The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (Writings from the Ancient World) (Writings from the Ancient World)

Translated With An Introduction And Notes By James P. Allen; Edited By Peter Der Manuelian

The Pyramid Texts are the oldest body of extant literature from ancient Egypt. First carved on the walls of the burial chambers in the pyramids of kings and queens of the Old Kingdom, they provide the earliest comprehensive view of the way in which the ancient Egyptians understood the structure of the universe, the role of the gods, and the fate of human beings after death. Their importance lies in their antiquity and in their endurance throughout the entire intellectual history of ancient Egypt. This volume contains the complete translation of the Pyramid Texts, including new texts recently discovered and published. It incorporates full restorations and readings indicated by post–Old Kingdom copies of the texts and is the first translation that presents the texts in the order in which they were meant to be read in each of the original sources. Leer más…

By Michael Maas

John Lydus and the Roman Past offers a new interpretation of the emergence of Byzantine society as viewed through the eyes of John Lydus, a sixth-century scholar and civil servant. Maas show that control of classical inheritance was politically contested in the reign of Justinian. He demonstrates how the past could be used to convey legitimacy and social definition at a time of profound change. Leer más…

David Adams Leeming

Esteemed scholar David Leeming, who has authored more than twelve books on mythology, here offers the first comprehensive narrative study of the mythology of the Middle East, that tumultuous region that was the cradle of civilization. Leeming begins with a brief, engaging history of the Middle East, spanning Neolithic cultures, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, the invention of writing and the rise of Egypt and Babylonia, Israel and Roman rule, and the early history of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims. This is followed by an in-depth discussion of the mythology of the region, covering individual pantheons, cosmic myths, mythic heroes, and much more. Leeming ranges from prehistoric figures such as the Mother Goddess of Çatal Hüyük to Mesopotamian gods such as Marduk and mythic heroes such as Gilgamesh, to the pantheon of Egyptian mythology, including the falcon-headed sky-sun god Horus and jackal-headed Anubis. The author also offers an illuminating exploration of the mythology of the three great monotheistic religions of the region: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In a provocative Epilogue, Leeming depicts today's crisis in the Middle East as "violent, clearly immoral, and illegal actions" justified by "what can only be called myths." He notes that fundamentalists in the area's three religions all see their way as the only way, forgetting that myths represent truths that are spiritual and philosophical--not historical events that can be used to justify acts of... Leer más…

Guofang Li, Gulbahar H. Beckett, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

no Less Than Other Minorities, Asian Women Scholars Are Confronted With Racial Discrimination And Stereotyping As Well As Disrespect For Their Research, Teaching, And Leadership, And Are Underrepresented In Academia. in The Face Of Such Barriers, Many Asian Female Scholars Have Developed Strategies To Survive And Thrive. This Book Is Among The First To Examine Their Lived Experience In Western Academic Discourses. It Addresses The Socio-cultural, Political, Academic, And Personal Issues That Asian Female Scholars Encounter In Higher Education. the Contributors To This Book Include First- And Second-generation Immigrants Who Are Teachers And Researchers In Higher Education And Who Come From A Wide Range Of Asian Nations And Backgrounds. They Here Combine New Research And Personal Narratives To Explore The Intersecting Layers Of Relationships That Impact Their Lives—language, Culture, Academic Discourses, Gender, Class, Generation, And Race. The Book Is Replete With The Richness And Complexity Of These Scholars’ Struggles And Triumphs In Their Professional And Personal Realms. this Powerful And Engaging Volume: * Examines And Celebrates The Struggles And Triumphs That Asian Female Scholars Experience As They Try To “make It” In Academic Environments That May Differ Sharply From The Culture Of Their Countries Of Origin; * Highlights The Unique Contributions The Authors Have Made To Research, Theory, And The Profession; * Establishes The Authors’ Claim To Visibility And A... Leer más…

Mary Titus; Mary Titus

During a life that spanned ninety years, Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) witnessed dramatic and intensely debated changes in the gender roles of American women. Mary Titus draws upon unpublished Porter papers, as well as newly available editions of her early fiction, poetry, and reviews, to trace Porter’s shifting and complex response to those cultural changes. Titus shows how Porter explored her own ambivalence about gender and creativity, for she experienced firsthand a remarkable range of ideas concerning female sexuality. These included the Victorian attitudes of the grandmother who raised her; the sexual license of revolutionary Mexico, 1920s New York, and 1930s Paris; and the conservative, ordered attitudes of the Agrarians. Throughout Porter’s long career, writes Titus, she “repeatedly probed cultural arguments about female creativity, a woman’s maternal legacy, romantic love, and sexual identity, always with startling acuity, and often with painful ambivalence.” Much of her writing, then, serves as a medium for what Titus terms Porter’s “gender-thinking”--her sustained examination of the interrelated issues of art, gender, and identity. Porter, says Titus, rebelled against her upbringing yet never relinquished the belief that her work as an artist was somehow unnatural, a turn away from the essential identity of woman as “the repository of life,” as childbearer. In her life Porter increasingly played a highly feminized public role as southern lady, but in her... Leer más…

