“…Patterns of Plague sheds light on what was consistent about plaguethinking and what was idiosyncratic to particular places and times, revealing the many factors that influence how people understand and respond to epidemic disease…”
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“…Stage; Physical and spiritual illness: narrative appropriations of the Bills of mortality / Erin Sullivan -- Governing bodies in plague-time. Contagious figurations: plague and the impenetrable nation after the death of Elizabeth / Richelle Munkhoff; "Thinking to pass unknown": Measure for measure, the plague, and the accession of James I / James D. …”
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“…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Making the Plague Serve Form and Function, 1563-1666; 1 Writing the Plague in English Prose Satire; 2 Plague Space and Played Space in Urban Drama, 1604; 3 Physical and Spiritual Illness: Narrative Appropriations of the Bills of Mortality; Part II: Governing Bodies in Plague-Time; 4 Contagious Figurations: Plague and the Impenetrable Nation after the Death of Elizabeth; 5 "Thinking to pass unknown": Measure for Measure, the Plague, and the Accession of James I…”
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“…Front matter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Thinking of Water in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Judah: An Exploration / Sacred Springs and Liminal Rivers: Water and Prophecy in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean / Water(s) of Abundance in the Ancient Near East and in Hebrew Bible Texts: A Sign of Kingship / The Nile in Biblical Memory / Polluted, Bitter, and Sweet Water as a Matter of Ethnic Identity-Formation in Persian Yehud / The Song of the Sea and Isaiah: Exodus 15 in Post-monarchic Prophetic Discourse / Imagining Water: The Overflowing Stream in Isa 66:12 / "But into the Water You Must Not Dip It" (Jeremiah 13:1) - Methodological Reflections on How to Identify the Work of the Deuteronomistic Redaction in the Book of Jeremiah / Drought and Locust Plague in Joel 1-2 / Coping with Drought and Famine in some Post-Exilic Texts / Adad's Overflowing Scourge and the Weather God of Zion: Observations on Motif History in Isa 28:14-18 / Thinking of Water in the Book of Job: A Fluvial Introduction to the Job Literature / Water in 1-2 Kings / Water Control and Royal Propaganda: Sennacherib's Boast in 2 Kgs 19:24 (= Isa 37:25) / Manasseh in Paradise? …”
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“…Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Christoph Levin: Introduction -- Ehud Ben Zvi: Thinking of Water in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Judah: An Exploration / Martti Nissinen: Sacred Springs and Liminal Rivers: Water and Prophecy in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean -- Stephanie Anthonioz: Water(s) of Abundance in the Ancient Near East and in Hebrew Bible Texts: A Sign of Kingship -- Diana Edelman: The Nile in Biblical Memory -- Kare Berge: Polluted, Bitter, and Sweet Water as a Matter of Ethnic Identity-Formation in Persian Yehud -- Ian Douglas Wilson: The Song of the Sea and Isaiah: Exodus 15 in Post-monarchic Prophetic Discourse -- Sonya Kostamo: Imagining Water: The Overflowing Stream in Isa 66:12 -- Hermann-Josef Stipp: "But into the Water You Must Not Dip It" (Jeremiah 13:1) - Methodological Reflections on How to Identify the Work of the Deuteronomistic Redaction in the Book of Jeremiah -- Christoph Levin: Drought and Locust Plague in Joel 1-2 -- Bob Becking: Coping with Drought and Famine in some Post-Exilic Texts -- Reinhard Müller: Adad's Overflowing Scourge and the Weather God of Zion: Observations on Motif History in Isa 28:14-18 257 -- Urmas Nommik: Thinking of Water in the Book of Job: A Fluvial Introduction to the Job Literature -- Juha Pakkala: Water in 1-2 Kings -- William S. …”
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“…REMOVING BARRIERS TO CRITICAL THINKING; Significance of Critical Thinking; Critical Thinking Isn't Just for Upper-Level Classes; Lay Definitions of Critical Thinking; The Critical Thinking That Instructors Assume Is Implied in Their Courses; The Confusing State of the Critical Thinking Literature; How Many Characteristics Does Critical Thinking Have?…”
“…Dear Reader, I know what you're thinking, is it some kind of macabre joke? Has she been in a coma? How can Ruby Wax write a book about good news when the world is facing the worst disaster since the Plague? …”
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“…Fleming -- Delicacy vs. truth : defining moral heroism in the Canterbury tales / Traugott Lawler -- Chaucer's endings / William Provost -- 'Beth fructuous and that litel space' : the engendering of Harry Bailly / John Plummer -- Thinking about money in Chaucer's Shipman's tale / William E. Rogers and Paul Dower -- Framing fiction with death : Chaucer's Canterbury tales and the plague / Celia Lewis -- Aristocratic friendship in Troilus and Criseyde : Pandarus, courtly love and Ciceronian brotherhood in Troy / John Hill -- Chaucer's Legend of good women : the narrator's tale / R. …”
“…For as Einstein commented, "We cannot solve the problems facing us by using the same kind of thinking that created them." Buhner explains how to use analogical thinking and imaginal perception to directly experience the inherent meanings that flow through the world, that are expressed from each living form that surrounds us, and to directly initiate communication in return. …”