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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.
The ancient Israelites lived among many nations, and knowing about
the people and culture of these nations can enhance understanding
of the Old Testament. Peoples of the Old Testament World provides
up-to-date descriptions of the people groups who interacted with
and influenced ancient Israel.
Detailed accounts by specialists cover each group's origin,
history, rulers, architecture, art, religion, and contacts with
biblical Israel.
In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of
anthropological literature arguing that morality should be
considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and
invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and
philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in
Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices
in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary
conversations between anthropologists and philosophers about the
moral engines of ethical life, addressing the question: What
propels humans to act in light of ethical ideals?
This book will introduce digital humanists at all levels of
education to Python. It provides background and guidance on
learning the Python computer programming language, and as it
presumes no knowledge on the part of the reader about computers or
coding concepts allows the reader to gradually learn the more
complex tasks that are currently popular in the field of digital
humanities. This book will be aimed at undergraduates, graduates,
and faculty who are interested in learning how to use Python as a
tool within their workflow. An Introduction to Python for Digital
Humanists will act as a primer for students who wish to use Python,
allowing them to engage with more advanced textbooks. This book
fills a real need, as it is first Python introduction to be aimed
squarely at humanities students, as other books currently available
do not approach Python from a humanities perspective. It will be
designed so that those experienced in Python can teach from it, in
addition to allowing those who are interested in being self-taught
can use it for that purpose. Key Features: Data analysis Data
science Computational humanities Digital humanities Python Natural
language processing Social network analysis App development
This new collection of essays and interviews assembles research on
teaching methods, choreographic processes, and archival material
that challenges systemic exclusions and provides practitioners with
accessible steps to creating more equitable teaching environments,
curricula, classes, and artistic settings. Antiracism in Ballet
Teaching gives readers a wealth of options for addressing and
dismantling racialized biases in ballet teaching, as well as in
approaches to leadership and choreography. Chapters are organized
into three sections - Identities, Pedagogies, and Futurities - that
illuminate evolving approaches to choreographing and teaching
ballet, shine light on artists, teachers, and dancers who are
lesser known/less visible in a racialized canon, and amplify the
importance of holistic practices that integrate ballet history with
technique and choreography. Chapter authors include award-winning
studio owners, as well as acclaimed choreographers, educators, and
scholars. The collection ends with interviews featuring ballet
company directors (Robert Garland and Alonzo King), world-renowned
scholars (Clare Croft, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Brenda Dixon
Gottschild), sought-after choreographers (Jennifer Archibald and
Claudia Schreier), and beloved educators (Keesha Beckford, Tai
Jimenez, and Endalyn Taylor). This is an essential resource for
anyone teaching or learning to teach ballet in the Twenty First
Century.
This book will introduce digital humanists at all levels of
education to Python. It provides background and guidance on
learning the Python computer programming language, and as it
presumes no knowledge on the part of the reader about computers or
coding concepts allows the reader to gradually learn the more
complex tasks that are currently popular in the field of digital
humanities. This book will be aimed at undergraduates, graduates,
and faculty who are interested in learning how to use Python as a
tool within their workflow. An Introduction to Python for Digital
Humanists will act as a primer for students who wish to use Python,
allowing them to engage with more advanced textbooks. This book
fills a real need, as it is first Python introduction to be aimed
squarely at humanities students, as other books currently available
do not approach Python from a humanities perspective. It will be
designed so that those experienced in Python can teach from it, in
addition to allowing those who are interested in being self-taught
can use it for that purpose. Key Features: Data analysis Data
science Computational humanities Digital humanities Python Natural
language processing Social network analysis App development
In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of
anthropological literature arguing that morality should be
considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and
invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and
philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in
Human Life includes essays from some of the foremost voices
in the anthropology of morality, offering unique interdisciplinary
conversations between anthropologists and philosophers about the
moral engines of ethical life, addressing the question: What
propels humans to act in light of ethical ideals?
