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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 can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives? Or do we face economic stagnation, declining quality of life, and a technologically enhanced totalitarianism worse than any yet seen? The Fabulous Future? America and the World in 2040 draws its inspiration from a...
- Keyword:
- Twenty-first century, forecasting, and social prediction
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Schapiro, Morton and Morson, Gary Saul
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3197-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3198-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3196-5
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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 With Faithful Translators Jaime Goodrich offers the first in-depth examination of women’s devotional translations and of religious translations in general within early modern England. Placing female translators such as Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, alongside their male counterparts, such as Sir Thomas More and Sir...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, prose, literature, and novels
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Goodrich, Jaime
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2938-2, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6738-4, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2969-6
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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 Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than patriotic victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated in recent years, especially in...
- Keyword:
- Battle of Bannockburn, Scotland, gaelic language, colonialism, fiction, postcolonialism, literary criticism, Scottish nationalism, England, literature, United Kingdom, Britain, novels, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Stroh, Silke
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3403-4, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3405-8, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3404-1
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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 George Eliot's Religious Imagination addresses the much-discussed question of Eliot’s relation to Christianity in the wake of the sociocultural revolution triggered by the spread of theories of evolution. The standard view is that the author of Middlemarch and Silas Marner “lost her faith” at this time of religious crisis. Orr...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Orr, Marilyn
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3589-5, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3588-8, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3590-1
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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 highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of dramatists, novelists, and filmmakers, among them Richard Foreman, Mac...
- Keyword:
- philosophy, language game, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and logic
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Golub, Spencer
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2992-4 and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6779-7
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- In Kafka and Wittgenstein, Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka’s prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what his texts mean, in this search we are sorely mistaken. Instead,... 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:
- fiction, literary criticism, prose, literature, and novels
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Schuman, Rebecca
- 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:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3146-0, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3150-7, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3184-2
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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 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
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- The intersection of sound design and music scoring has been employed expressively in contemporary Mexican cinema to convey complex social commentary. This dissertation investigates how the Mexican films Vuelven, Sin Señas Particulares, and Sanctorum exploit the potentials of the soundtrack to create politicized aesthetic experiences. My research is in dialogue...
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- Funeral rites, The grotesque, Mixe language, Integrated soundtrack, Cinematic subjectivity, Musicology, Mexican cinema, Sound studies, Drug trafficking, Mexican history, The sublime, Aesthetics, Horror cinema, Film scoring, Cinematic death, Immigration politics, and Film studies
- Subject:
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects, Feature films, Film festivals, Mexicans--Politics and government, Fantasy films, Musicology, Horror films, Art, Mexican, Sound, Music--Philosophy and aesthetics, Mexico, Documentary-style films, and Drug traffic
- Creator:
- Craig Davis Pinson
- Owner:
- Craig Davis Pinson
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/23/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/15/2022
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Current technologies capable of establishing bioresorbable orthopedic fixation devices and stents have broad utility for biomedical applications to improve constructive tissue remodeling. Recent studies and investigations on bioresorbable conductors, semiconductors, dielectrics, and polymer substrates offer a promising opportunity to propel the existing non-degradable bioelectronic devices to the promising bioresorbable electronics,...
- Keyword:
- Soft materials, Bioresorbable electronics, Solid mechanics, Functional interfaces, Implantable electronics, and MEMS
- Subject:
- Mechanics, Bioengineering, and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- Yang, Quansan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/18/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_824270 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15603
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- Description:
- This data set was curated as part of an exercise for the LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program (DSFP). Some of the data are sourced from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; sdss.org).
- Creator:
- Miller, Adam
- Owner:
- Adam Andrew Miller
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/19/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-07-19
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Description:
- This collection of csv files contains information from the internet movie database (IMDb; imdb.com), which can be packaged into a database for example problems. The files have been put together in support of exercises for the LSSTC DSFP. The data were collected from the website: https://relational.fit.cvut.cz/dataset/IMDb
- Creator:
- Miller, Adam
- Owner:
- Adam Andrew Miller
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/20/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/20/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-07-20
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- diversity in classical music, black composers, and clarinet
- Creator:
- Jennifer Woodrum
- Owner:
- Jennifer Lynn Woodrum
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/20/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/20/2022
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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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- This poster represents the work of Rushabh Shah, one of the 2022 Northwestern Medicine Pre-Medical Interns. Rushabh, a junior at Loyola University Chicago, conducted the research project at the NM Warrenville Cancer Center. This project focuses on evaluating the efficacy of current chemotherapy education materials, along with the goal of...
