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The field of human motivation has been undergoing a revolutionary shift in the 21st century What new philosophical assumptions motivational models and empirical evidence have emerged What does this look like in theory and in application The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation Second Edition addresses these key advances made in the field since the previous edition offering the latest insights from the top theorists and researchers of human motivation The volume includes chapters on social learning theory control theory selfdetermination theory terror management theory and regulatory focus theory while also presenting articles from leading scholars on phenomena such as egodepletion choice curiosity flow implicit motives and personal interests A special section dedicated to goal research highlights achievement goals goal attainment goal pursuit and unconscious goals and the goal orientation process across adulthood This Handbook also provides practical research and guidance with sections on relationships and applications in areas such as psychotherapy education physical activity sport and work By providing reviews of the most advanced work by the very best scholars in this field The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation Second Edition represents an invaluable resource for both researchers and practitioners as well as any student of human nature
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Named an Honor Book for Nonfiction by the Black Caucus of the American Library AssociationAfrican American theology has a long and important history With modern roots in the civil rights movements of the 1960s African American theology has gone beyond issues of justice and social transformation to participate in broader dialogues of theological inquiry The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology brings together leading scholars in the field to offer a critical and comprehensive analysis of this theological tradition in its many forms and contexts Using an interdisciplinary approach this Oxford Handbook examines the nature structures and functions of African American Theology The volume surveys the field by highlighting its sources doctrines internal debates current challenges and future prospects in order to present key topics related to the wider palette of Black Religion in a sustained scholarly format This formative collection presents current scholarship on African American Theology and scripture eschatology Christology womanist theology sexuality ontology the global economy and much more The contributors represent a diverse set of faith perspectives adding to the layered discourses within the volume These essays further important discussions on the pressing debates and challenges that shape black and womanist theologies
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This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics discusses its development and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of future research Leading scholars in the major subfields of Persian linguistics examine a range of topics split into six thematic parts Following a detailed introduction from the editors the volume begins by placing Persian in its historical and typological context in Part I Chapters in Part II examine topics relating to phonetics and phonology while Part III looks at approaches to and features of Persian syntax The fourth part of the volume explores morphology and lexicography as well as the work of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature Part V language and people covers topics such as language contact and teaching Persian as a foreign language while the final part examines psycho neuro and computational linguistics The volume will be an essential resource for all scholars with an interest in Persian language and linguistics
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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the Roman world in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions The thirtyfour contributions to this volume survey Christian material culture and ground the history culture and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in archaeological method theory and research The essays emphasize the link between archaeological fieldwork methods and regional and national traditions in constructing our knowledge of the Early Church and Christian communities within the context of the ancient Mediterranean Near East and Europe Three sweeping introductory essays provide historical perspectives on the archaeology of the Early Christian world These are followed by a series of topical treatments that focus on monuments and environments ranging from Christian churches to catacombs martyria and baths as well as classes of objects of religious significance such as ceramics lamps and icons Finally the volume locates the archaeology of the Early Christian world in fifteen regional studies stretching from Britain to Persia highlighting the unique historical contexts that have shaped scholarly discussion across time and space The thorough carefullyresearched essays offer the most intensive stateoftheart treatment of recent research into the archaeology of Early Christianity available
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The philosophy of cognitive science is concerned with fundamental philosophical and theoretical questions connected to the sciences of the mind How does the brain give rise to conscious experience Does speaking a language change how we think Is a genuinely intelligent computer possible What features of the mind are innate Advances in cognitive science have given philosophers important tools for addressing these sorts of questions and cognitive scientists have in turn found themselves drawing upon insights from philosophyinsights that have often taken their research in novel directions The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science brings together twentyone newly commissioned chapters by leading researchers in this rich and fastgrowing area of philosophy It is an indispensible resource for anyone who seeks to understand the implications of cognitive science for philosophy and the role of philosophy within cognitive science
