Empowering Interactions

Author : Wim Blockmans,Daniel Schläppi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317144212

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Empowering Interactions by Wim Blockmans,Daniel Schläppi Pdf

The emergence of the state in Europe is a topic that has engaged historians since the establishment of the discipline of history. Yet the primary focus of has nearly always been to take a top-down approach, whereby the formation and consolidation of public institutions is viewed as the outcome of activities by princes and other social elites. Yet, as the essays in this collection show, such an approach does not provide a complete picture. By investigating the importance of local and individual initiatives that contributed to state building from the late middle ages through to the nineteenth century, this volume shows how popular pressure could influence those in power to develop new institutional structures. By not privileging the role of warfare and of elite coercion for state building, it is possible to question the traditional top-down model and explore the degree to which central agencies might have been more important for state representation than for state practice. The studies included in this collection treat many parts of Europe and deal with different phases in the period between the late middle ages and the nineteenth century. Beginning with a critical review of state historiography, the introduction then sets out the concept of 'empowering interactions' which is then explored in the subsequent case studies and a number of historiographical, methodological and theoretical essays. Taken as a whole this collection provides a fascinating platform to reconsider the relationships between top-down and bottom-up processes in the history of the European state.

Author : Carl Llewellyn Weschcke,Joe H. Slate
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738732640

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Astral Projection for Psychic Empowerment by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke,Joe H. Slate Pdf

Science is confirming what ancient wisdom has always asserted—that reality is far more complex than we have imagined, and that our individual potential is far greater than we have believed. In this time of expanding consciousness, the new frontier—the gateway to spiritual growth and self-empowerment—is through the astral realm. Astral Projection for Psychic Empowerment introduces you to the real-world benefits that come from exploring the astral plane. Learn controlled, self-induced astral projection and reach beyond physical limitations to new sources of knowledge. Live and love more fully than you have ever thought possible by tapping your immense unconscious powers and integrating them into your conscious experience. Delve into the pages of this fascinating book and learn to: Induce an out-of-body experience Safely visit astral realms Explore past lives Communicate with guides and entities Interpret the aura for health and healing Create powerful thought forms Practice astral sex Expand your psychic awareness Achieve your goals Understand psychokinesis and the power of your mind This comprehensive guide includes true case studies of astral projection, scientific test results from laboratory studies, and a seven-day developmental program designed to unleash your highest potential.

Author : Liane Simon,Olaf Kraus De Camargo
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782889749270

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Families and Functioning in Childhood and Adolescence by Liane Simon,Olaf Kraus De Camargo Pdf

Author : David Stern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134730681

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Digital Libraries by David Stern Pdf

An unparalleled overview of current design considerations for your digital library! Digital Libraries: Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios is a balanced overview of public services, collection development, administration, and systems support, for digital libraries, with advice on adopting the latest technologies that appear on the scene. As a professional in the library and information science field, you will benefit from this special issue that serves as an overview of selected directions, trends, possibilities, limitations, enhancements, design principals, and ongoing projects for integrated library and information systems. In Digital Libraries, you will discover the latest ideas and research on digitizing and distributing online library material, including information on: organization and administration of new digital library facilities collection development in digital libraries technological infrastructures for seamlessly integrated computer databases over the Internet XML and other new standards for displaying data on the web interface design issues in the search environment object oriented interfaces and improved searching possibilities a brief history of patents on the internet Digital Libraries is a working reference for your digital library-specific problems. Split into three related sections: Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios, Digital Libraries addresses the many complexities and new issues that have evolved with the development of digital libraries and their future technologies. You will gain a thorough understanding of the public service and design considerations that are necessary to take your digital library into the 21st century.

Author : Richard M. Gargiulo,Jennifer L. Kilgo
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781544322070

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An Introduction to Young Children With Special Needs by Richard M. Gargiulo,Jennifer L. Kilgo Pdf

An Introduction to Young Children with Special Needs: Birth Through Age Eight is a comprehensive introduction to educational policies, programs, practices, and services for future practitioners serving young children with delays or disabilities in early intervention-early childhood special education (EI-ECSE). Thoughtfully addressing the needs of children at risk for learning or development delays or disabilities, revered authors Richard M. Gargiulo and Jennifer L. Kilgo offer evidence-based interventions and instructional techniques that provide students with a broad understanding of important theoretical and philosophical foundations, including evidence-based decision making, developmentally appropriate practices, cultural responsiveness, and activity-based intervention.

