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More than half of the world's petroleum is to be found in carbonate
rocks, for example in the Middle East, the former USSR and in North
America. These rocks show a bewildering diversity of grains and
textures, due in part to the wealth of different fossil organisms
which have contributed to carbonate sedimentation, and in part to a
wide variety of diagenetic processes which can radically modify
textures and obscure the depositional fabric. Careful petrographic
study with a polarising microscope is a key element of any study of
carbonate sediments, as a companion to field or core logging, and
as a necessary precursor to geochemical analysis. This atlas, which
illustrates in full colour a range of features not attempted in any
general textbook, is designed as a laboratory manual to keep beside
the microscope, as an aid to identifying grain types and textures
in carbonates. It appeals alike to undergraduate and graduate
students and to professionals in teaching institutions, research
laboratories and industry.
Teacher education is continually undergoing change and this book
takes a close look into the current status. It examines the history
of teacher preparation, the role of the employer and the aims of
education, giving a critical review of the present climate where
changes in several European countries are underway. They address
the question of why the changes are being made now and conclude
that such changes, particularly in the UK, are ideological as
opposed to quality-based. New proposals and legislation in the
European Unions countries of Britain, France, Germany and Portugal
are considered, from a comparative perspective, alongside Poland
and the United States; the latter also experiencing change but for
different reasons. Aimed at all readers interested in the role of
education in Europe, this text should also appeal to students and
lecturers in education in Europe, and to the informed general
reader interested in the state of education today.
Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology,
law, historical record, and literary motifs. Castration and
castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and
legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric
castration pervadesa number of medieval literary genres,
particularly the Old French fabliaux - exchanges of power
predicated upon the exchange or absence of sexual desire signified
by genitalia - but the plain, literal act of castration and its
implications are often overlooked. This collection explores this
often taboo subject and its implications for cultural mores and
custom in Western Europe, seeking to demystify and demythologize
castration. Its subjects includearchaeological studies of eunuchs;
historical accounts of castration in trials of combat; the
mutilation of political rivals in medieval Wales; Anglo-Saxon and
Frisian legal and literary examples of castration as punishment;
castration as comedy in the Old French fabliaux; the prohibition
against genital mutilation in hagiography; and early-modern
anxieties about punitive castration enacted on the Elizabethan
stage. The introduction reflects on these topics in the context of
arguably the most well-known victim of castration in the middle
ages, Abelard. LARISSA TRACY is Associate Professor of Medieval
Literature at Longwood University. Contributors: Larissa Tracy,
Kathryn Reusch, Shaun Tougher, Jack Collins, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr,
Jay Paul Gates, Charlene M. Eska, Mary A. Valante, Anthony Adams,
Mary E. Leech, Jed Chandler, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Robert L.A.
Clark, Karin Sellberg, LenaWanggren
More than half of the world's petroleum is to be found in carbonate
rocks, for example in the Middle East, the former USSR and in North
America. These rocks show a bewildering diversity of grains and
textures, due in part to the wealth of different fossil organisms
which have contributed to carbonate sedimentation, and in part to a
wide variety of diagenetic processes which can radically modify
textures and obscure the depositional fabric.Careful petrographic
study with a polarising microscope is a key element of any study of
carbonate sediments, as a companion to field or core logging, and
as a necessary precursor to geochemical analysis. This atlas, which
illustrates in full colour a range of features not attempted in any
general textbook, is designed as a laboratory manual to keep beside
the microscope, as an aid to identifying grain types and textures
in carbonates. It appeals alike to undergraduate and graduate
students and to professionals in teaching institutions, research
laboratories and industry.
Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology,
law, historical record, and literary motifs. Castration and
castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and
legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric
castration pervadesa number of medieval literary genres,
particularly the Old French fabliaux - exchanges of power
predicated upon the exchange or absence of sexual desire signified
by genitalia - but the plain, literal act of castration and its
implications are often overlooked. This collection explores this
often taboo subject and its implications for cultural mores and
custom in Western Europe, seeking to demystify and demythologize
castration. Its subjects includearchaeological studies of eunuchs;
historical accounts of castration in trials of combat; the
mutilation of political rivals in medieval Wales; Anglo-Saxon and
Frisian legal and literary examples of castration as punishment;
castration as comedy in the Old French fabliaux; the prohibition
against genital mutilation in hagiography; and early-modern
anxieties about punitive castration enacted on the Elizabethan
stage. The introduction reflects on these topics in the context of
arguably the most well-known victim of castration in the middle
ages, Abelard. Larissa Tracy is Associate Professor of Medieval
Literature at Longwood University. Contributors: Larissa Tracy,
Kathryn Reusch, Shaun Tougher, Jack Collins, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr,
Jay Paul Gates, Charlene M. Eska, Mary A. Valante, Anthony Adams,
Mary E. Leech, Jed Chandler, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Robert L.A.
Clark, Karin Sellberg, LenaWÃ¥nggren
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Crossroads Blues
Michael Anthony Adams
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Indigo Glow - Poems
Michael Anthony Adams
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