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Uncertain Safari deals with the contours and complexities of African life today. Based on author Allan Winkler's personal experiences living and working in Kenya and traveling to many other parts of the continent, the book focuses primarily on East Africa and concentrates on Kenya in particular. It examines one of the most beautiful, and troubled, parts of Africa through a personal lens, highlighting issues of marriage and divorce, education and AIDS, politics, and evolving traditions. The African story warrants our attention. An examination of Kenya, one of the best-known and most-visited African countries, provides an effective means of exploring issues that affect all Africans. Kenya, traditionally more stable than other African nations, now faces many grave problems as its own stability has begun to erode. This book, based on observations, interviews, and personal reflections, highlights the serious issues behind the seemingly idyllic view millions of visitors witness on safari.
Uncertain Safari deals with the contours and complexities of African life today. Based on author Allan Winkler's personal experiences living and working in Kenya and traveling to many other parts of the continent, the book focuses primarily on East Africa and concentrates on Kenya in particular. It examines one of the most beautiful, and troubled, parts of Africa through a personal lens, highlighting issues of marriage and divorce, education and AIDS, politics, and evolving traditions. The African story warrants our attention. An examination of Kenya, one of the best-known and most-visited African countries, provides an effective means of exploring issues that affect all Africans. Kenya, traditionally more stable than other African nations, now faces many grave problems as its own stability has begun to erode. This book, based on observations, interviews, and personal reflections, highlights the serious issues behind the seemingly idyllic view millions of visitors witness on safari.
Get in shape with exercise that's fat-blasting, portable, and fun RopeSport is the revolutionary fitness program people across the country are using to get fit, lose weight, and have a great time doing it. Now you can, too! If you want a high-energy, low-impact way to tone your body, get a complete cardiovascular workout, and burn up to a thousand calories an hour, RopeSport is for you. This book covers everything from the benefits and basics to extreme jumps and alternative workouts. The step-by-step approach helps you become proficient in just a few workouts. RopeSport: Progresses from basic jumps, combinations, and workouts to intermediate and advanced routines Features four complete, detailed workouts for each skill level Has more than a hundred photos that show you how it's done, jump after jump Includes success stories from real people who love jumping rope Is a workout endorsed by celebrities, including leading fitness expert Kathy Smith, Eric Nies of MTV, and Kelly Packard of Baywatch Keeps you challenged with extreme jumps like the Matador, Running Doubles, and the Inverted Jump Shares tips for a healthy lifestyle, effective training, and building athletic skills You'll learn the techniques and get the tools to create your own RopeSport full-body workout program--one that you can vary any number of ways and do almost anywhere.
This is the first book to analyze Ridley Scott's film "Gladiator"
from historical, cultural, and cinematic perspectives.
This book brings together some of the most impactful researchers in the field of Genetic Programming (GP), each one working on unique and interesting intersections of theoretical development and practical applications of this evolutionary-based machine learning paradigm. Topics of particular interest for this year´s book include powerful modeling techniques through GP-based symbolic regression, novel selection mechanisms that help guide the evolutionary process, modular approaches to GP, and applications in cybersecurity, biomedicine and program synthesis, as well as papers by practitioner of GP that focus on usability and real-world results. In summary, readers will get a glimpse of the current state of the art in GP research.
This is the first book to analyze Ridley Scott's film "Gladiator"
from historical, cultural, and cinematic perspectives.
Der Ordner bietet effektive Hilfestellung beim Aufbau von Umweltmanagementsystemen. Er wurde bereits wahrend der Ausarbeitungsphase in projektbegleitenden Betrieben getestet. Er wendet sich insbesondere an kleine und mittlere Betriebe und ermoeglicht den weitgehend eigenstandigen Aufbau eines Umweltmanagementsystems. Die Abhangigkeit von teuren externen Beratern wird auf diese Weise entscheidend reduziert, wodurch Umweltmanagement auch fur weniger kapitalstarke Unternehmen erschwinglich gemacht wird. Der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt liegt dabei nicht in den technischen Anforderungen des Umweltmanagements bzw. der Umsetzung der OEko-Audit-Verordnung, sondern in den Bereichen Systematik und Organisationsentwicklung, da hier erfahrungsgemass die groessten Umsetzungsschwierigkeiten liegen.
Mit dieser Festschrift wird ein Rechtswissenschaftler besonderen Ranges geehrt. Sie gilt dem hervorragenden Juristen, dem Wissenschaftler, Hochschullehrer und vor allem dem grossen Rechtsanwalt K. Peter Mailander. Die in dieser Festschrift veroeffentlichten Beitrage spiegeln die ganze Bandbreite seines Wirkens und seines Werkes wider.