Author : Arndt Brendecke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110369847

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The Empirical Empire by Arndt Brendecke Pdf

How was Spain able to govern its enormous colonial territories? In 1573 the king decreed that his councilors should acquire "complete knowledge" about the empire they were running from out of Madrid, and he initiated an impressive program for the systematic collection of empirical knowledge. Brendecke shows why this knowledge was created in the first place – but then hardly used. And he looks into the question of what political effects such a policy of knowledge had for Spain’s colonial rule.

Author : Christoph Rosenmüller
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826366412

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Viceroy Güemes’s Mexico by Christoph Rosenmüller Pdf

Viceroy Güemes’s Mexico: Rituals, Religion, and Revenue examines the career of Juan Francisco Güemes y Horcasitas, viceroy of New Spain from 1746 to 1755. It provides the best account yet of how the colonial reform process most commonly known as the Bourbon Reforms did not commence with the arrival of José de Gálvez, the visitador general to New Spain appointed in 1765. Rather, Güemes, ennobled as the conde de Revillagigedo in 1749, pushed through substantial reforms in the late 1740s and early 1750s, most notably the secularization of the doctrinas (turning parishes administering to Natives over to diocesan priests) and the state takeover of the administration of the alcabala tax in Mexico City. Both measures served to strengthen royal authority and increase fiscal revenues, the twin goals historians have long identified as central to the Bourbon reform project. Güemes also managed to implement these reforms without stirring up the storm of protest that attended the Gálvez visita. The book thus recasts how historians view eighteenth-century colonial reform in New Spain and the Spanish empire generally. Christoph Rosenmüller’s study of Güemes is the first in English-language scholarship that draws on significant research in a family archive. Using these rarely consulted sources allows for a deeper understanding of daily life and politics. Whereas most scholars have relied on the official communications in the great archives to emphasize tightly choreographed rituals, for instance, Rosenmüller’s work shows that much interaction in the viceregal palace was rather informal—a fact that scholars have overlooked. The sources throw light on meeting and greeting people, ongoing squabbles over hierarchy and ceremony, walks on the Alameda square, the role of the vicereine and their children, and working hours in the offices. Such insights are drawn from a rare family archive harboring a trove of personal communications. The resulting book paints a vivid portrait of a society undergoing change earlier than many historians have believed.

Author : Helja Antola Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135719470

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The Ethnography Of Empowerment: The Transformative Power Of Classroom interaction by Helja Antola Robinson Pdf

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Blind
ISBN : UOM:39015025778096

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Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen W. Littlejohn,Kathy Domenici
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781452221946

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Engaging Communication in Conflict by Stephen W. Littlejohn,Kathy Domenici Pdf

Written from the authors′ experience in conflict intervention in their private consulting practice, Engaging Communication in Conflict uses a communication perspective to address insights and methods in private mediation, small group facilitation, system design, large-scale interventions, and public-issue management. This book offers encouragement for a world sometimes overwhelmed by conflict and presents an expanded and pragmatic definition of peace. Authors Stephen Littlejohn and Kathy Domenici discuss numerous methods and principles in conflict resolution. They explore transformative mediation, the team mediation system, assessment and evaluation, systemic design, gaming methodology, issue framing and public deliberation, study circles, dialogue groups, and many other interventions. These methods and principles are adapted from a spectrum of theory and practice and include fresh and innovative approaches designed by the authors and their colleagues. The book is based on a coherent theoretical orientation, drawing heavily from the theories of the coordinated management of meaning, system theory, social constructionism, and transformative discourse. While these theories are detailed in the Appendix, the book is highly pragmatic in orientation, with numerous case examples and "how-to" information.

