Essays on the use of word play in the literature of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and Israel, and Medieval Hebrew and Arabic literature, includes such topics as: alliterative allusions, rebus writing, ominous homophony, portentous puns, and paronomasia.
Cottingham's writings investigate central tensions currently operative in the production, distribution and evaluation of art, especially those related to cultural production by and about women.
This book documents the role of the West's international broadcasters in using propaganda and other information to assist in bringing about the collapse of Soviet communism and the end of the cold war.
New techniques and technologies for sensors are developing fast and being applied in a wide range of fields for measurement and instrumentation, both for research and commercial purposes. This book aims to provide advanced students and practising engineers with a selective tour of highlights in the topical field of sensors for measurement.
The ridge waveguide, which is a rectangular waveguide with one or more metal inserts (ridges), is an important transmission line in microwave engineering, now widely used in commercial electronics and communications devices. This book gives the reader direct access to this subject without need for exhaustive search of research papers.
The large-scale watershed projects in northern Syria, where the ancient city of Emar was located, have brought this area to light, thanks to salvage operation excavations before the area was submerged. This book provides contribution to the study of ancient Syria.
This collection of essays composed by an international array of friends and colleagues typifies the career accomplishments and scholarly endeavors of W. G. Lambert.
Engaging the thematic issues of the Web as a space where magic, metaphor, and power converge, the chapters cover such subjects as The Web and Corporate Media Systems, Conspiracy Theories and the Web, The Economy of Cyberpromotion, The Bias of the Web, The Web and Issues of Gender, and so on.
Feng Youlan was one of 20th-century China's leading philosophers and a historian of Chinese philosophy. This text presents his autobiography, which Youlan likens to ancient authors who, on completing their work wrote another piece recounting their origins, experiences and a plan of their work.
Arranged by broad subject and indexed by narrow subject, format and title, this annual publication offers an overview of nearly 500 reference sources published during 1998-1999. It is intended for use by librarians responsible for building and maintaining collections.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies", Gore Vidal once observed. It's funny, it's terrible, and it's true. What is it in human nature that makes us derive pleasure from others' -- even friends' -- suffering? John Portmann explores this all-too-human foible -- what the Germans call Schadenfreude -- in the first book ever written about this universal emotion.
A patch work quilt of thirteen unique ethnic groups who poured their soups and stews into the Amercian melting pot- we read about cultures and food that have made Texas such a versatile state.
