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Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon

By: Alvin A. Lee

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The aim of Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon is to re-create as fully as possible for modern readers the original force of the poetic language of Beowulf. Lee makes use of a wide, archetypal literary context for Beowulf to provide illuminating parallels and contrasts with poems and fictions from other times and places. He demonstrates how the poem's symbolic system reveals itself through the metaphorical workings of the Old English words, patterns of imagery, and more general narrative structures, and how the poem might have been experienced and interpreted by the Anglo-Saxons in the light of other Old English poems. The critical tools that Lee uses - combining certain techniques of New Criticism and close reading with postmodern theories of the self-referentiality of language and with Northrop Frye's conceptions of structure and polysemy in literature - make possible a fresh new account of Beowulf as a work that is very much alive in its poetic language, a finely wrought symbolic work of imagining, still resonant with meanings old and new.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442613122

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9781442613126

Nuclear Reactions

Science and Trans-Science

By: Alvin M. Weinberg

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Nuclear Reactions

Science and Trans-Science

By: Alvin M. Weinberg

Blurb & Contents" "Marvelous reading, with few problems of the interaction between science/technology and society left untouched. One need not always agree, but one cannot come away without a better education....I found the parts on scientific administration and on the interaction of science and society excellent and provocative reading, and the parts on energy and nuclear energy very much to the point." American Journal of Physics Alvin Weinberg explores through these collected essays the ever troublesome relationship between science, technology, and society. The title is taken from Weinberg's assertion that most of the issues arising at the intersection of science and society depend upon answers to questions that lie outside the power of science--issues that are trans-scientific. Weinberg, who during World War II helped develop the first nuclear reactors, has much to say on the current role of nuclear power and the possibilities for the future. Other topics include strategic defenses and arms control, the role of the science administrator, and the way in which time, energy, and resources are allocated to public problems. In this remarkable record of a half- century of public-oriented work, Weinberg lays the foundation for a philosophy of scientific administration parallel to the more established philosophy of science.

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358

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0883188619

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9780883188613

The Films of Tommy Lee Jones

By: Alvin H. Marill

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The Films of Tommy Lee Jones

By: Alvin H. Marill

Hailing from the Texas oil country, Tommy Lee Jones, who was both an intellectual and a football star at Harvard, has earned a reputation as a thinking man's actor. "The Films of Tommy Lee Jones" covers all of Jones' starring vehicles, including stage, screen and TV. Photos, many in color.

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Citadel Press

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0806519525

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9780806519524

Manual of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

A Self-Study, Protocol-Based Approach

By: Mark H. Greenberg,Alvin Lee Day,Suliman Alradawi

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Manual of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

A Self-Study, Protocol-Based Approach

By: Mark H. Greenberg,Alvin Lee Day,Suliman Alradawi

This book is a quick start guide that equips students and professionals with musculoskeletal ultrasound image acquisition basics. Written in plain language, it focuses on the common, clinically relevant conditions diagnosable by musculoskeletal ultrasound. With many verbal and illustrative mnemonics, images, and whimsical illustrations, the manual provides many different methods to remember complicated anatomy and examination protocols. Manual of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound teaches a protocol-based approach designed to help people understand why and how we perform musculoskeletal ultrasound studies. Each chapter covers a different body part and starts with basic anatomy and the clinical questions we want an ultrasound examination of that body part to answer. The protocols within each chapter tell the student precisely how and where to move the probe to obtain and optimize images. It demonstrates what a normal sonographic image should look like and explains what dynamic or structural issues would be abnormal in certain clinical circumstances. The protocol is a checklist that can be practiced on a partner or the reader themself. Chapters also discuss pathologic entities discernable on ultrasound, pitfalls to avoid, and imaging tricks of the trade. This manual is invaluable for students and practicing clinicians in rheumatology, orthopedics, physiatry, neurology, sports medicine, advanced practice, and sonography.

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546

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Springer Nature

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3031374169

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9783031374166

Gold-Hall and Earth-dragon

Beowulf as Metaphor

By: Alvin A. Lee

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Gold-Hall and Earth-dragon

Beowulf as Metaphor

By: Alvin A. Lee

Demonstrates how Beowulf's symbolic system reveals itself through the metaphorical workings of the Old English words, and how the poem might have been experienced and interpreted by the Anglo-Saxons in the light of other Old English poems.

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080204378X

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Book's by Alvin A. Lee

Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon

Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon

Nuclear Reactions

Nuclear Reactions

The Films of Tommy Lee Jones

The Films of Tommy Lee Jones

Manual of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

Manual of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

Gold-Hall and Earth-dragon

Gold-Hall and Earth-dragon

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