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A large gap exists in the literature of ancient numismatics between general works intended for collectors and highly specialized studies addressed to numismatists Indeed there is hardly anything produced by knowledgeable numismatists that is easily accessible to the academic community at large or the interested lay reader The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage will fill this gap by providing a systematic overview of the major coinages of the classical world The Handbook begins with a general introduction by volume editor William E Metcalf followed by an article establishing the history and role of scientific analysis in ancient numismatics The subsequent thirtytwo chapters all written by an international group of distinguished scholars cover a vast geography and chronology beginning with the first evidence of coins in Western Asia Minor in the seventh century BCE and continuing up to the transformation of coinage at the end of the Roman Empire In addition to providing the essential background and current research questions of each of the major coinages the Handbook also includes articles on the application of numismatic evidence to the disciplines of archaeology economic history art history and ancient history With helpful appendices a glossary of specialized terms indices of mints persons and general topics and nearly 900 illustrations The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage will be an indispensable resource for scholars and students of the classical world as well as a stimulating reference for collectors and interested lay readers
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Catharine Macaulay was a celebrated republican historian whose account of the reasons for the seventeenthcentury English Revolution the parliamentary period and its aftermath was widely read by the mothers and fathers of American Independence and by central players in the French Revolution As well as publishing her eight volume history spanning the period from the accession of James I to the Glorious Revolution of 1688 she wrote political pamphlets offered a sketch of a republican constitution for Corsica advocated parliamentary reform and published a response to Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France Her Letters on Education of 1790 made a decisive impact on the thought of Mary Wollstonecraft and her Treatise on the Immutability of Moral Truth opposed the skeptical and utilitarian attitudes being developed by Hume and others This volume brings together for the first time all the available letters between her and her wideranging correspondents who include George Washington John Adams Abigail Adams Mercy Otis Warren James Otis Benjamin Rush David Hume James Boswell Thomas Hollis John Wilkes Horace Walpole Mary Wollstonecraft JacquesPierre Brissot de Warville and many other luminaries of the eighteenthcentury enlightenment It includes an extended introduction to her life and works and offers a unique insight into the thinking of her friends and correspondents during the period between 1760 and 1790 the crucible for the development of modern representative democracies The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay will appeal to scholars of philosophy political thought womens studies and eighteenthcentury history as well as those interested in the development of democratic ideas
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The Oxford Handbook of Theology Sexuality and Gender presents an unrivalled overview of the theological study of sexuality and gender Not merely contentious and pervasive topics sexuality and gender have escalated in importance within theology Theologians increasingly agree that even the very doctrine of God cannot be contemplated without a prior grappling with each Featuring 41 newlycommissioned essays written by the foremost scholars in the discipline this authoritative collection presents and develops the latest thinking in the area Divided into eight thematic sections the Handbook explores key methodological approaches concepts and issues as well as current controversies within various denominations Selected essays draw on reason as a distinct source of theology discussing evolutionary biology and behavioural genetics psychology anthropological research philosophical research and queer theory It examines the history of in theologies of sexuality and gender with close analysis of the Bible and the Christian tradition The final section considers theology in relation to different expressions of sexual identities This volume is an essential reference for students and scholars which will also stimulate further research
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Issues of identity have always been central to the American musical in all its guises Who appears in musicals who or what they are meant to represent and how over time those representations have been understood and interpreted provide the very basis for our engagement with the genre In this third volume of the reissued Oxford Handbook of the American Musical chapters focus on race ethnicity gender and sexuality regional vs national identity and the cultural and class significance of the musical itself As important as the question of who appears in musicals are the questions of who watches and listens to them and of how specific cultures of reception attend differently to the musical Chapters thus address cultural codes inherent to the genre in particular those found in traditional school theater programs
