Author: Jane Francis
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803270578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The theme of this volume, presented in honour of G.W.M. Harrison, whose academic contributions have enriched our perspective of Roman Crete, is change and transition, a topic that challenges some of the earlier approaches to Hellenistic and Roman Crete, and which presents a different perspective on historical events and archaeological evidence.
Change and Transition on Crete: Interpreting the Evidence from the Hellenistic through to the Early Byzantine Period
Author: Jane Francis
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803270578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The theme of this volume, presented in honour of G.W.M. Harrison, whose academic contributions have enriched our perspective of Roman Crete, is change and transition, a topic that challenges some of the earlier approaches to Hellenistic and Roman Crete, and which presents a different perspective on historical events and archaeological evidence.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803270578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The theme of this volume, presented in honour of G.W.M. Harrison, whose academic contributions have enriched our perspective of Roman Crete, is change and transition, a topic that challenges some of the earlier approaches to Hellenistic and Roman Crete, and which presents a different perspective on historical events and archaeological evidence.
Cosmology in Antiquity
Author: Rosemary Wright
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134524188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The popularity of Stephen Hawking's work has put cosmology back in the public eye. The question of how the universe began, and why it hangs together, still puzzles scientists. Their puzzlement began two and a half thousand years ago when Greek philosophers first 'looked up at the sky and formed a theory of everything.' Though their solutions are little credited today, the questions remain fresh. The early Greek thinkers struggled to come to terms with and explain the totality of their surroundings; to identitify an original substance from which the universe was compounded; and to reconcile the presence of balance and proportion with the apparent disorder of the universe. Rosemary Wright examines the cosmological theories of the `natural philosophers' from Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes to Plato, the Stoics and the NeoPlatonists. The importance of Babylonian and Egyptian forerunners is emphasised. Cosmology in Antiquity is a comprehensive introduction to the cosmological thought of antiquity, the first such survey since Neugebauer's work of 1962.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134524188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The popularity of Stephen Hawking's work has put cosmology back in the public eye. The question of how the universe began, and why it hangs together, still puzzles scientists. Their puzzlement began two and a half thousand years ago when Greek philosophers first 'looked up at the sky and formed a theory of everything.' Though their solutions are little credited today, the questions remain fresh. The early Greek thinkers struggled to come to terms with and explain the totality of their surroundings; to identitify an original substance from which the universe was compounded; and to reconcile the presence of balance and proportion with the apparent disorder of the universe. Rosemary Wright examines the cosmological theories of the `natural philosophers' from Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes to Plato, the Stoics and the NeoPlatonists. The importance of Babylonian and Egyptian forerunners is emphasised. Cosmology in Antiquity is a comprehensive introduction to the cosmological thought of antiquity, the first such survey since Neugebauer's work of 1962.
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 81, 1939)
Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422372258
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422372258
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
The Empire and Its Critics, 1899-1939
Author: Peter Cain
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415179454
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This set defines attitudes about imperialism on the British Left in the 20th century and is vital in understanding the transition from the liberal anti-imperialism of the 19th century to the more overtly socialist critiques of the 20th century.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415179454
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This set defines attitudes about imperialism on the British Left in the 20th century and is vital in understanding the transition from the liberal anti-imperialism of the 19th century to the more overtly socialist critiques of the 20th century.
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
Author: A. E. van Vogt
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765320773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An episodic novel filled with surprises and provocative ideas, this is the story of a great exploration ship sent out into the unknown reaches of space on a long mission of discovery. They encounter several terrifying alien species, including the Ix, who lay their eggs in human bodies, which then devour the humans from within when they hatch. Reissue of a classic.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765320773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An episodic novel filled with surprises and provocative ideas, this is the story of a great exploration ship sent out into the unknown reaches of space on a long mission of discovery. They encounter several terrifying alien species, including the Ix, who lay their eggs in human bodies, which then devour the humans from within when they hatch. Reissue of a classic.
Plutarch on the Face which Appears on the Orb of the Moon
Author: Plutarch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moon
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moon
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A Basic Classical and Operatic Recordings Collection for Libraries
Author: Kenyon C. Rosenberg
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810820418
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
No descriptive material is available for this title.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810820418
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
No descriptive material is available for this title.
