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Written by Grandmaster Daniel King, How To Win At Chess introduces
each piece and its moves, explains key principles such as check and
how to open a game, before exploring tricks such as forks, pins and
skewers. With a fresh, contemporary new design, it’s packed with
graded test positions and training exercises to help young players
improve their game as they progress through the book. What’s
more, readers can brush up on the fascinating history of chess,
with features on legendary matches and the greatest players,
including the current world champion, Magnus Carlsen. Chess has
been revolutionized in recent years – thanks to the success of
Netflix’s world-beating The Queen’s Gambit, the rise of chess
streaming on Twitch, the desire for self-improvement during
lockdown, and the global appeal of Magnus Carlsen, the youngest
player ever to top the world rankings – and its newfound
popularity with young and old alike shows no sign of waning.
This volume surveys the 'Syriac world', the culture that grew up
among the Syriac-speaking communities from the second century CE
and which continues to exist and flourish today, both in its
original homeland of Syria and Mesopotamia, and in the worldwide
diaspora of Syriac-speaking communities. The five sections examine
the religion; the material, visual, and literary cultures; the
history and social structures of this diverse community; and Syriac
interactions with their neighbours ancient and modern. There are
also detailed appendices detailing the patriarchs of the different
Syriac denominations, and another appendix listing useful online
resources for students. The Syriac World offers the first complete
survey of Syriac culture and fills a significant gap in modern
scholarship. This volume will be an invaluable resource to
undergraduate and postgraduate students of Syriac and Middle
Eastern culture from antiquity to the modern era. Chapter 26 of
this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
3.0 license.
https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138899018_oachapter26.pdf
This volume offers papers that emerged from the meeting of the
International Syriac Language Project (ISLP) which took place at
Stellenbosch University, South Africa, in September 2016, and at
the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, in August 2017. The ISLP
invites research not only into Syriac, but extends its range to all
ancient language lexicography. Hence its proceedings enrich the
whole field of Syriac, Hebrew, and Greek lexicography. The ISLP
especially encourages research into the interfaces between these
languages, and hence the current volume contains a number of papers
on translation equivalence: Hebrew-Greek, Hebrew-Syriac, and
Greek-Syriac. Other philologically focused pieces explore matters
relating to textual and manuscript traditions. All of these are
preceded in the present volume by an extensive review of the
production and achievements of the ISLP to date.
Philoponus' On Aristotle Categories 1-5 discusses the nature of
universals, preserving the views of Philoponus' teacher Ammonius,
as well as presenting a Neoplatonist interpretation of Aristotle's
Categories. Philoponus treats universals as concepts in the human
mind produced by abstracting a form or nature from the material
individual in which it has its being. The work is important for its
own philosophical discussion and for the insight it sheds on its
sources. For considerable portions, On Aristotle Categories 1-5
resembles the wording of an earlier commentary which declares
itself to be an anonymous record taken from the seminars of
Ammonius. Unlike much of Philoponus' later writing, this commentary
does not disagree with either Aristotle or Ammonius, and suggests
the possibility that Philoponus either had access to this earlier
record or wrote it himself. This edition explores these questions
of provenance, alongside the context, meaning and implications of
Philoponus' work. The English translation is accompanied by an
introduction, comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography,
glossary of translated terms and a subject index. The latest volume
in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, the edition makes
this philosophical work accessible to a modern readership.
Philoponus was a Christian writing in Greek in 6th century CE
Alexandria, where some students of philosophy were bilingual in
Syriac as well as Greek. In this Greek treatise translated from the
surviving Syriac version, Philoponus discusses the logic of parts
and wholes, and he illustrates the spread of the pagan and
Christian philosophy of 6th century CE Greeks to other cultures, in
this case to Syria. Philoponus, an expert on Aristotle's
philosophy, had turned to theology and was applying his knowledge
of Aristotle to disputes over the human and divine nature of
Christ. Were there two natures and were they parts of a whole, as
the Emperor Justinian proposed, or was there only one nature, as
Philoponus claimed with the rebel minority, both human and divine?
If there were two natures, were they parts like the ingredients in
a chemical mixture? Philoponus attacks the idea. Such ingredients
are not parts, because they each inter-penetrate the whole mixture.
Moreover, he abandons his ingenious earlier attempts to support
Aristotle's view of mixture by identifying ways in which such
ingredients might be thought of as potentially preserved in a
chemical mixture. Instead, Philoponus says that the ingredients are
destroyed, unlike the human and divine in Christ. This English
translation of Philoponus' treatise is the latest volume in the
Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series and makes this
philosophical work accessible to a modern readership. The
translation in each volume is accompanied by an introduction,
comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography, glossary of
translated terms and a subject index.
