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Multiple Nationality And International Law

By: Alfred Michael Boll

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Multiple Nationality And International Law

By: Alfred Michael Boll

This book is a comprehensive overview of multiple nationality in international law, and contains a survey of current State practice covering over 75 countries. It examines the topic in light of the historical treatment of multiple nationality by States, international bodies and commentators, setting out the general trends in international law and relations that have influenced nationality. While the book's purpose is not to debate the merits of multiple nationality, but to present actual state practice, it does survey arguments for and against multiple nationality, and considers States' motivations in adopting a particular attitude toward the topic. As a reference work, the volume includes a detailed examination of the nature of nationality under international law and the concepts of nationality and citizenship under municipal law. The survey of State practice also constitutes a valuable resource for practitioners.

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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9004148388

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Bath

By: Michael Forsyth,Stephen Bird

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Bath

By: Michael Forsyth,Stephen Bird

This delightful book is the first comprehensive architectural guide to Bath, England's finest Georgian city. Full of new discoveries and lively descriptions, the book follows in the tradition of the celebrated Pevsner series. The great set-pieces of Bath - the famous Grand Pump Room, the Circus, the Royal Crescent - form a splendid sequence in a charming urban landscape developed by a long succession of gifted architects. The city's Roman roots are represented by its extraordinary baths, its medieval prosperity by the splendid Abbey. Exquisite crescents, terraces and villas grace the surrounding hills.

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Yale University Press

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0300101775

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The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume I

From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century

By: Michael Burger

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The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume I

From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century

By: Michael Burger

Michael Burger's goal in this inexpensive overview is to provide a brief, historical narrative of Western civilization. Not only does its length and price separate this text from the competition, but its no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written, one-authored approach make it a valuable asset for every history student. The Shaping of Western Civilization: From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century begins with the ancient Near East and ends with the mid-eighteenth century. Unlike other textbooks that pile on dates and facts, Shaping is a more coherent and interpretive presentation. Burger's skills as writer and synthesizer will enable students to obtain the background required to ask meaningful questions of primary sources. In addition to suggestions for further reading, this overview includes over 40 images and 14 maps.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442607580

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The Shaping of Western Civilization

From Antiquity to the Present

By: Michael Burger

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The Shaping of Western Civilization

From Antiquity to the Present

By: Michael Burger

Michael Burger's goal in this inexpensive overview is to provide a brief, historical narrative of Western civilization. Not only does its length and price separate this text from the competition, but its no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written, one-authored approach make it a valuable asset for every history student. The Shaping of Western Civilization begins with the ancient Near East and ends with globalization. Unlike other textbooks that pile on dates and facts, Shaping is a more coherent and interpretive presentation. Burger's skills as writer and synthesizer will enable students to obtain the background required to ask meaningful questions of primary sources. In addition to suggestions for further reading, this overview includes over 50 images and 22 maps.

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From Domination to Coloring

Stephen Hedetniemi's Graph Theory and Beyond

By: Gary Chartrand,Teresa W. Haynes,Michael A. Henning,Ping Zhang

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From Domination to Coloring

Stephen Hedetniemi's Graph Theory and Beyond

By: Gary Chartrand,Teresa W. Haynes,Michael A. Henning,Ping Zhang

This book is in honor of the 80th birthday of Stephen Hedetniemi. It describes advanced material in graph theory in the areas of domination, coloring, spanning cycles and circuits, and distance that grew out of research topics investigated by Stephen Hedetniemi. The purpose of this book is to provide background and principal results on these topics, along with same related problems and conjectures, for researchers in these areas. The most important features deal with material, results, and problems that researchers may not be aware of but may find of interest. Each chapter contains results, methods and information that will give readers the necessary background to investigate each topic in more detail.

