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The collective inquiries in this volume address ethnicity in
ancient Africa as social fact and political artifact along numerous
dimensions. Is ethnicity a useful analytic? What can archaeology
say about the kinds of deeper time questions which scholars have
asked of identities in Africa? Eleven authors engage with
contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological
perspectives to examine how ideas of self-understanding, belonging,
and difference in Africa were made and unmade. They examine how
these intersect with other salient domains of social experience:
states, landscapes, discourses, memory, technology, politics, and
power. The various chapters cover broad geographic and temporal
ground, following an arc across Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon,
the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and East Africa, spanning
from prehistory to the colonial period.
Since the publication of the first edition of Fundamentals of
Digital Switching in 1983, there has been substantial improvement
in digital switching technology and in digital networks. Packet
switching has advanced from a low-speed data-oriented switching
approach into a robust broadband technology which supports services
ranging from low-speed data to video. This technology has eclipsed
the flexibility of circuit switching. Fiber optic cable has
advanced since the first edition and has substantially changed the
technology of transmission. to research in optical devices to find
a still better means of This success has led switching. Digital
switching systems continue to benefit from the 100-fold improvement
in the capabilities of semiconductor devices which has occurred
during the past decade. The chip industry forecasts a similar
escalation in complexity during the next 10 years. Networks of
switching systems have changed due to regulatory policy reform in
many nations, including the breakup of the Bell System in the
United States, the introduction of new types of carriers in Japan,
competition in the United Kingdom, and a reexamination of public
policy in virtually all nations. Standards bodies have been
productive in specifying new capabilities for future networks
involving interactive and distributive services through STM and A
TM technologies.
Until recently, much research in language comprehension operated
under the assumption that comprehenders initially identified the
syntactic structure of sentences they were hearing or reading
without regard to the meanings of the words in the sentences. A
significant amount of recent work has challenged that position,
however, and there is now abundant evidence that lexical
information plays a central role in sentence processing. The papers
in this special issue reflect the increased status on lexical
representations in sentence processing research. The authors
approach the question of the precise role of lexical information in
sentence comprehension from a variety of theoretical perspectives.
They supplement experimental psycholinguistic research with work in
neighboring fields, including concepts and categorization,
theoretical linguistics, and computational modeling. The volume
should be of interest to psycholinguistics, cognitive scientists,
linguistics and computer scientists.
Originally published in 1991, although written in the 1970s when
the New Orthodoxy was exerting its most powerful influence upon
students of the period, this book examines what changed and what
did not change in Germany as a result of the Revolution of 1918. It
discusses in particular, aspects of German life which the Social
Democrats had singled out for change, and specifically political,
land, and educational reform and the liberalization of the cultural
and artistic climate.
The collective inquiries in this volume address ethnicity in
ancient Africa as social fact and political artifact along numerous
dimensions. Is ethnicity a useful analytic? What can archaeology
say about the kinds of deeper time questions which scholars have
asked of identities in Africa? Eleven authors engage with
contemporary anthropological, historical and archaeological
perspectives to examine how ideas of self-understanding, belonging,
and difference in Africa were made and unmade. They examine how
these intersect with other salient domains of social experience:
states, landscapes, discourses, memory, technology, politics, and
power. The various chapters cover broad geographic and temporal
ground, following an arc across Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon,
the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and East Africa, spanning
from prehistory to the colonial period.
Architecture of the Last Colony surveys the most important
extantbuildings in the state of Georgia, focusing on structures
that showcase successful historic preservation practices and
techniques. Richly illustrated with full-color, large-format
photographs of these structures along with descriptions of their
architectural significance, this book tells the story of how
Georgia’s built environment reflects its growth from 1733 to the
present. While numerous books about Georgia architecture feature
buildings that have been lost to demolition, this volume focuses on
extant structures that readers can visit and observe for
themselves. The buildings range in style from the folk-art
structures of St. EOM’s Pasaquan and Howard Finster’s Paradise
Gardens to the suburban Craftsman bungalows of Leila Ross Wilburn
to the lavish antebellum mansions of Savannah and Athens, Georgia.
