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        <title>Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special. Volume 1</title>
        <id>OB.obp.14432</id>
        <updated>2021-04-06T07:06:14Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>John D. Bonvillian</name>
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            <name>Valerie Nelson-Metlay</name>
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        <summary>Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys. Volume 1 outlines the research underpinning and informing the project, and places the Simplified Sign System in a wider context of sign usage, historically and by different populations. Volume 2 presents the lexicon of signs, totaling approximately 1000 signs, each with a clear illustration and a written description of how the sign is formed, as well as a memory aid that connects the sign visually to the meaning that it conveys. While the Simplified Sign System originally was developed to meet the needs of persons with intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, autism, or aphasia, it may also assist the communication needs of a wider audience - such as healthcare professionals, aid workers, military personnel, travellers or parents, and children who have not yet mastered spoken language. The system also has been shown to enhance learning for individuals studying a foreign language. Lucid and comprehensive, this work constitutes a valuable resource that will enhance the communicative interactions of many different people, and will be of great interest to researchers and educators alike. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher’s website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found at www.openbookpublishers.com</summary>
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        <title>The Life and Letters of William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod”. Volume 1</title>
        <id>OB.obp.7784</id>
        <updated>2023-08-25T13:42:07Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>William Sharp</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Fiona Macleod</name>
        </author>
        <summary>Sharp wrote &quot;I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out&quot;. This three-volume collection brings together Sharp's own correspondence - a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith - and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp's intriguing &quot;second self&quot;. With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher's website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found here: www.openbookpublishers.com</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2019-05-26T22:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2018</published>
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        <title>Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy. Volume 1</title>
        <id>OB.obp.2573</id>
        <updated>2021-02-08T14:00:48Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>George Corbett</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Heather Webb</name>
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        <summary>Vertical Readings in Dante's ‘Comedy' is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This collection - to be issued in three volumes - offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante.</summary>
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        <published>2015</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>Ovid, Amores (Book 1)</title>
        <id>OB.obp.3048</id>
        <updated>2018-12-19T13:43:02Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>William Turpin</name>
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        <summary>From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid’s Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this tradition. Born in 43 BC, Ovid was educated in Rome in preparation for a career in public services before finding his calling as a poet. He may have begun writing his Amores as early as 25 BC. Although influenced by poets such as Catullus, Ovid demonstrates a much greater awareness of the funny side of love than any of his predecessors. The Amores is a collection of romantic poems centered on the poet’s own complicated love life: he is involved with a woman, Corinna, who is sometimes unobtainable, sometimes compliant, and often difficult and domineering. Whether as a literary trope, or perhaps merely as a human response to the problems of love in the real world, the principal focus of these poems is the poet himself, and his failures, foolishness, and delusions. By the time he was in his forties, Ovid was Rome’s most important living poet; his Metamorphoses, a kaleidoscopic epic poem about love and hatred among the gods and mortals, is one of the most admired and influential books of all time. In AD 8, Ovid was exiled by Augustus to Romania, for reasons that remain obscure. He died there in AD 17. The Amores were originally published in five books, but reissued around 1 AD in their current three-book form. This edition of the first book of the collection contains the complete Latin text of Book 1, along with commentary, notes, full vocabulary and embedded audio files of the original text read aloud. Both entertaining and thought-provoking, this book will provide an invaluable aid to students of Latin and general readers alike.</summary>
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        <published>2016</published>
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        <title>Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119</title>
        <id>OB.obp.7140</id>
        <updated>2023-08-31T12:24:43Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>Ingo Gildenhard</name>
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        <summary> Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar's death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Philippic 2 was a weapon in that war. Conceived as Cicero's response to a verbal attack from Antony in the Senate, Philippic 2 is a rhetorical firework that ranges from abusive references to Antony's supposedly sordid sex life to a sustained critique of what Cicero saw as Antony's tyrannical ambitions. Vituperatively brilliant and politically committed, it is both a carefully crafted literary artefact and an explosive example of crisis rhetoric. It ultimately led to Cicero's own gruesome death. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, vocabulary aids, study questions, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard's volume will be of particular interest to students of Latin studying for A-Level or on undergraduate courses. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Cicero, his oratory, the politics of late-republican Rome, and the transhistorical import of Cicero's politics of verbal (and physical) violence.</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2019-03-20T23:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2018</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45</title>
        <id>OB.obp.1342</id>
        <updated>2017-08-24T07:49:01Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>Mathew Owen</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Ingo Gildenhard</name>
        </author>
