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Business, Economics & LawApril 1905Creating Capital
Money-making as an aim in business
by Fredrick L. Lipman
The object of this paper is to discuss money-making; to examine its prevalence as an aim among people generally and the moral standards which obtain among those who consciously seek to make money.
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June 2011Das englische Puppenhaus
Erzählungen
by Marie Hermanson
Was passiert, wenn sich ein fünfjähriger schwedischer Junge in seine amerikanische Tante verliebt? Ganz bestimmt führt die kindliche Schwärmerei nicht zu einem klassischen »Honeymoon« ("Honigmond"). Und wenn die Puppen in einem englischen Puppenhaus plötzlich zum Leben erwachen und dieses Leben für deren Besitzerin plötzlich recht erstrebenswert scheint, dann geht es nicht ohne Komplikationen in der Puppenwelt ab ("Das englische Puppenhaus"). Bei einem Klassenausflug ins Naturkundemuseum wird Elinor der Blick durch ein Fernrohr zum Verhängnis. Was hat sie gesehen? Warum hat sie ihre Kleider vor dem Fernrohr abgelegt? Und wo ist sie jetzt? ("Der Museumsbesuch") »Es gibt ein Loch in der Wirklichkeit«, sagt Marie Hermanson. Durch dieses Loch enschlüpfen ihre Protagonisten in eine andere, eine phantastische Welt, eine Welt, in der Träume wahr werden, in der es sich oft angenehmer lebt als in der wirklichen.
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Die kranke Frau
Wie Sexismus, Mythen und Fehldiagnosen die Medizin bis heute beeinflussen
by Cleghorn, Elinor / Übersetzerinnen: Emmert, Anne & Elze, Judith
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Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniquesJuly 2012Insect Pests in Tropical Forestry
by F Ross Wylie, Martin R Speight
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2023Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914–24
by Elisabeth Piller, Neville Wylie
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Animal husbandryMarch 1998Energy Metabolism of Farm Animals
by Edited by Kelvin J McCracken, E F Unsworth, A R G Wylie
The Proceedings of the 14th Symposium on Energy Metabolism of Farm Animals, held in Northern Ireland in September 1997 comprises 85 original contributions by leading scientists from over 20 countries around the world. In keeping with previous Symposia in the series, held under the auspices of the European Association for Animal Production, this book contains papers which provide the latest research on the energy metabolism and other aspects of the physiology of a wide variety of farmed animals. Highlights include a comprehensive review of the current state of research on leptins and their potential applications in animal production, and a large section relating to organ and tissue metabolism, with major contributions from the USA, UK, France, Germany and Denmark. An important strength of the book is the diversity of species covered. For example, the sections on modelling and feed evaluation relate to pigs, sows, broiler chickens, laying hens, turkeys, lambs, beef and dairy cattle and fish. There are also substantial contributions on lactation and reproduction, growth, environmental aspects and maintenance. This book is essential reading for research workers in animal science, particularly those concerned with nutrition and feed evaluation.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2020The Red Cross Movement
by Neville Wylie, Melanie Oppenheimer, James Crossland, Davide Rodogno, Jon Arrizabalaga, Julia Marzoner, Caroline Reeves, Branden Little, Margaret Tennant, Sarah Glassford, Rebecca Gill, Kerrie Holloway, Leo van Bergen, Richard Slade, Francisco Javier Martinez, Yoshiya Makita, Rosemary Wall, Eldrid Mageli, Bertrand Taithe
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May 2016Iss doch wenigstens das Fleisch
by Herausgegeben von Sterblich, Ulrike; Beiträge von Schmidt, Jochen; Beiträge von Adler, Katharina; Beiträge von Greiff, E. L.; Beiträge von Rubinowitz, Tex; Beiträge von Fricke, Lucy; Beiträge von Zehrer, Klaus Cäsar; Beiträge von Friebe, Jens; Beiträge von Fil; Beiträge von Richter, Elinor; Beiträge von Glaser, Peter; Beiträge von Güntner, Verena; Beiträge von Lorenz, Felix; Beiträge von Stricker, Sarah; Beiträge von Frau Freitag; Beiträge von Lindemann, Thomas; Beiträge von Schmitt, Oliver Maria; Beiträge von Sterblich, Ulrike
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersSelected Works Of Elinor Wylie
by Evelyn Helmick Hively (editor)
A sampling of Elinor Wylie's most representative workIn the 1920s Elinor Wylie’s poetry and novels were critically acclaimed and enjoyed popularity in both the United States and England. Her poems were published in the New Yorker, the Century, the New Republic, and the Saturday Review of Literature, and she was described by contemporaries as an icon of the age. Much of the charm of Wylie’s work is in her humor as well as in her understanding and mastery of so many poetic forms. Her magazine stories and articles from Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and other leading periodicals of the twenties demonstrate her virtuosity and are illustrative of the era.Selected Works of Elinor Wylie contains 113 of the 161 poems Wylie chose for the volumes published in her lifetime and 100 more that appeared in Collected Poems and in Last Poems. Also included are the first chapters of each of her novels, Jennifer Lorn, The Venetian Glass Nephew, The Orphan Angel, and Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard. Editor and scholar Evelyn Hively chose short stories, essays, reviews, and articles to further define Wylie’s rich and broad repertoire and her place on the 1920s literary scene.Scholars and researchers of this modern woman writer and her contemporaries will find this a welcome addition to women’s literary studies.
