Benjamin Read Foster's Books

Opening the Tablet Box

Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Benjamin R. Foster

By: Sarah Melville,Alice Slotsky

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Opening the Tablet Box

Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Benjamin R. Foster

By: Sarah Melville,Alice Slotsky

With topics ranging from social and economic history to literature, language, and to art history and arachaeology, the essays in his book reflect the broad spectrum of interests of its honoree, Benjamin R. Foster.

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BRILL

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9004186522

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9789004186521

Civilizations of Ancient Iraq

By: Benjamin Read Foster,Karen Polinger Foster

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Civilizations of Ancient Iraq

By: Benjamin Read Foster,Karen Polinger Foster

In Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, Benjamin and Karen Foster tell the fascinating story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. Accessible and concise, this is the most up-to-date and authoritative book on the subject. With illustrations of important works of art and architecture in every chapter, the narrative traces the rise and fall of successive civilizations and peoples in Iraq over the course of millennia--from the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians to the Persians, Seleucids, Parthians, and Sassanians. Ancient Iraq was home to remarkable achievements. One of the birthplaces of civilization, it saw the world's earliest cities and empires, writing and literature, science and mathematics, monumental art, and innumerable other innovations. Civilizations of Ancient Iraq gives special attention to these milestones, as well as to political, social, and economic history. And because archaeology is the source of almost everything we know about ancient Iraq, the book includes an epilogue on the discovery and fate of its antiquities. Compelling and timely, Civilizations of Ancient Iraq is an essential guide to understanding Mesopotamia's central role in the development of human culture.

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Princeton University Press

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0691137226

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9780691137223

Starr

A Reassessment

By: Benjamin Wittes

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Starr

A Reassessment

By: Benjamin Wittes

This book is a serious, impartial effort to evaluate and critique Kenneth Starr's tenure as independent counsel. Relying on revealing interviews with Starr and many other players in Clinton-era Washington, the book arrives at a new understanding of Starr and the part he played in one of American history's most enthralling public sagas. It offers a deeply considered portrait of a decent man who fundamentally misconstrued his function under the independent counsel law. Starr took his task to be ferreting out and reporting the truth about official misconduct, a well-intentioned but nevertheless misguided distortion of the law, the book argues.

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Yale University Press

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0300092520

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9780300092523

The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

By: Benjamin D. Sommer

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The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

By: Benjamin D. Sommer

Sommer utilizes a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which a god has more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Though the dominant strains of biblical religion rejected it, a monotheistic version of this theological intuition is found in some biblical texts. Later Jewish and Christian thinkers inherited this ancient way of thinking; ideas such as the sefirot in Kabbalah and the trinity in Christianity represent a late version of this theology. This book forces us to rethink the distinction between monotheism and polytheism, as this notion of divine fluidity is found in both polytheistic cultures (Babylonia, Assyria, Canaan) and monotheistic ones (biblical religion, Jewish mysticism, Christianity), whereas it is absent in some polytheistic cultures (classical Greece). The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel has important repercussions not only for biblical scholarship and comparative religion but for Jewish-Christian dialogue.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139477781

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Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care

By: Benjamin Spock,Steven Parker

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Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care

By: Benjamin Spock,Steven Parker

For over 45 Years, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care has been the bible for new parents - the one book you can use in the middle of the night to decide whether or not to call your doctor. All of the most common childhood illnesses and their symptoms are described, and the best treatment of them advised, as well as what you should do in case of an emergency. Virtually every aspect of the care of infants, children, and teenagers is covered, from sleep problems, to discipline, to sex and drugs - all of the basic information that has made Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care the most authoritative and complete parenting guide ever written." "In this new edition, which contains a wealth of new, revised, and updated material, Drs. Spock and Parker tackle the problems parents face in an increasingly competitive and technological world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Dutton Adult

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0525944176

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9780525944171

The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity

Its Formation, Publication, and Circulation

By: Benjamin P. Laird

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The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity

Its Formation, Publication, and Circulation

By: Benjamin P. Laird

The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity: Its Formation, Publication, and Circulation offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging examination of the canonical development of the collection of writings associated with the Apostle Paul. The volume considers a number of clues from the New Testament writings, ancient literary conventions related to the composition and collection of letters, and a variety of early witnesses to the early state of the corpus such as biblical manuscripts, canonical lists, and the testimony of writers. As a conclusion to these inquiries, Laird argues that at least three major archetypal editions of the Pauline corpus—those containing 10, 13, and 14 letters—appear to have been collected and edited as early as the first century. These major archetypal editions, Laird concludes, circulated simultaneously for many years until editions containing 14 letters became nearly universally recognized by the fourth century. The volume serves as a valuable resource of information for those engaged in the study of the early state of the New Testament canon and offers a fresh perspective on the process that led to the formation of the Pauline corpus.

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Hendrickson Publishers

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1496475933

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Surviving and Thriving in Seminary

An Academic and Spiritual Handbook

By: H. Daniel Zacharias,Benjamin K. Forrest

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Surviving and Thriving in Seminary

An Academic and Spiritual Handbook

By: H. Daniel Zacharias,Benjamin K. Forrest

Seminary can be rich and rewarding, but also disorienting. In addition to the typical challenges of doing graduate studies, your experiences in seminary have the potential to affect how you see God, other people, and yourself. The stakes are high, but the good news is that you are not alone! In Surviving and Thriving in Seminary, two experienced professors (and former seminary students) tell you what to expect and how to navigate your years in seminary. They give you advice on how to prepare your own heart and relationships, how to manage your time and energy, and how to acquire the study skills you need. This essential book encourages and equips current and prospective seminary students to get the most out of their time in seminary.