The "Triumphus humanae stultitiae vel Tylus Saxo" (1558), the first poem in Latin of the Eulenspiegel stories, is made available here for the first time in a modern edition with commentary, translation, and systematic interpretation. The poem is of decisive importance for the reception history of the Eulenspiegel figure and for the development and diffusion of early modern folk literature. It bears witness to the survival of antiquity in the age of humanism and is strongly indebted to Erasmus' "Praise of Folly." The poem deserves additional attention for the influence it had on later Eulenspiegel literature.
Dieses Buch steht in der Tradition der Theorie der "bekundeten" " Praferenzen." Es behandelt die Frage, ob die Entscheidungen eines Individuums mit unbekannten Praferenzen als Folge irgendwelcher Praferenzen gedeutet werden konnen, ob also gegebenes Verhalten "rationalisierbar" ist. Im Zentrum liegt die Erweiterung der Theorie der bekundeten Praferenzen vom bisher fast ausschliesslich behandelten deterministischen Fall auf den wesentlich schwierigeren stochastischen Fall. Der Anstoss zu diesem Ansatz kommt aus der psychologischen Literatur, in der der Sonderfall "binarer" stochastischer Entscheidungen intensiv behandelt wird. Prasentiert werden eine allgemeine Theorie der bekundeten Praferenzen und Losungen des allgemeinen Rationalisierbarkeitsproblems."
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
Arminius the Liberator: Myth and Ideology deals with a particular, although wide-ranging, aspect in the long reception history of Arminius the Cheruscan, commonly called Hermann. Arminius inflicted one of their most devastating defeats on the Romans in the year 9 A.D., when he destroyed three legions under the command of Varus in the Battle in the Teutoburg Forest, as it is generally called. Martin M. Winkler traces the origin and development of the Arminius legend in antiquity and in political and ideological appropriations of Arminius-Hermann since the nineteenth century. The book's central theme is the ideological use and abuse of history and of historical myth in Germany: Weimar-era nationalism, National Socialism, and the reaction to the ideological taint of the Arminius figure after 1945. The book also examines the various appearances of Arminius in art and media from the 1960s until today. Special emphasis is on the representation of Arminius in the era of visual mass media in Germany, Italy, and the U.S.: painting (Anselm Kiefer) and theater (Claus Peymann) but, most extensively, cinema, television, and computer videos.
The cold war lasted for more than fifty years and polarized the
world. Rooted in political and ideological disagreements dating
back to the Russian Revolution of 1917, the war emerged from
disputes that intensified in the wake of World War II. In The Cold
War: A History in Documents, Second Edition, Allan M. Winkler
excerpts speeches by Soviet premier Joseph Stalin and British prime
minister Winston Churchill in order to demonstrate the growing
abyss between the two political systems. President Harry S.
Truman's announcement of the existence of a Soviet atomic bomb and
his speech to Congress launching the Truman Doctrine testify to the
gravity of the situation. The complex politics of the Vietnam War
appear in voices of those as divergent as Vietnamese nationalist Ho
Chi Minh, President Lyndon B. Johnson, antiwar protestors, and a
participant in the My Lai massacre. A picture essay, "The Atom
Unleashed," provides a collection of photographs and cartoons
tracing one of the most controversial discoveries of the twentieth
century. And a final chapter chronicles in detail the end of the
cold war.
Martin M. Winkler argues for a new approach to various creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual narratives. He examines screen adaptations of classical epic, tragedy, comedy, myth, and history, exploring, for example, how ancient rhetorical principles regarding the emotions apply to moving images and how Aristotle's perspective on thrilling plot-turns can recur on screen. He also interprets several popular films, such as 300 and Nero, and analyzes works by international directors, among them Pier Paolo Pasolini (Oedipus Rex, Medea), Jean Cocteau (The Testament of Orpheus), Mai Zetterling (The Girls), Lars von Trier (Medea), Arturo Ripstein (Such Is Life), John Ford (westerns), Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho), and Spike Lee (Chi-Raq). The book demonstrates the undiminished vitality of classical myth and literature in our visual media, as with screen portrayals of Helen of Troy. It is important for all classicists and scholars and students of film, literature, and history.
This book was first published in 2009. Apollo was the ancient god of light and the divine patron of the arts. He is therefore a fitting metaphor for cinematography, which is the modern art of writing with moving light. This book interprets films as visual texts and provides the first systematic theoretical and practical demonstration of the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema. It examines major themes from classical myth and history such as film portrayals of gods, exemplified by Apollo and the Muses; Oedipus, antiquity's most influential mythic-tragic hero; the question of heroism and patriotism in war; and the representation of women like Helen of Troy and Cleopatra as products of male desire and fantasy. Covering a wide range of European and American directors, genres and classical authors, this study provides an innovative perspective on the two disciplines of classics and cinema and demonstrates our most influential medium's unlimited range when it adapts ancient texts. |
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