Alison Anderson, Kevin Meethan, R. Steven Miles, Steven Miles

In a world undergoing rapid change, this essential collection discusses why consumption has become so important, and what role, if any, it plays in underpinning social, economic and political transformation. Leer más…

Edited By John Stratton Hawley And Vasudha Narayanan

The Life of Hinduism brings together a series of essays--many recognized as classics in the field--that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly ''lived'' religion. Celebrating the diversity for which Hinduism is known, this volume begins its journey in the ''new India'' of Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley, where global connections and local traditions rub shoulders daily. Readers are then offered a glimpse into the multifaceted world of Hindu worship, life-cycle rites, festivals, performances, gurus, and castes. The book's final sections deal with the Hinduism that is emerging in diasporic North America and with issues of identity that face Hindus in India and around the world: militancy versus tolerance and the struggle between owning one's own religion and sharing it with others. Contributors: Andrew Abbott, Michael Burawoy, Patricia Hill Collins, Barbara Ehrenreich, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Sharon Hays, Douglas Massey, Joya Misra, Orlando Patterson, Frances Fox Piven, Lynn Smith-Lovin, Judith Stacey, Arthur Stinchcombe, Alain Touraine, Immanuel Wallerstein, William Julius Wilson, Robert Zussman Leer más…

Voltairine De Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell, Candace Falk, Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman called Voltairine de Cleyre the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced. Yet her writings and speeches on anarchism and feminism-as radical, passionate, and popular at the time as Goldman's-are virtually unknown today. This important book brings de Cleyre's eloquent and incisive work out of undeserved obscurity. Twenty-one essays are reprinted here, including her classic works: Anarchism and the American Tradition, The Dominant Idea, and Sex Slavery. Three biographical essays are also included: two new ones by Sharon Presley and Crispin Sartwell, and a rarely reprinted one from Emma Goldman. At a time when the mainstream women's movement asked only for the right to vote and rarely challenged the status quo, de Cleyre demanded an end to sex roles, called for economic independence for women, autonomy within and without marriage, and offered a radical critique of the role of the Church and State in oppressing women. In today's world of anti-globalization actions, de Cleyre's anarchist ideals of local self-rule, individual conscience, and decentralization of power still remain fresh and relevant. Author Biography: Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was one of the most original and important anarchist intellectuals of her time. Sharon Presley teaches psychology at California State University. She is the founder and Executive Director of Resources for Independent Thinking and the National Coordinator of the Association of Libertarian... Leer más…

United Nations

This volume examines the philosophy of international organizations, which have been affected by many changes, including decolonization, globalization and the emergence of new information technologies, particularly the internet. Leer más…

William Gallois

This book is the first comprehensive study of the history of French medicine in nineteenth-century Algeria. It argues that the medicalization of Algerian was a priority for colonial regimes across the century, but that this goal was thwarted by gaps which lay between the imagined capacity of French medicine and its actual efficacy, by institutional rivalries, and by the manner in which medicine became a focus for the resistance of French domination and rule. Leer más…

Perla B. Balbuena And Jorge M. Seminario (Eds.)

The latest developments in quantum and classical molecular dynamics, related techniques, and their applications to several fields of science and engineering. Molecular simulations include a broad range of methodologies such as Monte Carlo, Brownian dynamics, lattice dynamics, and molecular dynamics (MD). Features of this book: & bull; Presents advances in methodologies, introduces quantum methods and lists new techniques for classical MD & bull; Deals with complex systems: biomolecules, aqueous solutions, ice and clathrates, liquid crystals, polymers & bull; Provides chemical reactions, interfaces, catalysis, surface phenomena and solids Although the book is not formally divided into methods and applications, the chapters are arranged starting with those that discuss new algorithms, methods and techniques, followed by several important applications. Leer más…

Jon Stallworthy

World War I was a very literary war, and Jon Stallworthy, an astute reader of war literature generally, is a specialist in the British poetry of that conflict. A poet himself as well as a student of literature, he has published an anthology of war poetry, produced a biography of Wilfred Owen, and is the foremost modern editor of Owen's poetry. Now he has added to that body of critical work. He has published a collection of his essays, revised and assembled for this volume, that appeared earlier as journal articles. Survivors' Songs: From Maldon to the Somme, his latest study, is a well-written and insightful discussion of that genre of literature known as "war poetry." His essays begin with the Old English poem "The Battle of Malden" and move beyond the poetry that followed the Battle of the Somme. Nevertheless, British poetry of World War I forms the centerpiece of this volume, and Stallworthy is an expert on and a subtle reader of it. That I find his essays on Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and David Jones the most telling is due both to the strength of those essays and also to my own admiration of those poets. What's missing, it seems to me, is fuller treatment of the poetry of Isaac Rosenberg and Ivor Gurney, both fine poets and both deserving of fuller discussion. But one can't have everything. He does mention Charles Sorley, one of the early clear-eyed poets of World War I and places him correctly in context. Killed in 1915 at the Battle of... Leer más…

