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Kantika
Elizabeth Graver
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The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) recorded
his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original
kind of correspondence. Letters on Ethics includes vivid
descriptions of town and country life in Nero's Italy, discussions
of poetry and oratory, and philosophical training for Seneca's
friend Lucilius. This volume, the first complete English
translation in nearly a century, makes the Letters more accessible
than ever before. Written as much for a general audience as for
Lucilius, these engaging letters offer advice on how to deal with
everything from nosy neighbors to sickness, pain, and death. Seneca
uses the informal format of the letter to present the central ideas
of Stoicism, for centuries the most influential philosophical
system in the Mediterranean world. His lively and at times humorous
expositions have made the Letters his most popular work and an
enduring classic. Including an introduction and explanatory notes
by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long, this authoritative edition will
captivate a new generation of readers.
This book is about heroes of law. It provides examples of when
judges have exercised courage, moderation, wisdom, and justice
rather than blindly following the law. It also discusses the
contentious issue of whether a judge has a moral responsibility to
defend the rule of law, regardless of what the law actually states.
The work presents a collection of thirteen stories about judges who
in different settings have stood up against the authorities and
public opinion in the defence of the rule of law. An introductory
chapter sets the scene with two examples of situations gone wrong
when those applying the law have just followed the demands of those
in power. The thirteen stories are followed by two theoretical
chapters discussing the moral responsibility of the judge. Finally,
the book explores the kind of ethical theory required to guide
judges in the assessments they must make, and the choices they have
to take in order to fulfil their moral responsibilities. It is
argued that the classic virtues of courage, moderation, wisdom, and
justice are all qualities that can contribute to both sound
judgment and reflection. The book thus seeks to nurture a realistic
culture and a tradition of cultivating lawyers who defend the rule
of law. Against a background where the history of our legal
institutions when put to the test, is largely nothing to be proud
of, the work seeks to change this by highlighting and reflecting on
the exceptions. The book will be illuminating reading for students
and academics working in the areas of Jurisprudence, Legal Ethics,
and Legal History.
This book is about heroes of law. It provides examples of when
judges have exercised courage, moderation, wisdom, and justice
rather than blindly following the law. It also discusses the
contentious issue of whether a judge has a moral responsibility to
defend the rule of law, regardless of what the law actually states.
The work presents a collection of thirteen stories about judges who
in different settings have stood up against the authorities and
public opinion in the defence of the rule of law. An introductory
chapter sets the scene with two examples of situations gone wrong
when those applying the law have just followed the demands of those
in power. The thirteen stories are followed by two theoretical
chapters discussing the moral responsibility of the judge. Finally,
the book explores the kind of ethical theory required to guide
judges in the assessments they must make, and the choices they have
to take in order to fulfil their moral responsibilities. It is
argued that the classic virtues of courage, moderation, wisdom, and
justice are all qualities that can contribute to both sound
judgment and reflection. The book thus seeks to nurture a realistic
culture and a tradition of cultivating lawyers who defend the rule
of law. Against a background where the history of our legal
institutions when put to the test, is largely nothing to be proud
of, the work seeks to change this by highlighting and reflecting on
the exceptions. The book will be illuminating reading for students
and academics working in the areas of Jurisprudence, Legal Ethics,
and Legal History.
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Kantika (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Graver
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Seneca stands apart from other philosophers of Greece and Rome not
only for his interest in practical ethics, but also for the beauty
and liveliness of his writing. These twelve in-depth essays take up
a series of interrelated topics in his works, from his relation to
Stoicism, Epicureanism, and other schools of thought; to the
psychology of emotion and action and the management of anger and
grief; to letter-writing, gift-giving, friendship, and kindness; to
Seneca's innovative use of genre, style, and humor. Recalling
Socrates's critique of philosophical writing in Plato's Phaedrus,
this volume gives particular attention to Seneca's ideas about the
techniques of reading, writing, and study that make philosophy
beneficial to the individual and to society. Clear explanations and
careful translations make the volume accessible to a wide range of
readers.
