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This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment
in the Australian colonies for the very first time. The author
illuminates all aspects of the penalty, from shortcomings in
execution technique, to the behaviour of the dying criminal, and
the antics of the scaffold crowd. Mercy rates, execution numbers,
and capital crimes are explored alongside the transition from
public to private executions and the push to abolish the death
penalty completely. Notions of culture and communication freely
pollinate within a conceptual framework of penal change that
explains the many transformations the death penalty underwent. A
vast array of sources are assembled into one compelling argument
that shows how the 'lesson' of the gallows was to be safeguarded,
refined, and improved at all costs. This concise and engaging work
will be a lasting resource for students, scholars, and general
readers who want an in-depth understanding of a long feared
punishment. Dr. Steven Anderson is a Visiting Research Fellow in
the History Department at The University of Adelaide, Australia.
His academic research explores the role of capital punishment in
the Australian colonies by situating developments in these
jurisdictions within global contexts and conceptual debates.
This is the first book to cover the grammar of clitics from all
points of view, including their phonology and syntax and relation
to morphology. In the process, it deals with the relation of second
position clitics to verb-second phenomena in Germanic and other
languages, the grammar of contracted auxiliary verbs in English,
noun incorporation constructions, and several other much discussed
topics in grammar. Stephen Anderson includes analyses of a number
of particular languages, and some of these - such as Kwakw'ala
("Kwakiutl") and Surmiran Rumantsch - are based on his own field
research. The study of clitics has broad implications for a general
understanding of sentence structure in natural language. Stephen
Anderson's clearly-written, wide-ranging, and original account will
be of wide interest to scholars and advanced students of phonology,
morphology, and syntax.
Existing histories of modern architecture typically give their
highest praise to private houses and their most severe condemnation
to architect-authored urban plans, often neglecting the built works
that are no smaller than a single building and possibly as large as
an urban block, the middle or institutional scale, where culturally
significant urban transformation actually takes place. Urban
architecture is a timely topic as today cities worldwide are
suffering accelerated urbanisation, which is often dehumanising and
destructive, especially to the unbuilt environment, airs, waters
and soils. The middle or institutional scale is shown to activate
and actualise latent potentials for cultural experience and
environmental intelligence, allowing the city to surprise itself
and delight in its discoveries. In Projecting Urbanity, David
Leatherbarrow, via author-architect texts by his former doctorate
students, lays out the basis for a revision of modern
architecture's contribution to cities and their culture. Presenting
a series of texts featuring buildings or their parts of various
scales - from the construction detail, to the room or garden, to
ensembles within a neighborhood - the contributors introduce
concepts for contemporary and future urban architecture, together
with richly indicative examples from the past several decades.
While architecture cannot "solve" today's urban problems, it
certainly has a role to play in their productive transformation,
articulating opportunities for life and culture that are more
humane, less wasteful, and more beautiful.
This book helps you learn how to make your own maple syrup from
start to finish. Third-generation syrup makers Alison and Steven
Anderson show you how to collect sap using a tree-friendly tubing
system and then cook, bottle, and even market your syrup. Whether
you want a few bottles of syrup for your family's pancakes or you
want to start your own business, this in-depth reference has the
information you need.
Audience is land managers, soil conservationists, researchers and
others involved in soil and water conservation and management;
agronomists, but this book has great potential to be used in
advanced soil science courses. Case studies of modelling of soil
water management. Fluctuating climates with frequent droughts,
flooding episodes, heat waves and other weather extremes are
causing major challenges for soil and water management in many
parts of the world. Developing management practices that maintain
or enhance soil resilience within such challenges is a high
priority. This book provides a discussion of how different soil
management practices impact soil hydrological characteristics can
improve our understanding of soil and water management under
changing conditions.
"Methods and Approaches in Forest History" is a companion to
"Forest History: International Studies on Socioeconomic and Forest
Ecosystem Change," which includes over 20 papers from the same
conference held in Florence in 1998. This volume focuses on the
different approaches and methods adopted in the study of forest
history. The interdisciplinary nature of these studies is
emphasized, bringing in the different perspectives of
anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, foresters, historians,
geneticists and geographers. This volume demonstrates the rich
diversity of approaches and methods to forest history.