- Keyword:
- Northwestern Medicine Pre-Med Internship and Rushabh Shah
- Creator:
- Rushabh Shah
- Contributor:
- Fahad Faruqi, MD
- Owner:
- Rushabh Shah
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-08-04
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- Oak sapling recruitment is a major concern in the Midwest including the Chicago area based on the predicted longer summer droughts driven by climate change. Mature oak (Quercus alba L.) trees can perform hydraulic redistribution and thus specifically benefit the overall soil health and ecosystem function; oak tap roots draw...
- Keyword:
- hydrogeology, oak, hydraulic lift, recruitment, stable isotopes, hyphae morphological type, sapling, photosynthetic photon flux density, and common mycorrhizal networks
- Creator:
- Ry'yan Clark
- Contributor:
- Magdalena Osburn, William Miller, Patricia Beddows, and Louise Egerton-Warburton
- Owner:
- Ryyan Clark
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/09/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/12/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-08-09
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- The textbook proceeds with an introduction to theory and concept building, moves to an explanation of causal inference (how do we 'know' whether something is causal?), and then provides a quick introduction to data and hypothesis testing. Following that, each chapter is devoted to a particular research method used within...
- Keyword:
- textbook, open educational resources, and introduction to political science
- Subject:
- Quantitative research, Political science, and Open educational resources
- Creator:
- Clipperton, Jean
- Contributor:
- Ochoa, Erin, Ruan, Zhihang, Lee, John, Manzi, Pilar, Zimmerman, John, Kwon, Irene, Gubitz, Sam, Noor, Salih, and Weylandt, Max
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/24/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/17/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- ISBN 978-1-954984-05-9
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- Description:
- Post-colonial nation-state building in Morocco required a homogenization of the Moroccan citizen linguistically, culturally, and religiously resulting in an Arabo-Islamic identity. The latter came at the expense of Amazigh (indigenous) people, languages, cultures, and identities. Despite the opportunist state language officialization and recognition in 2011, Tamazight’s (Amazigh language) dissemination in...
- Keyword:
- Indigenous Languages, Morocco, Amazigh, Digital Media , Expo, and Covid-19
- Creator:
- Hatim Rachdi
- Owner:
- Hatim Rachdi
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/21/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/22/2022
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- Description:
- Included in this submission are the following supplementary materials that were unable to be included in the article, but the authors would like to make available for other researchers: ● Raw data csv files and R analysis code ● Supplemental graphs ● Full bibliography ● Sources of Materials document ●... and Below is the abstract for the forthcoming Book and Paper Group Annual article at the time of this submission. Rigid polysaccharide gels are a vital area of research for library and paper conservation, as they are still a relatively new material in the field. This experiment investigates anecdotal concerns of...
- Creator:
- Karissa Muratore and Haley Carter
- Owner:
- Karissa Ann Muratore
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/22/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-08-22
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- metals, microscope, and materials defects
- Creator:
- Hall, Thomas M., Berger, Arnold S., Seidman, David N., and Wagner, Alfred
- Owner:
- Institutional Repository Administrator
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/25/2022
- Date Modified:
- 08/25/2022
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- Description:
- This thesis work addresses the creation and evaluation of deep learning architectures which are trained only on synthetic images. The goal of these models is to autonomously detect rocks on the surface of asteroids.
- Keyword:
- deep learning architectures and machine learning
- Creator:
- Jensen, Taylor
- Owner:
- Institutional Repository Administrator
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2022
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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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- Keyword:
- HIV, Ethics, and Research
- Creator:
- Brian Mustanski
- Owner:
- Maggie Matson
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/23/2022
- Date Modified:
- 09/23/2022
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- Keyword:
- HIV, Ethics, and Research
- Creator:
- Brian Mustanski
- Owner:
- Maggie Matson
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/23/2022
- Date Modified:
- 09/23/2022
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- Keyword:
- HIV, Ethics, and Research
- Creator:
- Brian Mustanski
- Contributor:
- Maggie Matson, David Moskowitz, Andrés Alvarado Avila, and Manuel Hurtado Jr.
- Owner:
- Maggie Matson
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/23/2022
- Date Modified:
- 09/23/2022
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Description:
- Learning to discriminate between different sensory stimuli is essential for survival. In rodents, the olfactory bulb, which contributes to odor discrimination via pattern separation, exhibits extensive structural synaptic plasticity involving the formation and removal of synaptic spines, even in adult animals. The network connectivity resulting from this plasticity is...
