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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Religious studies and research has gained a lot of interest and
considerable attention from researchers, policy makers, and
practitioners during the last few years. Though interest has
increased, religious tourism is vastly underrepresented in modern
research and not much is known on the subject's presence in most
countries. Global Perspectives on Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
provides emerging research on religious tourism, the cultural
impact of religion, and religiosity's impact on new market
products. Highlighting the prevalence of religiosity, readers will
learn tourism's impact on the world economy and the growing
research in religious tourism, this book is an important resource
for academic societies, entrepreneurs, policy makers, researchers,
and educators.
Set in America and Europe, David John's Flight from Berlin is a
masterful blend of fact and fiction, drama and suspense--a riveting
story of love, courage, and betrayal that culminates in a
breathtaking race against the forces of evil.
August 1936: The eyes of the world are on Berlin, where Adolf
Hitler is using the Olympic Games to showcase his powerful new
regime. British journalist Richard Denham is determined to report
the truth: that the carefully staged spectacle masks the Nazis'
ruthless brutality. Sparks fly when the cynical newspaperman meets
the beautiful and rebellious American socialite Eleanor Emerson, an
athlete covering the Games as a celebrity columnist. Their chance
encounter at a reception thrown by Joseph Goebbels leads them into
a treacherous game of espionage. At stake: a mysterious dossier
that threatens the leadership of the Third Reich. While Berlin
welcomes the world, the Nazi capital becomes a terrifying place for
Richard and Eleanor. Drawn together by danger and passion, they
must execute a daring plan to survive. But one wrong move could be
their last.
In 1991, Laura Slatkin published The Power of Thetis: Allusion and
Interpretation in the Iliad, in which she argued that Homer
knowingly situated the storyworld of the Iliad against the backdrop
of an older world of mythos by which the events in the Iliad are
explained and given traction. Slatkin’s focus was on Achilles’
mother, Thetis: an ostensibly marginal and powerless goddess,
Thetis nevertheless drives the plot of the Iliad, being allusively
credited with the power to uphold or challenge the rule of Zeus.
Now, almost thirty years after Slatkin’s publication, this timely
volume re-examines depictions and receptions of this ambiguous
goddess, in works ranging from archaic Greek poetry to twenty-first
century cinema. Twenty authors build upon Slatkin’s readings to
explore Thetis and multiple roles she played in Western literature,
art, material culture, religion, and myth. Ever the shapeshifter,
Thetis has been and continues to be reconceptualised: supporter or
opponent of Zeus’ regime, model bride or unwilling victim of
Peleus’ rape, good mother or child-murderess, figure of comedy or
monstrous witch. Hers is an enduring power of transformation,
resonating within art and literature.
Published translations of the Iliad run into many dozens, if not
hundreds, but none present the story in the form of sonnets. The
sonnet works well, conveying the story fluidly and giving a sense
of the marvellous poetry that is found in Homer. The narrative
within the Iliad is followed closely; major omissions being those
relating to exploits prior to the siege of Troy, as related by
elders such as Nestor, and much of the detail of one-to-one combat
involving the minor characters. The 317 poems within this volume
may well be the longest, strict, sonnet sequence ever written in
English.
All nations are ruled by the World Parliament which promotes the
idea of uniting all civilisations so as to create a utopia of peace
and prosperity. However, everything is not as idealistic as it
appears. This is a society controlled and monitored by
micro-chipped implants created by a branch of the government called
G.O.D.TECH. These cybernetic implants provide a means of
mass-identification for the World Parliament and a service that
allows all trade and communication between all peoples and races on
the planet. Although these chip implants are mandatory by law,
there are those who have refused to accept them. These people are
automatically branded 'Terrorists', hunted down and forced to
either accept chip implantation or face criminal charges. These so
called Terrorists have a justified fear of being implanted, as many
of them are aware that beneath the wholesome and trustworthy public
face of G.O.D.TECH is a dark and unholy core with the ultimate aim
of controlling all the peoples of the world.
This book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust
fiction. Using Gillian Rose's theory of Holocaust piety, it argues
that, rather than enhancing our understanding of the Holocaust,
contemporary fiction has instead become overly focused on
gratuitous representations of bodies in pain. The book begins by
discussing the locations and imagery which have come to define our
understanding of the Holocaust, before then highlighting how this
gradual simplification has led to an increasing sense of emotional
distance from the historical past. Holocaust fiction, the book
argues, attempts to close this emotional and temporal distance by
creating an emotional connection to bodies in pain. Using different
concepts relating to embodied experience - from Sonia Kruks' notion
of feeling-with to Alison Landsberg's prosthetic memory - the book
analyses several key examples of Holocaust literature and film to
establish whether fiction still possesses the capacity to approach
the Holocaust impiously.
The 2 nd Edition of Analog Integrated Circuit Design focuses on
more coverage about several types of circuits that have increased
in importance in the past decade. Furthermore, the text is enhanced
with material on CMOS IC device modeling, updated processing layout
and expanded coverage to reflect technical innovations. CMOS
devices and circuits have more influence in this edition as well as
a reduced amount of text on BiCMOS and bipolar information. New
chapters include topics on frequency response of analog ICs and
basic theory of feedback amplifiers.
High Temperature Oxidation and Corrosion of Metals, Second Edition,
provides a high level understanding of the fundamental mechanisms
of high temperature alloy oxidation. It uses this understanding to
develop methods of predicting oxidation rates and the way they
change with temperature, gas chemistry, and alloy composition. The
book focuses on the design and selection of alloy compositions
which provide optimal resistance to attack by corrosive gases,
providing a rigorous treatment of the thermodynamics and kinetics
underlying high temperature alloy corrosion. In addition, it
emphasizes quantitative calculations for predicting reaction rates
and the effects of temperature, oxidant activities, and alloy
compositions. Users will find this book to be an indispensable
source of information for researchers and students who are dealing
with high temperature corrosion.