The Design of Rabelais's
Author: Edwin M. Duval
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600002288
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
En analysant le “dessin” du Tiers Livre - sa composition formelle aussi bien que son intention sous-jacente - E. Duval dégage la cohérence profonde d'une œuvre qui passe le plus souvent pour ambiguë et “ménippéenne”. Cette cohérence, qui se manifeste simultanément à deux niveaux (celui du dessin de Pantagruel dans la quête, celui du dessin de Rabelais dans son livre), permet à l'auteur non seulement de résoudre plusieurs apories de la critique rabelaisienne, mais de découvrir dans le Tiers Livre des dimensions et des ironies inaperçues jusqu'à présent.
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600002288
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
En analysant le “dessin” du Tiers Livre - sa composition formelle aussi bien que son intention sous-jacente - E. Duval dégage la cohérence profonde d'une œuvre qui passe le plus souvent pour ambiguë et “ménippéenne”. Cette cohérence, qui se manifeste simultanément à deux niveaux (celui du dessin de Pantagruel dans la quête, celui du dessin de Rabelais dans son livre), permet à l'auteur non seulement de résoudre plusieurs apories de la critique rabelaisienne, mais de découvrir dans le Tiers Livre des dimensions et des ironies inaperçues jusqu'à présent.
Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A comprehensive bibliography of books and short fiction published in the English language.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A comprehensive bibliography of books and short fiction published in the English language.
Englishness and Empire 1939-1965
Author: Wendy Webster
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191647578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Did loss of imperial power and the end of empire have any significant impact on British culture and identity after 1945? Within a burgeoning literature on national identity and what it means to be British this is a question that has received surprisingly little attention. Englishness and Empire makes an important and original contribution to recent debates about the domestic consequences of the end of empire. Wendy Webster explores popular narratives of nation in the mainstream media archive - newspapers, newsreels, radio, film, and television. The contours of the study generally follow stories told through prolific filmic and television imagery: the Second World War, the Coronation and Everest, colonial wars of the 1950s, and Winston Churchill's funeral. The book analyses three main narratives that conflicted and collided in the period - a Commonwealth that promised to maintain Britishness as a global identity; siege narratives of colonial wars and immigration that showed a 'little England' threatened by empire and its legacies; and a story of national greatness, celebrating the martial masculinity of British officers and leaders, through which imperial identity leaked into narratives of the Second World War developed after 1945. The book also explores the significance of America to post-imperial Britain. Englishness and Empire considers how far, and in what contexts and unexpected places, imperial identity and loss of imperial power resonated in popular narratives of nataion. As the first monograph to investigate the significance of empire and its legacies in shaping national identity after 1945, this is an important study for all scholars interested in questions of national identity and their intersections with gender, race, empire, immigration, and decolonization.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191647578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Did loss of imperial power and the end of empire have any significant impact on British culture and identity after 1945? Within a burgeoning literature on national identity and what it means to be British this is a question that has received surprisingly little attention. Englishness and Empire makes an important and original contribution to recent debates about the domestic consequences of the end of empire. Wendy Webster explores popular narratives of nation in the mainstream media archive - newspapers, newsreels, radio, film, and television. The contours of the study generally follow stories told through prolific filmic and television imagery: the Second World War, the Coronation and Everest, colonial wars of the 1950s, and Winston Churchill's funeral. The book analyses three main narratives that conflicted and collided in the period - a Commonwealth that promised to maintain Britishness as a global identity; siege narratives of colonial wars and immigration that showed a 'little England' threatened by empire and its legacies; and a story of national greatness, celebrating the martial masculinity of British officers and leaders, through which imperial identity leaked into narratives of the Second World War developed after 1945. The book also explores the significance of America to post-imperial Britain. Englishness and Empire considers how far, and in what contexts and unexpected places, imperial identity and loss of imperial power resonated in popular narratives of nataion. As the first monograph to investigate the significance of empire and its legacies in shaping national identity after 1945, this is an important study for all scholars interested in questions of national identity and their intersections with gender, race, empire, immigration, and decolonization.