Author: Lukas de Blois File Type: pdf Integrating the results of scholarly work from the past decade, the authors of An Introduction to the Ancient World, Lukas de Blois and R.J. van der Spek, have fully-updated and revised all sixteen chapters of this best-selling introductory textbook. Covering the history and culture of the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome within the framework of a short narrative history of events, this bookoffers an easily readable, integrated overview for students of history, classics, archaeology and philosophy, whether at college, at undergraduate level or among the wider reading public. This revised second edition offers a new section on early Christianity and more specific information on the religions, economies, and societies of the ancient Near East. There is extended coverage of Greek, Macedonian and Near Eastern history of the fourth to second centuries BC and the history of the Late Roman Republic. The consequences of Julius Caesars violent death are covered in more detail, as are the history and society of Imperial Rome.Thisnew edition isul l comprehensive covers 3,000 years of ancient history and provides the basis for a typical one-semester course l l lavishly illustrated contains maps, line drawings and plates to support and supplement the text, with updated captions l l clearly and concisely written two established and respected university teachers with thirty years experience in the subject areas l l well-organized traces the broad outline of political history but also concentrates on particular topics l l user-friendly includes chapter menus, an extensive and expanded bibliography organized by subject area and three appendices, an improved introduction and the addition of an epilogue. l ul**ReviewThis new textbook provides a more analytical overview of ancient political and social systems than is commonly the case. It takes account of the latest scholarship, and the many illustrations, maps, and charts will make this book particularly welcome to the introductory students as will its willingness to discuss ancient culture and issues in private life. Ronald Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles . . . *[An Introduction to the Ancient World] takes the reader from Egypt and Mesopotamia right through Greece and Rome to the Empires end. Its outstanding feature is the wealth of illustrations. Brief, but always to the point. Greece and Rome* Richly illustrated ..., this text is admirably comprehensive in its scope and breadth ... Of particular interest for those who wish to gain a broad familiarity with the ancient world quickly and to students in survey courses. *Religious Studies Review* Well organize, easily readable and clearly written, it offers some line drawings and a few black-and-white photographs. Best recommended for students in history, classics and archaeology.. *The Bibliography of Ancient Egypt*About the Author Lukas de Blois is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and specialises in Roman and Greek history and ancient historiography. Robartus van der Spek is Professor of Ancient History at the Free University of Amsterdam, and specialises in the history of the ancient Near East.
Author: Philip Meyer
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Five years ago in The Vanishing Newspaper, Philip Meyer offered the newspaper industry a business model for preserving and stabilizing the social responsibility functions of the press in a way that could outlast technology-driven changes in media forms. Now he has updated this groundbreaking volume, taking current declines in circulation and the number of dailies into consideration and offering a greater variety of ways to save journalism. Meyers influence model is based on the premise that a newspapers main product is not news or information, but influence societal influence, which is not for sale, and commercial influence, which is. The model is supported by an abundance of empirical evidence, including statistical assessments of the quality and influence of the journalists product, as well as its effects on business success. Meyer now applies this empirical evidence to recent developments, such as the impact of Craigslist and current trends in information technologies. New charts show how a surge in newsroom employment propped up readership in the 1980s, and data on the effects of newsroom desegregation are now included. Meyers most controversial suggestion, making certification available for reporters and editors, has been gaining ground. This new edition discusses several examples of certificate programs that are emerging in organizations both old and new. Understanding the relationship between quality and profit probably will not save traditional newspapers, but Meyer argues that such knowledge can guide new media enterprises. He believes that we have the tools to sustain high-quality journalism and preserve its unique social functions, though in a transformed way.
