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This volume continues to document and summarize developments,
trends, and emergent interdisciplinary research in behavioral
psychopharmacology. For researchers and graduate students in
psychopharmacology, behavioral pharmacology, toxicology, and the
neurosciences. This seventh volume continues to document and
summarize developments, trends, and emergent interdisciplinary
research in behavioral psychopharmacology. For researchers and
graduate students in psychopharmacology, behavioral pharmacology,
toxicology, and the neurosciences. This is the latest volume in a
series that continues to document and summarize developments,
trends, and emergent interdisciplinary research in behavioral
pharmacology, psychopharmacology, and the neurosciences. The
chapters, written by authorities in their respective research
areas, provide up-to-date examination and analysis of dominant
evolving research areas.
Designed as a resource text for professionals, as well as a
supplementary text for upper level undergraduate and graduate
students of behavioral pharmacology, psychopharmacology,
psychobiology, and related fields, this book, like the others in
the "Advances in Behavioral Pharmacology Series," provides
comprehensive coverage unavailable elsewhere.
Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of
Rome’s Great Fire—and how it inflicted lasting harm on the
Roman Empire According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire
to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and
fiddled while the city burned. It’s a story that has been told
for more than two millennia—and it’s likely that almost none of
it is true. In Rome Is Burning, distinguished Roman historian
Anthony Barrett sets the record straight, providing a comprehensive
and authoritative account of the Great Fire of Rome, its immediate
aftermath, and its damaging longterm consequences for the Roman
world. Drawing on remarkable new archaeological discoveries and
sifting through all the literary evidence, he tells what is known
about what actually happened—and argues that the disaster was a
turning point in Roman history, one that ultimately led to the fall
of Nero and the end of the dynasty that began with Julius Caesar.
Rome Is Burning tells how the fire destroyed much of the city and
threw the population into panic. It describes how it also destroyed
Nero’s golden image and provoked a financial crisis and currency
devaluation that made a permanent impact on the Roman economy. Most
importantly, the book surveys, and includes many photographs of,
recent archaeological evidence that shows visible traces of the
fire’s destruction. Finally, the book describes the fire’s
continuing afterlife in literature, opera, ballet, and film. A
richly detailed and scrupulously factual narrative of an event that
has always been shrouded in myth, Rome Is Burning promises to
become the standard account of the Great Fire of Rome for our time.
The Roman Empire has always exercised a considerable fascination.
Among its numerous colourful personalities, no emperor, with the
possible exception of Nero, has attracted more popular attention
than Caligula, who has a reputation, whether deserved or not, as
the quintessential mad and dangerous ruler. The first edition of
this book established itself as the standard study of Caligula. It
remains the only full length and detailed scholarly analysis in
English of this emperor's reign, and has been translated into a
number of languages. But the study of Classical antiquity is not a
static phenomenon, and scholars are engaged in a persistent quest
to upgrade our knowledge and thinking about the ancient past. In
the thirty years since publication of the original Caligula there
have been considerable scholarly advances in what we know about
this emperor specifically, and also about the general period in
which he functioned, while newly discovered inscriptions and major
archaeological projects have necessitated a rethinking of many of
our earlier conclusions about early imperial history. This new
edition constitutes a major revision and, in places, a major
rewriting, of the original text. Maintaining the reader-friendly
structure and organisation of its predecessor, it embodies the
latest discoveries and the latest thinking, seeking to make more
lucid and comprehensible those aspects of the reign that are
particularly daunting to the non-specialist. Like the original,
this revised Caligula is intended to satisfy the requirements of
the scholarly community while appealing to a broad and general
readership.
Immigration has expanded dramatically in both traditional and
emerging receiving nations. This worldwide boom has profoundly
altered urban areas as new arrivals have transformed inner cities
and suburbs alike into bastions of new ethnic economic activity.
Examining the essential role of space in assisting and modifying
ethnic business activity, this book considers how ethnic economies
are reshaping the urban landscape in the United States, Britain,
Australia, Canada, Germany, and Italy. Each chapter explores the
significance of urban space and local context in the development of
an ethnic economy and how, in turn, ethnic economies have helped to
recreate urban neighborhoods. With its international scope and rich
case studies, this book will be invaluable for scholars and
students alike in the fields of ethnic studies, urban studies,
economic development, geography, and sociology.
