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Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture. The book illuminates the gendering of ancient magic by approaching the topic from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: literary stereotyping, the social application of magic discourse, and material culture. The volume challenges presumed associations of women and magic by probing the foundations of, processes, and motivations behind gendered stereotypes, beginning with Western culture's earliest associations of women and magic in the Bible and Homer's Odyssey. Daughters of Hecate provides a nuanced exploration of the topic while avoiding reductive approaches. In fact, the essays in this volume uncover complexities and counter-discourses that challenge, rather than reaffirm, many gendered stereotypes taken for granted and reified by most modern scholarship. By combining critical theoretic...

Peenemünde: der Ort ist untrennbar mit der Militärgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts verknüpft. Seit 1932 betrieb die deutsche Wehrmacht hier Raketenforschung, 1936 wurde die Heeres-Versuchsanstalt eingerichtet. Die technischen Experimente in Peenemünde führten schließlich zur Entwicklung der so genannten "Vergeltungswaffen" V 1 und V 2, die allerdings nicht mehr, wie von den Nationalsozialisten bereits mit großem propagandistischem Aufwand angekündigt, eine Wende im Zweiten Weltkrieg herbeiführen konnten. Die Arbeit der von den Nationalsozialisten beauftragten Wissenschaftler hatte trotzdem gravierende Folgen: Sie schuf die Grundlagen für die moderne Raketentechnik, die sowohl die Raumfahrt als auch die Entwicklung vieler neuer Kriegswaffen ermöglichte. Dieses Buch, zugleich der offizielle Band zur neuen Dauerausstellung des Historisch-Technischen Informationszentrum in Peenemünde, ist die umfassendste Dokumentation zum Mythos Peenemünde und zu seinen Folgen. Es beschäftigt sic...

Symposium on Urban Beaches 2001 includes nine papers presented at the Fourth Annual Northeast Shore and Beach Preservation Association Conference held at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, October 24-26, 2001. A central theme of the conference was developing public and private partnerships in urban shoreline restoration. The one-day Symposium on Urban Shorelines was sponsored by the Costal Zone Foundation and the Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute (COPRI) of ASCE. Attendees and presenters discussed urban shoreline restoration efforts from Boston to Hawaii to Europe. Challenges and opportunities for developing urban shorelines were discussed with presentations focusing on balancing public rights and private development along urban waterfronts, as well as the conflicts and opportunities between recreational uses of urban coasts. Included in this proceedings are two of the most successful urban shoreline restoration success stories: Coney Island New York a...

Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material. Immanuel Kant's influence and importance are difficult to exaggerate, his Three Critiques - of Pure Reason, of Practical Reason and of Judgment - standing as landmark works in the Western philosophical canon. Anyone interested in or studying philosophy will encounter Kant and hope to reach a detailed understanding of his work. Nevertheless, Kant is far from being an easy or straightforward subject for study. The ideas entailed in his work - and the connections between them - are complex, and the language in which they are expressed is frequently opaque. Kant: A Guide for the Perplexed is the ...

Zum Nachschlagen: das Grundwissen der gesamten Sekundarstufe I schülerfreundlich gestaltet.] Product details Format Paperback | 128 pages Dimensions 195 x 260 x 10mm | 280g Publication date 25 May 2009 ...

The Twyford Down story is set in a political and historical framework in order to examine the key issues affecting road planning and environmental protection: the system of route selection; Crown development; government agents, NGOs and locally elected authorities; conservation legislation; subsidiarity; lobbying techniques; and the role of the press. Written in a lively style and vividly illustrated, Twyford Down will appeal to environmental advisors, policy makers and planners as well as lobbyists and those interested in the environment. Product details Format Hardback Dimensions 138 ...

Dale Carnegie says You can make someone want to do what you want them to do by seeing the situation from the other person's point of view and "arousing in the other person an eager want." You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment. For instance, "let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers," and "talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person." This book is all about building relationships. With good relationships; personal and business success are easy. Product details Format Paperback | 304 pages ...

Bringing together ecology and management of invasive plants within natural and agricultural ecosystems, this book bridges the knowledge gap between the processes operating within ecosystems and the practices used to prevent, contain, control and eradicate invasive plant species. The book targets key processes that can be managed, the impact of invasive plants on these ecosystem processes and illustrates how adopting ecologically based principles can influence the ecosystem and lead to effective land management. Product details Format Hardback | 216 pages Dimensions ...