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Springer Nature

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3030311104

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The Age of Cinna

Crucible of Late Republican Rome

By: Michael Lovano

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The Age of Cinna

Crucible of Late Republican Rome

By: Michael Lovano

The years 91-82 B.C. witnessed the reforms, factional competition, and civil strife that sowed the seeds of the RepublicAes eventual destruction. This book investigates that crucial decade in the social and political development of Rome by re-examining the career of L. Cornelius Cinna, one of the most enigmatic, tragic, yet fascinating, figures in all of Roman history; his regime odominatedo Rome from 87 to 82 B.C. This study attempts to explain how, why, and how successfully Cinna and his faction, as champions of RomeAes discontented and obstacle of RomeAes conservatives, dealt with those pressing problems that then plagued Rome. Cinna emerges as a competent military strategist and an astute politician who, through conviction and ambition, rose to head an unusual coalition. His odominatioo was no military despotism; his faction did not exercise absolute or tyrannical authority over the State. Rather, CinnaAes regime ensured political and economic stability and preserved and promoted the Roman State at a time when it surely might have collapsed. "a this work will be of particular service to cautious students looking for up-to-date guidancea" Journal of Roman Studies

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Franz Steiner Verlag

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3515079483

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St Mark's Gospel and the Christian Faith

By: Michael Keene

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St Mark's Gospel and the Christian Faith

By: Michael Keene

Now fully revised to match the changes to AQA specification A, option 1c - The Christian Life and St Mark's Gospel.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748767754

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The Law Under the Swastika

Studies on Legal History in Nazi Germany

By: Michael Stolleis

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The Law Under the Swastika

Studies on Legal History in Nazi Germany

By: Michael Stolleis

Michael Stolleis is part of a younger generation and is determined to honestly confront the past in hopes of preventing the same injustices from happening in the future.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226775259

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Mediaeval Trade and Finance

By: Michael Moïssey Postan

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Mediaeval Trade and Finance

By: Michael Moïssey Postan

A collection of Professor Postan's major essays on medieval trade and finance.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521522021

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From Rome to Byzantium

The Fifth Century A.D.

By: Michael Grant

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From Rome to Byzantium

The Fifth Century A.D.

By: Michael Grant

Michael Grant's narrative is lucid and colourful, lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps. He successfully provides an examination of a comparatively unexplored area and constructs the history of the empire.

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Psychology Press

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0415147530

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Teachers in Trouble

An Exploration of the Normative Character of Teaching

By: Stuart Piddocke,Romulo F. Magsino,Michael E. Manley-Casimir

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Teachers in Trouble

An Exploration of the Normative Character of Teaching

By: Stuart Piddocke,Romulo F. Magsino,Michael E. Manley-Casimir

The authors of Teachers in Trouble study how teacher conduct is monitored in the classroom and off the job. They propose a classification scheme for behaviours that are likely to upset community norms and bring down censure from the school board.

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The World between Empires

Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East

By: Blair Fowlkes-Childs,Michael Seymour

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The World between Empires

Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East

By: Blair Fowlkes-Childs,Michael Seymour

The World between Empires presents a new perspective on the art and culture of the Middle East in the years 100 B.C.–A.D. 250, a time marked by the struggle for control by the Roman and Parthian Empires. For the first time, this book weaves together the cultural histories of the cities along the great incense and silk routes that connected southwestern Arabia, Nabataea, Judaea, Syria, and Mesopotamia. It captures the intricate web of influence and religious diversity that emerged in the Middle East through the exchange of goods and ideas. And for our current age, when several of the archaeological sites featured here—including Palmyra, Dura- Europos, and Hatra—have been subject to deliberate destruction and looting, it addresses the crucial subject of preserving what has been lost and contextualizes the significance of these works on a local and global scale. This essential volume features 186 objects of exceptional importance from Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. Readers are taken on a fascinating journey that explores sites of intense political and religious struggles against Roman rule as well as important religious centers and military bulwarks of the Parthian Empire. Reaching across two millennia, The World between Empires brings vividly to life how individuals and cities in ancient times defined themselves, and how these factors continue to resonate today. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588396835