Author : Marc Leman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780262337632

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The Expressive Moment by Marc Leman Pdf

A new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-reflective processes underlying interactions with music. The expressive moment is that point in time when we grasp a situation and respond quickly, even before we are aware of it. In this book, Marc Leman argues that expression drives this kind of interaction, and he proposes a general framework for understanding expressive interactions. He focuses on the dynamic, fast, and pre-reflective processes underlying our interactions with music—whether we are playing an instrument, dancing, listening, or using new interactive technologies. Music offers a well-established domain for studying these fast and interactive processes, and Leman argues that understanding the power of expressive interaction through music may help us understand cognitive processing in other domains, including language, human action coordination, human-animal interaction, and human-machine interaction. Leman regards expressive interactions with music as energizing and empowering. He argues that music is based on patterns that intervene with a reinforcing loop in the human brain, strengthening learning, motivation, and reward. He argues further that the reinforcing effect is influenced by the interaction flow, by fast processes that handle expressive qualities on the fly. Leman sets out the framework in which expressive interaction is situated, describing, among other things, a pragmatic model of communication in which the fundamental components are enactment and dynamics. He looks in more detail at the cognitive-motivational architecture, discussing sensorimotor and motivational schemes. Finally, he discusses applications for the concepts behind expressive motivation in such fields as sports, entertainment, rehabilitation, multimedia art, and music education.

Author : V Ratna Reddy,Geoff Syme,Chiranjeevi Tallapragada
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128152768

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Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Watershed Management in Xeric Environments by V Ratna Reddy,Geoff Syme,Chiranjeevi Tallapragada Pdf

Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Watershed Management in Xeric Environments: A Training Manual provides the reader with the tools they need to understand an integrated approach to watershed management. The book presents a conceptual framework of water management based on the authors’ vast experience. Topics covered include a scientific background of watershed management and the integration of geohydraulic and socioeconomic factors. Key points are further enhanced with case studies, problem sets, Bayesian Networks and quizzes to educate watershed managers, industry professionals and agencies. Authored by a team of leaders in the field who are responsible for groundbreaking research in the area, this book draws on their experience synthesizing scientific, practical, on the ground expertise. This is an essential tool for researchers and professionals in environmental, water or natural resource management. Presents an integrated approach—combining different sciences— that allows for the improved design of watersheds through the integration of biophysical, land use and socioeconomic analyses Contains activities for self-evaluation Includes case studies drawing from field experiences, giving the reader deeper insights into challenges faced, practical problems and solutions

Author : Beat Kümin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137329080

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The Communal Age in Western Europe, c.1100-1800 by Beat Kümin Pdf

An essential introductory survey of the towns, villages and parishes in which people lived in the medieval and early modern periods. Beat Kumin assesses the similarities, differences and the wider significance of these communities for European society prior to 1800.

Author : John Heil
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509546503

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What is Metaphysics? by John Heil Pdf

If we didn't possess certain beliefs about such things as time, appearance and reality, and how effect follows cause, we wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning, let alone read a book about metaphysics, which is the study of our experience and those ideas, or presuppositions, which allow us to make sense of it. Drawing on examples from art, science, and daily life, John Heil shows how metaphysics begins in questioning our everyday assumptions about how the world “works” and ends with speculation on the nature of the universe itself. In chapters that cover the major topics in the academic study of metaphysics, from free will and consciousness to time and objectivity, Heil explains how metaphysical questions underpin everything human beings do. This accessible book will show you how professional philosophers try to categorize and make sense of our world of perception and experience and explains why everyone should take metaphysics seriously.

Author : Xu Wang
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111949116

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Mutual Empowerment of State and Peasantry by Xu Wang Pdf

This new and timely book addresses a series of questions regarding one of the most important political developments in contemporary China: the state-led democratic practice of village self-government in rural areas. Why would an authoritarian state promote grassroots democratic reform? To what extent has this reform changed the local power structures, grassroots governance, and state-peasant relations? What would be the implications of this grassroots democratic reform for China's democratisation in the long run? This book examines the origins, process, and impact of this paradoxical political development and explores the dynamics of political change and mutually transforming relations between the state and society in Post-Mao China. It argues that the practice of village self-government was promoted by the Chinese party-state to cope with the dual crises of legitimacy and governability it had faced in the countryside after a decade of rural economic reforms.