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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.
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.
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.
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.
Drawing from a variety of sources - literary, visual,
archaeological; papyri, inscriptions and coins - the author studies
the nature of Diocletian's imperial strategy, his wars, his
religious views and his abdication. The author also examines
Galerius' endeavour to take control of Diocletian's empire, his
failures and successes, against the backdrop of Constantine's
remorseless drive to power. The first comprehensive study of the
Emperor Galerius, this book offers an innovative analysis of his
reign as both Caesar and Augustus, using his changing relationship
with Diocletian as the principal key to unlock the complex imperial
politics of the period.
Dramatic changes in the global security environment have
necessitated a fundamental reassessment of U.S. interests and
policy worldwide. This book focuses on the underlying forces at
work in the Middle East, the challenges the United States will face
in the region in the coming decade, and how they will influence
U.S. interests and future strategy. The contributors go beyond
traditional perspectives in analyzing such critical issues as
state-to-state conflicts in the Arab-Israeli and Persian Gulf
arenas; growing Western dependence on Middle East oil; an
increasingly lethal arms race that may upset the regional balance;
competition for scarce resources, such as water, in non-oil states;
and ethnic, sectarian, and ideological forces, such as the Islamic
revival and pressures for democracy, that will affect regional
stability and U.S. interests. Throughout, the authors take a fresh
look at strategic priorities, the policy options available, and the
dilemmas presented by conflicting U.S. interests. The many layers
of analysis are woven together intricately but realistically.
Drawing from a variety of sources - literary, visual,
archaeological; papyri, inscriptions and coins - the author studies
the nature of Diocletian's imperial strategy, his wars, his
religious views and his abdication. The author also examines
Galerius' endeavour to take control of Diocletian's empire, his
failures and successes, against the backdrop of Constantine's
remorseless drive to power. The first comprehensive study of the
Emperor Galerius, this book offers an innovative analysis of his
reign as both Caesar and Augustus, using his changing relationship
with Diocletian as the principal key to unlock the complex imperial
politics of the period.
Throughout the course of the twentieth century communism has
enjoyed direct competition with all other governmental and economic
systems. Often, communist countries produced their own special
brand of party intellectual. These figures rightly occupied their
place within their own national context and within the context of
the International. Some communist intellectuals, through the high
level of erudition exhibited in their writing, have received a
wider reception, despite their direct linkage to party politics
e.g. Antonio Gramsci, Georg Lukacs, and, Victor Serge are good
examples. After 1956, when Kruschev exposed Stalin's atrocities to
the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
and, as a result, to the entire world, Marxist philosophy was
widely discredited. It had been assumed that Stalin's excesses were
somehow encouraged or supported through Marx's thought. When, in
the mid 1960s, Louis Althusser first offered his re-readings of
Marx's philosophy it, and communist political practice, were in
ruin. However Althusser was in a unique cultural and historical
position. Thinking and writing concomitant with the structuralists
and poststructuralists in France and also having access to certain
theoretical tools while, simultaneously, committing himself
entirely to Marxist thought-Althusser was, conceivably the last of
his tradition. He was a Marxist philosopher who, unlike Sartre at
the end of his life, did not abandon communism to, for instance
existentialism. In Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French
Marxism William Lewis gives readers a striking example of
intellectual biography and critical theory. His approach,
considering the work and life of Althusser within French Marxism
and French intellectual culture, fills a void in contemporary
scholarship. But, much more importantly, Lewis is able to show how
Althusser's thought is the result of and a response to specific
French intellectual and political traditions of reading Marx. It is
through this combination of concerns
Throughout the course of the twentieth century communism has
enjoyed direct competition with all other governmental and economic
systems. Often, communist countries produced their own special
brand of party intellectual. These figures rightly occupied their
place within their own national context and within the context of
the International. Some communist intellectuals, through the high
level of erudition exhibited in their writing, have received a
wider reception, despite their direct linkage to party politics
e.g. Antonio Gramsci, Georg Lukacs, and, Victor Serge are good
examples. After 1956, when Kruschev exposed Stalin's atrocities to
the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
and, as a result, to the entire world, Marxist philosophy was
widely discredited. It had been assumed that Stalin's excesses were
somehow encouraged or supported through Marx's thought. When, in
the mid 1960s, Louis Althusser first offered his re-readings of
Marx's philosophy it, and communist political practice, were in
ruin. However Althusser was in a unique cultural and historical
position. Thinking and writing concomitant with the structuralists
and poststructuralists in France and also having access to certain
theoretical tools while, simultaneously, committing himself
entirely to Marxist thought-Althusser was, conceivably the last of
his tradition. He was a Marxist philosopher who, unlike Sartre at
the end of his life, did not abandon communism to, for instance
existentialism. In Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French
Marxism William Lewis gives readers a striking example of
intellectual biography and critical theory. His approach,
considering the work and life of Althusser within French Marxism
and French intellectual culture, fills a void in contemporary
scholarship. But, much more importantly, Lewis is able to show how
Althusser's thought is the result of and a response to specific
French intellectual and political traditions of reading Marx. It is
through this combination of concerns that Louis Althusser and the
Traditions of French Marxism offers us a contemporary and poignant
Althusser whose ideas, under the weight of Lewis's pen, can help us
better understand what resources it may hold for philosophy,
political thought, and cultural thought today.
