Tabla de Contenidos: “…Defining the borders of empire in nineteenth-century British historiography / Andrew Mycock -- Who is the nation and what does it do? The discursive construction of the nation in Belgian and Dutch national histories of the romantic period / Marnix Beyen -- The colonies in the Dutch national museums for art and history (1800-1885) -- Three historical fiction and collective identity. -- 'Retro-fitting the past': literary historicism between the golden spurs and Waterloo / Joep Leerssen -- The Victorians, the Dark Ages and English national identity / Joanne Parker -- 'A true conception of history': 'making the past part of the present' in late Victorian historical romances / Anna Vaninskaya -- The past imagined in the visual arts. -- Picturing patriotism: the image of the artist-hero and the Belgian nation state, 1830-1900 / Jenny Graham -- A few painters, a few heroes and many factory workers: in search of the historical culture of Belgian immigrants in northern France, 1850-1914 / Saartje Vanden Borre and Tom Verschaffel -- 'Retracing the history of our country': national history painting and engraving in Britain and the Low Countries during the nineteenth century / Hugh Dunthorne…”

“…Those intriguing quotations, sayings, snippets of songs and poems that appear just before Chapter One do more than just set the tone for the experience ahead: the epigraph informs us about the author's sensibility. …”

“…Our economic experiences alone do not trigger an interest in the economy-which makes Husserl's case for the "forgetfulness of the life-world." …”

“…While the contributions do not deny the need for historical criticism and its lasting significance, they believe that it is no longer plausible to identify the results of such criticism with the full reality of the biblical texts. …”

“…Whether one agrees with a given author or not (and it is possible to do both with any of the essays), each has something to add. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Wolfe and Richard Kubina -- How can we do functional behavioral assessment with preschoolers? …”

“…The Iliad and Odyssey do not cover the main story of the Trojan War. The whole saga, which includes Zeus' plan to reduce the world's population, the Judgment of Paris and seduction of Helen, the start of the campaign, the Wooden Horse, the fall of Achilles, the homecoming of Agamemnon, and the eventual death of Odysseus, was related in six other epics, dating from 630-560 BCE, that were influential for lyric poets, tragedians, and artists of the classical age but are known to us only through fragments and brief prose summaries. …”

“…What does it mean to say that someone is an educated person? How do we know what's worth including in a school curriculum? …”

“…Research and practice have established that early oral language and literacy skills development can predict later academic success. But how do young children whose first language is not English become proficient learners, and which classroom strategies have the most impact on literacy learning? …”

“…This book is a narrative of America's can-do spirit, in which stalwart immigrants could transplant cricket and rounders in the fertile American culture and die-hard unionist players could later become the tightfisted avatars of the game's big-money establishment. …”

“…Are there general legal theories about the frontier between what courts and what politics can do? Koopmans considers case law on a range of issues, including human rights protection, federalism, separation of powers, equal protection and the impact of European and international law…”
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“…Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism investigates an idea that underpins the ethical criticism of art but is rarely acknowledged and poorly understood - namely, that the ethical criticism of art involves judgments not only of the attitudes a work endorses or solicits, but of what artists do to create the work. The book pioneers an innovative production-oriented approach to the study of the ethical criticism of art, one that will provide a detailed philosophical account of the intersection of ethics and artistic creation as well as conceptual tools that can guide future philosophizing and criticism -- Editor…”

“…What matters, in both ethics and epistemology, is that they live up to the correct principles: that they do the right thing, and that they believe rationally. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Hubert Dreyfus -- Dreyfus on expertise : the limits of phenomenological analysis / Evan Selinger and Robert P. Crease -- Do angels have bodies? : two stories about subjectivity in science : the cases of William X and Mr. …”

“…In this book, some of the world's most prominent students of politics offer original discussions of these pressing questions, eschewing narrow methodological diatribes to explore what political science is and how political scientists should aspire to do their work…”
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“…The reader will understand how to do FMEA correctly, and how to implement effective FMEA programs" (Library of Congress)…”

“…Put bluntly, many clinicians are not reading research journals and most researchers do not pay sufficient attention to practitioners' observations and expertise (published or not) about how to conduct therapy. …”

“…Thinking about Acting aims to do just that. The most contentious conclusions of the book are: (1) For purely computational reasons, the primitive evaluative database that real agents employ in evaluating outcomes cannot be preference ranking. …”
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“…What does it mean to talk about the violence of law? Do high incarceration rates and increased reliance on capital punishment indicate that U.S. law is growing more violent at a time when violence is being restrained in other legal systems? …”
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