Search Results - "interpreters"

Democracy and administration Woodrow Wilson's ideas and the challenges of public management / by Cook, Brian J., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Remaking the public executive -- The character of modern democracy -- Situating administration in the modern democratic state -- Enhancing democracy through administrative design and organizational practice -- Administrative reform and expansion -- Legal structure, cabinet government, and interpretive leadership -- The continuing relevance of Wilson's ideas -- Public management, representative government, and the continuation of Wilson's quest.…”
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Scripturalist Islam the history and doctrines of the Akhbārī Shīʻī school / by Gleave, R. (Robert)

Table of Contents: “…The Akhbārī-Uṣūlī dispute and the early "Akhbārī" school -- Muḥammad Amīn al-Astarābādī and the formation of the Akhbārī school -- Astarābādī's legal thought -- Astarābādī's theological and philosophical thought -- The spread of Akhbarism after Astarābādī -- Defining the Akhbārī-Uṣūlī conflict -- Akhbārī Qurʼanic interpretation -- Sunna and the Akhbār in Akhbārī jurisprudence -- Akhbārī hermeneutics -- Conclusions.…”
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Empowerment of North American Indian girls ritual expressions at puberty / by Markstrom, Carol A.

Table of Contents: “…Contextual and methodological considerations -- Contemporary youth concerns in historical perspective -- North American Indian perspectives on human development -- Menstruation, cosmology, and feminism -- Historical overview of coming-of-age practices -- The Apache Sunrise Dance -- Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Dance -- Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa puberty customs -- Broader perspectives on coming-of-age.…”
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The powers of war and peace the constitution and foreign affairs after 9/11 / by Yoo, John

Table of Contents: “…The eighteenth-century Anglo-American Constitution and foreign affairs -- Foreign affairs and the prelude to the constitution -- Writing and ratifying a foreign affairs constitution -- War powers for a new world -- International politics as law?: interpreting and ending treaties -- Treaties and the legislative power -- Laws as treaties?…”
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The inspired teacher how to know one, grow one, or be one / by Steele, Carol Frederick, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Knowing the subject -- Using knowledge of teaching and learning -- Solving instructional problems -- Improvising -- Managing a classroom -- Interpreting events in progress -- Being sensitive to context -- Monitoring learning -- Testing hypotheses -- Demonstrating respect -- Showing passion for teaching and learning -- Helping students reach higher levels of achievement -- Helping students understand complexity.…”
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The state versus the individual the unresolved dilemma of humanitarian intervention / by Simonen, Katariina

Table of Contents: “…"Humanitarian intervention norm is valid" : norm proposition, validity and interpretation in legal theory -- Common interest as a basis of law -- Use of armed force under the United Nations Charter -- An empirical appraisal of state and IGO practice vis-a-vis NATO's allied force operation in Kosovo -- Beyond Kosovo : responsibility to protect.…”
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The inspired teacher how to know one, grow one, or be one / by Steele, Carol Frederick, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Knowing the subject -- Using knowledge of teaching and learning -- Solving instructional problems -- Improvising -- Managing a classroom -- Interpreting events in progress -- Being sensitive to context -- Monitoring learning -- Testing hypotheses -- Demonstrating respect -- Showing passion for teaching and learning -- Helping students reach higher levels of achievement -- Helping students understand complexity.…”
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The state versus the individual the unresolved dilemma of humanitarian intervention / by Simonen, Katariina

Table of Contents: “…"Humanitarian intervention norm is valid" : norm proposition, validity and interpretation in legal theory -- Common interest as a basis of law -- Use of armed force under the United Nations Charter -- An empirical appraisal of state and IGO practice vis-a-vis NATO's allied force operation in Kosovo -- Beyond Kosovo : responsibility to protect.…”
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Empowerment of North American Indian girls ritual expressions at puberty / by Markstrom, Carol A.