Series Information: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
A compilation of the proceedings of a conference held to honor
Alvin M. Liberman for his outstanding contributions to research in
speech perception, this volume deals with two closely related and
controversial proposals for which Liberman and his colleagues at
Haskins Laboratories have argued forcefully over the past 35 years.
The first is that articulatory gestures are the units not only of
speech production but also of speech perception; the second is that
speech production and perception are not cognitive processes, but
rather functions of a special mechanism. This book explores the
implications of these proposals not only for speech production and
speech perception, but for the neurophysiology of language,
language acquisition, higher-level linguistic processing, the
visual perception of phonetic gestures, the production and
perception of sign language, the reading process, and learning to
read. The contributors to this volume include linguists,
psycholinguists, speech scientists, neurophysiologists, and
ethologists. Liberman himself responds in the final chapter.
This new collection of essays and interviews assembles research on
teaching methods, choreographic processes, and archival material
that challenges systemic exclusions and provides practitioners with
accessible steps to creating more equitable teaching environments,
curricula, classes, and artistic settings. Antiracism in Ballet
Teaching gives readers a wealth of options for addressing and
dismantling racialized biases in ballet teaching, as well as in
approaches to leadership and choreography. Chapters are organized
into three sections - Identities, Pedagogies, and Futurities - that
illuminate evolving approaches to choreographing and teaching
ballet, shine light on artists, teachers, and dancers who are
lesser known/less visible in a racialized canon, and amplify the
importance of holistic practices that integrate ballet history with
technique and choreography. Chapter authors include award-winning
studio owners, as well as acclaimed choreographers, educators, and
scholars. The collection ends with interviews featuring ballet
company directors (Robert Garland and Alonzo King), world-renowned
scholars (Clare Croft, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Brenda Dixon
Gottschild), sought-after choreographers (Jennifer Archibald and
Claudia Schreier), and beloved educators (Keesha Beckford, Tai
Jimenez, and Endalyn Taylor). This is an essential resource for
anyone teaching or learning to teach ballet in the Twenty First
Century.
Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our
concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With
contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the
volume asks: How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the
complex entanglements of self and other, dependence and
independency, frailty and charisma, notions of good and bad aging,
and norms and practices of care in old age? And how can imagistic
inquiries offer grounds for critique? Cutting between ethnography,
phenomenology and art, this volume offers a powerful contribution
to understandings of growing old. The images created in words and
drawings are used to complicate rather than simplify the world. The
contributors advance an understanding of care, and of aging itself,
marked by alterity, spectral presences and uncertainty.
Contributors: Rasmus Dyring, Harmandeep Kaur Gill, Lone Gron, Maria
Louw, Cheryl Mattingly, Lotte Meinert, Maria Speyer, Helle S.
Wentzer, Susan Reynolds Whyte
The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television:
Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture sheds light on how imaginary
works of fiction, film, and television reflect, refract, and
respond to the recessionary times specific to the twenty-first
century, a sustained period of economic crisis that has earned the
title the "Great Recession." This collection takes as its focus
"Bust Culture," a concept that refers to post-crash popular
culture, specifically the kind mass produced by multinational
corporations in the age of media conglomeration, which is inflected
by diminishment, influenced by scarcity, and infused with anxiety.
The multidisciplinary contributors collected here examine mass
culture not typically included in discussions of the financial
meltdown, from disaster films to reality TV hoarders, the horror
genre to reactionary representations of women, Christian right
radio to Batman, television characters of color to graphic novels
and literary fiction. The collected essays treat our busted culture
as a seismograph that registers the traumas of collapse, and locate
their pop artifacts along a spectrum of ideological fantasies,
social erasures, and profound fears inspired by the Great
Recession. What they discover from these unlikely indicators of the
recession is a mix of regressive, progressive, and bemused texts in
need of critical translation.
Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire challenges
orthodox views of the story of Africa under Roman domination. It
presents a new framework for understanding this and other
territories incorporated in the Roman empire. Based on decades of
research in North Africa, David Mattingly’s book is a cleverly
constructed and innovative account of the history and archaeology
of ancient North Africa (roughly equivalent to Morocco, Algeria,
Tunisia, and Libya) from the first century BCE to the third century
CE. He charts a new path towards a bottom-up understanding of North
African archaeology, exploring in turn the differing material
culture and experiences of the Roman communities of the military
and the urban and rural areas. Regional and societal differences
emerge as significant and of long duration in the fascinating story
of one of the most important sectors of the Roman empire. This
important book is the most comprehensive in English on Roman North
Africa. It is remarkably rich, with up-to-date references and a
host of new ideas and perspectives. Well written and illustrated,
with a plethora of maps, it will be required reading for anyone
interested in the subject. Rather than emphasizing the role of
external actors, as studies of “Roman Africa†have
traditionally done, Between Sahara and Sea focuses on local
contributions to the making of Africa in the Roman empire. The
author demonstrates that the multiple populations encountered by
Rome were not an indistinct bloc, but had different identities and
cultures.
The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television:
Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture sheds light on how imaginary
works of fiction, film, and television reflect, refract, and
respond to the recessionary times specific to the twenty-first
century, a sustained period of economic crisis that has earned the
title the "Great Recession." This collection takes as its focus
"Bust Culture," a concept that refers to post-crash popular
culture, specifically the kind mass produced by multinational
corporations in the age of media conglomeration, which is inflected
by diminishment, influenced by scarcity, and infused with anxiety.
The multidisciplinary contributors collected here examine mass
culture not typically included in discussions of the financial
meltdown, from disaster films to reality TV hoarders, the horror
genre to reactionary representations of women, Christian right
radio to Batman, television characters of color to graphic novels
and literary fiction. The collected essays treat our busted culture
as a seismograph that registers the traumas of collapse, and locate
their pop artifacts along a spectrum of ideological fantasies,
social erasures, and profound fears inspired by the Great
Recession. What they discover from these unlikely indicators of the
recession is a mix of regressive, progressive, and bemused texts in
need of critical translation.
You might think you know what happened in the tragic shooting of
Breonna Taylor, but no one knows that better than the lead officer
on the scene, Sergeant John Mattingly. However, with the full
support of the mainstream media, Black Lives Matter activists and
other leftist groups immediately pounced on the tragedy, exploiting
Breonna's death and twisting the story--in some cases, telling
outright lies--to bolster a shameful "All Cops Are Bastards"
narrative and radical "Defund the Police" agenda. In 12 Seconds in
the Dark: A Police Officer's Firsthand Account of the Breonna
Taylor Raid, Sgt. Mattingly tells what really happened that
horrible night. A twenty-year police veteran with an impeccable
record, Mattingly takes readers inside the Louisville Metro Police
Department's response to suspected criminal activity that night,
debunking lie after lie about what happened, including: The
officers followed standard forced-entry protocol--and even gave the
suspect more time than usual to respond before entering. Taylor's
boyfriend inside the apartment most certainly knew it was the
police who were at his door, despite falsely claiming the police
did not announce or identify themselves. Breonna should not have
died that night, but her death did not happen the way the media
told you. In this gritty and suspenseful true story, Mattingly sets
the record straight on this shocking story that gripped the nation.
This book presents a challenge to the long held view that the
predominantly agricultural economies of ancient Greece and Rome
were underdeveloped. It shows that the exploitation of natural
resources, manufacturing and the building trade all made
significant contributions to classical economies. It will be an
indispensable resource for those interested in the period.
"The desert margins of North Africa are extremely rich in
archaeological ruins of the Roman period, evidence of dense
settlement 2,000 years ago in what are now arid and hostile
environments. Historians, geographers and archaeologists have long
debated the significance of these sites, explaining the 'Greening
of the Desert' variously in terms of environmental change,
colonization, external market forces or combinations of factors.