This is a useful collection of 130 passages from Greek authors,
ideal for students from pre-GCSE to A Level. Part 1 contains ten
passages for the new Intermediate Certificate and twenty at GCSE
level. Part 2 contains thirty lightly adapted post-GCSE passages,
and ten easy passages to introduce the translation of verse. Part 3
contains thirty prose and thirty verse passages of A-Level
standard, largely unadapted except by minor omissions. Vocabulary
beyond the core assumed at each level is glossed.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment
in the Australian colonies for the very first time. The author
illuminates all aspects of the penalty, from shortcomings in
execution technique, to the behaviour of the dying criminal, and
the antics of the scaffold crowd. Mercy rates, execution numbers,
and capital crimes are explored alongside the transition from
public to private executions and the push to abolish the death
penalty completely. Notions of culture and communication freely
pollinate within a conceptual framework of penal change that
explains the many transformations the death penalty underwent. A
vast array of sources are assembled into one compelling argument
that shows how the 'lesson' of the gallows was to be safeguarded,
refined, and improved at all costs. This concise and engaging work
will be a lasting resource for students, scholars, and general
readers who want an in-depth understanding of a long feared
punishment. Dr. Steven Anderson is a Visiting Research Fellow in
the History Department at The University of Adelaide, Australia.
His academic research explores the role of capital punishment in
the Australian colonies by situating developments in these
jurisdictions within global contexts and conceptual debates.
Irrigated agriculture accounts for around 70% of global water use.
However, an estimated 60% of irrigated cropland remains highly
water-stressed, a problem intensified by the effects of climate
change. Improving water management in agriculture considers ways of
addressing this challenge. It reviews advances in monitoring and
optimizing irrigation efficiency, ways of retaining and re-using
water resources as well as how farmers can work collaboratively
with other stakeholders to manage watersheds more sustainably. The
book highlights key areas where innovation is required to ensure
that water use is optimised at farm and watershed scales. The book
encourages farmers to reassess their current irrigation models and
implement alternative practices which improve efficiency with a
reduced environmental impact.
The second edition of The Fundamentals of Interior Design provides
a thorough introduction to the key elements of interior design and
the ideas that underpin them. The book describes the entirety of
the creative process, from researching initial ideas to realizing
them in three-dimensional form. Throughout the text, guidelines are
given to provide structure to the interior design process and the
reader is encouraged to adapt and initiate methodologies to suit
individual project needs. This approach is intended to give
designers a belief in their own abilities, and the confidence to
tackle different projects with the unique challenges that each one
brings. The book features a variety of diagrams and talking points
to encourage students and practitioners to think about key issues
such as understanding spatial relationships and the use of
sustainable materials. This second edition includes new case
studies focusing on well-known international interior design
studios, such as Conran and Partners, UK, Slade Architecture, US,
Gensler, US and award winning architects Chae-Pereira in South
Korea. The introduction of interviews with contemporary interior
designers allows readers an insight in to the working world of
interior design. The new projects allow students to explore what
they have learned in each chapter through experimentation and these
activities encourage creativity and further learning.
From concept to completion, your church will not undertake a more
demanding or complicated task in terms of money, risk, and effort
than it will in a building program. Preparing to Build will educate
and guide the church through the process of becoming prepared to
build in a manner that will save time and reduce costly mistakes.
They don't teach this in seminary and most church leaders are
unequipped by experience or training to lead their church through a
building program in the most optimum manner. Being prepared to
build, in its simplest terms, means the church has objectively
quantified as many of the variables as possible and developed a
building plan strategy within the financial ability of the church.
A church that is prepared to build can articulate, based on factual
analysis, what it needs to build to meet future needs, it
understands the cost of construction, has measured its financial
ability, and knows the vision can be built on the selected
property. It's about the process. The result of an objective
process is objective fact. In the absence of an objective process,
all a church is left with is subjective opinion, and in a church of
a few hundred people, you will have a few hundred opinions.
Preparing to Build discusses the process from visioning to
selecting a builder and discusses topics including: space planning,
design, financing, capital campaigns, land acquisition, organizing
a building committee, and special information for smaller or
start-up churches. The book concludes with several appendices,
"including a readiness to build assessment."
Planned as a companion volume to Writing Latin by Richard Ashdowne
and James Morwood, this brand new guide to writing Greek will be
useful both in the upper forms of schools and for those starting
Greek prose composition at university. Part 1 deals with the
constituent elements of the simple sentence, and in Part 2 all
major constructions are covered, each with thorough explanations
and clear examples. Each chapter has either two or three exercises
of practice sentences, further supplemented throughout Part 2 by
passages for continuous composition. 100 important irregular verbs
with their principal parts are listed at the back of the book, and
there is a complete vocabulary for all the exercises, a useful
learning and revision resource in itself.
