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From beginning to end of the Iliad, Agamemnon and Achilleus are locked in a high-stakes struggle for dominance based on their efforts to impose competing definitions of loss incurred and the nature of compensation thereby owed. This typology of scenes involving apoina, or 'ransom' and poine, or 'revenge' is the basis of Donna Wilson’, s detailed anthropology of compensation in Homer, which she locates in the wider context of agonistic exc...

This novel book is based on nightmares I have been recurred. Most of these nightmares are related to black cat. It occurred in Elkton, Maryland (Eastern Shore). It also about the father and son whom has the same nightmares and is in position of battle to beat the nightmares they are having.

Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862–, 1969 is a major study in the history of marketing in economic development, in addition to being a history of a well-known international company. Marketing history remains a neglected field of study, yet Rowntree’, s commercial success has been the direct result of applied marketing methods and major advances in product development, branding and advertising. It is surprising that marketing...

The book is about a few kids that go on an adventure in the nearby woods, in get more adventure then they bargained for.They run into two giant men and there mean old wiked mom, who try to capture in enslaved them.They also meet a friendly dragon, that they helped out , who turns out is going to help save them in the end.

This study explores the history of the New School that developed in the postwar period and its role in communicating antifascism to young people in the Soviet zone. Blessing traces how the decisions about how to educate young people after the National Socialist dictatorship became part of a broader discussion about the future of the German nation.

Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and clearly written, this book will interest both those familiar with Chaucer's masterpiece and readers new to it.

The pharmacy industry in the US has been the most profitable industry in the world. Even in 2000, when most American industries were in a downturn, pharmacy companies still made profits. Their average profit margins were around 14% of sales, while other industries had to make do with a 4-5% profit. This book looks at how business has overtaken all humanitarian considerations and is intended to provoke into thinking about how best things can be...

Poverty and Prostitution is a study of 1, 400 prostitutes and brothel-keepers operating in a Victorian cathedral city over a half century. It is based on the unique and systematic use of detailed evidence from such sources as the weekly newspaper reports of magistrates' court proceedings, workhouse records, Quarter Sessions Lists and material relating to the local refuge for 'Fallen Women'. The book also draws on the city's wealth of slum clea...

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: In Deutschland existierten im Jahre 2005 ca. 2, 1 Mio. Unternehmen mit einem Jahresumsatz über 50.000 Euro. Knapp 94, 5 Prozent davon werden als Familienunternehmen geführt, von denen etwa 70.900 u. a. aus Gründen des Alters oder eines Tätigkeitswechsels des Unternehmers als übergabereif gelten. Neben dem Verkauf oder der Vererbung an Familienmitglieder stehen dem Unternehmer weitere Nachfolgemodelle zur Verfügu...

This is the first book systematically to analyze Kirk Douglas' and Stanley Kubrick's depiction of the slave revolt led by Spartacus from different historical, political, and cinematic perspectives.Examines the film's use of ancient sources, the ancient historical contexts, the political significance of the film, the history of its censorship and restoration, and its place in film history.Includes the most important passages from ancient author...

Der neue Band enthält Ergänzungen und Berichtigungen zu den ersten drei Bänden sowie ein Gesamtnamenverzeichnis. Damit ist das vierbändige Schrifttumsverzeichnis zur Wirkung Nietzsches auf Kunst und Kultur im deutschsprachigen Raum abgeschlossen.

A modern-language, accessible edition of the book that helped abolish the slave trade in the United Kingdom, calling Christians to live a more authentic life of faith. Its timeless truths will speak to readers in fresh ways today.

The texts collected in this book are all produced and located within the converging fields of navigation and displacement. The connection between navigation and narration becomes clear when we realise that most of the authors and heroes of the accounts discussed by the author were, in one way or another, involved in shipping and navigation and that their accounts were produced within fluid and floating spaces and in the course of intriguing vo...

The book tackles a key issue for the European Union: Fiscal Federalism. It evaluates the applicability of this theoretical perspective for the EU. Conversely, it pinpoints ways in which the diversity of existing fiscal settings and organisations, both at national and European levels, can throw light on the theory. The study analyses two of the most important European policies: Cohesion Policy and the Stability and Growth Pact. It compares the...

In most of the EU¿s fifteen Member States sectoral collective bargaining is an important process, if not the principal means of regulating relations between employers and employees. Yet the sectoral level of social dialogue has long been neglected at Community level, coming a poor second behind cross-industry social dialogue. The tide now seems to be turning, and a formally recognised social dialogue has been established in more than thirty se...

Every society must have a system for capturing, storing, and distributing water, a system encompassing both technology and a rationale for the division of this finite resource. Today, people around the world face severe and growing water scarcity, and everywhere this vital resource is ceasing to be a right and becoming a commodity.

Der vorliegende Band widmet sich dem späthieratischen Papyrus Wien Aeg 8426, einer Tempelhandschrift aus römischer Zeit, die eine Reihe von magischen Sprüchen und Ritualen zum Schutze des Königs verzeichnet. Neben einer ausführlichen Einleitung und einer philologisch exakten Aufbereitung des ägyptischen Manuskripts bietet diese Erstpublikation außerdem eine Fülle paralleler Textstellen, die eine zeitliche wie inhaltliche Einordnung der auf die...

In the early 1920s M. Morse discovered that the number of critical points of a smooth function on a manifold is closely related to the topology of the manifold. This became a starting point of the Morse theory which is now one of the basic parts of differential topology. Circle-valued Morse theory originated from a problem in hydrodynamics studied by S. P. Novikov in the early 1980s. Nowadays, it is a constantly growing field of contemporary ...

This self-contained book provides the reader with a comprehensive presentation of recent investigations on operator theory over non-Archimedean Banach and Hilbert spaces. This includes, non-Archimedean valued fields, bounded and unbounded linear operators, bilinear forms, functions of linear operators and one-parameter families of bounded linear operators on free branch spaces.

Chemical physics and physical chemistry are closely related fields of study. Together they are distinguished from other disciplines by the incredible range of problems addressed by their practitioners. An effective physical chemist or chemical physicist is a "jack-of-all-trades", able to apply the principles and techniques of the field to everything from high-tech materials to biology. Just as the fields of chemistry and physics have expanded,...