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The Art of the Body

Antiquity and its Legacy

By: Michael Squire

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The Art of the Body

Antiquity and its Legacy

By: Michael Squire

The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure. This book is the first concerted attempt to grapple with that legacy: it explores the complex relationship between Graeco-Roman images of the body and subsequent western engagements with them, from the Byzantine icon to Venice Beach (and back again). Instead of approaching his material chronologically, Michael Squire faces up to its inherent modernity. Writing in a lively and accessible style, and supplementing his text with a rich array of pictures, he shows how Graeco-Roman images inhabit our world as if they were our own. The Art of the Body offers a series of comparative and thematic accounts, demonstrating the range of cultural ideas and anxieties that were explored through the figure of the body both in antiquity and in the various cultural landscapes that came afterwards. If we only strip down our aesthetic investment in the corpus of Graeco-Roman imagery, Squire argues, this material can shed light on both ancient and modern thinking. The result is a stimulating process of mutual illumination - and an exhilarating new approach to Classical art history.

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0857719319

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Space, Movement, and Visibility in Pompeian Houses

By: Michael A. Anderson

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Space, Movement, and Visibility in Pompeian Houses

By: Michael A. Anderson

This volume examines the pivotal role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house form; the use of space; and the manner, meaning, and modalities of domestic daily life, through the application of GIS-based analysis. Through close consideration of ancient literature, detailed explanations of methodology, and exploration of results, Michael Anderson provides new perspectives on Pompeian domestic space including room types and household activities that rarely feature in the discussion of ancient housing. Readers gain a better understanding of priorities in the design of Pompeian houses, the degree to which daily life was interrupted by earthquake damage in the site’s final years, and evolving motivations behind wall painting decoration. The volume not only explores how Pompeian houses reflected the needs of everyday life as imagined by their architects, but also how these spaces served to influence and control daily activities and ultimately how they were transformed by the spatial and visual requirements of domestic life. Space, Movement, and Visibility in Pompeian Houses is suitable for students and scholars of Pompeian houses and domestic life, Roman architecture and urbanism, and spatial analysis and space syntax.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317051874

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Art History Essentials

By: George Michael Cohen

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Art History Essentials

By: George Michael Cohen

REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing for exams, doing homework and will remain a lasting reference source for students, teachers, and professionals. Art History highlights the history of art, from the Ancient World to the Twentieth Century. It includes illustrations and photos of Egyptian architecture, Greek sculpture, and Renaissance paintings and sculpture. This book explains the different art movements such as Baroque and Neoclassicism, and describes the kinds of materials that were used to create the various works. This book is an ideal study aid for students who must familiarize themselves with major works of art, how they were created, and the affect they had on world history.

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Research & Education Assoc.

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0738672009

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Slave Species of the Gods

The Secret History of the Anunnaki and Their Mission on Earth

By: Michael Tellinger

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Slave Species of the Gods

The Secret History of the Anunnaki and Their Mission on Earth

By: Michael Tellinger

Our origins as a slave species and the Anunnaki legacy in our DNA • Reveals compelling new archaeological and genetic evidence for the engineered origins of the human species, first proposed by Zecharia Sitchin in The 12th Planet • Shows how the Anunnaki created us using pieces of their own DNA, controlling our physical and mental capabilities by inactivating their more advanced DNA • Identifies a recently discovered complex of sophisticated ruins in South Africa as the city of the Anunnaki leader Enki Scholars have long believed that the first civilization on Earth emerged in Sumer some 6,000 years ago. However, as Michael Tellinger reveals, the Sumerians and Egyptians inherited their knowledge from an earlier civilization that lived at the southern tip of Africa and began with the arrival of the Anunnaki more than 200,000 years ago. Sent to Earth in search of life-saving gold, these ancient Anunnaki astronauts from the planet Nibiru created the first humans as a slave race to mine gold--thus beginning our global traditions of gold obsession, slavery, and god as dominating master. Revealing new archaeological and genetic evidence in support of Zecharia Sitchin’s revolutionary work with pre-biblical clay tablets, Tellinger shows how the Anunnaki created us using pieces of their own DNA, controlling our physical and mental capabilities by inactivating their more advanced DNA--which explains why less than 3 percent of our DNA is active. He identifies a recently discovered complex of sophisticated ruins in South Africa, complete with thousands of mines, as the city of Anunnaki leader Enki and explains their lost technologies that used the power of sound as a source of energy. Matching key mythologies of the world’s religions to the Sumerian clay tablet stories on which they are based, he details the actual events behind these tales of direct physical interactions with “god,” concluding with the epic flood--a perennial theme of ancient myth--that wiped out the Anunnaki mining operations. Tellinger shows that, as humanity awakens to the truth about our origins, we can overcome our programmed animalistic and slave-like nature, tap in to our dormant Anunnaki DNA, and realize the longevity and intelligence of our creators as well as learn the difference between the gods of myth and the true loving God of our universe.

