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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.
All 23 episodes from the fifth season of the American crime drama
following an elite team of FBI profilers as they analyse the
country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next
moves before they strike again. Episodes are: 'Faceless, Nameless',
'Haunted', 'Reckoner', 'Hopeless', 'Cradle to Grave', 'The Eyes
Have It', 'The Performer', 'Outfoxed', '100', 'The Slave of Duty',
'Retaliation', 'The Uncanny Valley', 'Risky Business', 'Parasite',
'Public Enemy', 'Mosley Lane', 'Solitary Man', 'The Fight', 'Rite
of Passage', '...A Thousand Words', 'Exit Wounds', 'The Internet Is
Forever' and 'Our Darkest Hour'.
Most scholars of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament recognize Ruth's
simplicity and beauty, yet there has been little consensus in
critical scholarship related to the book's origin and purpose.
Opinions on the text's date range from the early monarchic period
down to the Post-Exilic period, and interpreters argue over whether
the narrative served to whitewash David's lineage, or if it held
Ruth out as a positive example of Gentile inclusion in the Judean
community. With an eclectic approach drawing on traditional
exegesis, analysis of inner-biblical allusions, comparisons of
legal and linguistic data, and modern refugee research, Edward
Allen Jones III argues that Ruth is, indeed, best understood as a
call for an inclusive attitude toward any Jew or Gentile who
desired to join the Judean community in the early Post-Exilic
period. Within the narrative's world, only Boaz welcomes Ruth into
the Bethlehemite community, yet the text's re-use of other biblical
narratives makes it clear that Ruth stands on par with Israel's
great matriarchs. Though certain segments of the Judean community
sought to purify their nation by expelling foreign elements in the
Restoration period, Yhwh's loving-kindness in Ruth's life
demonstrates his willingness to use any person to build up his
people.
This book clarifies the advent of Liangzhu Culture and analyses the
morphology, structure and internal social organization of
grass-root settlements, medium-size settlements and the ancient
city of Liangzhu, as well as the religious beliefs, ideology and
power mechanisms represented by jade. Further, the book explains
how the low-lying location and humid environment in the water-net
plain area prompted the creation of man-made platforms or pillars,
forming small and densely settled residential areas, and ultimately
the water villages of southern China. Developments between man and
nature accelerated the process of civilization, leading to the
polarization of social classes and pyramid-shaped residential
structures containing cities, towns and villages. Offering unique
insights into the social vitality and structure of Liangzhu
society, the book is one of the most important academic works on
interpreting the origins of Liangzhu Civilization and investigating
Chinese Civilization.
What do we mean when call something a lyric poem? How many kinds of
lyric are there? Are there fewer now than there were in 1920 or
1820 or 1620? The purpose of Forms of Late Modernist Lyric is to
show that our oldest styles of poetic articulation - the elegy, the
ode, the hymn - have figured all too briefly in modern genealogies
of lyric, and that they have proved especially seductive, curiously
enough, to avant-garde practitioners in the Anglophone tradition.
The poets in question - Jorie Graham, Frank O'Hara, Michael Haslam,
J. H. Prynne, Claudia Rankine, and others - have thickened the
texture of lyric practice at a time when the growing tendency in
critical circles has been to dissolve points of difference within
the genre itself. The broader aim of this volume is to demonstrate
that experimental poets since 1945 have not always been rebarbative
and anti-traditional, but rather that their recourse to familiar
forms and shapes of thought should prompt us to reconsider late
modernism as a crucial phase in the evolving history of lyric.
CONTRIBUTORS: Ruth Abbott, Edward Allen, Gareth Farmer, Fiona
Green, Drew Milne, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Sophie Read, Matthew Sperling,
Esther Osorio Whewell, John Wilkinson
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