A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical world Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) didn’t publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former headmistress would become the twentieth century’s most famous interpreter of the classical world. Today, Hamilton’s Mythology (1942) remains the standard version of ancient tales and sells tens of thousands of copies a year. During the Cold War, her influence even extended to politics, as she argued that postwar America could learn from the fate of Athens after its victory in the Persian Wars. In American Classicist, Victoria Houseman tells the fascinating life story of a remarkable classicist whose ideas were shaped by—and aspired to shape—her times. Hamilton studied Latin and Greek from an early age, earned a BA and MA at Bryn Mawr College, and ran a girls’ prep school for twenty-six years. After retiring, she turned to writing and began a relationship with the pianist and stockbroker Doris Fielding Reid. The two women were partners for more than forty years and entertained journalists, diplomats, and politicians in their Washington, D.C., house. Hamilton traveled extensively around the world, formed friendships with Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound, and was made an honorary citizen of Athens. While Hamilton believed that the ancient Greeks represented the peak of world civilization, Houseman shows that this suffragist, pacifist, and anti-imperialist was far from an apologist for Western triumphalism. An absorbing narrative of an eventful life, American Classicist reveals how Hamilton’s Greek and Roman worlds held up a mirror to midcentury America even as she strived to convey a timeless beauty that continues to enthrall readers.
These two revision and study guides have been packaged together to offer you great value when you're looking to get the most out of your revision. Land Law Concentrate is the essential revision and study guide for law students looking to consolidate knowledge and achieve the best possible marks. Providing clear, succinct coverage of all the key topics, it enables you to quickly grasp the fundamental principles of this area of law and excel in your exams and coursework. Part of the new Concentrate Q&A series, Concentrate Q&A Land Law contains model exam questions and answers, with expert advice on recognising what examiners are looking for, structuring a first class answer, avoiding common exam mistakes and making your answer stand out from the crowd.
First Published in 1999. This title examines one publicly funded training program by describing the complex, dynamic process of fostering small business ownership. This case study focuses on the behaviors and environments that influence entrepreneurial success and show how a teaching methodology can contribute to an environment that encourages entrepreneurship. This study provides, not only an example of the efficacy of entrepreneurial training but suggests findings beyond business start-up as measures of program results.
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Fighting Sports, Gender and the Commodification of Violence: Heavy Bag Heroines offers a glimpse into the cultural terrain of women's boxing as it manifests in everyday gyms for novice boxers. Taking an ethnographic approach, Victoria Collins examines broad understandings of gender, violence, self-defense, commodification, and health and fitness from the point of view of women who engage in the sport. Collins unpacks dominant assumptions about gender and the sport through the eyes of the women's understandings of gender norms, social assumptions about physicality, sexuality, as well as challenges to masculine and feminine performativity. Central to this study is the appropriation and marketing of the boxers' work out in cardio-boxing gym spaces (i.e. fitness boxing), where the sport has increasingly been packaged, commodified, and sold to predominantly middle class, white female consumers as a means to not only improve their health and fitness, but also as a means to defend themselves against a would-be attacker. The body project for women in the sport of boxing, therefore, should not only be framed as a form of resistance, but one of physical feminism.
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GET CLOSER TO LEO THAN YOU EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE! As every girl in America knows, mere accolades simply fail to do Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio justice. Now, from a close family friend who watched Leo grow into gorgeous adulthood right before her eyes, here is the book that finally brings you face-to-face with this boy wonder-ful. Brimming with exclusive photos and intimate stories only his family and friends know, Leonardo: Up Close and Personal gives you a unique glimpse of Leo as you've never seen him before--at home, at work, at play, off-guard. See Leo grow up through photos never-before-seen in public; read touching, funny, and wonderful tales about this lovable hunk; and get the inside scoop on the real Leo. This isn't just any Leonardo biography; this is a fact- and picture-packed tribute to the one-and-only Leo from a woman who has known him for more than half his life. You won't find anything else like it. Or anyone quite like him!
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