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At the dawn of the 21st Century, the video game industry
experienced a period of wild creativity, fighting for recognition
as an art form while making the transformation into a media
juggernaut. And as it did, Garwulf's Corner was there, watching and
commentating. One of the earliest, if not the first, video game
issues columns on the Internet, Garwulf's Corner ran every two
weeks from 2000 to 2002 on Diabloii.net. Written by Robert B.
Marks, author of Diablo: Demonsbane and The EverQuest Companion, it
explored everything up to and including Diablo, the birth of
artificial intelligence, hackers, literature and movies, and the
video game's struggle for legitimacy. Collected here for the first
time in print - with new introductions and updates - are all 52
installments of Garwulf's Corner, along with the three columns
written years later for the unpublished Blurred Edge Magazine, the
holiday issue that never was, and the author's final word (so far)
on Diablo III and Diablo in general. Insightful, controversial,
witty, and thought-provoking, Garwulf's Corner is a journey into
the world of video games that is still relevant today.
Ancient Greece and Rome aren't usually remembered for their sense
of humour. However, in reality the ancient Greeks and Romans often
refused to take themselves seriously. Strange and outlandish
activities abounded - including somebody accidentally exposing
himself while dancing sideways at his wedding (those wearing bed
sheets didn't wear underwear) and a group of drunk young men
thinking their house is sinking at sea, and tossing all their
furniture out the windows.In this new edition, R. Drew Griffith and
Robert B. Marks take you on a lively and funny journey through the
more bizarre activities of the ancient world, venturing out as far
as Egypt, Babylon, and Scandinavia, ranging everywhere from
moochers to quacks to shrews to perhaps the oldest laundromat joke
in history, and even revealing the most terrible thing you can do
to anybody involving a radish.
This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global
narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the
present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the "rise of the
West" is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history,
drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and
upon the maturing field of environmental history, constructs a
story in which those parts of the world play major roles, including
their impacts on the environment. Robert B. Marks defines the
modern world as one marked by industry, the nation state,
interstate warfare, a large and growing gap between the wealthiest
and poorest parts of the world, increasing inequality within the
wealthiest industrialized countries, and an escape from the
environmental constraints of the "biological old regime." He
explains its origins by emphasizing contingencies (such as the
conquest of the New World); the broad comparability of the most
advanced regions in China, India, and Europe; the reasons why
England was able to escape from common ecological constraints
facing all of those regions by the eighteenth century; a
conjuncture of human and natural forces that solidified a gap
between the industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the
world; and the mounting environmental crisis that defines the
modern world. Now in a new edition that brings the saga of the
modern world to the present in an environmental context, the book
considers how and why the United States emerged as a world power in
the twentieth century and became the sole superpower by the
twenty-first century, and why the changed relationship of humans to
the environmental likely will be the hallmark of the modern era-the
Anthopocene. Once again arguing that the US rise to global hegemon
was contingent, not inevitable, Marks also points to the resurgence
of Asia and the vastly changed relationship of humans to the
environment that may in the long run overshadow any political and
economic milestones of the past hundred years.
This deeply informed and clearly written text provides a
comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory
to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and
scientific research, the book focuses on the interaction of humans
and their environment. Tracing changes in the physical and cultural
world that is home to a fifth of humankind, Robert B. Marks
illuminates the paradoxes inherent in China's environmental
narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices
can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also
reevaluates China's traditional "heroic" storyline, highlighting
the marginalization of nature and contacts with other peoples that
followed the spread of Chinese civilization while examining the
development of a distinctly Chinese way of relating to and altering
the environment. Unmatched in his ability to synthesize a complex
subject clearly and cogently, Marks has written an accessible yet
nuanced history for any student interested in China, past or
present, or indeed in the world's environmental future.
This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to
its reformist present as China makes a way forward through very
differently conceived and contested visions of the future. In the
context of early twenty-first century problems and the failures of
global capitalism, is China's history of revolutionary socialism an
aberration that is soon to be forgotten, or can it serve as a
resource for creating a more fully human and radically democratic
China with implications for all of us? Ranging from the early years
of China's revolutionary twentieth-century to the present, the
essays collected here look at the past and present of China with a
view toward better understanding the ideas, ideals, and people who
have dared to imagine radical transformation of their worlds and to
assess the conceptual, political, and social limitations of these
visions and their implementations. The volume's chapters focus on
these issues from a range of vantage points, representing a
spectrum of current scholarship. The first half of the book brings
new insights to understanding how early-twentieth century
intellectuals interpreted ideas that allowed them to break with
China's past and to envision new paths to a modern future. It
treats of Chen Duxiu, a founder of the Communist party, Mao Zedong,
and Mao in relation to the non-Communist Liang Shuming and with the
Dalai Lama. With continuing threads of nation and nationalities, of
peasants, utopias and dystopias linking the chapters, the book's
second half looks broadly at the consequences of the
implementations of radical ideas, at the same time critiquing our
accepted frameworks of analysis. Moving up to the present, the book
investigates the effects of the reforms since the 1980s on
long-term environmental degradation and on the emergence of a
capitalist rural economy. It gives an unsparing view into
contemporary rural China through independent films. The book
concludes with an analysis of the unshakable persistence of the
shibboleth, "the rise of China," in popul
Filling a distinct gap in the reference literature of
archaeology, this bibliography provides an introduction to the vast
and varied literature produced by the practice of archaeology in
the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka since the early 19th Century.
The annotated entries are arranged geographically by contemporary
political subdivisions, with now-vanished native states and
jurisdictions from the days of the British Raj cross-referenced to
the modern subdivision. Within each section, entries are arranged
chronologically, permitting the user to trace the inception and
development of archaeological field survey and investigation
regionally.
Summarizing the contents of each title, the annotations place
the titles within the broader context of South Asian archaeological
scholarship. An appendix lists the major Pakistani, Sri Lankan, and
Indian legislation regulating the conservation and preservation of
archaeological sites and artifacts and the antiquities trade. The
bibliography places emphasis on works in English or other Western
languages that are located easily outside of South Asia.
This bibliography pulls together a scattered literature of popular
periodical articles, monographs, and sources from the legal press
to create a picture of the treatment of the homosexual in both
contemporary and past societies. Subject coverage has been limited
to eight areas of society in which homophobic attitudes have been
frequently expressed: the military, child custody, adoption and
foster care, religion, censorship, employment, and police-community
relations. This arrangement facilitates access to information on
the desired topics. Sources cited in this work are those which are
most accessible. Annotations expand the scope of entries and are
cross-referenced. Both legal and alternative press sources are
included for greater scope. A pioneering work, The Homosexual and
Society opens up a subfield of research in the social sciences that
has been neglected and merits wider consideration. This
bibliography is suitable for college and research libraries, state
historical associations, public libraries of all sizes, law
libraries and specialized research facilities in the social
sciences.
This deeply informed and clearly written text provides a
comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory
to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and
scientific research, the book focuses on the interaction of humans
and their environment. Tracing changes in the physical and cultural
world that is home to a fifth of humankind, Robert B. Marks
illuminates the paradoxes inherent in China's environmental
narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices
can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also
reevaluates China's traditional "heroic" storyline, highlighting
the marginalization of nature and contacts with other peoples that
followed the spread of Chinese civilization while examining the
development of a distinctly Chinese way of relating to and altering
the environment. Unmatched in his ability to synthesize a complex
subject clearly and cogently, Marks has written an accessible yet
nuanced history for any student interested in China, past or
present, or indeed in the world's environmental future.
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