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Simon and Schuster

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1591438071

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9781591438076

Studies in Stoicism

By: P. A. Brunt,Michael Crawford

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Studies in Stoicism

By: P. A. Brunt,Michael Crawford

This important volume fulfills one of Peter Brunt's (1917 - 2005) last wishes: a collection of his most important papers in the area of scholarship that had occupied him in his earliest years of research, and which largely absorbed his attention after his retirement from the Camden Chair of Roman History at Oxford University in 1982. Brunt was interested primarily in Stoicism in the Roman period, and his chief concern was the practical influence of its ethical teaching on political and social life. Although his investigations were historical, they required a complete mastery of the Stoic texts and doctrine. Basing his work almost entirely on the ancient sources, Brunt provides the most complete account and comparison available today not only of the ideas of the Roman Stoic moralists, but also of the political philosophy of the Greek founders of the Stoa. He believed that the ideas of the Stoics of the Roman period were essentially continuous with the thinking of the founders, and he did not accept that the concern with practical everyday morality in later Stoicism was a new development. Studies in Stoicism contains six unpublished and seven republished essays, the latter incorporating additions and changes which Brunt wished to be made. The papers have been integrated and arranged in roughly chronological order and by subject matter, with an accessible lecture to the Oxford Philological Society serving as Brunt's own introduction.

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Oxford University Press (UK)

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0199695857

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The Mysteries of Merlin

Ceremonial Magic for the Druid Path

By: John Michael Greer

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The Mysteries of Merlin

Ceremonial Magic for the Druid Path

By: John Michael Greer

Discover Your Path of Self-Initiation through the Union of Druidry & Ceremonial Magic This innovative system of self-initiation into ceremonial magic provides you with powerful rituals based on the life stages of the great wizard Merlin. Featuring eight full ceremonial workings to perform throughout the year for each of the three degrees, this exceptional guide deepens your spirituality and connects you to mysteries passed down across the ages. Join John Michael Greer as he presents a wealth of information on Merlin's life and legends. Explore ancient initiations and how they're connected to Celtic deities. Even if you have no experience with Druid magic, Greer's detailed instructions, meditations, and exercises make it easy to start your journey or enhance your spiritual path in exciting ways. By marrying Golden Dawn magic with Celtic Paganism, this impressive work unlocks vital wisdom for your modern practice.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738759678

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Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings Collection

By: Michael Oakeshott

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Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings Collection

By: Michael Oakeshott

A collection of 6 volumes of Oakeshott's work: Notebooks, 1922-86, Early Political Writings 1925-30, The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence, Vocabulary of a Modern European State, Lectures in the History of Political Thought, and What is History?

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Andrews UK Limited

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1845407814

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Story of the Middle Ages

By: Michael J. McHugh

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Story of the Middle Ages

By: Michael J. McHugh

This book is designed to provide 5th or 6th grade level students with a solid overview of old world history.

