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'Nicola Parsons' Reading Gossip is an important revision of Jürgen Habermas's account of the emergence of the public sphere in eighteenth-century England. In provocative readings of works by Manley, Defoe, and Steele, Parsons demonstrates how somatic and discursive regimes of power were implicated with non-normative discourses such as gossip and scandal. Parsons has written an original book that will be of interest to literary and political historians of early eighteenth-century England.' - John Richetti, A.M. Rosenthal Professor (Emeritus) of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA

'Reading gossip involves negotiating methodological challenges. Gossip is, by definition, transient. Its natural media whispers, tea table conversations and personal correspondence are difficult or impossible for modern readers to access. It is generically awkward, related to literary forms such as the early novel and periodical literature but requiring a different kind of scholarly treatment. In Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England, Nicola Parsons confronts these challenges to produce an original, insightful literary, political and cultural account of the reign of Queen Anne. Her book not only provides fresh perspectives on particular literary works... but also allows Parsons to tell a new story about the relationship between reading and political culture during this period.' - Rebecca Bullard, Review of English Studies

Reading Gossip in Early Eighteenth-Century England

Mit einem Anhang: Aufgaben zur Vektorrechnung

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Elementare Methoden unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Anwendungen in den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

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Case Studies and Projects

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The State Space Method

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Impulso, desarrollo y potenciación de la ostricicultura en España

“Spiropoulou’s is the most significant full-length study on both Woolf and Benjamin&nbsp;...&nbsp;She&nbsp;foregrounds the confluences between these&nbsp;two modernist icons, yet also highlights the tensions within their own oeuvres – between, most obviously, modernity and history and the&nbsp;present and the past. ... Spiropoulou’s very notion – or figuration – of constellations provides an illuminating means of exploring other relationships among writers." (Jeanne Dubino, Textual Practice, Vol 28 (4), July, 2014)"This inventive, skilfully constructed study also serves as a site of new potentialities, producing vivid new readings of the author's work ... presenting Spiropoulou as a critic in perfect alignment with her subject." (James Bailey,&nbsp;European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 15 (1), March, 2011)​"In bringing Virginia Woolf's histriographical techniques into constellation with Benjamin's thoughts on modernity and history, Spiropoulou offers a fresh approach to Woolf's engagement with history which neither ties her work to the "subjective realism" of new historicism, nor neccesarily implicates her as a precursor to postmodern approaches to history." (Routledge ABES)"Angeliki Spiropoulou's Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin is a handy and compact book that can be taken as emblematic of the direction comparative literature is taking today. Spiropoulou shows vividly and cogently that the point is no longer to simply compare texts, periods, or authors, but to find new ways of combining literature and theory. The aim is to read better, deeper, and more intelligently the canonical authors that are too often taught in isolation." (Jean-Michel Rabate, Journal of Modern Literature)"The book is an important contribution to Woolf studies as well as literary modernist studies and historical studies more generally. It is also a particularly timely book in that the relation between gender, sexuality and temporality, especially history, is currently receiving renewed critical attention." (Jana Funke, Historein)"Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History suggests a method of inquiry that, indeed, could inspire interesting interdisciplinary approaches among historians, philosophers and literary theorists." (Daniel W. Bang, Woolf Studies Annual)

Constellations with Walter Benjamin

Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History

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New Social Connections

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"Fourteen China experts examine the fate of the thirty million state workers who have been laid off, in the most comprehensive study to date. The relationships between the state and laid-off workers and within the working class turn out to be much more complex and interesting than imagined by conventional wisdom." - Anita Chan, Australian National University; Author of China s Workers Under Assault: The Exploitation of Labor in a Globalizing Economy

"The first edited volume in English on this subject, Laid-Off Workers fills several gaps in the existing xiagang research. . . . This book represents an insightful, current, comprehensive, and well-documented study of the laid-off workers in the aftermath of unprecedented enterprise restructuring and privatization in China's economic reforms. It is a valuable addition to the existing literature on social conditions among Chinese working people." - The Journal of Asian Studies

Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics

Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State

Nueva York de Un Plumazo

A Multi-Purpose Environmental Strategy

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Journeys Through Life with the Rosary

Learning to Love

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“A reading of The Public and Private Management of Grief: Recovering Normal pays off for those who are interested in the normalisation of emotions and want to learn more about the social containment of repressed and pathologised emotions. ... Especially for sociologists who deal with grief, mourning, and bereavement, this book should become a part of the required reading. And also for the practitioners in the area of grief recovery, a reading would be worthwhile … .” (Ekkehard Knopke, Emotions and Society, Vol. 1 (2), 2019)

Recovering Normal

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The Women's Guide to Golf

This is the first study to delve deep into the intersection of musical and artistic portraiture. The specialized nature of this volume makes it most valuable to those doing focused work on the arts and portraiture. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers.

The Composition of Identity in Contemporary and Experimental Music

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This book is a systematic presentation of many important aspects of the authors’ work on PID control with emphasis on time-delay systems. The book describes the set of PID controllers that stabilize the system and explains how to use this set to design PID controllers that achieve robustness, nonfragility, and improved performance…. 

The book is of interest to practicing engineers, graduate students, and researchers working in the systems and control area. The authors do an excellent job presenting the materials systematically, striking a balance between mathematical rigor and accessibility to average readers. The book contains numerous diagrams and many illustrative examples to enhance its readability...[and] is very well written and can be used for self-study and as a reference."&nbsp;&nbsp; —IEEE Control Systems Magazine
"This monograph presents some recent results on the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller and its design, analysis and synthesis.... It seems that these results are timely and in line with the resurgence of interest in the PID controller and the general rekindling of interest in fixed- and low-order controller design. As is known, there are hardly any results in modern and postmodern control theory in this regard, while such controllers are the ones of choice in applications.... It is hoped that the monograph will act as a catalyst to bridge the gap between theory and practice and also the gap between classical and modern control theory."&nbsp;&nbsp; —Mathematical Reviews

PID Controllers for Time-Delay Systems

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Ideengeschichte der sozialen Bewegung des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts

"'Anyone who thinks the rise of autonomous government agencies is just the result of neoliberal economic fashions should read this book. Dr. Ballinas Valdés offers a penetrating analysis of Mexican bureaucratic politics, but also gives us a more general account of how to understand bureaucratic autonomy and what shapes it."
- Christopher Hood, Gladstone Professor of Government and Fellow of All Souls College Oxford, UK

"This book is an essential corrective to simplistic theories about the genesis and role of autonomous agencies. Ballinas Valdés explores the struggle among politicians and bureaucrats and shows how it generates great variety in the structure of agencies. Political conflict produces results that frequently confound the original intentions of the agencies' promoters."
- Alasdair S. Roberts, Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy, Suffolk University Law School, USA

"This excellent study on the surge of the regulatory state in Mexico in recent decades carries out an in-depth analysis of the role of domestic forces involved in regulatory agentification, beyond one-dimensional arguments. Bureaucrats and politicians' interests and perceptions are perfectly illuminated; making clear that their policy preferences are shaped by institutional designs, but also that their major struggles were largely related to pursuing institutional change, as a way to affect public policies more permanently."
- Jacint Jordana, Professor of Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Director, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Spain

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