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Meditations (Paperback)
Marcus Aurelius; Edited by M. Hammond; Translated by M. Hammond; Introduction by Diskin Clay
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'Their icy blasts are refreshing and restorative. They tell you the
worst. And having heard the worst, you feel less bad' Blake Morrison
Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher,
without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus
Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections
and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself
and make sense of the universe. While the Meditations were composed to
provide personal consolation and encouragement, Marcus Aurelius also
created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a timeless
collection that has been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers
and readers throughout the centuries.
Translated with notes by MARTIN HAMMOND with an Introduction by DISKIN
CLAY
Despite the significant presence of Cuban immigrants in the US,
current research on Cuban Spanish linguistics remains
underexplored, most crucially its ramifications to areas such as
language contact and change. New analyses are desperately called
for given the increasing interest in this area of research. The
present volume covers these existing lacunae on Cuban Spanish
dialectology by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles
from different theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas,
including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic
approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and the acquisition of
Cuban Spanish as a heritage language. The book is highly valuable
to students and scholars interested in Hispanic linguistics and
Cuban Spanish dialectology.
‘There stood up in the assembly the hero son of Atreus, wide-ruling Agamemnon, in deep anger: fury filled his dark heart full’ The Iliad is the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization. The story centres on the critical events in four days of the tenth and final year of the war between the Greek and Trojans. It describes how the quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilleus sets in motion a tragic sequence of events, which leads to Achilleus’ killing of Hektor and determines the ultimate fate of Troy. But Homer’s theme is not simply war or heroism. With compassion and humanity he presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death, set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background. The Iliad is the first of the world’s great tragedies. Martin Hammond’s acclaimed translation is accompanied by a full introduction and a comprehensive index.
This book presents a unique insight into an extraordinary period of
European history that had far-reaching significance for British
cinema and for the way history itself is represented. The work
collected in this volume draws from the best knowledge, enthusiasm
and critical insight of leading scholars, archivists and historians
specialising in British cinema. The editors are experts in the
field of British silent cinema; in particular, its complex
relationship to the Great War and its afterimage in popular
culture. As the Great War continues to fade from living memory, it
is a significant task to look back at how the cinema industry
responded to that conflict as it unfolded, and how it shaped the
war's memory through the 1910s and 1920s.
This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural
formation - a material artifact and component of cultural
hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural
theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of
other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms
of its cultural and economic work.
The twelve essays in this book explore in depth for the first time
the publishing and reading practices which were formed and changed
by the First World War. Ranging from an exploration of British and
Australian trench journals and the reading practices of Indian
soldiers to the impact of war on the literary figures of the home
front in Britain, these essays provide crucial new historical
information about the production, circulation and reception of
reading matter during a period of international crisis.
This innovative book presents for the first time detailed histories
of the impact of the Great War on British cinema in the silent
period, from actual war footage to fiction filmmaking. In doing so
it explores how cinema helped to shape the public memory of the war
during the 1920s.
This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural
formation - a material artifact and component of cultural
hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural
theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of
other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms
of its cultural and economic work.
This book explores the publishing and reading practices formed and
changed by the First World War. From an exploration of British and
Australian trench journals to the impact of war on the literary
figures of the home front, the essays provide new information about
the production, circulation and reception of reading matter during
this time.
Simple programming expertise is an essential part of many forms of
data collection and analysis for modern linguists and related
language professionals. "Programming for Linguists: JavaTM
Technology for Language Researchers" is a practical introduction to
programming using the JavaTM programming language, a full-powered
language with complete graphics capability that can be run on any
computer. "
Programming for Linguists" includes over one hundred carefully
constructed sample programs that introduce new concepts simply but
also accomplish tasks necessary for anyone who works with language
as data. Many of these programs can be used immediately, with
minimal or no modification. The text is accompanied by exercises,
and all of the programs are available at http:
//www.u.arizona.edu/~hammond.
From Harvard University, one of the world s preeminent
institutions of
liberal education, comes a collection of essays sampling topics
at the forefront of academia in the twenty-first century. Written
by faculty members at the cutting edge of their fields, including
such luminaries as Steven Pinker, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Harry
R. Lewis, these essays offer a clear and accessible overview of
disciplines that are shaping the culture, and even the world.
The authors, among the most respected members of Harvard s
faculty, invite readers to explore subjects as diverse as religious
literacy and Islam, liberty and security in cyberspace, medical
science and epidemiology, energy resources, evolution, morality,
human rights, global history, the dark side of the American
Revolution, American literature and the environment, interracial
literature, and the human mind. They summarize key developments in
their fields in ways that will both entertain and edify those who
seek an education beyond the confines of the classroom.
It is sometimes said that youth is wasted on the young. It
could also be said that college, too often, is wasted on college
students that only after graduating does a former student come to
appreciate learning. To those wishing to revisit the college
classroom as well as to those who never had the opportunity in the
first place this book gives a taste of the modern course at
Harvard. The essays are stimulating and informative, and the
annotated bibliographies accompanying each chapter provide
invaluable guidance to the life-long learner who wants to pursue
these fascinating topics in depth.
Hope Became The Enemy is the story of a young independent English
woman, Josie. Looking for excitement and adventure, Josie decides
on a career change and moves to Turkey to teach English. As she
slowly falls in love with her new life, she takes the reader on an
exciting journey across Turkey, and through her eyes they learn
about the cultures and traditions of this exotic country. Josie
quickly finds that living in a patriarchal country is very
different to the life she knew in the west. By chance, while she is
on holiday with friends on the west coast, she meets the tall,
charismatic Bechir. Their relationship is rocky and has its ups and
downs but a couple of years later, she accepts a proposal of
marriage and soon falls pregnant with their first child. She
settles down to live happily ever after with the man that she
loves. All too late she discovers that she is married to a
malignant narcissist and is isolated from friends and family.
Trapped in a cycle of abuse, apology, and forgiveness, she knows
she must leave. But how?
Takhyil is a term from Arabic poetics denoting the evocation of
images. It has a broad spectrum of connotations throughout
classical philosophical poetics and rhetoric, and it is closely
linked to the Greek concept of phantasia. This volume is comprised
of annotated translations of key texts on this topic from major
philosophers and literary theoreticians, including Alfarabi
(al-Farabi), Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Averroes (Ibn Rushd), and 'Abd
al-Qahir al-Jurjani. In her preface, the classicist Anne Sheppard
relates takhyil to Greek poetics, and in his introduction, Wolfhart
Heinrichs traces the development of the term in the Arabic
tradition. The second part of the book contains eight studies on
takhyil and various aspects of image-evocation and how it relates
to musical theory, literary criticism and rhetoric. The opening
essay is by Katrin Kohl, a specialist in European poetics, who
places takhyil in the wider context of poetic universals.
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