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Christian Liberty Press

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1930367775

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Veiled Threats

The Logic of Popular Catholicism in Italy

By: Michael P. Carroll

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Veiled Threats

The Logic of Popular Catholicism in Italy

By: Michael P. Carroll

In his acclaimed Madonnas That Maim, Michael Carroll began his systematic examination of popular Catholicism in Italy. Now, in Veiled Threats, Carroll delves more deeply into the distinctive character of Italian popular Catholicism. He explores in detail the complex relationship between popular and official Catholicism in Italy from the fifteenth century to the present, bringing to light a considerable body of recent Italian scholarship on the Catholic experience in Italy never before translated into English. Carroll places special emphasis on miraculous images and the cults that form around them, on public performances such as self-flagellation during Holy Week processions, on devotion to souls in Purgatory, on the success of preaching orders in adapting to local beliefs, on the role of relics and the incorrupt bodies of saints, and on differing responses to the Reformation in northern and southern Italy. Throughout Veiled Threats, Carroll discovers in the beliefs and practices of popular Catholicism and implicit logic and vital creativity that reflect local experiences and needs far removed from those of official Catholicism.

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JHU Press

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0801852900

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Transnationalism in Ancient and Medieval Societies

The Role of Cross-Border Trade and Travel

By: Michael C. Howard

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Transnationalism in Ancient and Medieval Societies

The Role of Cross-Border Trade and Travel

By: Michael C. Howard

While scholars have long documented the migration of people in ancient and medieval times, they have paid less attention to those who traveled across borders with some regularity. This study of early transnational relations explores the routine interaction of people across the boundaries of empires, tribal confederacies, kingdoms, and city-states, paying particular attention to the role of long-distance trade along the Silk Road and maritime trade routes. It examines the obstacles voyagers faced, including limited travel and communication capabilities, relatively poor geographical knowledge, and the dangers of a fragmented and shifting political landscape, and offers profiles of better-known transnational elites such as the Hellenic scholar Herodotus and the Venetian merchant Marco Polo, as well lesser known servants, merchants, and sailors. By revealing the important political, economic, and cultural role cross-border trade and travel played in ancient society, this work demonstrates that transnationalism is not unique to modern times. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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McFarland

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0786490330

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Reading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete

Dynamics of Early Christian Identity Construction

By: Michael Robertson

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Reading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete

Dynamics of Early Christian Identity Construction

By: Michael Robertson

This volume argues that Titus’s invocation of Crete affected the ways early readers developed their identities. Using archaeological data, classical writings, and early Christian documents, he describes multiple traditions that circulated on Crete and throughout the Roman Empire concerning Cretan Zeus, Cretan social structure, and Cretan Judaism. He then uses these traditions to interpret Titus and explain how the letter would intersect with and affect readers’ identities. Because readers had differing conceptions of Crete based on their location and access to and evaluation of Cretan traditions, readers would have developed their identities in multiple, conflictual, even contradictory ways.

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BRILL

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9004685715

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Government

A Public Administration Perspective

By: Thomas N. Ingram,Raymond W. LaForge,Ramon A. Avila,Charles H. Schwepker, Jr.,Michael R. Williams

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Government

A Public Administration Perspective

By: Thomas N. Ingram,Raymond W. LaForge,Ramon A. Avila,Charles H. Schwepker, Jr.,Michael R. Williams

Most public administration texts overly compartmentalize the subject and don't interconnect the various specializations within government, which leaves a serious gap in preparing students for public service. Government: A Public Adminstration Perspective is designed to fill that void. It provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of government that includes perspectives from political science, political theory, international relations, organizational sociology, economics, and history. The text draws on classic and modern literature from all these areas to analyze government at four different levels--ideational, societal, organizational, and individual layers. It links public administration's various subfields--human resource management, budgeting, policy making, organizational theory, etc.--into a holistic framework for the study of government. It also includes an extensive bibliography drawing from American and Europen literature in support of the book's global, historical, and comparative approach.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765635577

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9780765635570

Urban Geography

A Global Perspective

By: Michael Pacione

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Urban Geography

A Global Perspective

By: Michael Pacione

This is the most comprehensive and readable book on urban geography in the array of contemporary literature on the subject.

