’This book is desperately needed, because it ends many of the illusions of microfinance by venturing into themes unexamined by scholars and practitioners alike. This theoretically informed and empirically grounded study promises to become a basic resource in understanding the widening gap between the promises and realities of microfinance and opens a space for a dialogue to reorient microfinance and make it more socially responsible.’ Jude Fernando, Clark University, USA  ’This book makes a valuable contribution to understanding the social and political impact and implications of microfinance schemes as poverty reduction strategies. Focused on a detailed examination of the Amhara Credit and Savings Institution (ACSI) in Northern Ethiopia, it is a timely and important addition to critical ethnographic research on microfinance. This carefully developed analysis of wider contexts around microfinance and gendered social relations is an important touchstone for future work.’  Heloise Weber, The University of Queensland, Australia

The Politics of Poverty, Social Capital and Women's Empowerment in Ethiopia

The Microfinance Mirage

In the German tradition, law sometimes looks to literature to convey its decisions, and vice versa. Goethe, Hoffmann, the Grimms, Kleist, Kafka, and others were trained as legal scholars. Beebee (Penn State) explores interactions going beyond "mirror of justice" modality--a topos of literary texts from marriage, economics, and so on--to explain the interaction between law and literature in the German language. In the case of Herder, Hegel, Fichte, and the Grimms, historical and literary examples reveal how laws and legal systems conform to the standards of the people they regulate. By contrast, Goethe treads the legal paths with literary finesse, accommodating, for example, Kant's philosophy of marriage. Kafka, entangled by bureaucratic coded law, forces truth while withholding it in the juridical sense. In the Weimar period, critics like Rudolf Borchardt and Ernst Robert Curtius struggled to differentiate literature from party-political activity. Beebee considers the double and triple meanings of certain German words: Schuld (guilt/debts), Prozess (trial/process), Gewalt (power/ violence), Zensur (censorship/academic grades). Peter Weiss draws paradox out of Werte (values/valuables) in Investigation, a play about the Holocaust, creating a script for trials for which there is no official transcript and thus coupling literature with the legal world. Fine bibliography and index. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. --L. J. Rippley, St. Olaf College

Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature

Citation and Precedent

Much Ado About Nothing: Language and Writing

Throughout the important introduction and the clear engagement with the text of the letter, Foster's eye is to the real world of the first century. The amount of evidence we have of Colossian society is small. But Foster manages, through a judicious mix of comparative data and a close analysis of the material we have, to generate a sense of a lively religious text addressing a fledgling group of Jesus followers situated within a largely pagan environment. And he has ensured both a harvesting of the latest critical research and an independence of judgement in interpretation. The sweep of the introduction and commentary is interspersed with useful summaries of material distilled into near, distinct tables and lists without compromise to a thoroughly competent handling of the occasional complexities the letter presents. This is a work of immense value to students and pastors, with students also able to mine its contents with profit.

Colossians BNTC

Pull

Molecular Electronic-Structure Theory

Switherers should read Hannan's polemic to help them make up their minds. Determined Brexiters at risk of anyone thinking their opinion matters should read it to help them next time their dinner party turns into a debate. And those planning to vote Remain? They should have it so that, if they win, they can take it down from their shelves in about ten years' time to help them figure out just what went wrong' The Spectator.

Why Vote Leave

This book is by far the most varied and comprehensive treatment of the topic of self-translation to date. The book showcases the rich and diverse research being undertaken, as perspectives from a variety of disciplines as well as new approaches to translation scholarship are brought to bear upon the act of self-translation.

Brokering Originality in Hybrid Culture

Self-Translation

Frode Helland’s Ibsen in Practice is a significant contribution to a comparatively recent critical approach to Ibsen … where Helland has been unable to see the performances about which he writes, or when he relegates himself to the status of a 'cultural outsider' (88), he provides meticulous scholarship and relies on the cultural and political history of the productions he researches, revealing both the integrity and the humility of a critic who is determined to understand the 'material and artistic context' (139) that would enable his readers to grasp the nature of the cultural exchanges that are central to his approach to Ibsen performance in global terms.

Relational Readings of Performance, Cultural Encounters and Power

Ibsen in Practice

The Relationship Between the Physical and the Moral in Man is an event in English-speaking philosophy. Readers will have for the first time access to an important work of a founding figure of spiritualist thought. The translation is careful and reads with great ease. The translators provide the original French in places where the text does not translate literally into English or in places where there may be more than one way to translate or read the text in question. The scholarly articles contextualise and show the importance of Biran's thought for philosophy today. Meacham and Spadola give to English readers an important translation of and guide to one of early modernity's more original and fascinating philosophical works.

The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man

The Bone Garden

A Introduction to Creative Craft

Playing With Words

The book contains well-ordered chapters which make engagement with educational change come alive by using recent and relevant case studies. This helps the reader to understand how professional inquiry can improve what goes on in practice.  Each chapter illustrates the purposefulness of using particular methods of inquiry and suggests how the process requires a demonstration of wide ranging personal and professional qualities including reflection about what goes on and why.  It reveals the way educators  take responsibility for their actions and make carefully considered choices about refinements to practice. The book therefore illustrates how engagement in those choice making activities promotes critical engagement with practice. A really useful resource for students and tutors.

