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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.
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.
Escape from Culloden is the Chevalier de Johnstone's account of his
escape from the Highlands after the defeat of the Stuart cause at
Culloden, the last battle fought on British soil on 16 April 1746.
This volume comprises selected papers of SEM VI to VIII
(Studientage Englisches Mittelalter), held at Jena, Bochum, and
Zurich between 2004 and 2007. It presents a representative
cross-section of topics in the field of English medieval studies in
Germany and Switzerland. The spectrum ranges from philological
textual criticism, cultural studies centring around the history of
ideas, questions of historical writing, alliteration, and the
depiction of the monstrous in early modern literature, to
philological and linguistic approaches focussing on morphology and
grammar.
A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England
from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era,
finding many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval
longue duree. Even as it transforms human cultures, routines,
attention spans, and the wiring of our brains, the media revolution
of the last few decades also urges a reconsideration of the long
history of reading. The essays in this volume take a new look at
how reading was practised and represented in England from the
seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, using texts
from Aldhelm to Malory and Wynkyn de Worde, arguing that whether
unpicking intricate Latin, contemplating image-texts, or
participating in semiotically-rich public rituals, reading
cultivated and energized the subject's values, perceptions, and
attitudes to the world. Part I, "Practices of Reading", asks how
writers, scribes and artists engaged readerly attention through
textual layout, poetic form, hermeneutic difficulty, or images,
while Part II, "Politics of Reading", explores how different
textual communities manipulated the anxieties and opportunities for
education, moral improvement or entertainment associated with
reading; particular topics addressed include Bible translation and
exegesis, page layout, literary form and readerly practice,
fiction, hermeneutics, and performance. Although it understands
reading as culturally and technologically localized, the book finds
many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval longue
duree and the literatures and literacies that proliferate today.
Contributors: Amy Appleford, Michelle De Groot, Daniel Donoghue,
Andrew James Johnston, Andrew Kraebel, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe,
Catherine Sanok, Samantha Katz Seal, James Simpson, Emily V.
Thornbury, Kathleen Tonry, Kathryn Mogk Wagner, Nicholas Watson,
Erica Weaver, Anna Wilson.
Prepare for success on the ARRT exam and in the practice of
radiography! Essentials of Radiographic Physics and Imaging, 3rd
Edition follows the ASRT recommended curriculum and focuses on what
the radiographer needs to understand to safely and competently
perform radiographic examinations. This comprehensive text gives
you a foundational understanding of basic physics principles such
as atom structure, electricity and magnetism, and electromagnetic
radiation. It then covers imaging principles, radiation production
and characteristics, digital image quality, imaging equipment,
digital image acquisition and display, image analysis, and more-
linking physics to the daily practice of radiographers. New for the
third edition is updated information on radiation classifications,
a shift in focus to SI units, and a thoroughly updated chapter on
Fluoroscopic Imaging. UPDATED! Content reflects the newest
standards outlined by the ARRT and ASRT, providing you with the
information you needed to pass the boards. Chapter Review Questions
at the end of every chapter allow you to evaluate how well you have
mastered the material in each chapter. Critical Thinking Questions
at the end of every chapter offer opportunity for review and
greater challenge. Critical Concept boxes further explain and
emphasize key points in the chapters. Radiation Protection callout
boxes help you understand the ethical obligations to minimize
radiation dosages, shielding, time and distance, how to limit the
field of exposure and what that does to minimize dose, and
technical factors and how they affect the primary beam and image
quality. More than 400 photos and line drawings encourage you to
visualize important concepts. Strong pedagogy, including chapter
objectives, key terms, outlines, bulleted chapter summaries, and
specialty boxes, help you to organize information and focus on what
is most important in each chapter. An emphasis on the practical
information highlights just what you need to know to ace the ARRT
exam and become a competent practitioner. Numerous critique
exercises teach you how to evaluate the quality of radiographic
images and determine which factors produce poor images. NEW! A
shift in focus to SI units aligns with international system of
measurement. UPDATED Information regarding radiation
classifications helps you to understand radiation levels. NEW!
Inclusion of advances in digital imaging helps familiarize you with
state-of-the-art images. NEW and UPDATED! Expanded Digital
Fluoroscopy chapter, familiarizes you with the equipment you will
encounter.
First published in 1790 Edmund Burke's Reflections on the
Revolution in France initiated a debate not only about the nature
of the unprecedented historical events taking place across the
channel, but about the very identity of the British state and its
people. It has subsequently been appropriated by a variety of
conservative and liberal thinkers and has played a major role in
our understanding of the relationship between rhetoric, aesthetics
and politics.In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and
challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical
context in which Reflections on the Revolution in France was
written. The essays consider its reception, its engagements in the
discourses of nationalism and toleration, its legacy to English and
Irish writers of the Romantic period and its impact within our
contemporary cultural and critical theory. The volume demonstrates
a range of interdisciplinary critical methods and cultural
perspectives from which to read Burke's most famous work.This
volume will be the ideal companion to Burke's Reflections for all
students of literature, history, politics and Irish studies.
Performing the Middle Ages from 'Beowulf' to 'Othello' traces the
dialogic nature of the relationship between the Middle Ages and
modernity. Arguing that modern beliefs in the alterity of the
Middle Ages stem from the Middle Ages' own processes of
self-representation, Johnston explores varieties of nostalgia
through a wide selection of texts. This volume spans an extensive
chronological period with a view to demonstrating how our notions
of the medieval have been crucially informed by the past itself.
The study is focused on works which stage that popular literary
archetype - the nostalgic figure of the aristocratic warrior - and
argues that it is this image that provides a structural model for
so many modern perspectives on the Middle Ages. And yet, in the
Middle Ages this model was being deconstructed as it was also being
generated. By moving from the self-consciously archaic heroism of
Beowulf to the scathing comment on chivalric narrative presented in
Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale', Johnston's analysis offers an intriguing
insight into the way medieval texts engage in a continual aesthetic
and ideological critique of their own cultural moment. Using Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight and the Alliterative Morte Arthure as
examples of an incisive critique of the cult of subjectivity and of
a highly self-conscious desire for tradition, Johnston extends his
analysis to the early seventeenth century, and explores the ways in
which Shakespeare's Othello brilliantly deconstructs the very
concept of 'Renaissance Man'. With its interest in issues of
subjectivity, textual performance, and the ideological
self-awareness of medieval culture, Performing the Middle Ages
provides a scholarly and compelling investigation into the Middle
Ages' ability both to understand itself and to shape (post)modern
notions of the medieval.
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