This simple, practical, user-friendly resource helps parents enrich their children's education by extending learning experiences to all of life. Now with an updated cover design. Product details Format Paperback | 176 pages Dimensions 140 x 216 x 11mm | 218g ...

This reference book is the first comprehensive study of William Forsyth's life and work. Up-dated in June 2016, it was first published to mark the centenary of the artist's death in Worcester on 5 June 1915. Based on contemporaneous sources, its publication began the process of correcting the many wrong assumptions, mis-directions and factual errors that have littered the last 50 years. William Forsyth can now be re-positioned as an important precedent for those interested in inter-disciplinary collaboration, cross-art form working and place-building processes. "...cast-iron columns with extraordinary foliage capitals by William Forsyth, boldly three-dimensional, vividly coloured...cleverly introduced the foliage of the plants of the neighbourhood", The Builder, 1863. Research undertaken between 2011 and 2015 has identified that William Forsyth worked on more than 90 buildings and monuments, not including individual grave markers or general building work, and that he...

Covering both theory and practice, this book will teach educators everything they need to know about developing restorative practices in their education settings, in a way that is also trauma-informed. The first part of the book addresses the theory and philosophy of restorative approaches, and of trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive schools. The second part outlines the five restorative skills (mindfulness, honest expression, empathy, the art of asking questions and the art of requests), what they look like in practice (including using circles, respect agreements and restorative dialogue), and how to implement them. Every strategy is clearly explained and adapted to be appropriate for children and adults who have experienced trauma. Everything the book discusses has been especially designed to be adapted for different school settings and their particular challenges. Product details ...

Parable research has to a large degree ignored the Sermon on the Mount (SM) and for its part, research into the SM has likewise left the parables by the wayside. However, the use of parabolic language in more than one third of the SM influences its interpretation and indeed opens up a new approach to it. In the current volume, Ernst Baasland focuses on this important factor, whilst also taking the rhetoric of Jesus' teaching into consideration. The author maintains that rhetorical features have a great bearing on the interpretation of the text with the overall structure illuminating the entire composition of the sermon. Fresh insights into its oration therefore serve to challenge the source problem in a new way. The religious and philosophical settings of this most well-known of Christ's preachings are clarified by its parables and rhetoric; and the sermon's Jewish background has often been investigated. While the author continues with that particular task, he simultaneou...

Since its first publication, Michael J. Mauboussin's popular guide to wise investing has been translated into eight languages and has been named best business book by BusinessWeek and best economics book by Strategy+Business. Now updated to reflect current research and expanded to include new chapters on investment philosophy, psychology, and strategy and science as they pertain to money management, this volume is more than ever the best chance to know more than the average investor. Offering invaluable tools to better understand the concepts of choice and risk, More Than You Know is a unique blend of practical advice and sound theory, sampling from a wide variety of sources and disciplines. Mauboussin builds on the ideas of visionaries, including Warren Buffett and E. O. Wilson, but also finds wisdom in a broad and deep range of fields, such as casino gambling, horse racing, psychology, and evolutionary biology. He analyzes the strategies of poker experts David Sklansky and Puggy ...

Learn how to get everything you want with this motivational book from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Anything is possible...if you dare to ask! Personal happiness. Creative fulfillment. Professional success. Freedom from fear-and a new promise of joy that's yours for the asking. We have the ability at our fingertips to achieve these things. It's the Aladdin Factor: the magical wellspring of confidence, desire-and the willingness to ask-that allows us to make wishes come true. Now bestselling motivational authors Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen introduce us to the Aladdin Factor-and help us put it into effect in our own lives. The Aladdin Factor helps us by pinpointing the major stumbling blocks to asking-and teaching simple techniques to overcome them. With inspirational stories about people who have succeeded by asking for what they want, this book shows us how to turn our lives around-no matter what kind of obstacles w...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World' 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal. George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century. Product details Forma...

This is a Print on Demand title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Product details Format Paperback | 348 pages Dimensions 216 x 140 x 18mm | 404g Publication date ...