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PoetryAll That Divides Us
Volume 4 of the Swenson Poetry Award series
by Elinor Benedict
foreword by Maxine Kumin The poet's voice is clear, direct, yet artful. The sensibility that prevades these poems is that of a mature woman with an inquiring mind and a strong sense of family attachments. Almost every poem delivers a sidelong irony, a study in contrasts that is always overridden by the sense of common humanity shared by two disparate cultures. —Maxine Kumin When the poet commands us to listen, it is as if for a moment we stop reading and strain to hear the echoes of those voices. Reading becomes an act of hearing the past, of hearing that cry for freedom that wells up from humanity itself. —David Lee Garrison Although the poems in this collection are not narrative, they do present a narrative, gradually unspooling the tale of the poet's rebel aunt, who left the family "to marry a Chinaman" in the 1930s. It's an old story, full of poignancy, mystery, family pride, and doubt. When the aunt returns to die, the poet, now grown, discovers in herself the need to reclaim the connections that her family had severed. She travels to China several times—to learn. Gradually, through wide-eyed insightful poems, we see the poet rebuild with her Chinese cousins a sense of generation, family, and humanity—bridging over all that that divides us. Elinor Benedict has also received the Mademoiselle Fiction Prize, a Michigan Council for the Arts Award, and an Editor's Grant from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CLMP). She earned an M.F.A. in writing from Vermont College and her work has also appeared in various literary journals and in five chapbooks.
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Children's & YAApril 2017Treasure Basket Explorations
Heuristic Learning for Infants and Toddlers
by Laura Wilhem, EdD
For the littlest learners, everything is an activity--feeling a rock, trying to lick a bubble, smelling a flower, or poking sand. In Treasure-Basket Explorations: Heuristic Learning for Infants and Toddlers, teachers and caregivers of infants and toddlers will learn how these simple explorations support cognitive and vocabulary development. Grounded in the theory of early education pioneer Elinor Goldschmied, the book explains heuristic learning--discovery by trial and error--and how to encourage this type of learning to boost development. Teachers will learn how to set up treasure baskets that encourage heuristic play: containers filled with easy-to-find items that support explorations in emergent language, math, and science skills. Encourage children to discover the sounds that a metal cup makes when banged on the floor. Invite them to feel the velvety texture of soft fabric or the bumpiness of a loofah sponge. Let them explore what a wooden ring and a cotton handkerchief can do together. Through his explorations, the child is answering some fundamental questions: What is this and what can I do with it? Later, he will add to his knowledge: What else can this do and what can this become? This is cognitive development in action!
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Biography: literaryDarling Ro and The Benet Women
The Eisenhower Administration, Britain, and Singapore
by Evelyn Helmick Hively (author)
The first book-length study of a gifted American writer and her life during the 1920sThe Benét name immediately evokes Stephen Vincent and his older brother William Rose, Pulitzer Prize–winning poets and novelists during the first half of the twentieth century. Less well remembered are the remarkable women related to the Benét brothers, including Rosemary Carr, Stephen’s wife; Laura, his sister; Elinor Wylie, William’s second wife; and Kathleen Norris, the popular novelist who raised the children of her brother-in-law William.Darling Ro and the Benét Women presents a revealing glimpse of social and literary life in New York and Paris during the 1920s. Using a recently released collection of letters from the Benét Collection at Yale University, author Evelyn Helmick Hively extracts captivating anecdotes and impressions about a talented group of writers and impressive feminist figures. Written by Rosemary Carr Benét to her mother, Dr. Rachel Hickey Carr (one of Chicago’s first women physicians), the compilation of letters and short dispatches from Paris provides the focus of the book.A gifted poet and journalist, Rosemary Carr was a prolific writer of articles for the New York Herald-Tribune, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vogue; of stories and poems for The New Yorker and other magazines; and hundreds of letters. She belonged to a remarkably skillful, social, and artistic group of men and women who bonded early in life, and her letters paint fascinating portraits of their lives, careers, and relationships.Darling Ro and the Benét Women offers an insider’s perspective of a well-known cosmopolitan American family.