Author: J. M. Coetzee
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Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. He argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship. From Osip Mandelstam commanded to compose an ode in praise of Stalin, to Breyten Breytenbach writing poems under and for the eyes of his prison guards, to Aleksander Solzhenitsyn engaging in a trial of wits with the organs of the Soviet state, Giving Offense focuses on the ways authors have historically responded to censorship. It also analyzes the arguments of Catharine MacKinnon for the suppression of pornography and traces the operations of the old South African censorship system. The most impressive feature of Coetzees essays, besides his ear for language, is his coolheadedness. He can dissect repugnant notions and analyze volatile emotions with enviable poise.Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Those looking for simple, ringing denunciations of censorships evils will be disappointed. Coetzee explicitly rejects such noble tritenesses. Instead . . . he pursues censorships deeper, more fickle meanings and unmeanings.Kirkus Reviews These erudite essays form a powerful, bracing criticism of censorship in its many guises.Publishers Weekly Giving Offense gets its incisive message across clearly, even when Coetzee is dealing with such murky theorists as Bakhtin, Lacan, Foucault, and Rene Girard. Coetzee has a light, wry sense of humor.Bill Marx, Hungry Mind Review An extraordinary collection of essays.Martha Bayles, New York Times Book Review A disturbing and illuminating moral expedition.Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review **
Author: Michael Hass
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This book focuses on how to write a psychological report that is first and foremost helpful to consumers, while also being technically and legally defensible. Like the reports the authors describe, the book is carefully organized, beautifully written, and accessible to practitioners as well as graduate students. It is a brilliant accomplishment that should be required reading for every school psychologist.Brent Duncan, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Humboldt State University, Arcata CAPRACTICAL GUIDANCE ON WRITING USEFUL, ACCESSIBLE, AND LEGALLY DEFENSIBLE PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL REPORTSFrom clearly identifying reasons for referral to making recommendations based on assessment results, Writing Useful, Accessible, and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational Reports offers practical guidance for creating reports that enhance the understanding of children and their strengths and challenges in order to better meet their educational and functional needs.The authors offer step-by-step guidelines for developing an assessment plan in a collaborative process with parents, teachers, and other professionals, choosing appropriate assessment and data collection tools, gathering relevant information, and providing clear and feasible individualized recommendations that directly respond to referral concerns in a format easily understood by parents and teachers.Ideal for graduate students in school psychology, school psychologists, and other professionals in related fields who work with children in a school setting, Writing Useful, Accessible, and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational ReportsullProvides specific suggestions for increasing the usefulness and accessibility of reports including readability, positive phrasing, and vocabularyllIllustrates how to develop well-formed questions and how to choose assessment tools to answer referral questionsllReviews the legal mandates of report writing and discusses what must be includedllDemonstrates how to accurately document and integrate data from record review, interviews, observations, and testsllDiscusses how the use of the referral-based consultative assessment and report writing model can promote more active involvement in collaboration, prevention, and interventionllFeatures numerous real-world cases, helpful checklists, examples of question-driven referral reports, and a model interview protocollul**
Author: Jens Meierhenrich
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From the trial of Socrates to the post-911 military commissions, trials have always been useful instruments of politics. Yet there is still much that we do not understand about them. Why do governments use trials to pursue political objectives, and when? What differentiates political trials from ordinary ones? Contrary to conventional wisdom, not all political trials are show trials or contrive to set up scapegoats. This volume offers a novel account of political trials that is empirically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated, linking state-of-the-art research on telling cases to a broad argument about political trials as a socio-legal phenomenon. All the contributors analyse the logic of the political in the courtroom. From archival research to participant observation, and from linguistic anthropology to game theory, the volume offers a genuinely interdisciplinary set of approaches that substantially advance existing knowledge about what political trials are, how they work, and why they matter. **
Author: James Wigglesworth
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h2 DejaVu Sans, serif 14pxLearn About The Billionaire Visionary Behind Tesla Motors and Paypalh2 p DejaVu Sans, serif 14pxSome may not of heard of Elon Musk, but if you havent heard of him, Im sure youve heard of some of his companies which have become household names like Paypal and the electric car make Tesla. As well as that he has been part of many businesses in his time of being an entrepreneur. Hes certainly an entrepreneur you can learn a lesson or two from. This book describes the whole life and activities of Elon Musk. This book contains some chapters like synopsis by which you will get to know the total information in a brief description. Another chapter is included with the early life of Elon Musk. So you can know about his childhood and all. From this book you can also know his career life when he was the earnest entrepreneur. By that you can motivate yourself if you are visioning like him. Here is also having the discussion of his personal life. So you can know all the information of Elon Musk from this book. h2 DejaVu Sans, serif 14pxHere Is A Preview Of What Youll Learn...h2 ul DejaVu Sans, serif 14px lThe Basics of Who Elon Musk isl lHis Early Life and his childhoodl lHis Career as an Entrepreneurl lThe Different Companies That He Has Been Part Ofl lHis Personal Lifel lMuch Morel ul font face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxb(Entrepreneurship, Success, Innovation, Innovators, Businessman, Successful Businessman)bspanfont
