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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 ...