Immigration has expanded dramatically in both traditional and
emerging receiving nations. This worldwide boom has profoundly
altered urban areas as new arrivals have transformed inner cities
and suburbs alike into bastions of new ethnic economic activity.
Examining the essential role of space in assisting and modifying
ethnic business activity, this book considers how ethnic economies
are reshaping the urban landscape in the United States, Britain,
Australia, Canada, Germany, and Italy. Each chapter explores the
significance of urban space and local context in the development of
an ethnic economy and how, in turn, ethnic economies have helped to
recreate urban neighborhoods. With its international scope and rich
case studies, this book will be invaluable for scholars and
students alike in the fields of ethnic studies, urban studies,
economic development, geography, and sociology.
Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of
Rome's Great Fire-and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman
Empire According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his
majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and
fiddled while the city burned. It's a story that has been told for
more than two millennia-and it's likely that almost none of it is
true. In Rome Is Burning, distinguished Roman historian Anthony
Barrett sets the record straight, providing a comprehensive and
authoritative account of the Great Fire of Rome, its immediate
aftermath, and its damaging longterm consequences for the Roman
world. Drawing on remarkable new archaeological discoveries and
sifting through all the literary evidence, he tells what is known
about what actually happened-and argues that the disaster was a
turning point in Roman history, one that ultimately led to the fall
of Nero and the end of the dynasty that began with Julius Caesar.
Rome Is Burning tells how the fire destroyed much of the city and
threw the population into panic. It describes how it also destroyed
Nero's golden image and provoked a financial crisis and currency
devaluation that made a permanent impact on the Roman economy. Most
importantly, the book surveys, and includes many photographs of,
recent archaeological evidence that shows visible traces of the
fire's destruction. Finally, the book describes the fire's
continuing afterlife in literature, opera, ballet, and film. A
richly detailed and scrupulously factual narrative of an event that
has always been shrouded in myth, Rome Is Burning promises to
become the standard account of the Great Fire of Rome for our time.
This study uses recent archaeological, numismatic and historical
evidence to reveal the character of Agrippina, a key imperial
figure of classical antiquity. She was the sister of Caligula, wife
of Claudius and mother of Nero. She attained a level of power
unprecedented for a woman in first century Rome with a lifestyle
which embraced treachery, incest and murder. Barrett assesses the
historical and personal impact of Agrippina's marriage to the
emperor Claudius and explores her relationship with her son, Nero,
the monster of her own making. Anthony Barrett is also the author
of "Caligula".
This study uses recent archaeological, numismatic and historical
evidence to reveal the character of Agrippina, a key imperial
figure of classical antiquity. She was the sister of Caligula, wife
of Claudius and mother of Nero. She attained a level of power
unprecedented for a woman in first century Rome with a lifestyle
which embraced treachery, incest and murder. Barrett assesses the
historical and personal impact of Agrippina's marriage to the
emperor Claudius and explores her relationship with her son, Nero,
the monster of her own making. Anthony Barrett is also the author
of "Caligula".
This volume continues to document and summarize developments,
trends, and emergent interdisciplinary research in behavioral
psychopharmacology. For researchers and graduate students in
psychopharmacology, behavioral pharmacology, toxicology, and the
neurosciences. This seventh volume continues to document and
summarize developments, trends, and emergent interdisciplinary
research in behavioral psychopharmacology. For researchers and
graduate students in psychopharmacology, behavioral pharmacology,
toxicology, and the neurosciences. This is the latest volume in a
series that continues to document and summarize developments,
trends, and emergent interdisciplinary research in behavioral
pharmacology, psychopharmacology, and the neurosciences. The
chapters, written by authorities in their respective research
areas, provide up-to-date examination and analysis of dominant
evolving research areas. Designed as a resource text for
professionals, as well as a supplementary text for upper level
undergraduate and graduate students of behavioral pharmacology,
psychopharmacology, psychobiology, and related fields, this book,
like the others in the Advances in Behavioral Pharmacology Series,
provides comprehensive coverage unavailable elsewhere.
