Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Geoffrey Parker File Type: pdf An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parkers prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities--revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, and regicides--that befell the mid-seventeenth-century world and wiped out as much as one-third of the global population, and reveals climate change to be the root cause. Examining firsthand accounts of the crises and scrutinizing the prevailing weather patterns during the 1640s and 1650s--longer and harsher winters, and cooler and wetter summers--Parker reveals evidence of disrupted growing seasons causing malnutrition, disease, a higher death toll, and fewer births. This new abridged edition distills the original books prodigious research for a broader audience while retaining and indeed emphasizing Parkers extraordinary historical achievement his dazzling demonstration of the link between climate change and worldwide catastrophe 350 years ago. Yet, the contemporary implications of his study are equally important are we prepared today for the catastrophes that climate change could bring tomorrow? At half the original length, this user-friendly abridgment is ideal for students and general readers seeking a rapid handle on the key issues.
Author: Dante Alighieri
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Renowned critic and poet Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career a monumental translation of Dantes The Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive Jamess new translation - his lifes work and decades in the making - presents Dantes entire epic poem in a single song.While many poets and translators have attempted to capture the full glory of The Divine Comedy in English, many have fallen short, according to Clive James. Victorian verse translations established an unfortunate tradition of reproducing the sprightly rhyming measures of Dante but at the same time betraying the strain on the translators powers of invention. For Dante, the dramatic human stories of Hell were exciting, but the spiritual studies of Purgatory and the sublime panoramas of Heaven were no less so.In this incantatory new translation, James - defying the convention by writing in quatrains - tackles these problems head-on and creates a striking and hugely accessible translation that gives us The Divine Comedy as a whole, unified, and dramatic work. **
Author: Chris Raczkowski
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A History of American Crime Fiction places crime fiction within a context of aesthetic practices and experiments, intellectual concerns, and historical debates generally reserved for canonical literary history. Toward that end, the book is divided into sections that reflect the periods that commonly organize American literary history, with chapters highlighting crime fictions reciprocal relationships with early American literature, romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. It surveys everything from 17th-century execution sermons, the detective fiction of Harriet Spofford and T. S. Eliots The Waste Land, to the films of David Lynch, HBOs The Sopranos, and the podcast Serial, while engaging a wide variety of critical methods. As a result, this book expands crime fictions significance beyond the boundaries of popular genres and explores the symbiosis between crime fiction and canonical literature that sustains and energizes both. **
Author: Daniel Köhler
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This book is the first comprehensive academic study of German right-wing terrorism since the early 1960s available in the English language. It offers a unique in-depth analysis of German violent, extremist right-wing movements, terrorist events, groups, networks and individuals. In addition, the book discusses the so-called National Socialist Underground (NSU) terror cell, which was uncovered in late 2011 by the authorities. The NSU had been active for over a decade and had killed at least ten people, as well as executing numerous bombings and bank robberies. With an examination of the groups support network and the reasons behind the failure of the German authorities, this book sheds light on right-wing terrorist group structures, tactics and target groups in Germany. The book also contains a complete list of all theGerman right-wing terrorist groups and incidents since the Second World War. Based on the most detailed dataset of right-wing terrorism in Germany, this book offers highly valuable insights into this specific form of political violence and terrorism, which has been widely neglected in international terrorism research. **
Author: Paul Andrews
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This useful concise guide explains the general law on changing your name within the UK. It also has information on subjects such as changing the name of a child, changing your name when marrying, double barrelled names, advice on passports when getting married, and much more. A quick easy read on what to do and how to inform upon changing your name as well. Included are various example forms and templates for you to use and adapt yourself, including - a Deed Of Name Change, and a Last Will and Testament template
Author: John C. McCarthy
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The essays in this volume pose the question common usage has obscured was the Enlightenment truly enlightened or enlightening? Scholarly investigation has sometimes avoided the question by confining itself to historical particulars of 18th-century Europe. Yet the most visible proponents of the Enlightenment, the philosophers, insisted that their project originated a century earlier, in the writings of the first self-proclaimed modern philosophers. This volume seeks philosophical clarity of modernitys enlightenment by beginning with Bacon, Descartes and Hobbes. Consideration of Pascal, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Roussea, Lessing and Kant - all philosophical critics, or reformers, of the Enlightenment - furthers the study of its legacy by displaying its diversity. Finally, the book indicates the Enlightenments vitality by outlining ways it continues to hold philosophical sway in this century. The contributors discuss several themes pertaining to the ambition of Enlightenment reason justice, tradition and authority the mastery of nature metaphysics and scientific method enlightened and unenlightened dogmatism the utilitarian revision of the common good and the commonly true Christianity and the limits of enlightened theology theodicy aesthetics and political rhetoric myth, history and human freedom. **