        <summary> The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’ Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero’s reign, chronicling the emperor’s fledgling stage career including his plans for a grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy climaxing in his publicly consummated ‘marriage’ to his toy boy Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero’s ‘grotesque’ new palace, the so-called ‘Golden House’, from the ashes of the city. This building project stoked the rumours that the emperor himself was behind the conflagration, and Tacitus goes on to present us with Nero’s gruesome efforts to quell these mutterings by scapegoating and executing members of an unpopular new cult then starting to spread through the Roman empire: Christianity. All this contrasts starkly with four chapters focusing on one of Nero’s most principled opponents, the Stoic senator Thrasea Paetus, an audacious figure of moral fibre, who courageously refuses to bend to the forces of imperial corruption and hypocrisy. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen’s and Gildenhard’s incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Tacitus’ prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2015-05-31T22:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2013</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925</title>
        <id>OB.obp.1464</id>
        <updated>2021-02-08T14:00:48Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>Florence Goyet</name>
        </author>
        <summary> The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular-the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing-particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagàwa Ryünosuke-Goyet shows that these authors were able tocreate brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. ln this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicills. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. ln doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2015-05-31T22:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2014</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19</title>
        <id>OB.obp.10953</id>
        <updated>2021-02-08T14:00:48Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>Nokhem Shtif</name>
        </author>
        <summary>Between 1918 and 1921 an estimated 100,000 Jewish people were killed, maimed or tortured in pogroms in Ukraine. Hundreds of Jewish communities were burned to the ground and hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless and destitute, including orphaned children. A number of groups were responsible for these brutal attacks, including the Volunteer Army, a faction of the Russian White Army. The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19 is a vivid and horrifying account of the atrocities committed by the Volunteer Army, written by Nokhem Shtif, an eminent Yiddish linguist and social activist who joined the relief efforts on behalf of the pogrom survivors in Kiev. Shtif’s testimony, published in 1923, was born from his encounters there and from the weighty archive of documentation amassed by the relief workers. This was one of the earliest efforts to systematically record human rights atrocities on a mass scale. Originally written in Yiddish and here skillfully translated and introduced by Maurice Wolfthal, The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19 brings to light a terrible and historically neglected series of persecutions that foreshadowed the Holocaust by twenty years. It is essential reading for academics and students in the fields of human rights, Jewish studies, Russian and Soviet studies, and Ukraine studies.  </summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2020-07-07T22:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2019</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special. Volume 2</title>
        <id>OB.obp.14627</id>
        <updated>2021-04-06T07:06:31Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>John D. Bonvillian</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Nicole Kissane Lee</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Tracy T. Dooley</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Filip T. Loncke</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Valerie Nelson-Metlay</name>
        </author>
        <summary>Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys. Volume 1 outlines the research underpinning and informing the project, and places the Simplified Sign System in a wider context of sign usage, historically and by different populations. Volume 2 presents the lexicon of signs, totalling approximately 1000 signs, each with a clear illustration and a written description of how the sign is formed, as well as a memory aid that connects the sign visually to the meaning that it conveys. While the Simplified Sign System originally was developed to meet the needs of persons with intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, autism, or aphasia, it may also assist the communication needs of a wider audience - such as healthcare professionals, aid workers, military personnel , travellers or parents, and children who have not yet mastered spoken language. The system also has been shown to enhance learning for individuals studying a foreign language. Lucid and comprehensive, this work constitutes a valuable resource that will enhance the communicative interactions of many different people, and will be of great interest to researchers and educators alike. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher’s website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found at www.openbookpublishers.com</summary>
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        <published>2020</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>The Life and Letters of William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod”. Volume 2</title>
        <id>OB.obp.15327</id>
        <updated>2023-07-20T15:09:23Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>William Sharp</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Fiona Macleod</name>
        </author>
        <summary>Sharp wrote “I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out”. This three-volume collection brings together Sharp’s own correspondence - a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Walter Pater, and George Meredith - and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp’s intriguing “second self”. With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher’s website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found here: www.openbookpublishers.com</summary>
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        <published>2020</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy. Volume 2</title>
        <id>OB.obp.3659</id>
        <updated>2021-02-08T14:00:48Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>George Corbett</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Heather Webb</name>
        </author>
        <summary>Vertical Readings in Dante's 'Comedy' is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem. This three-volume collection offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. Vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante.</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2017-07-12T22:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2016</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53-86</title>