Real-world systems that involve some non-smooth change are often
well-modeled by piecewise-smooth systems. However there still
remain many gaps in the mathematical theory of such systems. This
doctoral thesis presents new results regarding bifurcations of
piecewise-smooth, continuous, autonomous systems of ordinary
differential equations and maps. Various codimension-two,
discontinuity induced bifurcations are unfolded in a rigorous
manner. Several of these unfoldings are applied to a mathematical
model of the growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (a common yeast).
The nature of resonance near border-collision bifurcations is
described; in particular, the curious geometry of resonance tongues
in piecewise-smooth continuous maps is explained in detail.
NeimarkSacker-like border-collision bifurcations are both
numerically and theoretically investigated. A comprehensive
background section is conveniently provided for those with little
or no experience in piecewise-smooth systems.
It has been said that the only asset that a lawyer has is time. But
the reality is that a lawyer's greatest asset is information. The
practice and the business of law is all about information exchange.
The flow of information travels in a number of different directions
during the life of a case. A client communicates certain facts to a
lawyer. The lawyer assimilates those facts and seeks out
specialised legal information which may be applicable to those
facts. In the course of a generation there has been a technological
revolution which represents a paradigm shift in the flow of
information and communication. Collisions in the Digital Paradigm
is about how the law deals with digital information technologies
and some of the problems that arise when the law has to deal with
issues arising in a new paradigm.
This inspiring new approach is based on extensive research by an
expert on relationships and supported by a wealth of statistics and
case studies. Relationships are at the heart of all that we do and
achieve, indeed our very identity. When relationships are neglected
in a business context, the authors argue, they lead to poor health,
ineffective management and low output at work. The authors focus on
5 key components of successful relationships and how these can be
achieved: - Encounter (personal rather than impersonal contact is
best) - Storyline (strength of the relationship over time) -
Knowledge (how deeply is information shared?) - Fairness (equal
treatment and mutual respect) - Alignment (sharing values,
objectives and purpose)
This original work captures the heart, and enlarges the soul, of
reform movements within the study of governance and bureaucracy.
Author David John Farmer provides constitutive features of a new
consciousness for democratic governance that will revolutionize the
subject of public administration. To Kill the King sketches
post-traditional consciousness in terms of three rejuvenating
concepts--thinking as play, justice as seeking, and practice as
art. In a series of critical essays on each of these concepts, the
book describes a post-traditional consciousness of governance that
can yield enormous improvement in the quality of life for each
individual. To Kill the King will appeal to any professor (whether
in the post-modernist camp or not) who wants to expose students to
fresh challenges and new insights.
This original work captures the heart, and enlarges the soul, of
reform movements within the study of governance and bureaucracy.
Author David John Farmer provides constitutive features of a new
consciousness for democratic governance that will revolutionize the
subject of public administration. To Kill the King sketches
post-traditional consciousness in terms of three rejuvenating
concepts--thinking as play, justice as seeking, and practice as
art. In a series of critical essays on each of these concepts, the
book describes a post-traditional consciousness of governance that
can yield enormous improvement in the quality of life for each
individual. To Kill the King will appeal to any professor (whether
in the post-modernist camp or not) who wants to expose students to
fresh challenges and new insights.
Co-ordination of movement plays a key role in human development and is an active area in sport and health sciences. This book looks in detail at how children develop basic skills, such as walking and reaching for objects, and more complex skills, such as throwing and catching a ball accurately or riding a bicycle.
Development of Movement Co-ordination in Children is informed by five major theoretical perspectives - neural maturation, information-processing, direct perception, dynamic systems and constraint theory - and these theories are explained in an introductory chapter.
The international contributions are then brought together under the headings of ergonomics, health sciences and sport. Focusing on practical applications, individual chapters cover many different aspects of movement behaviour and development, ranging from children's overestimation of their physical abilities and the links to injury proneness to the co-ordination of kicking techniques. Both normal and abnormal development is considered.
Development of Movement Co-ordination in Children will be of considerable interest to students, teachers and professionals in the fields of sport science, kinesiology, physical education, ergonomics and developmental psychology.
This comprehensive text presents a critical discussion of the scopes and limitations of various organic synthetic methodologies that are available for performing asymmetric transformations. In addition to purely chemical methods, the book covers applications of new enzymes and other biological systems that are increasingly useful in asymmetric methodology.
This book was shortlisted for the Lord Aberdare Prize 2013. While
the relationship between amateurism and sport is well documented,
the impact of this ethos on the professional coaches and trainers
who directed and supported elite sporting performance has been
entirely overlooked. This book explores the foundations of coaching
and training practices and chronicles how traditional approaches to
performance preparation evolved during the nineteenth century.
Drawing on primary material to uncover the life courses of coaches
and their families, the author argues that approaches to coaching
replicated the traditional craft approach to skilled work. The
advent of centralized, amateur-controlled governing bodies of sport
created a significant shift in the coaching environment for
professional coaches, meaning that individuals had to adapt to the
master-servant relationship preferred by the middle classes.
Cultural differences in the value accorded to coaching also
contributed to a decline in the competitiveness of British athletes
in the international arena. The author concludes by arguing that
despite scientific advances, Edwardian coaching practices remained
reliant on long-established training principles and that coaching
practices in any period are inevitably an amalgamation of both
tradition and innovation.
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