Author: Chicago Review
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This issue of CR features a centenary portfolio on Louis Zukofsky that includes two chapters from Mark Scrogginss biography, David Wray on translation in Catullus and A-21, an interview selections from Zukofskys correspondence, five portraits by Elsa Dorfman, Paul Zukofsky on Louis Zukofskys marginalia and, on the cover (designed by Quemadura), two portraits of Zukofsky by Jonathan Williams.PoemsKristy Odelius, Chris Pusateri, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Theodore Enslin, John Taggart, Arthur Sze, Elizabeth Cross, Tyrone Williams, L. S. Klatt, Tom Pickard, Jordan Davis, Taj Jackson, James Capozzi, Brian Swann, Harriet Zinnes, Rae Armantrout, Patrick Durgin, Carolina Maugeri, and Reginald ShepherdPoetry TranslationsSophocles (tr. John Tipton), Ovid (tr. Linda Russo), Dante Alighieri (tr. Susan Landers), Paul Eluard (tr. Robert Huddleston), Benjamin Peret & Paul Eluard (tr. Ela Kotkowska), Viktor Sosnora (tr. by Mark Halperin and Dinara Georgeoliani), Joao Cabral de Melo Neto (tr. by Richard Zenith), Piotr Sommer (tr. by Halina Janod et al.), Marcin Swietlicki (tr. by Jan Kimmel et al.)Fictionexcerpts from Raymond Roussels Locus Solus (tr. Elena Rivera) and Giorgio Manganellis Centuria One Hundred Ouroboric Novels (tr. Henry Martin)EssaysSusan Stewart (On the Future of Art), William Fuller (on Levellers, Prynne, and others), Michael Heller (on Oppen), Devin Johnston (on Ralph J. Mills, Jr.), Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas (on Yang Lian)
Author: Conor McCarthy
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One of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century, Edward Saids work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and a noted music critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. In his books, as scholarly as they are readable, he challenged conventional critical demarcations between disciplines. His major opus, Orientalism, is a key text in postcolonial studies that continues to influence as well as challenge scholars in the field. Conor McCarthy introduces the reader to Saids major works and examines how his work and life were intertwined. He explains recurring themes in Saids writings on literature and empire, on intellectuals and literary theory, on music and on the IsraelPalestine conflict. This concise, informative and clearly written introduction for students beginning to study Said is ideally set up to explain the complexities of his work to new audiences.
Author: Jeff Shannon
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Shadow Patterns Reflections on Fay Jones and His Architecture is a collection of critical essays and personal accounts of the man the American Institute of Architects honored with its highest award, the Gold Medal, in 1990. The essays range from the academic, with appreciations and observations by Juhanni Palaasma and Robert McCarter and Ethel Goodstein-Murphree, to personal reflections by clients and friends. Two of Arkansass most accomplished writers, Roy Reed and Ellen Gilchrist, who each live in Fay Jones houses, have provided intimate portrayals of what its like to live in, and manage the quirks of, a house built by a genius, where light is everywhere. . . . Everything is quiet, and everything is a surprise, as Gilchrist says. Through this compendium of perspectives, readers will learn about Joness personal qualities, including his strong will, his ability to convince other people of the rightness of his ideas, and yet his willingness, at times, to change his mind. We also enter into the work powerful architecture like Stoneflower and Thorncrown Chapel and Pinecote Pavilion, along with private residences ranging from the modest to the monumental. And we learn about his relationship with his mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright. Shadow Patterns broadens and enriches our understanding of this major figure in American architecture of the twentieth century.
Author: Janice Sim
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Parents Killing Children Crossing the Invisible Line explores hidden forms of violence within the family. This socio-legal study addresses the interactions between the family and the state, focusing on six parent perpetrators and the ways in which child endangerment is concealed within society. Drawing on symbolic interactionism, mythology and a modelling of case study data, this book puts forward a unique conceptualisation of representation and risk, both on familial and state levels. The failure of the state to intervene and neutralise volatile perpetrators also sheds light on the socio-legal status of children societys most vulnerable and the book concludes by discussing means by which the underlying social conditions and maladies symptomatic of child abuse and killing should be addressed. **About the Author hr Janice Sim is a Lecturer at Griffith University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and a Griffith University Law Futures Centre Associate Member. She convenes Introduction to Maritime Law at the Griffith Law School. Janice completed her doctorate at the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney and was a post-doctorate Fellow. She has an eclectic range of research interests in, but not limited to, filicide, child protection, intervention, representation, vulnerable populations, piracy and maritime law and security.