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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.
After a difficult youth, David Carter had become an excellent
journalist for the Guardian. Whilst working full-time, he met a
young woman named Susan, and they were preparing to get married.
When David was born, he had epilepsy, and as he was growing up,
many people tormented him because of this condition. He had
wonderful family support when he was a child and as he grew up
through school and college. Eventually his life settled down, and
he studied for a career in journalism. After many years of health
difficulties, his dream came true, and at last everything in his
life appeared calm and tranquil. One day near Easter, David's
brother, Matthew, asked him if he would like to go for a weekend
with him in Cardiff, having already booked the rooms at a bed and
breakfast. During their weekend, it was revealed that David had
been adopted when he was just three and a half years old. David was
horrified, and though he did not want to, he felt that it was his
duty as an undercover journalist to find out more about his real
mother. He found his mother living in a small flat in Milton
Keynes, and though she does not want to speak with him, he forces
his way in; there she reveals more about his real upbringing. The
news horrified David even more and turned his settled life
upside-down, confused him, and aggravated his epilepsy. His life
changed yet again when he was involved in a car crash. Some people
believed he'd suffered an epileptic attack at the steering wheel,
but there was no evidence to prove this. He was taken to hospital
seriously injured and in a coma; he remained there for several
months until eventually he slowly opened his eyes and began his
recovery. Again he seemed a changed man, only wanting to live a
life of peace and love with everybody. This change amazed and
delighted Susan, and they made final preparations for their wedding
and a new beginning.
From democratization, human rights, and global finance to
terrorism, pandemics, and climate change, Global Issues is a
current and topical look at the forces driving globalization. This
texts surveys global problems that transcend boundaries and are
challenging the international system. For global issues or
international relations courses, this is the only text of its kind
to place complex issues into comprehensive context and thus explain
the growing political, economic, and cultural interdependence
visible in the headlines and in students' lives. Learning Goals *
Analyze the current forces that are driving globalization. *
Explain the political, economic, and cultural context of issues
around the globe.
In "Getting Beyond Race, " Richard Payne takes the practical
approach that race relations are ultimately about ordinary people
interacting with each other. Payne argues that confrontation,
blaming, and dwelling on failure in race relations are not as
productive as adopting a positive view and looking at individual
success stories. Drawing from his own experience of having lived
with different racial groups and hundreds of conversations with
Americans from all walks of life and racial backgrounds, he writes
about those who are helping to reduce the significance of race in
society and through their actions are creating models of behavior
for America's future.Payne covers topics from how race is an
artificial concept created for social purposes to race in the
military, interracial marriages and adoptions, affirmative action,
and the effects of generational change and immigration on racial
attitudes in America. Instead of looking at questions of race
simply in terms of black-white relations, he expands his discussion
to include Latinos, Asians, and other people of color. Moreover,
Payne contends that the very concept of race is being weakened by
fundamental changes throughout many facets of American culture.
This book looks forward and offers concrete suggestions for getting
beyond race.
This volume looks at 'visions of community' in a comparative
perspective, from Late Antiquity to the dawning of the age of
crusades. It addresses the question of why and how distinctive new
political cultures developed after the disintegration of the Roman
World, and to what degree their differences had already emerged in
the first post-Roman centuries. The Latin West, Orthodox Byzantium
and its Slavic periphery, and the Islamic world each retained
different parts of the Graeco-Roman heritage, while introducing new
elements. For instance, ethnicity became a legitimizing element of
rulership in the West, remained a structural element of the
imperial periphery in Byzantium, and contributed to the inner
dynamic of Islamic states without becoming a resource of political
integration. Similarly, the political role of religion also
differed between the emerging post-Roman worlds. It is surprising
that little systematic research has been done in these fields so
far. The 32 contributions to the volume explore this new line of
research and look at different aspects of the process, with leading
western Medievalists, Byzantinists and Islamicists covering a wide
range of pertinent topics. At a closer look, some of the apparent
differences between the West and the Islamic world seem less
distinctive, and the inner variety of all post-Roman societies
becomes more marked. At the same time, new variations in the
discourse of community and the practice of power emerge. Anybody
interested in the development of the post-Roman Mediterranean, but
also in the relationship between the Islamic World and the West,
will gain new insights from these studies on the political role of
ethnicity and religion in the post-Roman Mediterranean.
The recent and ongoing crises in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf,
Central America, and southern Africa have been and continue to be
approached in very different ways by the United States and its West
European allies. Richard J. Payne shows how the many future
challenges to the strategic alliance of the U.S. and the NATO
countries will have to be adapted to a new and less confrontational
world, emphasizing the international economic situation over
political or ideological factors. Payne maintains that despite
years of divergent views on how to handle Third World trouble
spots, strains within the Western Alliance can be alleviated in the
future by diplomatic and cooperative means. This book provides a
comprehensive analysis of the underlying tensions, and cooperation,
between the United States and Western Europe in their approaches to
the Soviet Union, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Iran-Iraq
War and Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, and
the struggle for ideological and political control of southwestern
Africa. American and European strategies and interests in the Third
World greatly affected the broader issues of detente,
Eastern-Western European relations, America's leadership abilities,
and ultimately NATO itself. The lessening of ideological
confrontations between Moscow and Washington, Payne affirms, was
followed by the revolutionary changes in Eastern Europe. This
volume will be used in courses on international relations, American
foreign policy, world politics, Third World politics, global
issues, and West European politics. It will also be of great value
to political scientists and policymakers.