Noted architectural photographers, including Brian Brown, Diane
Kirkland, James Lockhart, Charlie Miller, and John Tatum, provide
the companion photographs. The six chapters in the book, written by
architectural historians with subject-matter expertise, are
organized chronologically and by architectural style, covering the
earliest buildings in Georgia up through significant contemporary
structures of the twentieth century. These buildings tell a diverse
story that shows how nationally significant architects and Native
Americans, pioneer, female, and African American architects have
all contributed to Georgia’s built environment.
This unique volume presents chapters written on the areas of
life-testing and reliability by many well-known researchers who
have contributed significantly to these two areas over the years.
Chapters cover a wide range of topics such as inference under
censoring and truncation, reliability growth models, designs to
improve quality, prediction techniques, Bayesian analysis of
reliability, multivariate methods, accelerated testing, and more.
The book is written in an easy-to-follow style, first presenting
the necessary theoretical details and then illustrating the methods
with a numerical examples wherever possible. Many tables and graphs
that are essential for the use of some of the new methodologies are
presented throughout the volume. Numerous examples provide the
reader with a clear understanding of the methods presented as well
as with insight into the applications of these results.
This unique volume presents chapters written on the areas of life-testing and reliability by many well-known researchers who have contributed significantly to these two areas over the years. Chapters cover a wide range of topics such as inference under censoring and truncation, reliability growth models, designs to improve quality, prediction techniques, Bayesian analysis of reliability, multivariate methods, accelerated testing, and more. The book is written in an easy-to-follow style, first presenting the necessary theoretical details and then illustrating the methods with a numerical examples wherever possible. Many tables and graphs that are essential for the use of some of the new methodologies are presented throughout the volume. Numerous examples provide the reader with a clear understanding of the methods presented as well as with insight into the applications of these results.
Until recently, much research in language comprehension operated
under the assumption that comprehenders initially identified the
syntactic structure of sentences they were hearing or reading
without regard to the meanings of the words in the sentences. A
significant amount of recent work has challenged that position,
however, and there is now abundant evidence that lexical
information plays a central role in sentence processing. The papers
in this special issue reflect the increased status on lexical
representations in sentence processing research. The authors
approach the question of the precise role of lexical information in
sentence comprehension from a variety of theoretical perspectives.
They supplement experimental psycholinguistic research with work in
neighboring fields, including concepts and categorization,
theoretical linguistics, and computational modeling. The volume
should be of interest to psycholinguistics, cognitive scientists,
linguistics and computer scientists.
This collection of essays on Trans-Mediterranean Francospheres
offers an original examination of cultural production and the flows
between urban capitals and “capital” in and of a selection of
Mediterranean cities and sites. In three parts, the book covers
both familiar and overlooked terrain, in chapters which examine
writing the city, the transit between different poles, film and EU
designated cultural capitals. The collection therefore brings
together texts and their critical readings in new comparative ways.