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Taylor & Francis

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0415462010

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9780415462013

Gardens and Plants of the Getty Villa

By: Patrick Bowe,Michael D. DeHart

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Gardens and Plants of the Getty Villa

By: Patrick Bowe,Michael D. DeHart

Gardens and Plants of the Getty Villa is the long-awaited companion volume to Plants in the Getty's Central Garden published in 2004. In the first part of the book, garden historian Patrick Bowe explores the design, planting, and uses of the ancient Roman garden and describes how J. Paul Getty's vision to create such a garden in California was brought to reality. The second part includes a sumptuously illustrated guide to the plants in each of the five gardens at the Villa. Bowe introduces each of the gardens, describing the underlying concepts and the relationship to the ancient Roman models as well as their architectural and sculptural elements present. He also documents how plantings have been renewed in light of new knowledge emerging from excavations conducted in the Roman gardens of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Horticulturist Michael DeHart provides informative descriptions of the growing habits and characteristics for each of the plants, citing medicinal, culinary, and ritual uses for many of them.

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Getty Publications

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160606049X

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Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers

By: James Michael Thomas

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Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers

By: James Michael Thomas

Based on the premise that plays are objects of study in and of themselves, this title details the Konstantin Stanislavskis method of action analysis, expanding the scope of analysis to includes both inductive and deductive methodologies.

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024080662X

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The Danube Frontier

By: Michael Schmitz

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The Danube Frontier

By: Michael Schmitz

The Roman conquests of Macedonia in the 2nd century BC led directly to the extension of their authority over the troublesome tribes of Thrace to the south of the Danube. But their new neighbor on the other side of the mighty river, the kingdom of the Dacians, was to pose an increasing threat to the Roman empire. Inevitably, this eventually provoked Roman attempts at invasion and conquest. It is a measure of Dacian prowess and resilience that several tough campaigns were required over more than a century before their kingdom was added to the Roman Empire. It was one of the Empire's last major acquisitions (and a short-lived one at that). Dr. Michael Schmitz traces Roman involvement in the Danube region from first contact with the Thracians after the Third Macedonian War in the 2nd century BC to the ultimate conquest of Dacia by Trajan in the early years of the 2nd Century AD. Like the other volumes in this series, this book gives a clear narrative of the course of these wars, explaining how the Roman war machine coped with formidable new foes and the challenges of unfamiliar terrain and climate. Specially commissioned color plates bring the main troop types vividly to life in meticulously researched detail.

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Pen and Sword Military

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1473865573

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Ancient Warfare Technology

From Javelins to Chariots

By: Mary B. Woods,Michael Woods

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Ancient Warfare Technology

From Javelins to Chariots

By: Mary B. Woods,Michael Woods

Did you know . . . • The Scythians used guerrilla warfare more than 2,500 years ago? • The Chinese general Sun-tzu wrote the first military manual in the fourth century B.C.? • Some ancient Greek warships had more than 150 oarsmen? Military technology is almost as old as human society. The first humans sometimes fought one another with sticks and spears. Over the centuries, early peoples developed more powerful—and deadlier—weapons. The ancient Egyptians built the first warships. The Mayans crafted razor-sharp blades from obsidian, a kind of glass. The ancient Chinese invented the crossbow. This mechanized weapon could shoot arrows much farther than an ordinary bow. What other kinds of weapons did ancient warriors use? What tactics and strategies did they employ? How did they protect themselves from enemies? And how did ancient warfare technology set the stage for our own modern warfare technology? Learn more in Ancient Warfare Technology.

