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This reference studies the most recent advances in the development
of ocular drug delivery systems. Covering methods to treat or
prevent ocular inflammation, retinal vascular disease, retinal
degeneration, and proliferative eye disease, this source covers
breakthroughs in the management of endophthalmitis, uveitis,
diabetic macular edema, and age-related macular degeneration.
If historical culture is the specific and particular ways that a
society engages with its past, this book aims to situate the
professional practice of public history, now emerging across the
world, within that framework. It links the increasingly varied
practices of memory and history-making such as genealogy,
podcasting, re-enactment, family histories, memoir writing,
film-making and facebook histories with the work that professional
historians do, both in and out of the academy. Making Histories
asks questions about the role of the expert and notions of
authority within a landscape that is increasingly concerned with
connection to the past and authenticity. The book is divided into
four parts: 1. Resistance, Rights, Authority 2. Memory,
Memorialization, Commemoration 3. Performance, Transmission,
Reception 4. Family, Private, Self The four sections outline major
themes emerging in public history across the world in the 21st
century which are all underpinned by the impact of new media on
historical practice and our central argument for the volume which
advocates a more capacious definition of what constitutes 'public
history'.
Following the publication of his magnum opus L'etre et l'evenement
(Being and Event) in 1988, Alain Badiou has been acclaimed as one
of France's greatest living philosophers. Since then, he has
released a dozen books, including Manifesto for Philosophy,
Conditions, Metapolitics and Logiques des mondes (Logics of
Worlds), many of which are now available in English translation.
Badiou writes on an extraordinary array of topics, and his work has
already had an impact upon studies in the history of philosophy,
the history and philosophy of science, political philosophy,
aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and ontology. This volume takes up the
challenge of explicating, extending and, in many places,
criticizing Badiou's stunningly original theses. Above all, the
essays collected here put Badiou's concepts to the test in a
confrontation with the four great headings that he himself has
identified as essential to our humanity: science, love, art and
politics. Many of the contributors have already been recognized as
outstanding translators of and commentators on Badiou's work; they
appear here with fresh voices also destined to make a mark.
'The Flight into Egypt' is the story of the first ten years of the
life of Jesus, about which the Bible tells us nothing. The narrator
is Jesus's older brother, James. During a ten day walk across the
desert to escape Herod's soldiers the family witnesses a first
display of divine power by the infant Jesus, and a first attack by
the jealous Egyptian gods. They settle for four years in Memphis,
the second city of an Egypt. During this time, on the way home from
a country wedding, Mary, Jesus's mother, is bitten by a snake and
dies. James has to descend into the fearsome Egyptian underworld to
ask Lord Osiris to restore her to life. Immediately afterwards
Roman soldiers discover the family's whereabouts and again they
have to flee. After a desert journey on camels they reach
Alexandria, the Mediterranean's foremost city, ruled from Rome but
culturally Greek. Protected by a wealthy gay Egyptian couple the
family begins to put down roots. Jesus is educated by Greek
philosophers at the famous Library, Mary starts a business and has
another child, and Joseph and James find work in the city. But at
the age of ten Jesus, becoming aware of his divine mission and
overcome by pity, heals a group of diseased beggars in a square in
Alexandria. The family has to go into hiding. They get news that
Herod has at last died, and plan to take ship for Joppa to return
home, but not before Jesus has a fateful face-to-face meeting with
Lord Osiris, and the Roman military spring one last surprise.
'It belongs to the weakness of our time not to be able to bear the
greatness, the immensity of the claims made by the human spirit, to
feel crushed before them, and to flee from them faint-hearted.'
(Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy, v2, p. 10) Is it
becoming more obvious today that the thinkers of the post-Hegelian
era were/are not 'able to bear the greatness, the immensity of the
claims made by the human spirit'? Is our era the era of the
'faint-hearted' philosophy? Celebrating 200 years since the
publication of The Phenomenology of Spirit this volume addresses
these questions through a renewed encounter with Hegel's thought.
This book includes contributions from: H. S. Harris, John W.
Burbidge, Paul Redding, Angelica Nuzzo, David Gray Carlson, Simon
Lumsden, Karin de Boer, David Rose, Andrew Haas, Toula
Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos, Jorge Armando Reyes
Escobar, Maria J. Binetti, Wendell Kisner, Paul Ashton and Robert
Sinnerbrink.
Across the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the
internet, family historians are now delving into archives
continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to
promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult
pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on
memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning
in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history,
public history movements have now risen to prominence. This
groundbreaking edited collection takes a comprehensive look at
public history throughout the world. Divided into three sections -
Background, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and
Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in
eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and
methods of the discipline and illustrates public history research
with a variety of global case studies. What is Public History
Globally? provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which
ordinary people become active participants in historical processes
and it will be an invaluable resource for advance undergraduates
and postgraduates studying public history, museology and heritage
studies.
Across the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the
internet, family historians are now delving into archives
continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to
promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult
pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on
memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning
in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history,
public history movements have now risen to prominence. This
groundbreaking edited collection takes a comprehensive look at
public history throughout the world. Divided into three sections -
Background, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and
Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in
eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and
methods of the discipline and illustrates public history research
with a variety of global case studies. What is Public History
Globally? provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which
ordinary people become active participants in historical processes
and it will be an invaluable resource for advance undergraduates
and postgraduates studying public history, museology and heritage
studies.
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