This book is the outgrowth of a collaborative effort by a small
group of national security analysts associated with the Institute
forNational Strategic Studies of the National Defense
University,government officials responsible for pondering defense
and foreign policy issues, and academics with long experience in
Middle Eastern affairs. In the past several years these scholars,
policy analysts, and military planners have been focusing on the
impact on U.S. goals and interests in the Middle East of three
seminal events-the ending of the cold war, the collapse of the
Soviet Union, and the invasion of Kuwaitby Saddam Husayn and the
subsequent Gulf War. The authors'individual studies have been
nourished by frequent intellectual exchanges with one another and
by their participation in numerous academic meetings designed to
explore the future of U.S. relations with the Middle East.
The Essence of Nathan Biddle is a coming-of-age novel set in the
American South in the 1950s. Narrator Kit Biddle, near the end of
his high school career, finds himself tangled in a web of family
secrets, including a crazy uncle who hears God and literally
sacrifices (murders) his own son, Kit's cousin-landing him in a
mental institution. Kit is also vexed by the pressing questions
that haunt all teenagers: Who am I? Why am I here? When Anna, the
beautiful, brilliant object of his affections, rejects him, Kit
spirals into despair. Even his witty best friend, Lichtman, is of
no help. Kit's impulsive decision to steal the golf club's
maintenance truck one night and speed down the highway ends in a
horrific accident and months of convalescence, including
interesting hours spent in a therapist's office where Kit tries to
piece his life together. Yet tragedy leads to light in this gentle
tale; even a new girlfriend appears. "It was calamity that gave me
a moment of pause, an occasion for reassessment and redirection. I
suffered both a breakdown and a breakthrough," Kit says near the
end of his ordeal. Readers will rejoice as Kit closes in on answers
to his search for the meaning of life
This volume covers different aspects of recent theoretical and
observational work on magnetic reconnection, a fundamental
plasma-physical process by which energy stored in magnetic field is
converted, often explosively, into heat and kinetic energy. This
collection of papers from the fields of solar and space physics,
astrophysics, and laboratory plasma physics is especially timely in
view of NASA's upcoming Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, which
will use Earth's magetosphere as a laboratory to test, through
in-situ measurement of the plasma, energetic particles, and
electric and magnetic fields, the various and sometimes competing
models and theories of magnetic reconnection. This volume is aimed
at researchers in solar physics, magnetospheric physics and plasma
physics. Previously published in Space Science Reviews journal,
Vol. 160/1-4, 2011.
This volume covers different aspects of recent theoretical and
observational work on magnetic reconnection, a fundamental
plasma-physical process by which energy stored in magnetic field is
converted, often explosively, into heat and kinetic energy. This
collection of papers from the fields of solar and space physics,
astrophysics, and laboratory plasma physics is especially timely in
view of NASA's upcoming Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, which
will use Earth's magetosphere as a laboratory to test, through
in-situ measurement of the plasma, energetic particles, and
electric and magnetic fields, the various and sometimes competing
models and theories of magnetic reconnection.
This volume is aimed at researchers in solar physics,
magnetospheric physics and plasma physics.
Previously published in Space Science Reviews journal, Vol.
160/1-4, 2011.
Philosophers usually have been anxious to avoid solipsism. A large
number of good and great philosophers have tried to refute it. Of
course, these philosophers have not always had the same target in
mind and, like everything else, solipsism over the centuries has
become increasingly elusive and subtle. In this book I undertake to
state the position in its most modern and what I take to be its
most plausible form. At some points in the history of philosophy
the solipsist has been one who denied the existence of everything
except himself or even the existence of everything except his own
present sensations. At other times, the solipsist instead of
doubting these things has merely insisted that there could be no
good reason for believing in the existence of anything beyond one's
own present sensations. Roughly, this doubt is aimed at reasons
rather than at things. A solipsist of this sort appears in
Santayana's Scepticism and Animal Faith.
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