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UNINA9910459508003321 |
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Autore |
Roper Susan Stavert |
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Titolo |
Peak performance for deans and chairs [[electronic resource] ] : reframing higher education's middle / / Susan Stavert Roper and Terrence E. Deal |
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Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Education |
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[Washington, DC], : American Council on Education, c2010 |
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1-282-92291-2 |
9786612922916 |
1-60709-538-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (113 p.) |
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Collana |
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American Council on Education series on higher education |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Deans (Education) |
College department heads |
Universities and colleges - Administration |
University cooperation |
Total quality management in higher education |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 01. Introduction: Trapped between a Rock and a Hard Place; Chapter 02. The Way It Is: Ferreting Out Root Stresses andPlotting New Tactics; Chapter 03. Change: Stifling Bedlam and Taming Turbulence; Chapter 04. Faculty: Confronting Creeps and Cliques; Chapter 05. Resources: Stepping Up to Cutbacks; Chapter 06. Bosses: Winning over the Higher-Ups; Chapter 07. The Way It's "Spozed" to Be: Leadership in Action; Chapter 08. Conclusion: Practice and Perseverance; Bibliography; About the Authors |
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This book analyzes the behavior of chairs and deans through the political, structural, human resources, and symbolic frames. Lessons learned from the negative as well as the positive scenarios are highlighted, enabling deans and chairs to easily adapt them to their |
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UNINA9910777763403321 |
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Autore |
Boone Elizabeth Hill |
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Titolo |
Cycles of time and meaning in the Mexican books of fate [[electronic resource] /] / Elizabeth Hill Boone |
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Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (330 p.) |
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Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture |
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Aztec mythology |
Aztec calendar |
Manuscripts, Nahuatl - Mexico |
Aztecs - Rites and ceremonies |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-294) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Color Plates -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Containers of the Knowledge of the World -- 2 Time, the Ritual Calendar, and Divination -- 3 The Symbolic Vocabulary of the Almanacs -- 4 Structures of Prophetic Knowledge -- 5 The Almanacs -- 6 Protocols for Ritual -- 7 The Cosmogony in the Codex Borgia -- 8 Provenience -- 9 A Mexican Divinatory System -- Appendix: Content Summaries -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which the Aztec and neighboring peoples recorded their understanding of the invisible world of the sacred calendar and the cosmic forces and supernaturals |
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that adhered to time. Today, only a few of these divinatory codices survive. Visually complex, esoteric, and strikingly beautiful, painted books such as the famous Codex Borgia and Codex Borbonicus still serve as portals into the ancient Mexican calendrical systems and the cycles of time and meaning they encode. In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy—the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she freshly interprets as a cosmic narrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system. |
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