There is a lot to learn about weaving! As a new weaver, you might
wonder what the next steps are to grow your skills. Next Steps in
Weaving has the answers you're looking for. In this beautiful book
by Pattie Graver, former Managing Editor of Handwoven magazine,
you'll be explore a variety of weave structures and concepts in
depth and detail including twill, color-and-weave, overshot, summer
and winter, lace, and doubleweave. This is not just a book of
weaving patterns. Each topic is explained and supplemented with
instructions for weaving a sampler and a project in order to
solidify the concepts and enable you to design your own projects.
In addition, the book offers troubleshooting tips in order to
expand your weaving expertise. Whether you're new to weaving, have
the basics down, or are looking to improve your foundation skills,
this book will be an asset to your weaving library. So what are you
waiting for? Take the Next Steps in Weaving!
The 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein
directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the now
iconic Monster claims in its credits to be ‘Adapted from the play
by Peggy Webling’. Webling’s play sought to humanize the
creature, was the first to position Frankenstein and his creation
as doppelgängers, and offered a feminist perspective on scientific
efforts to create life without women, ideas that suffuse today’s
perceptions of Frankenstein’s monster. Buried in a private
archive, scholars have never had access to the original play script
and so could not fully chart the evolution of Frankenstein from
book to stage to screen. In Peggy Webling’s Frankenstein, Dorian
Gieseler Greenbaum (Webling’s great grandniece) and Bruce Graver
present the full texts of Webling’s unpublished play for the
first time. A vital critical edition, this book includes: - the
1928 Library of Congress version of the play Frankenstein with a
short manuscript census - the 1927 British Library version of the
first production of the play in Preston, Lancashire - the 1930
Prompt Script for the London production, held by the Westminster
Archive, London - Webling’s private correspondence including
negotiations with theatres managers and Universal Pictures, family
letters about the production process, and selected contracts - Text
of the chapter ‘Frankenstein’ from Webling’s unpublished
literary memoir, The Story of a Pen for additional context -
Exposition on Webling’s life that bears directly on the
sensibilities and skills she brought to the writing of her play -
History of how the play came to be written and produced - The
relationship of Webling’s play to earlier stage adaptations - An
exploration of playwright and screenwriter John L. Balderston’s
changes to Webling’s play and how the 1931 film compares Offering
a new perspective on the genesis of the Frankenstein movie, this
critical exploration makes available a unique and necessary
‘missing link’ in the novel’s otherwise well-documented
transmedia cultural history.
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century
European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a
complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes.
This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical
Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
This study probes the complex relationship between nationalism,
violence and Buddhism in 19th-20th century Burma. Graver's study
examines present-day Burma and the struggle by Nobel Prize winner
Aung San Suu Kyi for a new Burmese identity. The present volume is
a revised and expanded version of the study originally published by
the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
Probes the complex relationship between nationalism, violence and Buddhism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Burma, bringing us to present-day Burma and the struggle by Aung San Suu Kyi for a new Burmese identity.
The "Collected Critical Heritage II" comprises 40 volumes covering
19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes
will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or
as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68
volume set of "Critical Heritage" published by Routledge in October
1995. "The Critical Heritage" series gathers together a large body
of critical figures in literature. These selected sources include
contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media. This
volume studies dramatist and poet, Samuel Beckett.
Extensively trained as a philosopher, Cicero was also a working
politician with a keen awareness of the distance between pure
intellectual endeavor and effective strategies of persuasion. This
volume explores a series of interrelated problems in his works,
from the use of emotion, self-correction, and even fiction in
intellectual inquiry, to the motives of political agents and the
morality of political arguments, to the means of justifying the use
of force in international relations. It features close readings of
works from all periods of Cicero's philosophical career, from the
threshold of Rome's civil war to the year following the
assassination of Julius Caesar. For a richer body of evidence, the
volume also makes use of material from Cicero's personal letters
and political speeches. Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy
will be essential reading not only in Roman philosophy but also for
the political and rhetorical culture of the Roman Republic.
This book explores concrete situations in which judges are faced
with a legislature and an executive that consciously and
systematically discard the ideals of the rule of law. It revolves
around three basic questions: What happen when states become
oppressive and the judiciary contributes to the oppression? How can
we, from a legal point of view, evaluate the actions of judges who
contribute to oppression? And, thirdly, how can we understand their
participation from a moral point of view and support their
inclination to resist?