There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful
impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula
(died AD 41). Yet an accurate reconstruction of his life and reign
largely eludes us. This is paradoxical. The source material is
plentiful, even lavish, by the standards of antiquity. The problem
lies not so much in the quantity of evidence available, but in its
quality. For our information we are obliged to draw on ancient
accounts that can be colourful and wonderfully entertaining but
have a flexible notion of historical truth and often seem to border
on fiction. The consequence is that there is hardly a detail that
the modern historian can present without deep reservations about
its reliability. A biography of Caligula, in the regular modern
sense of the word, is an insurmountable task, and can be at best be
a summary personal interpretation by an individual historian of a
mass of incoherent and often inconsistent material. Where does this
leave the serious general reader? This book approaches Caligula
from a quite different angle, by presenting the reader with the raw
material of the ancient sources. It provides over 300 translated
passages of texts, taken mainly from ancient writers, but also from
coins and inscriptions. The translations are accompanied by
extensive introductions and notes. These are tailored to the
non-specialist, and intended to help such readers navigate material
that is often contradictory, sometimes downright incredible, and
helps to place events and institutions in their historical
contexts. The colourful and exotic incidents are still here, but
are presented in a context that will help the reader gain a more
sophisticated understanding of how scholars try to reconstruct
events of the past. This approach allows the reader to tackle
head-on the stark reality that what we read in our sources is not
necessarily the truth.
The Roman Empire has always exercised a considerable fascination.
Among its numerous colourful personalities, no emperor, with the
possible exception of Nero, has attracted more popular attention
than Caligula, who has a reputation, whether deserved or not, as
the quintessential mad and dangerous ruler. The first edition of
this book established itself as the standard study of Caligula. It
remains the only full length and detailed scholarly analysis in
English of this emperor's reign, and has been translated into a
number of languages. But the study of Classical antiquity is not a
static phenomenon, and scholars are engaged in a persistent quest
to upgrade our knowledge and thinking about the ancient past. In
the thirty years since publication of the original Caligula there
have been considerable scholarly advances in what we know about
this emperor specifically, and also about the general period in
which he functioned, while newly discovered inscriptions and major
archaeological projects have necessitated a rethinking of many of
our earlier conclusions about early imperial history. This new
edition constitutes a major revision and, in places, a major
rewriting, of the original text. Maintaining the reader-friendly
structure and organisation of its predecessor, it embodies the
latest discoveries and the latest thinking, seeking to make more
lucid and comprehensible those aspects of the reign that are
particularly daunting to the non-specialist. Like the original,
this revised Caligula is intended to satisfy the requirements of
the scholarly community while appealing to a broad and general
readership.
Cancer in Children is the first volume in this new series,
sponsored by the DICC, on the treatment of cancer. The editors and
authors feel strongly that more standardization is needed on a
worldwide basis in cancer therapy. This, of course, is only
possible if experts from all countries subscribe to a joint policy
of making their treatment designs available to practising
oncologists all over the world. Current Treatment of Cancer will
discuss all the equipment and methods now in use in cancer therapy.
It will cover all types of cancer, thus providing the reader with
comprehensive information on cancer manage ment. The appearance of
a book on paediatric oncology as the first in the series is
intentional: in recent decades there has been a tremendous
improvement in the treatment of cancer in children, and there is
hope for even further success in this fight. We are convinced that
this book and the series it is introducing will help us to make a
concerted response to the challenge of cancer.
"Lives of the Caesars" tells the stories of 12 of Rome's most
fascinating and influential rulers, uncovering the unique features
of their reigns which allowed them to earn their places in history.
A comprehensive and engaging account of the lives of the Caesars,
who helped shaped one of the most significant periods in
history
Each chapter entertainingly recounts the life and reign of a Roman
emperor
Includes notorious leaders such as Nero and Caligula, as well as
less famous ones like Diocletian and Vespasian
Includes illustrations, a timeline of Roman history, and a chart of
dynasties
Hugh Everett III was an American physicist best known for his
many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which formed the
basis of his PhD thesis at Princeton University in 1957. Although
counterintuitive, Everett's revolutionary formulation of quantum
mechanics offers the most direct solution to the infamous quantum
measurement problem--that is, how and why the singular world of our
experience emerges from the multiplicities of alternatives
available in the quantum world. The many-worlds interpretation
postulates the existence of multiple universes. Whenever a
measurement-like interaction occurs, the universe branches into
relative states, one for each possible outcome of the measurement,
and the world in which we find ourselves is but one of these many,
but equally real, possibilities. Everett's challenge to the
orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics was met with scorn
from Niels Bohr and other leading physicists, and Everett
subsequently abandoned academia to conduct military operations
research. Today, however, Everett's formulation of quantum
mechanics is widely recognized as one of the most controversial but
promising physical theories of the last century.
