The Neo-Assyrian king Sargon II was one of the most important and famous rulers of ancient Mesopotamia. In this volume of critically important ancient documents, Grant Frame presents reliable, updated editions of Sargon’s approximately 130 historical inscriptions, as well as several from his wife, his brother, and other high officials. Beginning with a thorough introduction to the reign of Sargon II and an overview of the previous scholarship on his inscriptions, this modern scholarly edition contains the entire extant corpus. It presents more than 130 inscriptions, preserved on stone wall slabs from his palace, paving slabs, colossi, steles, prisms, cylinders, bricks, metal, and other objects, along with brief introductions, commentaries, comprehensive bibliographies, accurate transliterations, and elegant English translations of the Akkadian texts. This monumental work is complemented by more than two dozen photographs of the inscribed objects; indices of museum and excavation numbers, selected publications, and proper names; and translations of relevant passages from several other Akkadian texts, including chronicles and king lists. Informed by advances in the study of the Akkadian language and featuring more than twice as many texts as previous editions of Sargon II’s inscriptions, this will be the editio princeps for Assyriologists and students of the Sargonic inscriptions for decades to come.
This volume contains a short introduction for each ruler. Every inscription is accompanied by an introductory statement, a catalogue of exemplars, a brief commentary, a bibliography, a transliteration and translation, and notes.
CREATED AND WRITTEN by legendary icon, GRANT MORRISON (Batman, All Star Superman, The Invisibles, 18 Days), comes his newest hero AVATAREX. What happens when an all-powerful super-being awakens to fight the Last War of the Age - only to discover he's been sent too EARLY for the End Days and must somehow learn to exist in a world that's too small and too frail to survive his presence? "At a time when I feel I've said about as much as I have to say about the American superhero, this is an opportunity to re-imagine the entire concept through a different cultural lens," said Grant Morrison. SPECIAL DIRECTOR¡¯S CUT EDITION: Special issue includes Grant Morrison¡¯s script for Issue 2, Black and White art from superstar artist Edison "Manu" George, character designs, & sketches! Cover by Nimit Malavia (Fables, Once Upon A Time)
Grant's Fabulous Feats of Mental Magic By U.F. Grant (1954)- Edited by Don Tanner -CONTENTS INCLUDE- See All Telephone Book Test- The Clear View Test- Magazine Test- Super-X Mindreading- Slate of Mind- The Crystal Gazer- Trans-Vision- Duplicity- Shades of Edison- The Zella Mindreading Act- Cimota- Easy to Do Card Miracle- Whispering Glass- Zella Prediction Deck- Think- A Short Peek- Suspense- Moe Card Trick- Influence- Next- Card Fan Location- Improved DeLawrence Clock Trick- Feeling the Spots on Cards- Kard-U-Reka- Twin-Thot- Futuramic- Design Duplication- A Message From the Deep- Ment-O-Flex- Prediction Chest- Spell Bound- Tale of Fifteen Cities- Zenith Headline Prediction- Atomic Sight- Citation- Private Reading- Cognomen- Space Thought- Frame of Mind- Gamblers Dice Throw- Hypnotism- Rear Vision- Twin-Thot- Center Tear Perfected- The Telephone Coin Trick- X-Ray Vision- A Word to the Wise- Impromptu (Practically) Telephone Book Test- Within the Law- Well Stacked- SPECIAL - Hypnotism By Radio21 Pages Including Illustrations.
CREATED AND WRITTEN by legendary icon, GRANT MORRISON (Batman, All Star Superman, The Invisibles, 18 Days), comes his newest hero AVATAREX. What happens when an all-powerful super-being awakens to fight the Last War of the Age - only to discover he's been sent too EARLY for the End Days and must somehow learn to exist in a world that's too small and too frail to survive his presence? "At a time when I feel I've said about as much as I have to say about the American superhero, this is an opportunity to re-imagine the entire concept through a different cultural lens," said Grant Morrison. SPECIAL DIRECTOR¡¯S CUT EDITION: Special issue includes Grant Morrison¡¯s script for Issue 1, Black and White art from superstar artist Jeevan J. Kang, character designs, & sketches!
In Expression vs. Equality, J. Tobin Grant and Thomas J. Rudolph argue that although public opinion plays a vital role in judicial rulings on the legalities of various finance reform options, political scientists have yet to realize fully the complexities and nuances of public attitudes toward campaign financing. The issue of campaign finance reform exposes a real conflict between the core democratic values of equality and expression. Economic inequalities, reformers argue, allow certain groups and individuals to exert undue influence in the political process, thereby threatening the democratic value of political equality. Opponents tend to frame the issue as a question of free speech: restrictions on campaign contributions are viewed as a threat to the democratic value of political expression. In the context of campaign finance, how do committed Americans rank the importance of equality and expression? How do they resolve the conflict between these competing democratic values? The answers to these questions, say the authors, depend heavily on whose influence and whose rights are perceived to be at stake. Using a series of unique experiments embedded in a national survey of the American electorate, they find that citizens' commitment to the values of expression and equality in the campaign finance system is strongly influenced by their feelings or affect toward those whose rights and influence are perceived to be at stake. Freedom of speech is more highly valued in contexts where the respondent agrees with the issue in question; equity, on the other hand, is more highly valued when the respondent disagrees with the issue. These findings have implications not only for the continuingpublic debate over campaign finance reform, but also for our understanding of how citizens make tradeoffs between competing democratic values.
In this definitive guide to resources, aspiring artists and serious amateurs devoted to their art will find scores of time-tested strategies to help them set up and work safely from a home studio; learn where and how to acquire appropriate art materials; develop their abilities with others as well as create art alone; explore opportunities for education in a wide variety of forms; overcome mental blocks; mat, frame, pack, and ship works of art; and much more. Artists looking to show and sell their work will find no-fail ideas for marketing, exhibiting, and entering the world of galleries. Filled with entertaining success stories, this is one volume for the bookshelf of every artist hoping to attain satisfaction and pleasure though his or her art. Plus, dozens of well-known artists–as well as those successful on their own terms–share their own success stories and sources for artistic inspiration.
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