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Reading Homer - Iliad Books 16 and 18 (Paperback)
Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course; Edited by Stephen Anderson, Keith MacLennan, Naoko Yamagata; Edited by (general) John Taylor
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R710
Discovery Miles 7 100
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Reading Homer presents two highlights of the Iliad: Book 16, where
Patroclus fights and dies, and Book 18, where Achilles grieves for
him and is awarded new armour before he returns to battle. It
enables students who have been learning Greek for perhaps a year to
approach Homer for the first time, and to have the satisfaction of
reading two whole books in the original language. Full and detailed
help is given with vocabulary, accidence and syntax. Homeric forms
are introduced and set alongside Attic ones, enabling students to
consolidate their existing knowledge at the same time as extending
it. The Introduction and notes enable students to see these two
books in the context of the whole epic, and the epic itself in the
context of early Greek society. They also encourage students to
consider why the Greeks themselves regarded Homer as the master
poet.
The Basics Interior Design series comprises a collection of titles
examining the application of interior design principles to
different types of space. Packed with cutting-edge examples and
fully illustrated with clear diagrams and inspiring imagery, they
offer an essential introduction to the subject. This second edition
of Retail Design examines the latest developments in the
contemporary retail design sector worldwide. It guides the reader
step by step through the retail design process, providing
strategies that can produce a successful retail space and a design
that is appropriate for the brand, product, consumer and retailer.
A new chapter exploring consumer behaviour is combined with clear
explanations of branding and identity, to provide the starting
point for the design concept. The relationship between the interior
and its context, site and setting is then examined, alongside
in-depth investigations of layout, circulation and pace and other
design considerations. Fully updated with new international case
studies and expanded coverage on sustainability, interactivity, and
innovative design concepts - this new edition of Retail Design
offers cutting-edge insights into the practice of contemporary
retail design and shows designers how to meet and exceed the
expectations of today's clients and consumers.
There are tens of millions of people at, or approaching, retirement
age. With the economic conditions in the United States, combined
with the high cost of living in both Canada and the US, more and
more people are looking at other countries in which to spend their
golden years and make their hard earned dollars stretch further. A
very popular choice is Mexico. The weather, the mountains and
beaches, the lower cost of living, and the proximity to the US make
it a natural for this country to be seriously considered. So, what
makes this book different? Unlike everything we have read, or seen,
on Mexico previously, it takes a good hard look at what life in
this country is really like and what we have personally experienced
in our seven years since retiring. While other authors talk about
Mexico being nothing short of The Garden of Eden, I have not sugar
coated anything. Mexico is anything but the Garden of Eden or
paradise. It can be a fantastic place in which to live or retire,
but it can also be your worst nightmare if you are not made aware
of the problems that exist here as well. Too many people have moved
down, basing their decision on what they have read in books, not
having friends or relatives here that can hopefully give them
actual facts, and had their retirement dreams completely shattered.
I want to try and prevent this from happening to you. This book is
divided into six sections. The first talks about how I first found
out about the Lake Chapala area, a day by day account of Sarah and
I first visiting here, buying a house, and everything we did and
went through until we closed on our new home. It is important as
many people, like us, come down and think it is such a wonderful
place and full of wonderful people and find out afterwards that may
not be the case. Section 2 covers the time period between closing
on our home and actually moving here. It goes over getting our
visas and what was required, the drive from the border to San Juan
Cosala, remodeling our home, and our first introduction to the lack
of consumer protection in this country. Section 3 goes over our
lives in Mexico as we first found it. Living here was certainly
different than in the United States and was really good. It was not
until later that we started discovering another side of Mexican
life. Section 4 is entitled The Good. There are a lot of terrific
things about living in Mexico. It is what we ourselves have found
to be the attributes of this country and why so many have, and are
continuing to, retire here. Section 5, I have called The Bad. No
matter where one lives, there is always the good about an area and
there are always some things to complain about. If you have never
lived in a foreign country, this is an important section as it
discusses a lot of different aspects of life, costs that people are
often not aware of until after they have moved, and a lot of
pertinent facts that could impact your decision to move to Mexico,
or your lives after you get here. One thing you will find of
importance is a very realistic look at the monthly expenditures and
not the ones that leave so many items out to deceive you. Section
6, The Ugly, is one you should pay particular attention to. It is
probably the main reason for writing this book as you need to be
aware of what not only happened to my wife and I but to so many of
the other Americans and Canadians that live here. This is a country
of crime and corruption and foreigners are the targets of choice.
This section covers most of the things you should definitely know
about because, without it, you can easily lose a few pesos to your
entire life savings. Its intent is to safeguard your money so you
can truly enjoy your retirement years.
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