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The quest of the historical Muhammad and other studies on formative Islam
\"The lead essay in this book is the first effort to approach the historical figure of Muhammad in a manner comparable to the investigations that biblical scholars have made in the effort to recover the historical figure of Jesus. Using comparable methods and approaches, this study demonstrates that despite a widely held belief that Islam was born \"in the full light of history,\" we in fact know considerably less about both Muhammad and the beginnings of Islam than we do about the historical Jesus and the beginnings of Christianity. Also included are republications of four previously published essays dealing with such topics as the Qur'an's status as a late ancient biblical apocryphon, the relation between the Jerusalem Temple and the Holy House revered by the Qur'an, and the imminent eschatology of the Qur'an and the early Islamic tradition.\"-- Publisher's website.
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A Competency Mining Method Based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) Model
A text mining approach based on latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is proposed to analyze the competency characteristics. First, we briefly introduce the principle and hypothesis of latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) model. Second, we elaborate the idea of using LDA topic model to extract competency, Then, we use Chinese text materials such as biographies and interviews of Chinese scientific and technological talents as data sources to conduct experiments, and obtain four competency topics including knowledge, attitude, quality and values. The research results preliminarily verify the effectiveness of latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) model in competency research, but there are still many details to be improved in the future.
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Haunted Narratives
Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts,Haunted Narrativesprovides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories.
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Fear of Theory
In historiography, many interesting theoretical perspectives on biography have emerged in recent years, from forensics to structure and microhistory. Biographers themselves, though, often fear the study of the genre - needlessly, as these eighteen engaging new essays demonstrate.
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Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel
This monograph treats modes of fictionality in contemporary auto/biography, memoir and autofiction. Adopting a case study approach, it demonstrates the extent to which contexts of production and reception are important in framing generic expectations with respect to the representation of lived experience and in helping to determine the status of the narrator as (fictional) persona or (implied) author.
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Olga Fedchenko - explorer of the Turkestan region: on the 175th anniversary
The paper presents data on the biography of an outstanding Russian woman-scientist Olga Fedchenko in honor of her 175-year anniversary. Olga Fedchenko is known internationally for her botanical works especially on flora of Turkestan region. Also, without formal university education, she managed to become a professional highly respected in scientific community, which resulted in her election in 1906 a correspondent member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Her professional career began in Turkestan region where she participated in the famous Turkestan expedition of the Fedchenko couple in 1868-1872 along her husband Alexei Fedchenko. Since then a lot of her research were related to flora of this place. In late 1890s, she made a few trips there again, this time with her son Boris Fedchenko who grown to become a fine botanist himself.
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Transcontinental Arctic Aviation in the 19th-21st centuries: goals, objectives, prospects for development
The purpose of the article is to analyze the role of transcontinental Arctic aviation in the development of the Arctic. The analysis is based on scientific papers written by Russian and foreign authors and archival documents of the 19th-21st centuries. The main focus of the article is on the Arctic (polar) and transcontinental aviation. The use of aviation for geographical research, the development of special types of aircraft, the construction of airfields, as well as the specifics of personnel training are reviewed. The article discusses the history of the aviation use for the needs of the Far North, its goals in the past and prospects for the future. The facts from the biography of the heroic explorers of the North and the participants of those events: scientists, geographers, pilots, military and government leaders (Chkalov V.P., Baidukov G.F., Belyakov A.V., Bogdanov A.N., Lebedev A.S., Ignatiev A.A., Stalin I.V., NagurskyYa.I., and others) are given. The authors analyze the effectiveness of achieving scientific, geographical, economic, military, and other goals in the Arctic zone. The concept of aviation use depends on the socio-political situation in the Arctic states. The authors consider the needs for civil aviation equipment in the Arctic in the period 2021-2032.
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Autobiographical Comics
A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth.
InAutobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth El Refaie offers a long overdue assessment of the key conventions, formal properties, and narrative patterns of this fascinating genre. The book considers eighty-five works of North American and European provenance, works that cover a broad range of subject matters and employ many different artistic styles.
Drawing on concepts from several disciplinary fields--including semiotics, literary and narrative theory, art history, and psychology--El Refaie shows that the traditions and formal features of comics provide new possibilities for autobiographical storytelling. For example, the requirement to produce multiple drawn versions of one's self necessarily involves an intense engagement with physical aspects of identity, as well as with the cultural models that underpin body image. The comics medium also offers memoirists unique ways of representing their experience of time, their memories of past events, and their hopes and dreams for the future. Furthermore, autobiographical comics creators are able to draw on the close association in contemporary Western culture between seeing and believing in order to persuade readers of the authentic nature of their stories.
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