Author: Michael Dooley
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A guide for understanding, deploying, and managing Internet Protocol version 6The growth of the Internet has created a need for more addresses than are available with Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)the protocol currently used to direct almost all Internet traffic. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)the new IP version intended to ultimately succeed IPv4will expand the addressing capacity of the Internet to support the explosive growth of users and devices on the Internet as well as add flexibility to allocating addresses and efficiency for routing traffic.IPv6 Deployment and Management describes the IPv6 protocol in detail, as well as technologies for interworking IPv4 and IPv6. It discusses why organizationseven those with adequate IPv4 spaceshould consider IPv6 deployment from a business perspective. In addition, it details strategies and techniques for assessing the impact of deploying IPv6 on a network, discovering current IP assets, assessing IPv6 readiness, creating a plan to deploy IPv6 while considering addressing security and network management impacts, and managing a dual protocol IPv4-IPv6 network.Featured chapters in the book areullIPv6 Deployment DriversllIPv4-IPv6 Co-Existence TechnologiesllIPv6 Readiness AssessmentllIPv6 Address PlanningllIPv6 Security PlanningllManaging the DeploymentllIPv6 Network Management PlanningllManaging the IPv4IPv6 NetoworkllIPv6 and the Future InternetlulIPv6 Deployment and Management is a must-read for IP network engineers, managers, and those who work in Information Technology.About the Author*MICHAEL DOOLEY* is responsible for overall operations of the BT Diamond IP division. Prior to joining the team, he was president and CEO of Diamond IP Technologies vice president of operations for the VitalSoft line of software products at Lucent Technologies and Vice President of Engineering at Quadritek Systems.*TIMOTHY ROONEY managed the engineering development and market introduction of BT Diamond IPs four next-generation IP management systems NetControl, IPControl, Sapphire Appliances, and ImageControl. Prior to that, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Cingular, Triton PCS, and Lucent, including a leadership role managing the VitalQIP software product to its peak as market leader. Timothy Rooney is the author of IP Address Management Principles and Practice and Introduction to IP Address Management,* both published by Wiley-IEEE Press.Includes an introduction by Vint Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google.
Author: E. Michael Jones
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Invited to speak at Valparaiso University in a symposium on torture, E. Michael Jones found his time cut in half. His original plan was to show Israeli influence at Abu Ghraib, but that required first showing feminist complicity in the torture there. Abu Ghraib, like it or not, showcased the results of feminism in our culture. His time cut in half, his presentation ended with feminism -- with Barbara Ehrenreichs claim that a uterus is no substitute for a conscience. This enraged the lady professors at Valparaiso Law School who then excluded his paper from the law review for which it was intended. Because of the abridgement of his talk at Valparaiso, he only told half the story there. You can also read the other half -- which is to say, the full story -- in this e-book. Renowned cultural critic E. Michael Jones is the editor of Culture Wars magazine. **
Author: Adrian Nathan West
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Pornography keeps getting more extreme. Manufacturers, defenders and consumers of porn rely on a mix of wilful ignorance and bad faith to avoid serious discussion. When we do talk about violence against women in the porn world, the debate all too often becomes technical, complicated by legalities and outrage. But what are the moral and psychological consequences of the mercantilization of abuse? In this studied and ruthless examination of the place of pornography in contemporary life, translator and critic Adrian Nathan West treads dangerous literary and social ground, transcending cliches about free expression and the demands of the market to look at the moral discomfort of violent pornography from the perspective of the viewer. Collapsing distinctions between novel, memoir, and essay, this book will not make for light reading. But at its core is an extraordinarily brave and honest concern for the women and men who have been hurt in the name of sexual gratification. **About the Author West is a novelist, essayist and translator based in Spain. His works have appeared in numerous journals in print and online, including 3AM, Words Without Borders, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction. He has translated books from German, Catalan, and Spanish, as well as short pieces from Portuguese, French, and Italian, by authors ranging from Josef Winkler to Pere Gimferrer to Enrique Vila-Matas, and has worked with a wide array of publishers both small and large, including NYRB Classics. He is also a contributing editor at the online translation journal Asymptote.
Author: Ross Sappenfield
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The Work of the Artist in the Age ofMimetic ReproductionAndrea Frasers Official Welcome (20013)Ross Sappenfield