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The Iliad

A Commentary. Books 13-16. Volume IV

By: Richard Janko

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The Iliad

A Commentary. Books 13-16. Volume IV

By: Richard Janko

This, the fourth volume in the six-volume Commentary on The Iliad being prepared under the General Editorship of Professor G.S. Kirk, covers Books 13-16, including the Battle for the Ships, the Deception of Zeus and the Death of Patroklos. Three introductory essays discuss the role of Homer's gods in his poetry; the origins and development of the epic diction; and the transmission of the text, from the bard's lips to our own manuscripts. It is now widely recognised that the first masterpiece of Western literature is an oral poem; Professor Janko's detailed commentary aims to show how this recognition can clarify many linguistic and textual problems, entailing a radical reassessment of the work of Homer's Alexandrian editors. The commentary also explores the poet's subtle creativity in adapting traditional materials, whether formulae, typical scenes, mythology or imagery, so as best to move, inspire and entertain his audience, ancient and modern alike. Discussion of the poem's literary qualities and structure is, where possible, kept separate from that of more technical matters.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521281741

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Hypsodonty in Mammals

By: Richard H. Madden

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Hypsodonty in Mammals

By: Richard H. Madden

This book explores the central importance of soil ingestion and earth surface processes in driving the evolution of tooth shape in mammals.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107012937

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British Sport

A Bibliography to 2000

By: Richard William Cox

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British Sport

A Bibliography to 2000

By: Richard William Cox

Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

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Psychology Press

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0714652504

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Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry

By: Marco Fantuzzi,Richard Hunter

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Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry

By: Marco Fantuzzi,Richard Hunter

Hellenistic poets of the third and second centuries BC were concerned with the need both to mark their continuity with the classical past and to demonstrate their independence from it. In this revised and expanded translation of Muse e modelli: la poesia ellenistica da Alessandro Magno ad Augusto, Greek poetry of the third and second centuries BC and its reception and influence at Rome are explored allowing both sides of this literary practice to be appreciated. Genres as diverse as epic and epigram are considered from a historical perspective, in the full range of their deep-level structures, providing a different perspective on the poetry and its influence at Rome. Some of the most famous poetry of the age such as Callimachus' Aitia and Apollonius' Argonautica is examined. In addition, full attention is paid to the poetry of encomium, in particular the newly published epigrams of Posidippus, and Hellenistic poetics, notably Philodemus.

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Cambridge University Press

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113944252X

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Infections of the Central Nervous System

By: W. Michael Scheld,Richard J. Whitley,Christina M. Marra

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Infections of the Central Nervous System

By: W. Michael Scheld,Richard J. Whitley,Christina M. Marra

Tap into the gold standard on central nervous system infections: Infections of the Central Nervous System, 4e is now fully revised and updated to accommodate the wealth of new CNS information discovered over the past decade. More than 90 leading experts contribute chapters, providing comprehensive, up-to-date information. With a broad scope and thorough detail, the text addresses pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and therapy of various CNS infections and related conditions. Features: Every chapter has been extensively revised and updated, nearly half with new author teams NEW chapter on acute encephalitis NEW clinical information on treatment of tuberculosis, non-tubercular mycobacterial infections, brain abscess, and Lyme disease NEW color design and color images Numerous diagrams, figures, tables, illustrations and photographs demonstrate the content Evidence-based references

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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146988366X

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A Compendium of Asiatic, African, American, and Australian Geography

By: Richard Hiley

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A Compendium of Asiatic, African, American, and Australian Geography

By: Richard Hiley

Reprint of the original.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368152068

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First Steps Toward Détente

American Diplomacy in the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1963

By: Richard D. Williamson

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First Steps Toward Détente

American Diplomacy in the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1963

By: Richard D. Williamson

Richard D. Williamson's First Steps toward Detente provides a history of negotiations conducted from 1958 to 1963 between the United States, its Western allies in Europe, and the Soviet Union, in order to resolve the Berlin Crisis. These negotiations established ongoing patterns of backchannel, ambassadorial, foreign minister, and heads of state discussions. From Khrushchev's visit to the United States in 1959 and the difficult Paris 1960 and Vienna 1961 summits to the construction of the Berlin Wall, disarmament remained a parallel concern dependent on Berlin's resolution. Allied disarray on the Berlin question led the United States and the Soviet Union to attempt bilateral negotiations in 1962, averting immediate conflict but failing to produce a settlement. Ultimately, the renewal of Berlin harassments and the Cuban Missile Crisis put an end to these efforts, but the closer relations that had developed through Berlin talks helped to enable the Limited Test-Ban Treaty in 1963. The Berlin Crisis signaled a transition away from multilateral East-West relations to a bilateral U.S. Soviet relationship, remaining oriented to military positions in Germany but with growing interest in strategic arms control In this book, Williamson explores the significance of these events and shows how the negotiations held between 1958 and 1963 provided the templates for detente. Book jacket.

