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This work examines a centuries-long intellectual tradition in the early Latin church linking the imagery associated with the opening of the Seven Seals of the Apocalypse with programs of ecclesiastical expansion and ascetic reform.

Die Poetik des Hallenser Gymnasiallehrers und Pastors A.C. Rotth ist die umfangreichste deutschsprachige Poetik des 17. Jahrhunderts. Gottsched bezeichnete sie als die einzige noch lesbare Poetik des 17. Jahrhunderts. Im Gegensatz zu den unzähligen Anweisungspoetiken des 17. Jahrhunderts, enthält Rotths Poetik eine umfangreiche Gattungspoetik. Rotth wetteifert mit den Jesuitenpoetiken von J. Masen und A. Donatus, die er auch häufig zitiert. Wä...

This examination of how Western governments support democracy worldwide considers how countries use this aid. Attention is paid to post-conflict situations and semi-authoritarian regimes where democratization has stalled, and international support of democratic decentralization is assessed.

The Evidence of Things Not Said employs the rich essays of James Baldwin to interrogative the politics of race in American democracy. Lawrie Balfour reveals Baldwin to be a powerful political thinker whose work deserves full consideration by political theorists.Baldwin's essays challenge appeals to race-blindness and formal but empty guarantees of equality and freedom. They undermine white presumptions of racial innocence and simultaneously re...

Andrew J. Rotter is Professor of History at Colgate University. His previous books include The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia, from Cornell.

In a recent international survey conducted by the online film journal "Screening the Past, " which invited film critics and scholars around the world to nominate the most important contributions to the field in the past decade, "The Material Ghost" tied for first place with Jean-Luc Godard's "Histoire(s) du Cin?ma." Gilberto Perez draws on his lifelong love of the movies as well as his work as a film scholar to write a lively, wide-ranging, pe...

As the commercialization of sport grows, the need for proper regulation increases. In legal terms, sport is part of the entertainment and media industries which are subject to rapid change. This work brings together experts in many fields to analyze these changes and to discuss the implications of issues such as the BSkyB-Manchester United case, civil and criminal actions on the playing field, the "Bosman" ruling, drugs in sport, the legality ...

UMTS Mobile Communications for the Future Edited by Flavio Muratore, CSELT, Telecom Italia Group, Italy Mobile communications bring profound changes to our everyday lives. The launch of 3rd generation mobile systems in 2001 in Japan, and from 2002, throughout the rest of the world, will enable us to communicate at anytime and anywhere, by using a variety of services which have until now, only been available to fixed network users. By the end o...

After a brief introduction into crystal plasticity, the fun- damentals of crystallographic textures and plastic anisotro- py, a main topic of this book, are outlined. A large chapter is devoted to formability testing both for bulk metal and sheet metal forming. For the first time testing methods for plastic anisotropy of round bars and tubes are included. A profound survey is given of literature about yield criteria for anisotropic materials u...

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Der Mensch ist ein Sammler. Schon in der frühesten Gebärde eines Wasserschöpfens mit beiden Händen liegt eine besondere Beziehung zur Welt, die ihn trennt von seiner tierischen Umwelt. Dem Zusammentragen, Bewahren und Mehren des Gegenständlichen gilt in der Folge sein beständiges und beharrliches Streben. So sind heute der Sammler, die Sammlerin von Brauchzeug, von Kunst, von Informationen ... eigentlich nur zeitgemäße Spielarten einer viel ti...

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As the commercialization of sport grows, the need for regulation increases. This work looks at how the law is used in sports, in such areas as money, drugs, and the control of hooliganism.

This proceedings volume includes papers for presentation at DGCI 2000 in U- sala, Sweden, 13-15 December 2000. DGCI 2000 is the 9th in a series of inter- tional conferences on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery. DGCI 2000 is organized by the Centre for Image Analysis (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Uppsala University). It is sponsored by the International Assoc- tion for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and by the Swedish Societ...

Based on archival research and interviews, this study explores Cultural Revolution educational reform and its links to rural education.