Voices of Practitioner Inquiry

Engaging with Educational Change

This thought-provoking and timely book makes a significant contribution to teacher education in CALL. From its perceptive insights into theory to the innovative suggestions for practice, it charts a path forward with remarkable clarity, honesty and detail. It is highly recommended for practitioners and researchers who are interested in how teacher education can first be conceptualised and then, most importantly, be made to work.

A Sociocultural and Linguistic Perspective

Teacher Education in Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Though at first glance, it looks like a little nugget of a book... there is a tremendous amount of history, social change, absolute love and bravery to be discovered within.

Women and Gay Men in the Postwar Period

From Bottom to Lover

The first monograph that exclusively and specifically deals with ... "books about Brooklyn" ... Peacock's pioneering effort is coupled with his interdisciplinary approach of analysing representations of Brooklyn by making use of literary analysis and enriching it with the approaches of literary sociology and sociological theory ... [Its] well-executed interdisciplinary approaches, rich analyses, and structural inventiveness combine ... [to] make for worthwhile and insightful reading for anyone interested in New York City or cultural representations of urban spaces, in general.

The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age

Brooklyn Fictions

Patrick Carmichael has offered us a remarkable tour de force on the nature and role of networks and networking in educational research. The book provides a superb synthesis of social theory, original empirical research and personal expertise that will guide the debate and thinking on research capacity building for many years to come.

New Directions in Educational Enquiry

Networking Research

Liber Amicorum David M Trubek

Critical Legal Perspectives on Global Governance

Illuminating ... Dooley offers fascinating insights.

Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy

A los 32 años me encontraba en la ruina más absoluta, a los 39, compré mi primer Ferrari, a los 42, me convertí en milmillonario

BILLIONAIRE

Al-Farabi, Syllogism: An Abridgement of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics

Lacanian Realism is a timely theoretical intervention into a continental philosophical debate, passionately ‘demanding the impossible’ by positioning the Lacanian Real within three respective fields, namely, clinical and metaphysical thought, radical political theory, and mathematics... An important contribution to the fields of continental philosophy, Lacanian psychoanalysis, feminism, and posthumanism.

Political and Clinical Psychoanalysis

Lacanian Realism

This book significantly contributes to our understanding of teachers’ professional agency. The authors follow different lines to make clear what teacher agency entails, among which data from their own empirical research on teachers in the context of a large-scale educational reform. Their conceptualization of teacher agency is an interactive one with relevant implications for the whole educational system and on all its levels. Teacher Agency is a book that should be read by all who wish teachers to be active and engaged participants in such a system and, through that, can really make the difference.

An Ecological Approach

Teacher Agency

Conceptions of the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Golf von Neapel - Ischia - Capri - Amalfitana, Autokarte 1:50.000

Pregnant Freshman

As social media becomes more pervasive in many people’s lives globally, the complex entanglement of the human and inhuman across practices, cultures, flows and networks are yet to being fully understood. Grant Bollmer’s Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection offers a thorough and thought-provoking discussion of how we might re-imagine social media beyond a human-centric model bolstered by problematic metaphors around connection. From metaphors such as “networks” to “contagion”, Bollmer takes us on a fascinating journey in and around the messy relationality between technology, desire and humans. This book puts the complex human and beyond-human dimensions of social media in context historically and conceptually in ways that are both poetic and inspiring.

Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection

Inhuman Networks

The Lives of Ange De Joyeuse and Benet Canfield

This second edition of Thomas’s, Moore’s and Butler’s incisive, thought-provoking and generally deeply impressive synthesis is very welcome.  Like the first edition, it is written in an engaging style by three experts in their respective decolonisation fields and it will prove a key launch pad for further research into the expansive literature and ever-evolving debates on the causes and consequences of European decolonisation.  The sections relating to the different empires and case-studies of particular territories can be read alone.  But the beauty of this book lies in its high level of comparative analysis, with commonalities and contrasts skilfully brought out in the masterful introduction and conclusion.  The focus remains on the three largest empires of Britain, France and The Netherlands but the excellent section on the Portuguese and Belgian end-of-empire experiences has been significantly expanded.  Throughout, the text has been updated to take account of new historiographical developments since the first edition’s publication in 2008. It pulls no punches in its exploration of the often fraught and violent ending of the European empires, and the ongoing legacies and unresolved contestations of the decolonisation moment.

Decolonization and Europe's Imperial States

Crises of Empire

This is an essential book on prisons in the global age of mass incarceration, the fine-grain deep damage that a crude system inflicts on human beings and their families. This is also one of the great books on theater, the shared and inexplicable phenomenon that shifts perceptions, changes lives in real time, and instigates collective reimaginings of moral action, hierarchy, and purpose in the face of unexpected vulnerabilities and difficult truth-telling. Prison theater is perhaps the one place where theater works as it did in early societies, with lives at stake, piercing questions of justice, and the soul of a nation or a community or a family hanging in the balance. Professor Ashley Lucas, herself the daughter of a father who spent more than 20 years in Texas prisons, writes with stunning insight, attentive to the nuance and detail of process within large institutions and informal groups, alert to the circumstances in which emotional life is transfigured and revealed, and the conditions under which it is buried alive. A deeply inspiring book that demonstrates hundreds of positive, healing, and creative ways forward from a misbegotten culture of failure and shame.

The Microfinance Mirage

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