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Lexham Press

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1577997794

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The Stack

On Software and Sovereignty

By: Benjamin H. Bratton

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The Stack

On Software and Sovereignty

By: Benjamin H. Bratton

A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture. What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and eye to users identified by self—quantification and the arrival of legions of sensors, algorithms, and robots. Together, how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image? In The Stack, Benjamin Bratton proposes that these different genres of computation—smart grids, cloud platforms, mobile apps, smart cities, the Internet of Things, automation—can be seen not as so many species evolving on their own, but as forming a coherent whole: an accidental megastructure called The Stack that is both a computational apparatus and a new governing architecture. We are inside The Stack and it is inside of us. In an account that is both theoretical and technical, drawing on political philosophy, architectural theory, and software studies, Bratton explores six layers of The Stack: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User. Each is mapped on its own terms and understood as a component within the larger whole built from hard and soft systems intermingling—not only computational forms but also social, human, and physical forces. This model, informed by the logic of the multilayered structure of protocol “stacks,” in which network technologies operate within a modular and vertical order, offers a comprehensive image of our emerging infrastructure and a platform for its ongoing reinvention. The Stack is an interdisciplinary design brief for a new geopolitics that works with and for planetary-scale computation. Interweaving the continental, urban, and perceptual scales, it shows how we can better build, dwell within, communicate with, and govern our worlds. thestack.org

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MIT Press

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026202957X

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9780262029575

Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry

Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975

By: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

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Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry

Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975

By: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

Eighteen essays written by Buchloh over the last twenty years, each looking at a single artist within the framework of specific theoretical and historical questions. Some critics view the postwar avant-garde as the empty recycling of forms and strategies from the first two decades of the twentieth century. Others view it, more positively, as a new articulation of the specific conditions of cultural production in the postwar period. Benjamin Buchloh, one of the most insightful art critics and theoreticians of recent decades, argues for a dialectical approach to these positions.This collection contains eighteen essays written by Buchloh over the last twenty years. Each looks at a single artist within the framework of specific theoretical and historical questions. The art movements covered include Nouveau Realisme in France (Arman, Yves Klein, Jacques de la Villegle) art in postwar Germany (Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter), American Fluxus and pop art (Robert Watts and Andy Warhol), minimalism and postminimal art (Michael Asher and Richard Serra), and European and American conceptual art (Daniel Buren, Dan Graham). Buchloh addresses some artists in terms of their oppositional approaches to language and painting, for example, Nancy Spero and Lawrence Weiner. About others, he asks more general questions concerning the development of models of institutional critique (Hans Haacke) and the theorization of the museum (Marcel Broodthaers); or he addresses the formation of historical memory in postconceptual art (James Coleman). One of the book's strengths is its systematic, interconnected account of the key issues of American and European artistic practice during two decades of postwar art. Another is Buchloh's method, which integrates formalist and socio-historical approaches specific to each subject.

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MIT Press

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0262523477

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9780262523479

Walter Benjamin and Art

By: Andrew Benjamin

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Walter Benjamin and Art

By: Andrew Benjamin

Walter Benjamin's most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art is the first book to provide a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work and its effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, aesthetics and the history of philosophy. The book is structured around three distinct areas: the extension of Benjamin's work; the question of historical connection; the importance of the essay in the development of criticism of both the visual arts and literature. Contributors to the volume include major Benjamin commentators, whose work has very much defined the reception of the essay, and leading philosophers, historians and aesthetician, whose approaches open up new areas of interest and relevance.

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A&C Black

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1847144543

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9781847144546

Risking Immeasurable Harm

Immigration Restriction and U.S.-Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924–1932

By: Benjamin C. Montoya

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Risking Immeasurable Harm

Immigration Restriction and U.S.-Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924–1932

By: Benjamin C. Montoya

The debate over restricting the number of Mexican immigrants to the United States began early in the twentieth century, a time when U.S.-Mexican relations were still tenuous following the Mexican Revolution and when heated conflicts over mineral rights, primarily oil, were raging between the two nations. Though Mexico had economic reasons for curbing emigration, the racist tone of the quota debate taking place in the United States offended Mexicans’ national pride and played a large part in obstructing mutual support for immigration restriction between the United States and Mexico. Risking Immeasurable Harm explains how the prospect of immigration restriction affects diplomatic relations by analyzing U.S. efforts to place a quota on immigration from Mexico during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The controversial quota raised important questions about how domestic immigration policy debates had international consequences, primarily how the racist justifications for immigration restriction threatened to undermine U.S. relations with Mexico. Benjamin C. Montoya follows the quota debate from its origin in 1924, spurred by the passage of the Immigration Act, to its conclusion in 1932. He examines congressional policy debate and the U.S. State Department’s steady opposition to the quota scheme. Despite the concerns of American diplomats, in 1930 the Senate passed the Harris Bill, which singled out Mexico among all other Latin American nations for immigration restriction. The lingering effects of the quota debates continued to strain diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico beyond the Great Depression. Relevant to current debates about immigration and the role of restrictions in inter-American diplomacy, Risking Immeasurable Harm demonstrates the correlation of immigration restriction and diplomacy, the ways racism can affect diplomatic relations, and how domestic immigration policy can have international consequences.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496219880

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Opening the Tablet Box

Opening the Tablet Box

Civilizations of Ancient Iraq

Civilizations of Ancient Iraq

Starr

Starr

The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care

Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care

The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity

The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity

Surviving and Thriving in Seminary

Surviving and Thriving in Seminary

The Stack

The Stack

Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry

Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry

Walter Benjamin and Art

Walter Benjamin and Art

Risking Immeasurable Harm

Risking Immeasurable Harm

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