This book explores concrete situations in which judges are faced
with a legislature and an executive that consciously and
systematically discard the ideals of the rule of law. It revolves
around three basic questions: What happen when states become
oppressive and the judiciary contributes to the oppression? How can
we, from a legal point of view, evaluate the actions of judges who
contribute to oppression? And, thirdly, how can we understand their
participation from a moral point of view and support their
inclination to resist?
A place out of time, Ashaunt Point, Massachusetts, has provided
sanctuary and anchored life for generations of the Porter family,
who summer along its remote, rocky shore. But in 1942, the U.S.
Army arrives on the Point, bringing havoc and change.An
unforgettable portrait of one family's journey through the second
half of the twentieth century, The End of the Point artfully probes
the hairline fractures hidden beneath the surface of our lives and
traces the fragile and enduring bonds that connect us. With
subtlety and grace, Elizabeth Graver illuminates the powerful
legacy of family and place, exploring what we are born into and
what we pass down, preserve, cast off, or willingly set free.
The 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein
directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the now
iconic Monster claims in its credits to be ‘Adapted from the play
by Peggy Webling’. Webling’s play sought to humanize the
creature, was the first to position Frankenstein and his creation
as doppelgängers, and offered a feminist perspective on scientific
efforts to create life without women, ideas that suffuse today’s
perceptions of Frankenstein’s monster. Buried in a private
archive, scholars have never had access to the original play script
and so could not fully chart the evolution of Frankenstein from
book to stage to screen. In Peggy Webling’s Frankenstein, Dorian
Gieseler Greenbaum (Webling’s great grandniece) and Bruce Graver
present the full texts of Webling’s unpublished play for the
first time. A vital critical edition, this book includes: - the
1928 Library of Congress version of the play Frankenstein with a
short manuscript census - the 1927 British Library version of the
first production of the play in Preston, Lancashire - the 1930
Prompt Script for the London production, held by the Westminster
Archive, London - Webling’s private correspondence including
negotiations with theatres managers and Universal Pictures, family
letters about the production process, and selected contracts - Text
of the chapter ‘Frankenstein’ from Webling’s unpublished
literary memoir, The Story of a Pen for additional context -
Exposition on Webling’s life that bears directly on the
sensibilities and skills she brought to the writing of her play -
History of how the play came to be written and produced - The
relationship of Webling’s play to earlier stage adaptations - An
exploration of playwright and screenwriter John L. Balderston’s
changes to Webling’s play and how the 1931 film compares Offering
a new perspective on the genesis of the Frankenstein movie, this
critical exploration makes available a unique and necessary
‘missing link’ in the novel’s otherwise well-documented
transmedia cultural history.
Combinatorics and graph theory have mushroomed in recent years.
Many overlapping or equivalent results have been produced. Some of
these are special cases of unformulated or unrecognized general
theorems. The body of knowledge has now reached a stage where
approaches toward unification are overdue. To paraphrase Professor
Gian-Carlo Rota (Toronto, 1967), "Combinatorics needs fewer
theorems and more theory. " In this book we are doing two things at
the same time: A. We are presenting a unified treatment of much of
combinatorics and graph theory. We have constructed a concise
algebraically based, but otherwise self-contained theory, which at
one time embraces the basic theorems that one normally wishes to
prove while giving a common terminology and framework for the
develop ment of further more specialized results. B. We are writing
a textbook whereby a student of mathematics or a mathematician with
another specialty can learn combinatorics and graph theory. We want
this learning to be done in a much more unified way than has
generally been possible from the existing literature. Our most
difficult problem in the course of writing this book has been to
keep A and B in balance. On the one hand, this book would be
useless as a textbook if certain intuitively appealing, classical
combinatorial results were either overlooked or were treated only
at a level of abstraction rendering them beyond all recognition."