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Dave Brubecks Time Out ranks among the most popular successful and influential jazz albums of all time Released by Columbia in 1959 alongside such other landmark albums as Miles Daviss Kind of Blue and Charles Minguss Mingus Ah Um Time Out became one of the first jazz albums to be certified platinum while its featured track Take Five became the bestselling jazz single of the twentieth century surpassing one million copies In addition to its commercial successes the album is widely recognized as a pioneering endeavor into the use of odd meters in jazz With its opening track Blue Rondo à la Turk written in 98 its hit single Take Five in 54 and equally innovative uses of the more common 34 and 44 meters on other tracks Time Out has played an important role in the development of modern jazz In this book author Stephen A Crist draws on nearly fifteen years of archival research to offer the most thorough examination to date of this seminal jazz album Supplementing his research with interviews with key individuals including Brubecks widow Iola and daughter Catherine as well as interviews conducted with Brubeck himself prior to his passing in 2012 Crist paints a complete picture of the albums origins creation and legacy Couching careful analysis of each of the albums seven tracks within historical and cultural contexts he offers fascinating insights into the composition and development of some of the albums bestknown tunes From Brubecks 1958 State Departmentsponsored tour during which he first encountered the Turkish aksak rhythms that would form the basis of Blue Rondo à la Turk to the backstage jam session that planted the seeds for Take Five Crist sheds an exciting new light on one of the most significant albums in jazz history
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The Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative singlevolume source of information about the English language It is intended both for reference and for browsing The first edition of this landmark Companion published in 1998 adopted a strong international perspective covering topics from Cockney to Creole Aboriginal English to Caribbean English and a historical range from Chaucer to Chomsky Latin to the World Wide Web It succinctly described and discussed the English language at the end of the twentieth century including its distribution and varieties its cultural political and educational impact worldwide its nature origins and prospects and its pronunciation grammar vocabulary wordformation and usageThis new edition notably focuses on World Englishes English language teaching English as an international language and the effect of technological advances on the English language More than 130 new entries include African American English British Sign Language China English digital literacy multimodality social networking superdiversity and text messaging among many others It also includes new biographical entries on key individuals who have had an impact on the English language in recent decades including Beryl Sue Atkins Adam Kilgariff and John SinclairIt is an invaluable reference for English Language students and fascinating reading for any general reader with an interest in language
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The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management provides stateoftheart scholarship in the emerging field of megaproject management Megaprojects are large complex projects that typically cost billions of dollars and impact millions of people like building a highspeed rail line a megadam a national health or pensions IT system a new widebody aircraft or staging the Olympics The book contains 25 chapters written especially for this volume covering all aspects of megaproject management from frontend planning to actual project delivery including how to deal with stakeholders risk finance complexity innovation governance ethics project breakdowns and scale itself Individual chapters cover the history of the field and relevant theory from behavioral economics to lockin and escalation to systems integration and theories of agency and power All geographies are covered from the US to China Europe to Africa South America to Australia as are a wide range of project types from hard infrastructure to soft change projects Indepth case studies illustrate salient points The Handbook offers rigorous researchoriented uptodate academic view of the discipline based on highquality data and strong theory It will be an indispensible resource for students academics policy makers and practitioners
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This Oxford Handbook is a serious resource for the study of the literature of the Writings Psalms Job Proverbs Ruth Esther Lamentations Ecclesiastes Song of Songs EzraNehemiah Chronicles Daniel of the Hebrew Bible including its context and its scripturalcanonical shape and reception A first section provides an overview of the postexilic period in which much of the Writings was written focusing on history archeology and the development of major literary traditions all of which provide the context for understanding and interpreting this literature A second section contains creative studies of the books in the Writings focusing on structure purpose and distinctive characteristics of this very diverse literature A third section looks at the Writings from larger and longer perspectives including the ancient Near East developing Judaism and Christianity Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls music and the arts and its canonization and reception by Judaism and Christianity This handbook has a focus on the special character and shape of the Writings as scripture and canon including the recurring issues of diversity and difference dates of canonization its special relationship to other scripture and canon Torah Prophets New Testament and its interpretation in religious and nonreligious communities