Table of Contents: “…Contextual and methodological considerations -- Contemporary youth concerns in historical perspective -- North American Indian perspectives on human development -- Menstruation, cosmology, and feminism -- Historical overview of coming-of-age practices -- The Apache Sunrise Dance -- Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Dance -- Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa puberty customs -- Broader perspectives on coming-of-age.…”
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The powers of war and peace the constitution and foreign affairs after 9/11 / by Yoo, John

Table of Contents: “…The eighteenth-century Anglo-American Constitution and foreign affairs -- Foreign affairs and the prelude to the constitution -- Writing and ratifying a foreign affairs constitution -- War powers for a new world -- International politics as law?: interpreting and ending treaties -- Treaties and the legislative power -- Laws as treaties?…”
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Word and world practice and the foundations of language / by Hanna, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Scepticism and Language: The prison-house of language -- Referential realism -- Out of the prison-house -- Names and Their Bearers: Russell's principle and Wittgenstein's slogan -- The name-tracking network -- Rigidity -- Description and causes -- Knowledge of rules -- Propositions: Meaning and truth -- Truth and use -- Unnatural kinds -- Necessity and 'grammar' -- Paradoxes of Interpretation: -- Indeterminacy of translation -- Linguistic competence -- Paradox and substitutivity.…”
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Heidegger's platonism by Ralkowski, Mark

Table of Contents: “…-- Untying Schleiermacher's gordian knot -- The context of Heidegger's interpretation of Plato : ontotheology and the ontological difference -- Heidegger's Platonism -- Nihilism : Heidegger's crisis and opportunity -- Heidegger and the Greeks : revolutionary thinker or utopian social engineer? …”
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White identities a critical sociological approach / by Clarke, Simon, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Researching 'whiteness' : an introduction -- Whiteness studies in the context of the USA -- Empirical research into white racialised identities in Britain -- Britishness -- Whiteness and post-imperial Britain -- Psycho-social interpretations of cultural identity : constructing the white 'we' -- Media representations : constructing the 'not white' other -- Whiteness, home and community -- Researching whiteness : psycho-social methodologies -- Conclusion.…”
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Sex rewarded, sex punished a study of the status "female slave" in early Jewish law / by Kriger, Diane

Table of Contents: “…-- The amah of Exod 21:2-11 -- The shifah neerefet of Lev 19:20-22 -- The 'inheritance' of slavery in rabbinic law : the non-linearity of the matrilineal principle -- Rabbinic interpretations of Lev 19:20-22 -- Literature in support of law : the problem of Bilhah and Zilpah.…”
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Intercultural communication a discourse approach / by Scollon, Ronald, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…-- How when and where to do things with language -- Interpersonal politeness and power -- Conversational inference : interpretation in spoken discourse -- Topic and face : inductive and deductive patterns in discourse -- Ideologies in discourse -- Forms of discourse -- Socialization -- Corporate and professional discourse -- Generational discourse -- Gender and sexuality discourse -- Doing "intercultural communication".…”
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The roles of Christ's humanity in salvation insights from Theodore of Mopsuestia / by McLeod, Frederick G.

Table of Contents: “…Theodore's method of interpreting Scripture -- The role of Christ's "body" in human salvation -- Christ's salvific role as the bond of the universe -- Christ's salvific role as God's perfect image -- The salvific role of Christ's "common prosopon" -- The Word's "indwelling of good pleasure" -- The second council of Constantinople's condemnation of Theodore of Mopsuestia -- A reassessment of the charges against Theodore.…”
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The fabulous dark cloister : romance in England after the Reformation / by Werth, Tiffany Jo

Table of Contents: “…reforming the romance heroine in the New Arcadia and Pericles -- Superstitious readers: Glozing phantastes in the Faerie queene -- "Soundly washed" or interpretively redeemed? labor and reading in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Coda: exceptional romance.…”
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Heidegger's platonism by Ralkowski, Mark

Table of Contents: “…-- Untying Schleiermacher's gordian knot -- The context of Heidegger's interpretation of Plato : ontotheology and the ontological difference -- Heidegger's Platonism -- Nihilism : Heidegger's crisis and opportunity -- Heidegger and the Greeks : revolutionary thinker or utopian social engineer? …”
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White identities a critical sociological approach / by Clarke, Simon, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Researching 'whiteness' : an introduction -- Whiteness studies in the context of the USA -- Empirical research into white racialised identities in Britain -- Britishness -- Whiteness and post-imperial Britain -- Psycho-social interpretations of cultural identity : constructing the white 'we' -- Media representations : constructing the 'not white' other -- Whiteness, home and community -- Researching whiteness : psycho-social methodologies -- Conclusion.…”
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Sex rewarded, sex punished a study of the status "female slave" in early Jewish law / by Kriger, Diane

Table of Contents: “…-- The amah of Exod 21:2-11 -- The shifah neerefet of Lev 19:20-22 -- The 'inheritance' of slavery in rabbinic law : the non-linearity of the matrilineal principle -- Rabbinic interpretations of Lev 19:20-22 -- Literature in support of law : the problem of Bilhah and Zilpah.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view