In this book, Jeffrey Barrett and Peter Byrne present the long
and short versions of Everett's thesis along with a collection of
his explanatory writings and correspondence. These primary source
documents, many of them newly discovered and most unpublished until
now, reveal how Everett's thinking evolved from his days as a
graduate student to his untimely death in 1982. This definitive
volume also features Barrett and Byrne's introductory essays,
notes, and commentary that put Everett's extraordinary theory into
historical and scientific perspective and discuss the puzzles that
still remain.
Nero's reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events
in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first
persecution of the Christians--not to mention Nero's murder of his
mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide, which
plunged the empire into civil war. The Emperor Nero gathers into a
single collection the major sources for Nero's life and rule,
providing students of Nero and ancient Rome with the most
authoritative and accessible reader there is. The Emperor Nero
features clear, contemporary translations of key literary sources
along with translations and explanations of representative
inscriptions and coins issued under Nero. The informative
introduction situates the emperor's reign within the history of the
Roman Empire, and the book's concise headnotes to chapters place
the source material in historical and biographical context.
Passages are accompanied by detailed notes and are organized around
events, such as the Great Fire of Rome, or by topic, such as Nero's
relationships with his wives. Complex events like the war with
Parthia--split up among several chapters in Tacitus's Annals--are
brought together in continuous narratives, making this the most
comprehensible and user-friendly sourcebook on Nero available.
This essential document for the study of Roman history traces the
story of Rome from Romulus and the foundations of Rome to the reign
of the Emperor Tiberius. It is especially valuable to historians
and students for its vivid eyewitness account of the dramatic years
that saw the Roman Empire emerge from the chaos left by the
shattered Republic. Rendered with the non-specialist in mind, the
translation-the first English language translation in nearly ninety
years-seeks to remain faithful to the original while avoiding
technical and obscure jargon. The volume includes a substantial
introduction to Velleius' life and times, and to the literary
context of his historical work, as well as generous and detailed
notes on the text, a bibliography, map, glossary of unfamiliar
terms, and an index.
Have you ever wondered why people do bad, or evil things, why there
is such moral degradation in society today? Have you ever wondered
where sin originated and why it always seems to follow you around
everywhere you go, and you just can't seem to shake its grip? Are
you tired of the mundane day to day struggle with life in the world
today? Then grab your Bible, a pencil, and a note pad and let this
book be your guide as it unveils the mysteries found in Romans
Chapters 7 & 8 of the Bible. I will say, this book is not just
a reading book, but also a companion study guide to the Word of
God. Pastor Duane has been a long time friend and fellow minister
of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Follow along as Pastor
Duane unveils the Christian truths concerning these laws and how
the Christian walk through life should be. Let this book show you
where sin originated and why it follows you around. Let this book
reveal to you what you can do to change what sin is doing in your
life. Let 'Unveiling the Mysteries' show you how to walk the walk
that Jesus walked and how to live a victorious life here on earth.
Pray and ask for the help of the Holy Spirit and journey through
this God inspired book today and your life will never be the same
again. Pastor Duane is gifted to teach a simple, balanced,
uncompromised, Word of God in a manner that all can grasp easily.
'He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept
hidden... In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy
alike' Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less
caustic in his opinion of the weak and cuckolded Claudius and the
'artist' Nero. The Annals is a gripping account of the Roman
emperors who followed Augustus, the founder of the imperial system,
and of the murders, sycophancy, plotting, and oppression that
marked this period in Rome. Tacitus provides the earliest and most
detailed account of Boudicca's rebellion in Britain, and his
history also relates the great fire of Rome in the reign of Nero,
and the persecution of the Christians that followed. He deplores
the depravity of the emperors, whose behaviour he sees as proof of
the corrupting force of absolute power. J. C. Yardley's translation
is vivid and accurate, and Anthony A. Barrett's introduction and
notes provide invaluable historical and cultural context. ABOUT THE
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Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
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