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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.
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.
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Myths & Legends (Hardcover)
Jk Jackson; Foreword by William G. Doty
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R625
R517
Discovery Miles 5 170
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Creation myths, quests, the eternal battle between good and evil,
these are some of the classic tales that feed the ravenous beast of
modern culture. For many the classical traditions of the Greeks and
the Romans occupy the imagination but the ancient world was a
lively and fertile source of stories, reaching much further back
than the pantheon of Zeus and his fellow gods. For the early
civilisations, from the ancient Chinese to African tribal
societies, stories were told to explain the origins of fierce
weather, of unexplained disasters, of floods and earthquakes. Many
traditions developed independently but still echoed similar themes
in the natural human desire to understand the world around us. This
new book brings to life the myths and legends of eight intriguing
traditions: Native American, Chinese, Celtic, Scottish, Greek,
Viking, Indian and African. With a cast of characters as broad and
wide as the ancient river Styx the book is packed with the great
themes of life: love, revenge, eternal conflict, the obsession with
power and the everlasting the battle between the wily and the
strong. This powerful new book is a dazzling collection of the most
gripping tales, vividly retold.
Elementary Statistics: A Guide to Data Analysis Using R provides
students with an introduction to both the field of statistics and
R, one of the most widely used languages for statistical computing,
analysis, and graphing in a variety of fields, including the
sciences, finance, banking, health care, e-commerce, and marketing.
Part I provides an overview of both statistics and R. Part II
focuses on descriptive statistics and probability. In Part III,
students learn about discrete and continuous probability
distributions with chapters addressing probability distributions,
binominal probability distributions, and normal probability
distributions. Part IV speaks to statistical inference with content
covering confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, chi-square tests
and F-distributions. The final part explores additional statistical
inference and assumptions, including correlation, regression, and
nonparametric statistics. Helpful appendices provide students with
an index of terminology, an index of applications, a glossary of
symbols, and a guide to the most common R commands. Elementary
Statistics is an ideal resource for introductory courses in
undergraduate statistics, graduate statistics, and data analysis
across the disciplines.
A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical (1839),
combines the practical knowledge of an engraver with the critical
inquiry of an historian. Compiled and edited by William Andrew
Chatto, an established author with an interest in woodcuts, the
book was originally conceived by the wood-engraver John Jackson,
who provided the book's more than three hundred engravings. Roughly
three quarters of the Treatise is concerned with the historical
evolution of engraving, from the Egyptian hieroglyph stamps held at
the British Museum through the masterful works of Albrecht D rer to
the decline and reinvigoration of the art in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. Practical analysis permeates the text as a
whole, with the final section explaining more fully how a block is
chosen, cut, and even repaired. The book is therefore of interest
to art historians, historians of the book, and even artist
practitioners interested in nineteenth-century methods.
The Paris peace settlements following the First World War remain
amongst the most controversial treaties in history. Bringing
together leading international historians, this volume assesses the
extent to which a new international order, combining old and new
political forms, emerged from the peace negotiations and
settlements after 1918. Taking account of new historiographical
perspectives and methodological approaches to the study of
peacemaking after the First World War, it views the peace
negotiations and settlements after 1918 as a site of remarkable
innovations in the practice of international politics. The
contributors address how a wide range of actors set out new ways of
thinking about international order, established innovative
institutions, and revolutionised the conduct of international
relations. They illustrate the ways in which these innovations were
merged with existing practices, institutions, and concepts to shape
the international order that emerged out of the Paris Peace
Conference of 1919.
John Aubrey (1626-1697), antiquary, natural philosopher, and
virtuoso, is best-remembered today for his Brief Lives, biographies
of his contemporaries filled with luminous detail which have been
mined for anecdotes by generations of scholars. However, Aubrey was
much more than merely the hand behind an invaluable source of
biographical material; he was also the author of thousands of pages
of manuscript notebooks covering everything from the origins of
Stonehenge to the evolution of folklore. Kelsey Jackson Williams
explores these manuscripts in full for the first time and in doing
so illuminates the intricacies of Aubrey's investigations into
Britain's past. The Antiquary is both a major new study of an
important early modern writer and a significant intervention in the
developing historiography of antiquarianism. It discusses the key
aspects of Aubrey's work in a series of linked chapters on
archaeology, architecture, biography, folklore, and philology,
concluding with a revisionist interpretation of Aubrey's
antiquarian writings. While covering a wide variety of scholarly
territory, it remains rooted in the common thread of Aubrey's own
intellectual development and the continual interaction between his
texts as he studied, discovered, revised, and rewrote them across
four decades. Its conclusions not only substantially reshape our
understanding of Aubrey and his works, but also provide new
understandings of the methodologies, ambitions, and achievements of
antiquarianism across early modern Europe.
Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the
half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully
realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period
of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first
book-length study to systematically challenge that notion. Instead,
it argues that the era between approximately 1680 and 1745 was a
'First' Scottish Enlightenment, part of the continent-wide
phenomenon of early Enlightenment and led by the Jacobites,
Episcopalians, and Catholics of north-eastern Scotland. It makes
this argument through an intensive study of the dramatic changes in
historiographical practice which took place in Scotland during this
era, showing how the documentary scholarship of Jean Mabillon and
the Maurists was eagerly received and rapidly developed in Scottish
historical circles, resulting in the wholesale demolition of the
older, Humanist myths of Scottish origins and their replacement
with the foundations of our modern understanding of early Scottish
history. This volume accordingly challenges many of the truisms
surrounding seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish history,
pushing back against notions of pre-Enlightenment Scotland as
backward, insular, and intellectually impoverished and mapping a
richly polymathic, erudite, and transnational web of scholars,
readers, and polemicists. It highlights the enduring cultural links
with France and argues for the central importance of Scotland's two
principal religious minorities-Episcopalians and Catholics-in the
growth of Enlightenment thinking. As such, it makes a major
intervention in the intellectual and cultural histories of
Scotland, early modern Europe, and the Enlightenment itself.
This exciting new edition covers the core subject areas of
arithmetic, algebra, mensuration in 2D and 3D, trigonometry and
geometry, graphs, calculus and statistics and probability for
Marine Engineering students for the Merchant Navy OOW
qualification. Initial examples have been designed purely to
practise mathematical technique and, once these skills have been
mastered, further examples focus on engineering situations where
the appropriate skills may be utilised. The practical questions are
primarily from a marine engineering background but questions from
other disciplines, such as electrical engineering, will also be
covered, and reference made to the use of advanced calculators
where relevant.
This book focuses on the rules-based multilateral trading system
established by the World Trade Organization, with particular
emphasis given to the rich and detailed jurisprudence developed by
the WTO's Appellate Body. The book also devotes considerable
attention to national laws operating in the shadow of the WTO
system (such as antidumping and countervailing duty laws), and to
interesting new developments associated with free trade agreements
such as the USMCA. After introductory chapters on international
economics, international law, and US constitutional and
institutional issues relating to international trade regulation,
the book explores the WTO's structure and takes a detailed look at
its dispute settlement system. The heart of the book then treats
the basic GATT rules on (i) trade liberalization (tariffs and
quotas), (ii) non-discrimination (MFN and national treatment and
the exceptions for FTAs, health and conservation), (iii) standards
and (iv) trade remedies (safeguards, dumping and subsidies).
Additional chapters cover trade in services, intellectual property
issues and several other trade-related issues. The new 7th edition
offers a basic understanding of the international economic system,
the impact of international economic interdependence and the
struggle of legal institutions to cope with this and other aspects
of globalization.
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