        <id>OB.obp.179</id>
        <updated>2020-11-19T14:07:41Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>Ingo Gildenhard</name>
        </author>
        <summary> Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero’s Speeches Against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero presents the lurid details of Verres’ alleged crimes in exquisite and sophisticated prose. This volume provides a portion of the original text of Cicero’s speech in Latin, a detailed commentary, study aids, and a translation. As a literary artefact, the speech gives us insight into how the supreme master of Latin eloquence developed what we would now call rhetorical &quot;spin&quot;. As an historical document, it provides a window into the dark underbelly of Rome’s imperial expansion and exploitation of the Near East.</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2012-12-19T23:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2011</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>What Works in Conservation 2015</title>
        <id>OB.obp.2611</id>
        <updated>2022-01-27T10:46:20Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>William J. Sutherland</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Lynn V. Dicks</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Nancy Ockendon</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Rebecca K. Smith</name>
        </author>
        <summary> This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 648 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. Chapters cover the practical global conservation of amphibians, bats and birds, conservation of European farmland biodiversity and some aspects of enhancing natural pest control, enhancing soil fertility and control of freshwater invasives. It contains key results from the summarized evidence for each conservation intervention and an assessment of the effectiveness of each by international expert panels. The accompanying website www.conservationevidence.com describes each of the studies individually and provides full references.</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2016-11-28T23:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2015</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>What Works in Conservation 2017</title>
        <id>OB.obp.3710</id>
        <updated>2022-01-27T10:46:17Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>William J. Sutherland</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Lynn V. Dicks</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Nancy Ockendon</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Rebecca K. Smith</name>
        </author>
        <summary> This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 763 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. Chapters cover the practical global conservation of amphibians, bat and birds, conservation of European farmland biodiversity and some aspects of enhancing natural pest control and enhancing soil fertility. The 2017 edition contains a new chapter covering conservation of forests, and an extended chapter on control of freshwater invasive species. It contains key results from the summarized evidence for each conservation intervention and an assessment of the effectiveness of each by international expert panels. The accompanying website www.conservationevidence.com describes each of the studies individually, and provides full references.</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2017-07-12T22:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2017</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>What Works in Conservation 2018</title>
        <id>OB.obp.6257</id>
        <updated>2023-08-28T16:02:27Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>William J. Sutherland</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Lynn V. Dicks</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Nancy Ockendon</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Silviu O. Petrovan</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Rebecca K. Smith</name>
        </author>
        <summary> This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 1277 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2018 edition contains new chapters covering practical global conservation of primates, peatlands, shrublands and heathlands, management of captive animals as well as an extended chapter on control of freshwater invasive species. Other chapters cover global conservation of amphibians, bats, birds and forests, conservation of European farmland biodiversity and some aspects of enhancing natural pest control, enhancing soil fertility and control of freshwater invasive species. It contains key results from the summarized evidence for each conservation intervention and an assessment of the effectiveness of each by international expert panels. The accompanying website www.conservationevidence.com describes each of the studies individually, and provides full references.</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2019-03-20T23:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2018</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>What Works in Conservation 2020</title>
        <id>OB.obp.17287</id>
        <updated>2022-01-27T10:46:08Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>William J. Sutherland</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Lynn V. Dicks</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Silviu O. Petrovan</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Rebecca K. Smith</name>
        </author>
        <summary>Is reduced tillage in arable fields beneficial for farmland biodiversity? Is prescribed burning in grasslands beneficial for bird conservation? Does livestock exclusion from degraded peatlands benefit peatland conservation? Is the provision of artificial shelters effective for subtidal benthic invertebrate conservation? Do wind turbine modifications reduce bat fatalities? Does adding topsoil increase the abundance of heathland plants? Are interventions to reduce road impacts on amphibians effective? Do herbicides control invasive parrot's feather? What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation.This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 1614 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2020 edition contains new material on bat conservation and our first marine chapter, on Subtidal benthic invertebrate conservation. Other chapters cover practical global conservation of primates, peatlands, shrublands and heathlands, management of captive animals as well as an extended chapter on control of freshwater invasive species, the global conservation of amphibians, bats, birds and forests, conservation of European farmland biodiversity and some aspects of enhancing natural pest control, enhancing soil fertility and control of freshwater invasive species. It contains key results from the summarized evidence for each conservation intervention and an assessment of the effectiveness of each by international expert panels. The accompanying website www.conservationevidence.com describes each of the studies individually, and provides full references. This is the fourth edition of What Works in Conservation, which is revised on an annual basis.</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2021-04-21T22:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2020</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>What Works in Conservation 2021</title>