The Closed Sicilian has always been a great favorite with club and
tournament players. Here, Grandmaster Daniel King explains the
strategy and tactics of this dynamic opening variation, using model
games for both sides to illustrate the important ideas. Armed with
this book, readers will have everything they need to know to play
the opening with either White or Black.
Grandmaster Daniel King explains the basic elements, strategies and
tactics of the popular English Defence, on which he is a renowned
expert. This book, the first on the English Defence for many years,
provides everything you need to know to start playing the opening
straightaway. It focuses on explaining the key themes and provides
a backbone of essential theoretical knowledge. This is an ideal
battle manual for club and tournament players. (6 1/8' x 9 1/8',
144 pages, illustrations)
This volume investigates the history and nature of pain in Greek
culture under the Roman Empire (50-250 CE). Traditional accounts of
pain in this society have focused either on philosophical or
medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of 'suffering';
fascination with the pained body has often been assumed to be a
characteristic of Christian society, rather than Imperial culture
in general. This book employs tools from contemporary cultural and
literary theory to examine the treatment of pain in a range of
central cultural discourses from the first three centuries of the
Empire, including medicine, religious writing, novelistic
literature, and rhetorical ekphrasis. It argues instead that pain
was approached from an holistic perspective: rather than treating
pain as a narrowly defined physiological perception, it was
conceived as a type of embodied experience in which ideas about the
body's physiology, the representation and articulation of its
perceptions, as well as the emotional and cognitive impact of pain
were all important facets of what it meant to be in pain. By
bringing this conception to light, scholars are able to redefine
our understanding of the social and emotional fabric of Imperial
society and help to reposition its relationship with the emergence
of Christian society in late antiquity.
Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean
offers a timely re-examination of the relationship between Greek
and non-Greek cultures in this region between 400 BCE and 250 CE.
The conquests of Alexander the Great and his Successors not only
radically reshaped the political landscape, but also significantly
accelerated cultural change: in recent decades there has been an
important historiographical emphasis on the study of the non-Greek
cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean, but less focus on how Greek
cultural elements became increasingly visible. Although the process
of cross-cultural interaction differed greatly across Asia Minor,
Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia, the same overarching questions
apply: why did the non-Greek communities of the Eastern
Mediterranean engage so closely with Greek cultural forms as well
as political practices, and how did this engagement translate into
their daily lives? In exploring the versatility and adaptability of
Greek political structures, such as the polis, and the ways in
which Greek and non-Greek cultures interacted in fields such as
medicine, literature, and art, the essays in this volume aim to
provide new insight into these questions. At the same time, they
prompt a re-interrogation of the process of Hellenization,
exploring whether it is still a useful concept for explaining and
understanding the dynamics of cultural exchange in the Eastern
Mediterranean of this period.
After the success of the Antioch Bible, this publication is a new,
historic edition of the Syriac-English New Testament in a single
volume. The English translations of the New Testament Syriac
Peshitta along with the Syriac text were carried out by an
international team of scholars.
Have you ever wondered: * what motivates some people to work for
free? * what the future of work will look like in a post-pandemic
world? * why organizational values and culture are so critical to
success? The authors explore the answers to these questions and
more in this bestselling introduction to organizational behaviour.
Featuring the flagship Junction Hotel running case study, this text
is the most practical, critical, and complete guide to the subject.
The authors have extensively revised this fourth edition to make it
more relevant than ever before. A new chapter on equality,
diversity, and inclusion, plus cutting-edge material on wellbeing
in the workplace, the climate crisis, ethics in leadership and much
more, reflect the importance of these issues to people and
organizations today. Hear first-hand from twelve key professionals
as they explain in bespoke video interviews woven throughout the
enhanced e-book why leadership, teamwork, and responsible business
practice are crucial in the workplace. For the fourth edition, a
greater global range of examples is provided through the real life
cases including new examples from Brewdog, Muji, and COP26, all of
which help you make the connection between theory and practice.
This book is accompanied by the following online resources: For
students: * Practitioner interviews * Author videos * Self-test
MCQs with answer feedback * Study skills guides * Guided readings
of key research * Extension material * Links to additional
resources * Flashcard glossary For lecturers: * Seminar activities
(including tutor notes and student worksheets) * PowerPoint
presentations * Test bank * Additional case studies * Junction
Hotel Culture Report * Figures from the text
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