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The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime
No full textFaculty-authored chapter: Violence Against Sexual and Gender Minorities Focuses on the relationship between gender, sex, and crime, providing an up-to-date and comprehensive take on this important field in criminology, criminal justice, and the social sciences generally.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1040/thumbnail.jp
Lost in a Sea of Terror: Assessing the Benefits of Amalgamating Somali Piracy and Terrorism in the 21st Century
Get PDFQuenching of Tryptophan Fluorescence in Various Proteins by a Series of Small Nickel Complexes
Get PDFA series of twelve anionic, cationic, and neutral nickel (II) complexes have been synthesized and characterized. The interaction of these complexes with bovine serum albumin (BSA), human serum albumin (HSA), lysozyme (Lyso), and tryptophan (Trp) has been studied using steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy. Dynamic and static quenching constants have been calculated, and the role played in quenching by the ligand and complex charge investigated. The nickel complexes showed selectivity towards the different proteins based on the environment surrounding the Trp residue(s). Only small neutral complexes with hydrophobic ligands effectively quenched protein fluorescence via static quenching, with association constants ranging from 102 M-1 (free Trp) to 1010 M-1 (lysozyme), indicating a spontaneous and thermodynamically favorable interaction. The number of binding sites, on average, was determined to be one in BSA, HSA and free Trp, and two in lysozyme
Unfinished Stories of Girls
No full textThe sixteen tales in Unfinished Stories of Girls are framed by the quiet yet violent towns, fields, and riverbeds of Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The reader is invited inside the lives of people who are trying to figure out the gleaming, marshy world. A girl in the tiny town of Cordova believes she is receiving holy instructions to save men through sex. An Oxford housekeeper serves time in prison for forging employers’ signatures. A jewelry clerk and an undercover cop from Cambridge live in a doomed TV marriage. The tidewater community stews in its guilt over a hit-and-run accident that leaves a child dead. In this extraordinarily powerful debut collection, each character’s deep love of the region shines. But the landscape continually shifts around them: giving so much, and taking so much away.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1036/thumbnail.jp
Evaluating State Responses to Financial Crises: Iceland, Ireland, and the European Debt Crisis
Get PDFA Conjoined Book: Aftermath : Become Tree, Become Bird
No full textContinuing the lyric investigations of her first two books, Karla Kelsey’s A Conjoined Book hinges together two new volumes—Aftermath and Become Tree, Become Bird—to create a meditation on the nature of aboutness. Unfolding after an unnamed ecological and emotional fracture, Aftermath’s phrases and imagery layer, the “I” of the poems imagines herself at times into a “she,” a landscape of rift dividing the self from the self as factual moments of languaged perception weave into remembered fictions. The second book, Become Tree, Become Bird grafts the Brothers Grimm’s The Juniper Tree onto the body of Aftermath, naming fracture’s loss and reworking what has splintered into a variation of the fairy tale. Throughout A Conjoined Book, Kelsey’s condensed imagery, shifting points of view, and interweaving formal structures set the spaces between lyric and narrative a-shimmer.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1056/thumbnail.jp
The 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes and Le Pavillon de \u3ci\u3eL’Esprit Nouveau\u3c/i\u3e: Le Corbusier’s Manifesto for Modern Man
No full textWith the 1925 Exposition des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris (Paris Decorative Arts Exposition), the French intended to reclaim commercial and aesthetic leadership in the decorative arts, an industry which France had traditionally dominated.1 According to the exposition organizers, development of an original style to signal a clear break with the pastiches of the nineteenth century would be crucial to this enterprise. When the project was first proposed in 1909, French art critic Roger Marx predicted that “an exhibition of this kind would bring an end to the scorn to which the machine has been subjected, and end the longstanding antagonism between architects and engineers [in France].”2 A new aesthetic for the machine age would demonstrate a French decorative arts industry evolving in tandem with the modern technology of mass production. Indeed, the French were being outpaced by competing nations. The 1902 Exposition of Decorative and Modern Arts in Turin had insisted that all submissions show a renewed aesthetic with a marked departure from styles of the past.3 In Germany, the Deutscher Werkbund,4 was developing comprehensive approaches to the decorative arts, bringing together designers and industrialists to produce aesthetically pleasing, high quality, mass-producible furniture and accessories adapted to urban lifestyles and moderate income households
The Logical Place to Take a Picture: William Gedney in Bethlehem
Get PDFThis article uses the photographer William Gedney’s visit to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1975 to consider three aspects of urban touring. First, Gedney’s appreciation of Bethlehem’s aesthetics derived from his adoration of Walker Evans’s well-known 1935 photo from Bethlehem. Gedney mimicked Evans’s moves forty years later, much like fringe tourists interested in urban decay in the twenty-first century study each other’s images to establish valuable sites and styles. Second, Gedney’s visit remained largely disconnected from the variety of economic and demographic change that occurred locally in the sixties and seventies. His focus on surfaces in his photography was echoed by his surface contact with the city itself. Finally, I argue that his photographs should be interpreted in relation to his previous work in the United States and India. Gedney’s trip provides an opportunity to rework narratives of urban decline in the twentieth century
Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War: Just War Theory in the 21st Century
No full textFaculty-authored chapter: Is Just War Theory Obsolete? by Jeff Whitman This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war. The modern history of just war has typically assumed the primacy of four particular elements: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, the state actor, and the solider. This book will put these four elements under close scrutiny, and will explore how they fare given the following challenges: • What role do the traditional elements of jus ad bellum and jus in bello―and the constituent principles that follow from this distinction―play in modern warfare? Do they adequately account for a normative theory of war? • What is the role of the state in warfare? Is it or should it be the primary actor in just war theory? • Can a just war be understood simply as a response to territorial aggression between state actors, or should other actions be accommodated under legitimate recourse to armed conflict? • Is the idea of combatant qua state-employed soldier a valid ethical characterization of actors in modern warfare? • What role does the technological backdrop of modern warfare play in understanding and realizing just war theories? Over the course of three key sections, the contributors examine these challenges to the just war tradition in a way that invigorates existing discussions and generates new debate on topical and prospective issues in just war theory. This book will be of great interest to students of just war theory, war and ethics, peace and conflict studies, philosophy and security studies.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1038/thumbnail.jp