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A sensational book."-"Choice" Conventional wisdom suggests that the Internet will reinvigorate democracy by providing citizens with both information and a platform for free expression and grass roots action. But is the conventional wisdom correct? Darin Barney looks from the philosophical canon to contemporary issues in e-commerce, telecommuting, and digital surveillance, and comes to a surprising conclusion: digital networks seem to be exace...

It's time to make learning about the Bible fun! This fast-paced card game is similar to UNO, but in addition to matching, players must answer questions about Bible facts.

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Nick Conklin (Michael Douglas) ist ein korrupter New Yorker Cop. Er ist stahlhart, arrogant und völlig unberechenbar. Er hat den Auftrag, einen japanischen Killer nach Osaka zurückzubringen. Als ihm aber dort die Flucht gelingt, gerät Nick zusammen mit seinem Partner Charlie Vincent (Andy Carcia) in die Schusslinie der japanischen Mafia. Sie lernen schnell, was es heißt, die Männer der Yakuza zum Feind zu haben...

This study argues that, due to the 1842 Parliamentary bluebook on mines with its images of women at work, the female industrial worker became more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or male radical, because she exposed contradictions in the class and gender ideologies of the period.

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This volume contains a selection of papers delivered at the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference held at Cardiff University in 1999. They derive from the session entitled 'The interpretation and Structure of Ritual Space', which was intended to provide a forum for new research concerning ritual landscapes and material culture. Of the 12 papers delivered at the conference session, 9 are published here, covering a broad chronological range f...

This is the second of a projected series of five important volumes presenting the results of excavations (1963-4) carried out at the Nubian site of Meinarti (near the Second Nile Cataract, about 10km to the south of modern-day Wadi Halfa). Occupation of the site covers some 18 levels, ranging from perhaps 200 AD to the early Post-Christian periods, or approximately 1600 AD. This second volume (following on from the analysis of the two first Ph...

A sweeping history of humanist philosophy, Marxism and modernity.

Riona, a gentlewoman of faith, discovers that her plan to help the disadvantaged includes not only the plague orphans in her charge, but the arrogant, handsome adventurer who feels honor-bound to save her and her lands by marrying her -- with or without her consent. Lord Kieran of Gleannmara depends on nothing and no one save his wit and skill with steel, but soon a deadly twist of fate forces him to acknowledge his need not only for the lady ...

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Significantly updated and expanded, this second edition offers a far more comprehensive and sophisticated treatment of the subject area than can be found in other sources. It revisits the subject of cataloging and analyzes it in the context of today's digital environment, providing a fascinating examination of the components that are crucial for successful and effective subject retrieval in online public access catalogs. From language issues t...

In-depth analyses are presented of 15 superior films, each one representing a subgenre of fantasy cinema--Beauty and the Beast, Conan the Barbarian, The Dark Crystal, Dragonslayer, 5, 000 Fingers of Dr. T, Its a Wonderful Life, Jason and the Argonauts, King Kong, Lost Horizon, Popeye, Superman, The Thief of Baghdad, Time Bandits, Topper, and The Wizard of Oz. A chapter is devoted to each film, providing a plot summary and detailed information ...

John Williams and four other mediaeval scholars challenge conventional wisdom on biblical illustration, and find it to be an enterprise guided in its genesis by the dynamics of a new culture. They argue that illustrated Bibles were shaped by ad hoc decisions resulting in a variety of approaches.

Practically all of modern physics deals with fields--functions of space (or spacetime) that give the value of a certain quantity, such as the temperature, in terms of its location within a prescribed volume. Electrodynamics is a comprehensive study of the field produced by (and interacting with) charged particles, which in practice means almost all matter.Fulvio Melia's "Electrodynamics" offers a concise, compact, yet complete treatment of thi...

Practically all of modern physics deals with fields--functions of space (or spacetime) that give the value of a certain quantity, such as the temperature, in terms of its location within a prescribed volume. Electrodynamics is a comprehensive study of the field produced by (and interacting with) charged particles, which in practice means almost all matter.Fulvio Melia's "Electrodynamics" offers a concise, compact, yet complete treatment of thi...

Look no further for tips and recipes for whipping up a dazzling array of delicious holiday meals -- without stress!Christmas is the biggest holiday of the year -- and Americans traditionally love to celebrate the season with food, food, and more food. This easy guide shows cooks of every generation how to plan and prepare scrumptious seasonal treats. It includes: 100 delicious recipes for hassle-free holiday meals, including Warm White Bean Di...