Following Jacques Derrida’s peregrinations in L’Autre Cap
(1991), the volume interrogates the what of Europe; the when or
where of Paris; the who of the Mediterranean. Or might the
Mediterranean fall under the rubric of paleonomy, that is, as
Michael Naas recalls Derrida’s words in Positions: “the
‘strategic’ necessity that requires the occasional maintenance
of an old name in order to launch a new concept.” Taking this
forward, we understand the Mediterranean as an old name to launch a
new concept and the essays in the book each reflect on this in
different ways. Issues concerning identity are challenged, since a
Metropolitan, European, Arab or African identity may be preferred
over a Mediterranean one. As borders become reinforced in the
region, trans-Mediterranean bridging narratives may be thwarted,
especially by those who write across Europe, Africa and the Middle
East, in the face of the contemporary refugee crisis. Finally,
chapters explore what it means to define a Mediterranean
city—such as Marseille as European Capital of Culture—and
interrogate how this feeds into the cultural production of a city
whose multi-ethnic identities are as outward-looking towards North
Africa as they are inward towards the French capital. Contributors:
Silvia Baage, Marzia Caporale, Angela Giovanangeli, Mark Ingram,
Christa Jones, Gemma King, Claire Launchbury, Megan C. MacDonald,
Agnès Peysson-Zeiss, Ipek Çelik Rappas, Alison Rice, Rania Said
Ripped from motherland and family, ethnically mixed to quell the
potential of uprisings, and brutalized by regimes of hard labor,
the heart - the spirit - of Africa did not stop beating in the New
World. Rather, it survived and has re-emerged; changed by contacts
with new cultures and environments, but still part of the continuum
of African tradition: an African Re-Genesis. This is the first
volume in its field to emphasize the interdisciplinary temporal and
geographic comparative research of Archaeology, Anthropology,
History and Linguistics to allow us to form unique perspectives on
broader trends in the transformation and (re-) emergence of African
Diaspora cultures. African Re-Genesis confirms that regardless of
discipline, from continental Africa to Europe, the Western
Hemisphere and Indian Ocean, all Diaspora research requires a
relevance to modern communities and sensitivity to the interplay
with contemporary cultural identities. Matters concerning race and
cultural diversity, though ostensibly de-fused by the vocabulary of
political correctness, remain contentious. Indeed, the topic of
racial relations has become to the twenty-first century what sex
was to the nineteenth century - something best not discussed in
public, and better talked around than confronted directly. African
Re-Genesis strikes at the nerve of urgency that the past, present
and future globalization of African cultures, is a cornerstone of
the entire human experience, and it thus deserves recognition as
such.
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator,
politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other
Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise,
dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.
In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we
see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part
he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches,
delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were
political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few of them
incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch and other Italian
humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters
of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by
others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more
striking because most were not written for publication. Six
rhetorical works survive and another in fragments. Philosophical
works include seven extant major compositions and a number of
others; and some lost. There is also poetry, some original, some as
translations from the Greek.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine
volumes.
Since the publication of the first edition of Fundamentals of
Digital Switching in 1983, there has been substantial improvement
in digital switching technology and in digital networks. Packet
switching has advanced from a low-speed data-oriented switching
approach into a robust broadband technology which supports services
ranging from low-speed data to video. This technology has eclipsed
the flexibility of circuit switching. Fiber optic cable has
advanced since the first edition and has substantially changed the
technology of transmission. to research in optical devices to find
a still better means of This success has led switching. Digital
switching systems continue to benefit from the 100-fold improvement
in the capabilities of semiconductor devices which has occurred
during the past decade. The chip industry forecasts a similar
escalation in complexity during the next 10 years. Networks of
switching systems have changed due to regulatory policy reform in
many nations, including the breakup of the Bell System in the
United States, the introduction of new types of carriers in Japan,
competition in the United Kingdom, and a reexamination of public
policy in virtually all nations. Standards bodies have been
productive in specifying new capabilities for future networks
involving interactive and distributive services through STM and A
TM technologies.
Originally published in 1991, although written in the 1970s when
the New Orthodoxy was exerting its most powerful influence upon
students of the period, this book examines what changed and what
did not change in Germany as a result of the Revolution of 1918. It
discusses in particular, aspects of German life which the Social
Democrats had singled out for change, and specifically political,
land, and educational reform and the liberalization of the cultural
and artistic climate.
Dead Simple Python dives deep into the nuts and bolts of the Python
programming language. It unpacks the technical 'whys' and 'hows' of
the language's fundamental concepts and helps readers use these
concepts to write idiomatic Python. Readers go from basics to
project deployment in under 400 pages.
The most comprehensive discussion available of the work of
philosopher, John McDowell.
Contains newly commissioned papers by distinguished philosophers on
McDowell's work, along with substantial replies to each by McDowell
himself.
The contributors are philosophers with international reputations
for their work in the areas in which they are contributing.
Covers the whole of McDowell's philosophy, including his
contributions in ancient philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy
of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology.
McDowell's replies to the contributions in this volume contribute
to the body of his work.
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