- Creator:
- Meng, John and Riecke, Hermann
- Owner:
- Hermann Riecke
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/29/2022
- Date Modified:
- 10/07/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-06-29 and 2022-10-07
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- analysis
- Creator:
- Mary McGrath
- Owner:
- Mary McGrath
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/13/2022
- Date Modified:
- 10/13/2022
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- Description:
- Data to reproduce analyses in "Voter bias and the partisan gender-gap in office" and Appendix.
- Creator:
- Mary McGrath
- Owner:
- Mary McGrath
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/12/2022
- Date Modified:
- 10/13/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-10-12
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
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- Keyword:
- DOCS25 Manual Revised 2022
- Creator:
- Theresa Pape
- Owner:
- Theresa L Bender Pape
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/18/2022
- Date Modified:
- 10/18/2022
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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- Contemporary Ethiopian is, without question, facing enormous challenges. At the core of these challenges lay a state-building process major constituencies and elite groups were either alienated from, forced to acquiesce to, or coopted into. Unable to derive political legitimacy from democratic participation, successive governments largely relied on coercion and neopatrimonialism,...
- Keyword:
- citizenship, managing diversity, constitutional law, law, states' rights, Ethiopia, political science, consociationalism, federalism, democratization, constitutionalism, intersectionality, and ethnic federalism
- Subject:
- Law and Political Science
- Creator:
- Dr. Juweria Ali, Loid Taye, Dr. Solomon Negussie, Melhik A. Bekele, Fowsia Abdulkadir, Dr. Christophe Van der Beken, Rediet Baye Ayalew, Professor Thomas Geraghty, Prof. Dr. Adeno Addis, Teguadda Alebachew, Dr. Abchu Wassihun, Dr. Mulugeta Mengist Ayalew, Prof. Dr. Assefa Fiseha, Dr. Mizanie Abate Tadesse, Dr. Getachew Assefa Wodemariam, Dr. Semir Yusuf, Abduletif Kedir Idris, Dr. Aberra Degefa, Kokebe Wolde Jemaneh, Dr. Kalkidan Negash Obse, Dr. Abadir M. Ibrahim, Dr. Zemalek Ayitenew Ayele, Dr. Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha, Dr. Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw, Dr. Abdi Jibril, Dr. Sossina M. Haile, Dr. Tigist Shewarega Hussen, Dr. Berihun Adugna Gebeye, Dr. Adem K. Abebe, Dr. Mohammed Dejan Assen, Dr. Zelalem Mogessie Teferra, Gossaye Ayele, Dr. Yitayew Alemayehu, Dr. Shimelis Mulugeta Kene, and Dr. Sisay Alemahu Yeshanew
- Contributor:
- Mezgebu Tesema (cover art) and May Malone (cover design)
- Owner:
- Basia Kapolka
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries and Northwestern University Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/15/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-22
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- ISBN 978-1-954984-06-6
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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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- Description:
- Prostate cancer is the most common cause of cancer among men in the United States, and the second most common cause of cancer-related death, accounting for significant morbidity and mortality. This dissertation describes the genomic landscape of prostate cancer from multiple angles to identify mechanisms of disease heterogeneity amongst patients....
- Keyword:
- cellular biology
- Subject:
- Cellular biology
- Creator:
- Chalmers, Zachary R
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/06/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15993 and etdadmin_upload_894281
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- Keyword:
- HIV, Ethics, and Research
- Creator:
- Brian Mustanski, Kathryn Macapagal, Rana Saber, and Margaret Matson
- Owner:
- Maggie Matson
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/06/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/06/2023
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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
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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 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
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- 01/19/2023
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- 01/19/2023
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- 2013
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- 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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- 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 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
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- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2014
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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
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- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
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- Book
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- 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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- 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 Focusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map.
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Bray, Patrick M.
- 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
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- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6638-7 and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2866-8
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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 Perception in Aristotle's Ethics seeks to demonstrate that living an ethical life requires a mode of perception that is best called ethical perception. Specifically, drawing primarily on Aristotle’s accounts of perception and ethics in De anima and Nicomachean Ethics, Eve Rabinoff argues that the faculty of perception (aisthesis), which is...
