IV focusses on The Dynamics and Developments between the Executive and the Broader Political Context, including interactions with the bureaucracy and parliament. Part V is devoted to Political Executives Beyond the Democratic Nation State, such as the European Union and autocratic regimes.

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Defining authorship, debating authenticity : problems of authority from classical antiquity to the renaissance
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ISBN: 9783110684551 9783110684629 9783110684667 3110684624 Year: 2020 Publisher: Boston : De Gruyter,

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This volume explores the themes of authorship and authenticity – and connected issues – from the Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance. Its reflection is constructed within a threefold framework. A first section includes topics dealing with dubious or uncertain attribution of ancient works, homonymous writers, and problems regarding the reliability of compilation literature. The middle section goes through several issues concerning authorship: the balance between the author’s contribution to their own work and the role of collaborators, pupils, circles, reviewers, scribes, and even older sources, but also the influence of different compositional stages on the concept of ‘author’, and the challenges presented by anonymous texts. Finally, a third crucial section on authenticity and forgeries concludes the book: it contains contributions dealing with spurious works – or sections of works – , mechanisms of interpolation, misattribution, and deliberate forgery. The aim of the book is therefore to exemplify the many nuances of the complex problems of authenticity and authorship of ancient texts.

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