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This book provides the first comprehensive history of AfroEurasia during the first millennium BCE and the beginning of the first millennium CE The history of these 1300 plus years can be summed up in one word connectivity The growth in connectivity during this period was marked by increasing political economic and cultural interaction throughout the region and the replacement of the numerous political and cultural entities by a handful of great empires at the end of the period In the process local cultural traditions were replaced by great traditions rooted in lingua francas and spread by formalized educational systems This process began with the collapse of the Bronze Age empires in the east and west widespread population movements and almost chronic warfare throughout AfroEurasia while the cavalry revolution transformed the nomads of the central Asian steppes into founders of tribal confederations assembled by charismatic leaders and covering huge territories At the same time new artistic and intellectual movements appeared including the teachings of Socrates Confucius the Buddha and Laozi Increased literacy also allowed people from a wide range of social classes such as the Greek soldier Xenophon the Indian Buddhist emperor Ashoka the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and elite women such as the poetess Sappho the Christian martyr Perpetua and the scholar Ban Zhao to create literary works When the period ended in 300 CE conditions had changed dramatically Temperate AfroEurasia from the Atlantic to the Pacific was dominated by a handful of empiresRome Sassanid Persia and Jin Empirethat ruled more than half the worlds population while an extensive network of trade routes bound them to Southeast and Central Asia and SubSaharan Africa and made possible the spread of new book based religions including Christianity Manichaeism Zoroastrianism and Buddhism thereby setting the stage for the next millennium of AfroEurasian history
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Contemporary art can be baffling and beautiful provocative and disturbing This pioneering book presents a new look at the controversial period between 1945 and 2015 when art and its traditional forms were called into question It focuses on the relationship between American and European art and challenges previously held views about the origins of some of the most innovative ideas in art of this time Major artists such as Jackson Pollock Robert Rauschenberg Andy Warhol Joseph Beuys Gerhard Richter Louise Bourgeois Cindy Sherman Jeff Koons and Shiran Neshat are all discussed as is the art world of the last fifty years Important trends are also covered including Abstract Expressionism Pop Art Minimalism Conceptualism Postmodernism and Performance ArtThis revised and updated second edition includes a new chapter exploring art since 2000 and how globalization has caused shifts in the art world an updated Bibliography and 16 new colour illustrations
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Immigration is one of the most polarizing issues in contemporary politics It raises questions about identity economic wellbeing the legitimacy of state power and the boundaries of membership and justice How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic societies pursue Some contend that borders should generally be open and people should be free to migrate in search of better lives Others insist that governments have the right to unilaterally close their borders and should do so In Immigration and Democracy Sarah Song develops an intermediate ethical position that takes seriously both the claims of receiving countries and the claims of prospective migrants She argues that political membership is morally significant even if morally arbitrary Political membership grounds particular rights and obligations and a government may show some partiality toward the interests of its members Yet we also have universal obligations to those outside our orders Where prospective migrants have urgent reasons to move as in the case of refugees their interests may trump the less weighty interests of members What is required is not open or closed borders but open doors An accessible ethical framework that clarifies and deepens the ideas with which members of democratic societies can debate immigration Immigration and Democracy considers the implications of a realistically utopian theory for immigration law and policy
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The presence of the phenomenological body is central to music in all of its varieties and contradictions With the explosion of scholarly works on the body in virtually every field in the humanities the social as well as the biomedical sciences the question of how such a complex understanding of the body is related to music with its own complexity has been investigated within specific disciplinary perspectives The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body brings together scholars from across these fields providing a platform for the discussion of the multidimensional interfaces of music and the body The book is organized into six sections each discussing a topic that defines the field the moving and performing body the musical brain and psyche embodied mind embodied rhythm the disabled and sexual body music as medicine and the multimodal body Connecting a wide array of diverse perspectives and presenting a survey of research and practice the Handbook provides an introduction into the rich world of music and the body
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Death has long been a preoccupation of philosophers and this is especially so today The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death collects 21 newly commissioned essays that cover current philosophical thinking of deathrelated topics across the entire range of the discipline These include metaphysical topicssuch as the nature of death the possibility of an afterlife the nature of persons and how our thinking about time affects what we think about deathas well as axiological topics such as whether death is bad for its victim what makes it bad to die what attitude it is fitting to take towards death the possibility of posthumous harm and the desirability of immortality The contributors also explore the views of ancient philosophers such as Aristotle Plato and Epicurus on topics related to the philosophy of death and questions in normative ethics such as what makes killing wrong when it is wrong and whether it is wrong to kill fetuses nonhuman animals combatants in war and convicted murderers With chapters written by a wide range of experts in metaphysics ethics and conceptual analysis and designed to give the reader a comprehensive view of recent developments in the philosophical study of death this Handbook will appeal to a broad audience in philosophy particularly in ethics and metaphysics
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