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Lexington Books

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0739168800

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677

By: Richard Pennington

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677

By: Richard Pennington

A catalogue of over 2,700 etchings, which form an important pictorial chronicle of seventeenth-century England.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521529484

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Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS

By: Samuel R. Friedman,Richard Curtis,Alan Neaigus,Benny Jose,Don C. Des Jarlais

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Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS

By: Samuel R. Friedman,Richard Curtis,Alan Neaigus,Benny Jose,Don C. Des Jarlais

Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS recognizes HIV as a socially structured disease - its transmission usually requires intimate contact between individuals - and shows how social networks shape high-risk behaviors and the spread of HIV. The authors recount the groundbreaking use of social network methods, ethnographic direct-observation techniques, and in-depth interviews in their study of a drug-using community in Brooklyn, New York. They provide a detailed documentary of the lives of community members. They describe drug-use, the affects of poverty and homelessness, the acquisition of money and drugs, and social relationships within the group. Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS shows that social networks and contexts are of crucial importance in understanding and fighting the AIDS epidemic. These findings should revitalize prevention efforts and reshape social policy.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306471612

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9780306471612

Large Igneous Provinces

By: Richard E. Ernst

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Large Igneous Provinces

By: Richard E. Ernst

Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are intraplate magmatic events, involving volumes of mainly mafic magma upwards of 100,000 km3, and often above 1 million km3. They are linked to continental break-up, global environmental catastrophes, regional uplift and a variety of ore deposit types. In this up-to-date, fascinating book, leading expert Richard E. Ernst explores all aspects of LIPs, beginning by introducing their definition and essential characteristics. Topics covered include continental and oceanic LIPs; their origins, structures, and geochemistry; geological and environmental effects; association with silicic, carbonatite and kimberlite magmatism; and analogues of LIPs in the Archean, and on other planets. The book concludes with an assessment of LIPs' influence on natural resources such as mineral deposits, petroleum and aquifers. This is a one-stop resource for researchers and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines, including tectonics, igneous petrology, geochemistry, geophysics, Earth history, and planetary geology, and for mining industry professionals.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316060519

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The Iliad

A Commentary. Books 5-8. Vol. 2

By: Geoffrey Stephen Kirk

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The Iliad

A Commentary. Books 5-8. Vol. 2

By: Geoffrey Stephen Kirk

This is the second volume in the major six-volume commentary on The Iliad now being prepared under the general editorship of Professor Kirk. Volume I was published in 1985. As before the volume consists of four introductory essays followed by the commentary itself. The Greek text is not included. This project is the first large-scale commentary on The Iliad for nearly 100 years, and takes special account of language, style and thematic structure as well as of the complex social and cultural background to the work.

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0521281725

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The Second Admiral

A Life of David Dixon Porter, 1813-1891

By: Richard S. West

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The Second Admiral

A Life of David Dixon Porter, 1813-1891

By: Richard S. West

A DEFINITIVE BUT HIGHLY EXCITING LIFE OF ONE OF THE MOST COLORFUL AND HITHERTO NEGLECTED FIGURES IN AMERICAN HISTORY David Dixon Porter (1813-1891) was a U.S. Navy admiral and a member of one of the most distinguished families in the history of the U.S. Navy. Promoted as the second U.S. Navy officer ever to attain the rank of admiral, Porter helped improve the Navy as the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy after significant service in the American Civil War. Porter began naval service as a midshipman at the age of 10 under his father, Commodore David Porter, on the frigate U.S.S. John Adams. He served in the Mexican War in the attack on the fort at the City of Vera Cruz, commanded an independent flotilla of mortar boats at the capture of New Orleans, and later advanced to the rank of (acting) rear admiral in command of the Mississippi River Squadron, which co-operated with the army under Maj.-Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Vicksburg Campaign. After the fall of Vicksburg, he led the naval forces in the difficult Red River Campaign in Louisiana. Late in 1864, Porter was transferred from the interior to the Atlantic coast, where he led the U.S. Navy in the joint assaults on Fort Fisher, the final significant naval action of the war. Porter worked to raise the standards of the U.S. Navy in the position of Superintendent of the Naval Academy when it was restored to Annapolis. He initiated reforms in the curriculum to increase professionalism. In the early days of President Grant's administration, Porter was de facto Secretary of the Navy. When his adoptive brother David G. Farragut was advanced from rank of vice-admiral to admiral, Porter took his previous position; likewise, when Farragut died, Porter became the second man to hold the newly created rank of admiral. He gathered a corps of like-minded officers devoted to naval reform.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789121191

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A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

Volume 1: The Mid-Atlantic States

By: Richard C. Carpenter

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A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946

Volume 1: The Mid-Atlantic States

By: Richard C. Carpenter

Little now remains of the vast network of passenger and freight railroad lines that once crisscrossed much of eastern and midwestern America, but in 1946, the steam locomotive was king. This is a record of a time when traveling out of town meant, for most Americans, taking the train.