        <id>OB.obp.24435</id>
        <updated>2022-01-27T10:46:28Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>William Junior Sutherland</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Lynn V. Dicks</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Silviu O. Petrovan</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Rebecca K. Smith</name>
        </author>
        <summary>Does the creation of artificial reefs benefit subtidal benthic invertebrates? Is the use of organic farming instead of conventi onal farming beneficial to bat conservation? Does installing wildlife warning reflectors along roads benefit mammal conservation? Does the installation of exclusion and/or escape devices on fishing nets benefit marine and freshwater mammal conservation? What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation. This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 2526 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2021 edition contains substantial new material on bat conservation, terrestrial mammal conservation and marine and freshwater mammals, thus completing the evidence for all mammal species categories. Other chapters cover practical global conservation of primates, amphibians, birds, forests, peatlands, subtidal benthic invertebrates, shrublands and heathlands, as well as the conservation of European farmland biodiversity and some aspects of enhancing natural pest control, enhancing soil fertility, management of captive animals and control of freshwater invasive species. It contains key results from the summarized evidence for each conservation intervention and an assessment of the effectiveness of each by international expert panels. The accompanying website www.conservationevidence.com describes each of the studies individually, and provides full references. This is the sixth edition of What Works in Conservati on, which is revised on an annual basis. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read and download for free on the publisher’s website at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1490 where printed and ebook editions can also be bought.</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2022-01-26T23:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2021</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century</title>
        <id>OB.obp.3016</id>
        <updated>2019-04-23T10:02:38Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>Gordon Brown</name>
        </author>
        <summary> The Global Citizenship Commission was convened, under the leadership of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the auspices of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study, to re-examine the spirit and stirring words of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The result – this volume – offers a 21st-century commentary on the original document, furthering the work of human rights and illuminati ng the ideal of global citizenship. What does it mean for each of us to be members of a global community? Since 1948, the Declaration has stood as a beacon and a standard for a better world. Yet the work of making its ideals real is far from over. Hideous and systemic human rights abuses continue to be perpetrated at an alarming rate around the world. Too many people, particularly those in power, are hostile to human rights or indifferent to their claims. Meanwhile, our global interdependence deepens. Bringing together world leaders and thinkers in the fields of philosophy, law, ethics, politics, and philanthropy, the Commission set out to develop a common understanding of the meaning of global citizenship – one that arises from basic human rights and empowers every individual in the world. This landmark report affirms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and seeks to renew the 1948 enterprise, and the very ideal of the human family, for our day and generation.</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2017-12-14T23:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2016</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>Cicero, On Pompey's Command (De Imperio), 27-49</title>
        <id>OB.obp.2015</id>
        <updated>2019-04-25T12:24:54Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>Cicero</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Ingo Gildenhard</name>
        </author>
        <author>
            <name>Louise Hodgson</name>
        </author>
        <summary>In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the Great, who had just swept the Mediterranean clean of another menace: the pirates. While powerful aristocrats objected to the proposal, which would endow Pompey with unprecedented powers, the bill proved hugely popular among the people, and one of the praetors, Marcus Tullius Cicero, also hastened to lend it his support. In his first-ever political speech, variously entitled pro lege Manilia or de imperio Gnaei Pompei, Cicero argues that the war against Mithridates requires the appointment of a perfect general and that the only one to live up to such loft y standards is Pompey. In the section under consideration here, Cicero defines the most important hallmarks of the ideal military commander and tries to demonstrate that Pompey is his living embodiment. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, the incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Cicero's prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2016-11-28T23:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2014</published>
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    <entry>
        <title>Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1–299</title>
        <id>OB.obp.1925</id>
        <updated>2017-08-24T07:39:51Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name>Virgil</name>
        </author>
        <summary>Love and tragedy dominate book four of Virgil's most powerful work, building on the violent emotions invoked b the storms, battles, warring gods, and monster-plagued wanderings of the epic's opening. Destined to be the founder of Roman culture, Aeneas, nudged by the gods, decides to leave his beloved Dido, Queen of Carthage, causing her suicide in pursuit of his historical destiny. A dark plot, in which erotic passion culminates in sex, and sex leads to tragedy and death in the human realm, unfolds within the larger horizon of a supernatural sphere, dominated by power-conscious divinities. Dido is Aeneas' most significant other, and in their encounter Virgil explores timeless themes of love and loyalty, fare and fortune, the justice of the gods, imperialambition and its victims, and ethnic differences. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study questions, a commentary, and interpretative essays. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level, it extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Virgil's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.</summary>
        <dcterms:available scheme="W3CDTF">2016-11-28T23:00:00Z</dcterms:available>
        <published>2012</published>
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