- Keyword:
- individualism, perception, philosophy, Aristotle, ethics, phenomena, and virtue
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Rabinoff, Eve
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2023
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- 01/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3644-1, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3642-7, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3643-4
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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 In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. Roth...
- Keyword:
- historiography, science, history, narrative, metaphysics, epistemology, naturalism, and theory change
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Roth, Paul A.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/20/2023
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- 01/20/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
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- Book
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- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4088-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4087-5, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4089-9
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- A groundbreaking essay collection that pursues the rise of geoculture as an essential framework for arts criticism, The Planetary Turn shows how the planet—as a territory, a sociopolitical arena, a natural space of interaction for all earthly life, and an artistic theme—is increasingly the conceptual and political dimension in which... 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 and links to the open-access version can be found at...
- Keyword:
- cosmopolitanism, environmentalism, geoculture, essays, and globalization
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Moraru, Christian and Amy J. Elias
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2015
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- Book
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- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3073-9, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3075-3, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3074-6
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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 Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to Islam in the Middle East and the Arab world. Shirin Edwin points to the tight embrace between Islam and politics that has rendered Islamic feminist discourse historically and thematically contextualized in regions where...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, prose, literature, and novels
- Subject:
- Social sciences, Literary criticism, Religion, and Islam
- Creator:
- Edwin, Shirin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3369-3, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3367-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3368-6
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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 Screening Auschwitz is the first and definitive discussion of the classic Polish Holocaust film The Last Stage (Ostatni etap). Directed by Auschwitz survivor Wanda Jakubowska, The Last Stage was the first film of its kind. Marek Haltof has incorporated a wealth of new sources to trace the creation of this...
- Keyword:
- film, cinema, Auschwitz, judaism, movies, and holocaust
- Subject:
- History and Performing arts
- Creator:
- Haltof, Marek
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
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- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
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- Book
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- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3608-3, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3610-6, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3609-0
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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 Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies examines the key role that the law and legal frameworks played in the ways Shakespeare explored character and selfhood.
- Keyword:
- English, law, philosophy, theater, Shakespeare, and performing arts
- Subject:
- History, Law, and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Curran, Kevin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3518-5, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3517-8, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3516-1
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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 Theaters of Citizenship investigates independent Egyptian performance practices from 2004 to 2014 to demonstrate how young dramatists staged new narratives of citizenship outside of state institutions, exploring rights claims and enacting generational identity. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book traces this avant-garde from the theater networks of the...
- Keyword:
- Egypt, Egyptian revolution, avant-garde, theater, ethnography, and performance
- Subject:
- History, Art, Middle Eastern, Performing arts, and Theater
- Creator:
- Pahwa, Sonali
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
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- Book
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- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4177-3, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4176-6, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4175-9
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- Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish well into the twenty-first century—gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of post-Holocaust writers. In negotiating the complex thematic imperatives and narrative conceits of... 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 and links to the open-access version can be found at...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- History and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Berger, Alan L. and Aarons, Victoria
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2017
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- Book
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- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3410-2, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3411-9, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3409-6
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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 Time and the Shared World challenges the common view that Heidegger offers few resources for understanding humanity’s social nature. The book demonstrates that Heidegger’s reformulation of traditional notions of subjectivity has wide-ranging implications for understanding the nature of human relationships. Irene McMullin shows that, contrary to entrenched critiques, Heidegger’s characterization...
- Keyword:
- phenomenology, Sartre, embodiment, Husserl, Heidegger, existentialism, ontology, and Scheler
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- McMullin, Irene
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2013
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- Book
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- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2902-3, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2903-0, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6656-1
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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 Intervening in the multidisciplinary debate on emotion, Tropes of Transport offers a fresh analysis of Hegel’s work that becomes an important resource for Pahl’s cutting-edge theory of emotionality. If it is usually assumed that the sincerity of emotions and the force of affects depend on their immediacy, Pahl explores to...
- Keyword:
- analysis, emotionality, philosophy, Hegel, emotion, and mediation
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Pahl, Katrin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2784-5, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6567-0, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2785-2
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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 In her provocative book, Brooke Kroeger argues for a reconsideration of the place of oft-maligned journalistic practices. While it may seem paradoxical, much of the valuable journalism in the past century and a half has emerged from undercover investigations that employed subterfuge or deception to expose wrong. Kroeger asserts that...
- Keyword:
- social science, journalism, women's studies, and morality
- Subject:
- Social sciences and Women's studies
- Creator:
- Kroeger, Brooke and Hamill, Pete
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2012
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- Book
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