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- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Muslims in Kenyan Politics explores the changing relationship between Muslims and the state in Kenya from precolonial times to the present, culminating in the radicalization of a section of the Muslim population in recent decades. The politicization of Islam in Kenya is deeply connected with the sense of marginalization that...
- Keyword:
- colonialism, Muslims, politics, and Kenya
- Subject:
- History, Law, and Africa
- Creator:
- Ndzovu, Hassan J.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3002-9 and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6787-2
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Montaigne’s Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle’s Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is...
- Keyword:
- philosophy, Aristotle, literary criticism, essays, invention, and Montaigne
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Hartle, Ann
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6733-9, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2932-0, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2965-8
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- What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel explores this question through readings of major works by Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Working at the height of the Russian realist tradition, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky each discovered unprecedented techniques for intensifying the aesthetic...
- Keyword:
- The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Tolstoy, Russian literature, Dostoevsky, realism, and Anna Karenina
- Subject:
- Literary criticism and Russia
- Creator:
- Kitzinger, Chloë
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4398-2, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4397-5, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4396-8
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- Keyword:
- sand, sustainability, climate change, infrastructure, and extractive industries
- Subject:
- Sand, Climate change mitigation, Infrastructure (Economics)--Planning, Sustainable development, and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Creator:
- Anita Van Breda (World Wildlife Fund), Missaka Hettiarachchi (World Wildlife Fund), Mike M. McMahon (Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University), and Kate Newman (World Wildlife Fund)
- Contributor:
- Laura J. Powers, Carlos Santamaria, Todd Bridges, Mark Simoni, Aaron Packman, Daniel Franks, Gary Greenberg, Kate Dawson, Halinishi Yusuf, Vince Beiser, Antonis Antoniou Latouros, Aurora Torres, Beibei Xu, Terri R. Norton, Kusum Athukorala, Deepthi Wickramasinghe, and Pascal Peduzzi
- Owner:
- Mike McMahon
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University and World Wildlife Fund
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/21/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/05/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-01
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding and Report
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- Cite this article: Shen, J., McFarland, A.G., Blaustein, R.A. et al. An improved workflow for accurate and robust healthcare environmental surveillance using metagenomics. Microbiome 10, 206 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01412-x and Background: Effective surveillance of microbial communities in the healthcare environment is increasingly important in infection prevention. Metagenomics-based techniques are promising due to their untargeted nature but are currently challenged by several limitations: (1) they are not powerful enough to extract valid signals out of the background noise for low-biomass samples,...
- Keyword:
- Quantification, Quantitative metagenomics, Low biomass, Viability, Machine learning, Environmental surveillance, Sequencing depth prediction, and Infection prevention
- Subject:
- Metagenomics, Quantitative research, Nosocomial infections--Prevention, Machine learning, and Environmental monitoring
- Creator:
- K. Allison Perry-Dow, Jiaxian Shen, Vincent B. Young, Ryan A. Blaustein, Mary K. Hayden, Alexander G. McFarland, Anahid A. Moghadam, Laura J. Rose, and Erica M. Hartmann
- Contributor:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (funding agency)
- Owner:
- Jiaxian SHEN
- Publisher:
- Microbiome
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/19/2022
- Date Modified:
- 12/19/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-02
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI 10.1186/s40168-022-01412-x, PMCID PMC9716758, and PMID 36457108
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- In an assault on artistic freedom, the Nazi Government attempted to isolate, discredit, and ban musical works of Jewish composers by labeling them “Entartete Musik,” or “Forbidden Music.” After the Nazis seized power in 1933, the government disparaged and condemned works of Felix Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler along with works...
- Keyword:
- Holocaust, censorship , Hot-Sonate, Dadaism, Neue Sachlichkeit, Schulhoff, Entartete Musik, Konzert für Streichquartette und Blaser-Ensemble, and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
- Subject:
- Schulhoff, Ervín, 1894-1942, Dadaism, Jazz, Neue Sachlichkeit (Music), Hot Sonata, Entartete Musik, and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
- Creator:
- Eric Scott
- Owner:
- Eric Scott
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/07/2022
- Date Modified:
- 12/07/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-11-16
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- Keyword:
- HIV, Ethics, PrEP, and Consent
- Creator:
- Kathryn Macapagal
- Owner:
- Maggie Matson
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/23/2022
- Date Modified:
- 09/23/2022
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- The Middle Included is the first comprehensive account of the Ancient Greek word logos in Aristotelian philosophy. Logos means many things in the Aristotelian corpus: essential formula, proportion, reason, and language. Surveying these meanings in Aristotle’s logic, physics, and ethics, Ömer Aygün persuasively demonstrates that these divers meanings of logos... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- mind & body, ancient & classical, history & surveys, language, Aristotle, and philosophy
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Aygün, Ömer
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3401-0, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3400-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3402-7
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and In this volume fifteen eminent scholars illuminate the broad and often underappreciated variety of the nineteenth‑century Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard’s engagements with literature and the arts. The essays in Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts, contextualized with an insightful introduction by Eric Ziolkowski, explore Kierkegaard’s relationship to literature (poetry, prose,...
- Keyword:
- dance, music, existentialism, philosophy, visual arts, and aesthetics
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Ziolkowski, Eric
- Contributor:
- Jothen, Peder, Lorentzen, Jamie A., Linnet, Ragni, Fiskvik, Anne Margrete, Peterson, Nils Holger, Garff, Joakim, Pattison, George, Mooney, Edward F., Barnett, Christopher B. , Robinson, Marcia C., Pickett, Howard, Rovira, James, Boven, Martijn, and Green, Ronald M.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3597-0, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3596-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3598-7
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and Kierkegaard’s psychological thought has always been acknowledged as very rich—Reinhold Niebuhr hailed him as the greatest psychologist of the soul since Augustine—and has had a major influence on Heidegger, Sartre, and existential psychoanalysis. Nevertheless, his accomplishment has not always been fully appreciated, in part because it is so scattered across...
- Keyword:
- psychoanalysis, Kierkegaard, and pscyhologist
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- McCarthy, Vincent A.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3181-1, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3131-6, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3132-3