The debate so far has been characterized by the lack of scientific
data from any one region concerning, on the one hand, the nature of
settlement, society and land-use and, on the other, the
contemporary climate and environment; this has made it impossible
to compare rigorously the strengths and weaknesses of the
alternative theories. The two volumes of Farming the Desert present
the results of the alternative approach taken by the UNESCO Libyan
Valleys Archaeological Survey: a detailed inter-disciplinary study
by archaeologists, geographers and historians of a single region,
i.e. the basins of the Wadis Sofeggin and ZemZem in Tripolitania,
northwest Libya. The project's methodologies for studying the
archaeology of arid-zone agriculture have been recognized
internationally, and the results of their application to the study
area have transformed our understanding of how the desert margins
of North Africa were farmed in antiquity, with important
implications for modern agricultural planning . 'A particular
triumph. It marshals a wide variety of skills and techniques,
transforms our understanding of ancient pre-desert farming, and is
as vital a contribution to modern needs as it is to scholarship.'
(Tim Potter, British Museum)
First published in 1999, this volume features contributors
specialising in urban planning and examines the challenges of
environmental planning in urban areas, focusing on policy,
management, organisation and policy. A collection of
ground-breaking and thought-provoking papers, they are written by
some of the most distinguished, internationally known names in the
field of urban sustainability. The authors go beyond debates about
approach and policy options to look at what is taking place. The
experience of urban environmental management is presented from
several countries in Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia. They
examine over twenty case studies in contributing to existing
knowledge of environmental management practice in urban areas,
emphasising the issue in both Northern and Southern countries in
relation to growing awareness in the North and rapid city growth in
the South. While containing critical analyses, the emphasis is
placed on achievements and promising developments of vital
importance to local administrators, policy-makers, town planners,
academics, environmentalists and students alike.
The Sahara is Libya's outstanding landscape feature and is the
source of most of its significant natural resources. This desert
region is also extraordinarily rich in historical and cultural
heritage that is in itself another valuable resource, through
exploitation by Libya's tourism industry. This volume draws
attention to the link between the benefits that Libya draws from
its Saharan resources (oil, gas, water, minerals and tourism) and
the need to safeguard and record aspects of its cultural heritage.
The book also provides a summary of important developments in
Saharan studies and shows how these can contribute to modern
planning and development of the desert regions.
First published in 1999, this volume features contributors
specialising in urban planning and examines the challenges of
environmental planning in urban areas, focusing on policy,
management, organisation and policy. A collection of
ground-breaking and thought-provoking papers, they are written by
some of the most distinguished, internationally known names in the
field of urban sustainability. The authors go beyond debates about
approach and policy options to look at what is taking place. The
experience of urban environmental management is presented from
several countries in Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia. They
examine over twenty case studies in contributing to existing
knowledge of environmental management practice in urban areas,
emphasising the issue in both Northern and Southern countries in
relation to growing awareness in the North and rapid city growth in
the South. While containing critical analyses, the emphasis is
placed on achievements and promising developments of vital
importance to local administrators, policy-makers, town planners,
academics, environmentalists and students alike.
A compilation of the proceedings of a conference held to honor
Alvin M. Liberman for his outstanding contributions to research in
speech perception, this volume deals with two closely related and
controversial proposals for which Liberman and his colleagues at
Haskins Laboratories have argued forcefully over the past 35 years.
The first is that articulatory gestures are the units not only of
speech production but also of speech perception; the second is that
speech production and perception are not cognitive processes, but
rather functions of a special mechanism. This book explores the
implications of these proposals not only for speech production and
speech perception, but for the neurophysiology of language,
language acquisition, higher-level linguistic processing, the
visual perception of phonetic gestures, the production and
perception of sign language, the reading process, and learning to
read. The contributors to this volume include linguists,
psycholinguists, speech scientists, neurophysiologists, and
ethologists. Liberman himself responds in the final chapter.
"Lepcis Magna", one of the greatest of the Roman cities of North
Africa and one of the most famous archaeological sites in the
Mediterranean, was situated in the region of Tripolitania.
Birthplace of the Emperor Septimius Severus, the city has yielded
many well-preserved monuments from its Roman past. Mattingly
presents valuable information on the pre-Roman tribal background,
the urban centres, the military frontier and the regional economy.
He reinterprets many aspects of the settlement history of this
marginal arid zone that was once made prosperous, and considers the
wider themes of Romanization, frontier military strategy, and
economic links between provinces and sources of elite wealth.
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