Ever AWESOME and MAJESTIC, Humpback Whales show up along the coast of Rarotonga (Cook Islands, South Pacific) from July to September. Strangely, though they visit every year not everyone actually notices! From the 'Island life of Rhyme' series by Julia Rongo comes the story of the first time a couple of young people get introduced to seaside Whale Watching! For 'read to me' ages 3 to 9, and 'I can read' ages 9+. Always enjoy reading! Product details Format Paperback | 26 pages Dimensions 216 ...

Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. As we all know, news accounts of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction, comply with analysis from retired army grandees and other experts, punctuated by the odd heart-warming patriotic sound-bite. The troops themselves play a role in the media's presentation of recent wars rather like extras in The Triumph of the Will. They are everywhere yet somehow invisible. When they speak you get the sense that what they are saying has been carefully scripted. Now Generation Kill tells the soldiers' story in their own words. The narrative focuses on a platoon of 23 marines, man...

Students studying chemistry will find this dictionary invaluable for its definitions of the words that are a required part of the field. In addition, students in allied disciplines will use this dictionary as a handy reference source for chemistry terms that they'll need to know for their other subjects. Appendices listing the elements, the periodic table, and the Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry are included. Product details For ages 12-17 Format Hardback | 286 pages ...

The true story of the little-known mental-health pioneer who revolutionised how we see the defining problem of our era: anxiety. Panic, depression, sorrow, guilt, disgrace, obsession, sleeplessness, low confidence, loneliness, agoraphobia ... Dr Claire Weekes knew how to treat them, but was dismissed as underqualified and overly populist by the psychiatric establishment. In a radical move, she had gone directly to the people. Her international bestseller Self Help for Your Nerves, first published in 1962 and still in print, helped tens of millions of people to overcome all of these, and continues to do so. Weekes pioneered an anxiety treatment that is now at the cutting edge of modern psychotherapies. Her early explanation of fear, and its effect on the nervous system, is state of the art. Psychologists use her method, neuroscientists study the interaction between different fear circuits in the brain, and many psychiatrists are revisiting the mind-body connection that was the hallmark ...

Meet Dolly, Polly, Holly, Lolly, Jolly and Molly, new fashion paper dolls Dollys and Friends. You can begin creating your collection of paper dolls with this book which has 3 paper dolls and more than 40 outfits in 1940s styles of fashion. This book is a perfect gift for fashion historians, fashion enthusiasts, costume history lovers, paper doll collectors or anyone interested in 1940s. Please be aware that these paper dolls require careful hand cutting. For adults, paper dolls may be a gateway to childhood memories but they also make great gifts for children. Younger children may need the help to cut these dolls out since the dolls and clothes are not perforated. However, this is a nice opportunity for fun family time. Paper dolls can bring adults and children together, and collections of paper dolls have always passed down to younger generations. New generations can learn a lot while playing with paper dolls. In a digital era where dress up games allow us to change clothes on paper...

Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year 300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every year An estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans 38.5 million plastic bottles are used every day in the UK A million plastic bottles are used per minute around the world 500 million plastic straws are used per year Without big action, at the current rate, pieces of plastic will outnumber fish in the ocean by 2050. That is the legacy we are leaving our children and grandchildren. Plastic flows into our lives from every direction and most of it is not recycled. Instead it is incinerated or ends up in landfill, where it will sit for hundreds of years, or enters the world's seas where it fragments into tiny pieces to become microplastics - the environmental scourge of our times. Many of us had assumed that governments, brands and waste authorities were dealing ...

Learn all you need to know to work with TypeScript, explore modern web application frameworks, and build modular systems using industry standard architectural principles and design patterns Key Features Explore TypeScript 4's key elements and advanced language features Use TypeScript with modern frameworks such as Angular, Vue, React, RxJS and Node Understand TDD, serverless techniques, micro frontends, and other industry-standard best practices to create high-quality and modular apps Book DescriptionTypeScript is both a language and a set of tools to generate JavaScript, designed by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft to help developers write enterprise-scale JavaScript. Mastering Typescript is a golden standard for budding and experienced developers. With a structured approach that will get you up and running with Typescript quickly, this book will introduce core concepts, then build on them to help you understand (and apply) the more advanced language features. You'll learn by ...