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JHU Press

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0801873312

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The Vitamin A Story

Lifting the Shadow of Death

By: Richard D. Semba

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The Vitamin A Story

Lifting the Shadow of Death

By: Richard D. Semba

Intriguing reading for specialists and the interested public alike This book shows how vitamin A deficiency -- before the vitamin was known to scientists -- affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today's international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author's presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.

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Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers

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3318021881

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9783318021882

Anesthesia Outside of the Operating Room

By: Richard Urman,Wendy Gross,Beverly Philip

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Anesthesia Outside of the Operating Room

By: Richard Urman,Wendy Gross,Beverly Philip

Anesthesia Outside of the Operating Room is a comprehensive, up-to-date textbook that covers all aspects of anesthesia care in OOR settings, from financial considerations to anesthetic techniques to quality assurance. With increasing numbers of procedures such as cardiac catheterization and imaging taking place outside of the main OR, anesthesia providers as well as non-anesthesia members of the patient care team will find this book critical to their understanding of the principles of anesthesia care in unique settings which may have limited physical resources. Topics include patient monitoring techniques, pre-procedure evaluation and post-procedure care, and procedural sedation performed by non-anesthesia providers. The authors address problems of anesthesia that have unique answers in OOR settings, such as patient transport and cardiac arrest, and discuss technological progress and considerations for the future. The text also covers surgical procedures and anesthetic considerations by procedure location, such as radiology, infertility clinics, field and military environments, and pediatric settings, among many others Select guidelines from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) are provided as well. Edited by the senior faculty from Harvard Medical School and with contributions from other academic institutions, Anesthesia Outside of the Operating Room provides a unique and convenient compendium of expertise and experience.

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Oxford University Press

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019984268X

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Men, Law and Gender

Essays on the ‘Man’ of Law

By: Richard Collier

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Men, Law and Gender

Essays on the ‘Man’ of Law

By: Richard Collier

This book presents the first published comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the relationship between law and masculinities. It provides a general introduction to the subject whilst engaging with the difficult question of what it means to speak of the masculinity of law in the first place.

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Routledge

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1135309213

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The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action

By: Richard B. Silverman,Mark W. Holladay

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The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action

By: Richard B. Silverman,Mark W. Holladay

The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action, Third Edition, represents a unique approach to medicinal chemistry based on physical organic chemical principles and reaction mechanisms that rationalize drug action, which allows reader to extrapolate those core principles and mechanisms to many related classes of drug molecules. This new edition includes updates to all chapters, including new examples and references. It reflects significant changes in the process of drug design over the last decade and preserves the successful approach of the previous editions while including significant changes in format and coverage. This text is designed for undergraduate and graduate students in chemistry studying medicinal chemistry or pharmaceutical chemistry; research chemists and biochemists working in pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. - Updates to all chapters, including new examples and references - Chapter 1 (Introduction): Completely rewritten and expanded as an overview of topics discussed in detail throughout the book - Chapter 2 (Lead Discovery and Lead Modification): Sections on sources of compounds for screening including library collections, virtual screening, and computational methods, as well as hit-to-lead and scaffold hopping; expanded sections on sources of lead compounds, fragment-based lead discovery, and molecular graphics; and deemphasized solid-phase synthesis and combinatorial chemistry - Chapter 3 (Receptors): Drug-receptor interactions, cation-p and halogen bonding; atropisomers; case history of the insomnia drug suvorexant - Chapter 4 (Enzymes): Expanded sections on enzyme catalysis in drug discovery and enzyme synthesis - Chapter 5 (Enzyme Inhibition and Inactivation): New case histories: - for competitive inhibition, the epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor, erlotinib and Abelson kinase inhibitor, imatinib - for transition state analogue inhibition, the purine nucleoside phosphorylase inhibitors, forodesine and DADMe-ImmH, as well as the mechanism of the multisubstrate analog inhibitor isoniazid - for slow, tight-binding inhibition, the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor, saxagliptin - Chapter 7 (Drug Resistance and Drug Synergism): This new chapter includes topics taken from two chapters in the previous edition, with many new examples - Chapter 8 (Drug Metabolism): Discussions of toxicophores and reactive metabolites - Chapter 9 (Prodrugs and Drug Delivery Systems): Discussion of antibody–drug conjugates

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0123820316

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