Converging revolutionary changes in Europe, the former Soviet
Union, and in southern Africa radically transformed the
international political environment in which Third World countries
had formulated and implemented their policies toward South Africa.
These changes also focused attention on the need for democratic
reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere in the Third World. By
removing apartheid's legal underpinning, the South African
government made a major and largely unanticipated step toward
creating a relatively egalitarian and nonracial society.
Dismantling the more intractable social and economic components of
a legal system of racial domination, into which South Africans have
been socialized, is clearly a more herculean endeavor. Payne
analyzes Third World relations with South Africa: the common and
divergent interests among the countries that opposed apartheid,
conflict and cooperation between the Third World and South Africa,
and the implications of changes in South Africa for the Third World
in general and Sub-Saharan Africa in particular. He brings into
sharper focus contradictions between the declaratory policies
against apartheid expressed by Third World states and their actual
practices. Payne examines how national interests, leaders'
personalities, policymaking processes, and problems within specific
countries influence Third World foreign policies in general and
toward South Africa specifically. As such, the work will be
invaluable to students and scholars involved with African studies,
Third World politics, and international relations.
Classical scholar, art collector and connoisseur Richard Payne
Knight (1751-1824) took a keen interest in aesthetics and was a key
figure in the debate on the picturesque. Of independent means, he
journeyed across Europe, often in the company of artists. His home,
Downton Castle in Herefordshire, set the fashion for crenellations.
He sat in Parliament from 1780 to 1806, but beauty interested him
more than politics. Following important works on aesthetics by such
writers as Edmund Burke and Uvedale Price, Knight published his
most successful work in 1805, cementing his reputation as an
authority on matters of taste. Here he moves away from the ideas of
Price and Burke, instead exploring the role of associations in the
expression of aesthetic judgement. Knight's Analytical Essay on the
Greek Alphabet (1791) and Inquiry into the Symbolical Language of
Ancient Art and Mythology (1818) are also reissued in this series.
Originally published in 1791, this work by classical scholar and
connoisseur Richard Payne Knight (1751 1824) attempts to
reconstruct the original pronunciation of ancient Greek.
Emphasising the importance of knowing what the various ancient
dialects sounded like in order to better appreciate surviving works
of ancient literature, Knight engages in textual criticism of
certain notable writings, including the poetry of Homer and Hesiod
and the plays of Sophocles. Representing a learned contribution to
classical philology, the essay also goes some way towards analysing
the ways in which Greek sounds were distorted by their inclusion in
other languages. Several plates at the end of the text reproduce a
selection of ancient inscriptions on stone, coins and ceramics.
Knight's Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste (1805) and
Inquiry into the Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology
(1818) are also reissued in this series."
This volume looks at 'visions of community' in a comparative
perspective, from Late Antiquity to the dawning of the age of
crusades. It addresses the question of why and how distinctive new
political cultures developed after the disintegration of the Roman
World, and to what degree their differences had already emerged in
the first post-Roman centuries. The Latin West, Orthodox Byzantium
and its Slavic periphery, and the Islamic world each retained
different parts of the Graeco-Roman heritage, while introducing new
elements. For instance, ethnicity became a legitimizing element of
rulership in the West, remained a structural element of the
imperial periphery in Byzantium, and contributed to the inner
dynamic of Islamic states without becoming a resource of political
integration. Similarly, the political role of religion also
differed between the emerging post-Roman worlds. It is surprising
that little systematic research has been done in these fields so
far. The 32 contributions to the volume explore this new line of
research and look at different aspects of the process, with leading
western Medievalists, Byzantinists and Islamicists covering a wide
range of pertinent topics. At a closer look, some of the apparent
differences between the West and the Islamic world seem less
distinctive, and the inner variety of all post-Roman societies
becomes more marked. At the same time, new variations in the
discourse of community and the practice of power emerge. Anybody
interested in the development of the post-Roman Mediterranean, but
also in the relationship between the Islamic World and the West,
will gain new insights from these studies on the political role of
ethnicity and religion in the post-Roman Mediterranean.
This influential work of 1818 by dilettante and critic Richard
Payne Knight (1751 1824) has stood the test of time. The study
investigates the sexual symbolism of the art of different
religions, providing a key to the mythology of the ancients and
fostering a clear understanding of the canons and principles of
art. An eminent art historian, collector and textual critic, Knight
led the way in convincing British taste that Roman art was inferior
to Greek, arguing that Greek art was the more authentic and
original. Here, he calls for more correct versions of Homer, Plato
and other Hellenic writers, to obtain accurate perceptions of
Grecian ideas. Demonstrating his in-depth knowledge of classical
architecture and literature, and drawing upon his considerable
resources as a collector, Knight analyses the genetic character of
symbols, and the patterns of their occurrence in different
cultures.
1892. Herein is found the world's most illuminating penetration
into every aspect of the inner, mystical, meaning behind ancient
art forms and mythology. Over 75 chapters! If you have ever
wondered what spiritual wisdom was purposely hidden in myth and
art, this book will completely satisfy your unquenchable thirst for
this knowledge. The ancient mystics understood the cosmic forces of
the universe and recorded it in myth and art. This book reveals
that knowledge. Extremely important! It's all here! With 348
illustrations. Scarce!
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