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The developments in Judaism which occurred during the Second Temple period (c. 550 BC to 100 AD) were of great importance for the nature of Jewish religion in later centuries, yet few studies have examined the era in full. Now Lester L. Grabbe's lucid and accessible volume provides a much-needed encyclopedic study and holistic interpretation of the period.Topics examined include:* views about God and the spirit world* the temple and priesthood...

A high school reunion takes place on a converted oil rig. Danger arrives in the form of terrorist mercenaries who are, at times, more danger to themselves than the public! This book is backed by a strong advertising campaign in the national press, men's magazines and flyposting in the author's native Scotland. Described in "The Times" as having "a high octane sense of the absurd", and by "The Guardian" as "tremendous fun".

This is a classic book on a fascinating subject. Peter Trudgill examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak. These range from gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics. Trudgill's book surveys languages and societies from all over the world drawing on examples from Afrikaans to Yiddish. He has added a fascinating chapter on the development of a language as a result ...

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. His most famous novels are On the Road, The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His first more orthodox published novel was The Town and the City. Jack Kerouac, who described himself as a 'strange solitary crazy Catholic mystic, ' was working on his longest novel, a surrealistic study of the last ten years of his life when he died in 1969, aged forty-seven. Other works by Jack Kerouac include Big ...

Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking bouts and experiments in 'yabyum', ...

This book offers a quick self-taught course in the basics of reading electrocardiologic tracings. It will help students in their cardiology courses and in preparation for board exams.Each exercise consists of an ECG strip that is accompanied by a space in which the user can either provide a short and concise diagnosis or a longer explanation.

A lead title in the new University of Michigan Business School of Management series, this book provides a hands-on guide to assessing, building, and leveraging every business person′s greatest asset: their network of personal and professional contacts to achieve individual and organizational success.

Eighth volume in the collaborative edition - early 12C Canterbury manuscript. The introduction details other work by the same hand and his role in re-shaping Anglo-Saxon history.

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Vorliebe für Süßes ist bei Menschen und Säugetieren angeboren. Seit altersher werden süß schmeckende Nahrungsmittel gerne von den Menschen verzehrt, wobei der süße Geschmackseindruck im allgemeinen mit einer energiereichen sättigenden Nahrung und Wohlgeschmack assoziiert wird. Heute werden jährlich etwa 120 Millionen Tonnen Zucker (Saccharose) weltweit erzeugt, wobei zwei Drittel aus Zuckerrohr und ein Drittel a...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Rolle die Familie eines Altenheimbewohners für diesen hat bzw. welche Rolle der alte Mensch für seine Familie spielt. Hierbei wird besonders das gängigen Klischees des einsamen, abgeschobenen Heimbewohners überprüft und diesem alternative Familienbeziehungen zwischen Heimbewohner und seinen Angehörigen gegenübergestellt. Gang der Untersuchung: Im ersten ...

The mother-daughter relationship has preoccupied feminist writers for decades, but typically it has been the daughter's story at centre-stage. Mothering the Self brings together these maternal and daughterly stories by drawing on in-depth interviews with women who speak both as mothers and as daughters. This study examines the ways in which these mothers and daughters participate in their understanding of class, gender, and race locations, bot...

Critique of Violence is a highly original and lucid investigation of the heated controversy between poststructuralism and critical theory. Leading theorist Beatrice Hanssen uses Walter Benjamin's essay "Critique of Violence" as a guide to analyze the contentious debate, shifting the emphasis from struggle to dialogue between the two parties. Regarding the questions of critique and violence as the major meeting points between both traditions, H...

Critique of Violence" is a highly original and lucid investigation of the heated controversy between poststructuralism and critical theory. Leading theorist Beatrice Hanssen uses Walter Benjamin's essay "Critique of Violence" as a guide to analyze the contentious debate, shifting the emphasis from struggle to dialogue between the two parties. Regarding the questions of critique and violence as the major meeting points between both traditions, ...

Wilfred Bion's synthesis of the approach of classical psychoanalysis based on the individual with that of group dynamics has been of enduring influence. The contributors to this volume examine his theories and demonstrate that a later generation is still actively working with the implications of Bion's writings.

In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world. He examines texts from the classical period and finds many stories which resemble those we know today, including: * a Jewish Egyptian Cinderella * a Snow White whose enemy is the goddess Artemis * a Pied Piper at Troy. He puts forward many previously unsuspected candidates as classical ...

Pericles: Critical Essays brings together the most essential critical essays and theatrical reviews of Shakespeare's play from the late 17th century to the present, providing a representative gathering of critical opinion of Pericles over the centuries.

The scholars writing in this volume analyze the role of the peace movement, its evolution, implications, and legacies.

This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view that antebellum writers did not engage with their society's economic and social relaities. Against this view and to highlight the cultural importance of working-class women, this study argues th...

Presenting a study of the principality of Antioch, this title deals with its significance and the dominance of Jerusalem in crusading historiography. It examines the formation of Antioch's political, military and ecclesiastical frameworks, and explains how the principality survived in the hostile political environment of the Near East.

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