Abdulakh K. Mikitaev, Mukhamed Kh Ligidov, Gennady E. Zaikov

Polymers are substances containing a large number of structural units joined by the same type of linkage. These substances often form into a chain-like structure. Starch, cellulose, and rubber all possess polymeric properties. Today, the polymer industry has grown to be larger than the aluminium, copper and steel industries combined. Polymers already have a range of applications that far exceeds that of any other class of material available to man. Current applications extend from adhesives, coatings, foams, and packaging materials to textile and industrial fibres, elastomers, and structural plastics. Polymers are also used for most composites, electronic devices, biomedical devices, optical devices, and precursors for many newly developed high-tech ceramics. This book presents leading-edge research in this rapidly-changing and evolving field. Leer más…

Diane (Diane Koers) Koers

'Picture yourself learning Microsoft Word 2010 is a guide to the features available to Microsoft Word, one of the major products included with Microsoft Office. Step-by-step instructions as well as lots of visual guides help the easily reader learn the software. Readers of Picture yourself learning Microsoft Word 2010 will learn the latest version of Microsoft Word by following along with a four-color, visual format, developing the skills needed to complete a multitude of tasks, such as formatting a document, using mail merge, working with tables, and much more'--Resource description page. Leer más…

Arthur F. Kinney

Shakespeare and Cognition examines the essential relationship between vision, knowledge, and memory in Renaissance models of cognition as seen in Shakespeare's plays. Drawing on both Aristotle's Metaphysics and contemporary cognitive literary theory, Arthur F. Kinney explores five key objects/images in Shakespeare's plays – crowns, bells, rings, graves and ghosts – that are not actually seen (or, in the case of the latter, not meant to be seen), but are central to the imagination of both the playwright and the playgoers.NOTE: Shakespeare Studies should be a distinct category, or Early Modern English Literary Studies. I am constantly flummoxed by the sometimes oddly conflated and generally limited choice of categories. The category structure here obviously grew incrementally with the platform, but it's now, if you'll pardon my saying so, a quixotic a Winchester Mystery House. It needs to be completely revamped and updated -- and hopefully before millions more books are added to the library. I'm not criticizing; folks have done a magnificent job getting here. But "categories" needs work. And protocols for handling compound categories, for example, when a work is not just one thing, but several - e.g., literature, philosophy, religion, cultural history, etc. As a research scholar, retired professor, and former librarian, I believe I could contribute to this imagined project. Likely it is that you all already have such an improvement in the works. Best - John Leer más…

Shamil G. Naoum

Dissertation Research and Writing for Construction Students is the only how-to guide for BSc and MSc students. Covering topic selection, research planning and methodology to structuring and writing the dissertation, this book includes everything needed for a successful write-up. A new chapter on Supervision and Assessment as well as updates to references and case studies ensures students know what is expected of them and how they will be assessed. The clear, concise, step-by-step text illustrated with examples of best case practice makes this an ideal resource for anyone involved in research in this field. * User-friendly, easy to dip into guide for all BSc, MSc and other Built Environment students * Takes the reader from the stage of choosing a topic to writing a well-structured report * Best case practice illustrated with numerous examples, case studies and references Leer más…

Andrew Scobell, William C. Kirby

In this 2003 study of China's militarism, Andrew Scobell examines the use of military force abroad - as in Korea (1950), Vietnam (1979), and the Taiwan Strait (1995–6) - and domestically, as during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and in the 1989 military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Debunking the view that China has become increasingly belligerent in recent years because of the growing influence of soldiers, Scobell concludes that China's strategic culture has remained unchanged for decades. Nevertheless, the author uncovers the existence of a 'Cult of Defense' in Chinese strategic culture. The author warns that this 'Cult of Defense' disposes Chinese leaders to rationalize all military deployment as defensive, while changes in the People's Liberation Army's doctrine and capabilities over the past two decades suggest that China's twenty-first century leaders may use military force more readily than their predecessors. Leer más…

Larry C. Andrews

The material in this Field Guide includes a review of classical Kolmogorov turbulence theory, Gaussian-beam waves in free space, and atmospheric effects on a propagating optical wave. These atmospheric effects have great importance in a variety of applications like imaging, free space optical communications, laser radar, and remote sensing. This Field Guide presents tractable mathematical models from which the practitioner can readily determine beam spreading, beam wander, spatial coherence radius (Fried's parameter), angle of arrival fluctuations, scintillation, aperture averaging effects, fade probabilities, bit error-rates, and enhanced backscatter effects, among others. Leer más…