The initial purposes of this 1983 text were to develop mathematical
topics relevant to the study of the incidence and symmetry
structures of geometrical objects and to expand the reader's
geometric intuition. The two fundamental mathematical topics
employed in this endeavor are graph theory and the theory of
transformation groups. Part I, Incidence, starts with two sections
on the basics of graph theory and continues with a variety of
specific applications of graph theory. Following this, the text
becomes more theoretical; here graph theory is used to study
surfaces other than the plane and the sphere. Part II, Symmetry,
starts with a section on rigid motions or symmetries of the plane,
which is followed by another on the classification of planar
patterns. Additionally, an overview of symmetry in
three-dimensional space is provided, along with a reconciliation of
graph theory and group theory in a study of enumeration problems in
geometry.
This important book provides the first systematic assessment of the
so-called Norway Model, suggested as an off-the-shelf option for
the UK to 'square the circle' after Brexit. Two preeminent
Norwegian scholars of politics and law offer a comprehensive
first-hand account of Norway's relationship with the EU and how
this affects the country's legal and political system, setting out
what Britain can learn from Norway's experience and how
transferable these lessons are. Their analysis also explores what
impact the UK's presence is likely to have on existing members of
the European Economic Area (EEA) discussing both the opportunities
and the challenges. The book will be a valuable resource for anyone
interested in the future of the UK's relationship with Europe.
In a 2013 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief
by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, septicemia
was ranked as the number one most expensive national inpatient
hospital cost. This ranking comes in spite of substantial advances
in the clinical management of sepsis over the past fifteen years.
While adherence with internationally established sepsis management
protocols have demonstrated reduction in mortality and hospital/ICU
length of stay, compliance with these protocols remains poor. This
book discusses risk factors, management and prognosis of septic
shock in individuals.
Ash produced as a consequence of explosive volcanic eruptions can
cause multiple hazards both close to the volcano and at great
distances. Explosive volcano eruptions often release volcanic
plumes into the atmosphere, which consist of tephra
(submillimeter-sized rock particles), water vapor and other gases
such as carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2) and hydrogen
sulfide (H2S). Particles from volcano eruptions are transported by
wind to thousands of kilometers away, or even over 10,000 km from
their source for some fine particles. This book discusses the
environmental impact and health risks volcanic ash poses as well as
its chemical composition.
This is your essential guide to less harmful, but equally
effective, environmentally friendly printmaking methods.
Traditional printmaking techniques expose the artist and the
environment to a multitude of toxic materials. In this book, Mark
Graver puts the case for non-toxic printmaking and discusses the
replication of traditional techniques with less harmful, but
equally effective, environmentally friendly methods. This book
covers engraving, etching with acrylic resists, using drypoint,
making aquatints, mezzotints and collagraphs, and using
photopolymers as well as combining various printmaking techniques.
Highly illustrated wit the works of artists from around the world,
this practical and inspiring book contains everything you need to
know about switching to a non-toxic printmaking practice.
This 2004 volume offers a comprehensive critical study of Samuel
Beckett's first and most renowned dramatic work, Waiting for Godot,
which has become one of the most frequently discussed, and
influential plays in the history of the theatre. Lawrence Graver
discusses the play's background and provides a detailed analysis of
its originality and distinction as a landmark of modern theatrical
art. He reviews some of the differences between Beckett's original
French version and his English translation, and discusses the
liberating influence of Waiting for Godot on such important
playwrights as Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.
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Seneca - Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic (Paperback)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca; Translated by Margaret Graver, A. A. Long; Introduction by Margaret Graver, A. A. Long; Commentary by …
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In the year 62, citing health issues, the Roman philosopher Seneca
withdrew from public service and devoted his time to writing. His
letters from this period offer a window into his experience as a
landowner, a traveler through Roman Italy, and a man coping with
the onset of old age. They describe the roar of the arena, the
festival of Saturnalia, and the perils of the Adriatic Sea, and
they explain his thoughts about political power, the treatment of
slaves, the origins of civilization, and the key points of Stoic
philosophy. This selection of fifty of his letters brings Seneca to
readers in a fresh modern voice and shows how, as a philosopher, he
speaks to our time. Above all, these letters explore the inner life
of the individual: from the life of heedless vanity to the first
interest in philosophy, to true friendship, self-determination, and
personal excellence.
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