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EducationAcademic Achievers
Whose Definition?: An Ethnographic Study Examining the Literacy [under] Development of English Language Learners in the Era of High-Stakes Tests
by Orelus, P. W.
It is ironic that our ever-present preoccupation with closing the achievement gap is insufficiently articulated in current federal education policy. To this end, Pierre Orelus' study cogently underscores the fruitfulness of caring teachers' persistence in bridging the all-too-frequent gulf that exists between school and community together with an apprenticeship model that saturates youth in academic discourses. This is an encouraging and inspiring read. Angela Valenzuela, College of Education, University of Texas at Austin, author of Subtractive Schooling and Leaving Children Behind. Orelus' book provides valuable insights into the resources, including teachers' teaching practices, students' level of motivation, their family values, and the students' academic background, that contribute to academic achievement for English language learners. The author's close examination of what enabled four middle school ELLs to succeed academically illustrates that even students who are labeled "at risk" can succeed with the right support. David Freeman, Ph.D. Professor of Reading and ESL Chair: Department of Language, Literacy, and Intercultural Studies The University of Texas at Brownsville Pierre Orelus draws on his personal experiences as an English-language learner to examine ELL's academic achievement and underachievement. Guadalupe Valdés, Ph.D. Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education Stanford University This book addresses one of the most pressing issues facing US education - how best to support the academic literacy of English Language Learners. Pierre Orelus looks closely at teaching practices that contribute to students' academic growth, and he adds to the mounting evidence of the negative impact of high stakes testing and accountability on teaching, especially for students who are learning English. This is a powerful call to reject the culturally and educationally reductive practices promoted by No Child Left Behind. Professor Pauline Lipman University of Illinois at Chicago Author of High Stakes Education; Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform
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Financial crises & disastersDecember 2018The Age of Unproductive Capital
New Architectures of Power
by Author(s): Ladislau Dowbor
This book offers a very direct and readable analysis of the main challenges facing our societies today, such as reducing inequality, protecting the planet, and in particular mobilizing our financial resources which linger in tax havens and feed speculation, instead of funding the sustainable development we need. It precisely considers the most important factors, including corporate governance, financialization, capturing political power, and the limits to adequate national economic policies in a world dominated by global finance. The book’s presentation of how sensible and productive policies are dismantled will be highly interesting for the international community, whether in the academic, corporate or government spheres.
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American Civil WarThe Printer's Kiss
The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family
by Patricia Donohoe (editor)
In language that resonates with power and beauty, this compilation of personal letters written from 1844 to 1864 tells the compelling story of controversial newspaper editor Will Tomlinson, his opinionated wife (Eliza Wylie Tomlinson), and their two children (Byers and Belle) in the treacherous borderlands around that “abolitionist hellhole,” Ripley, Ohio. The Printer’s Kiss includes many of Tomlinson’s columns that appeared in the Ripley Bee, the local Ripley newspaper, and excerpts from a short story in the Columbian Magazine. It features many of his letters to his family and a remarkable number of letters from Eliza and the children to Tomlinson while he was away during the Civil War, serving variously as quartermaster sergeant for the Fifth Ohio, as captain of a company of counterinsurgents in West Virginia, as an independent scout and spy in Kentucky, as a nurse on a hospital boat, and as a compositor for the Cincinnati Gazette.During his career, Tomlinson published ten newspapers in Ohio and one in Iowa, where he lived from 1854 to 1860. Described by his contemporaries as brilliant and erratic, coarse and literary, Tomlinson left a trail of ink covering topics ranging from antislavery sentiment to spiritualist fervor and partisan politics. His personal writings reveal the man behind the press, disappointed by his weakness for alcohol and by Eliza’s refusal to condone his plan to raise a Negro company. His eloquent descriptions ache with the discomfort of standing fourteen hours at a compositor’s table, shooting cattle to feed soldiers, and having to defend himself against accusations of adultery. Tomlinson was fatally shot by a Kentucky Copperhead in 1863.Eliza’s letters pulse with the fears of a Union family on the lookout for slave hunters, Morgan’s Raiders, and bad news from the battlefield. Like her husband, she freely condemns inept politicians and southern rebels. She also questions her husband’s military competence, but she usually writes about domestic matters—the children, friends, and finances.The intimate details in these letters will engage readers with suspenseful accounts of survival in the borderlands during the Civil War, camp life, and guerrilla warfare and commentary on political and military events, journalism in the mid-1800s, and the roles of women and children. Most importantly, readers will be exposed to the story of how one articulate and loyal Union family refused to give up hope when faced with tragic disruption.