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0761372687

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Collections Relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin

3rd Series

By: Michael Comerford

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Collections Relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin

3rd Series

By: Michael Comerford

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385310199

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9783385310193

The Self, the Lord, and the Other according to Paul and Epictetus

The Theological Significance of Reflexive Language

By: Michael J. Gorman

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The Self, the Lord, and the Other according to Paul and Epictetus

The Theological Significance of Reflexive Language

By: Michael J. Gorman

This study explores the relationship between the individual person (the self), the divine, and other people in the writings of the apostle Paul and the Roman Stoic Epictetus. It does so by examining self-involving actions expressed with reflexive pronouns (myself, yourself, etc.) in various kinds of sentences: for example, "Examine yourself" and "You do not belong to yourself." After situating the topic within the fields of linguistics and ancient Greek, the study then examines the reflexive constructions in Epictetus's Discourses, showing that reflexive texts express fundamental aspects of his ethic of rational self-interest in imitation of the indwelling rational deity. Next, the investigation examines the 109 reflexive constructions in Paul, providing an exegesis of each reflexive text and then synthesizing the results. Paul's reflexive phrases are essential statements of his theology and ethics, expressing an interconnected narrative Christology, narrative apostolic identity, and narrative ethic. Most importantly, the study finds that for Epictetus, concern for others is a rational means to self-realization, whereas for Paul, concern for others is a community ethic grounded in the story of the indwelling Christ and is the antithesis of self-interest.

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1666795291

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The Italian Legal System

An Introduction, Second Edition

By: Michael A. Livingston,Pier Giuseppe Monateri,Francesco Parisi

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The Italian Legal System

An Introduction, Second Edition

By: Michael A. Livingston,Pier Giuseppe Monateri,Francesco Parisi

For fifty years, the first edition of The Italian Legal System has been the gold standard among English-language works on the Italian legal system. The book's original authors, Mauro Cappelletti, John Henry Merryman, and Joseph M. Perillo, provided not only an overview of Italian law, but a definition of the field, together with an important contribution to the general literature on comparative law. The book explains the unique "Italian style" in doctrine, law, and interpretation and includes an extremely well-written introduction to Italian legal history, government, the legal profession, and civil procedure and evidence. In this fully-updated and revised second edition, authors Michael A. Livingston, Pier Giuseppe Monateri, and Francesco Parisi describe the substantial changes in Italian law and society in the intervening five decades—including the creation and impact of the European Union, as well as important advances in comparative law methodology. The second edition poses timely, relevant questions of whether and to what extent the unique Italian style of law has survived the pressures of European unification, American influence, and the globalization of law and society in the intervening period. The Italian Legal System, Second Edition is an important and stimulating resource for those with specific interest in Italy and those with a more general interest in comparative law and the globalization process.

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Stanford University Press

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0804796556

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Watching Jesus Die

Getting to Know Calvary's Cast of Characters

By: Woodrow Michael Kroll

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Watching Jesus Die

Getting to Know Calvary's Cast of Characters

By: Woodrow Michael Kroll

What if you could transport yourself back to the first century, walking the dusty streets of Jerusalem, late on Thursday night before Passover? And what if you were tagging along behind eleven men led by Jesus to the Garden of Gethsemane? You’d leave the Upper Room and go deep into the Kidron Valley to the garden. There the temple police and a half-crazed crowd arrive brandishing torches. Jesus is taken to the palace of Annas and then to the High Priest Caiaphas. What insight do we gain from history, archaeology, and most importantly the New Testament about where they lived? In the morning Jesus would be sent to the Chamber of Hewn Stone. What was this place and why is it important to the Passion narratives? On to Pilate’s Judgment Hall where new archaeological evidence questions its traditional location. You pick up the trail again on the Via Dolorosa and follow Jesus to Jerusalem’s killing field. There you find the Savior dying on a Roman cross. In just a few hours you have followed him from the Upper Room to Joseph’s tomb and have gained valuable insight into each stopover to help you on your own journey to Calvary.

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1666772003

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9781666772005

Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England

The Story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford Water Supply

By: Michael Taggart

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Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England

The Story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford Water Supply

By: Michael Taggart

The case of the Borough of Bradford v Pickles was the first to establish the principle that it is not unlawful for a property owner to exercise his or her property rights maliciously and to the detriment of others or the public interest. This book explores why the common law developed in this way.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019925687X

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