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We Greeks are one in blood and one in language, we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life.' So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has some Athenians declare, in explanation of why they would never betray their fellow Greeks to the enemy, the 'barbarian' Persians. And he might have added further common features, such as clothing, foodways, and political institutions. But if the Greeks knew that they ...

Als Robert Rother im Dezember 2018 aus dem Gefängnis Dongguan im Süden Chinas entlassen wird, hat er fast acht Jahre hinter Gittern verbracht. Damit ist er einer der wenigen Deutschen, die in China eine Haftstrafe abgesessen haben - und der erste Europäer, der den Mut hat, darüber zu berichten. Dabei begann es wie im Märchen: Das Investment-Wunderkind aus Unna bleibt nach einer Reise im Land und verdient mit Finanzgeschäften schnell sehr viel ...

Low Carb, High Fat - was ist dran am aktuellen Ernährungstrend? Ist es nur wieder ein schnelles Diätversprechen oder ist Keto wirklich gesund? Ist es! Wenn man auf ein paar Dinge achtet. Entscheidend fu¿r die positive gesundheitliche Wirkung ist es, die richtigen Lebensmittel in der richtigen Kombination auszuwählen und gesunde Fette und Öle zu verwenden. So kann Keto beim Abnehmen helfen und gegen Diabetes, Demenz, Rheuma und Autoimmunerkrank...

This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the postcolonial the first phase of a new universalism, one which would be truly universal because it would be fully inclusive, or is it on the contrary the denial of all universalism, the triumph of the pa...

This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the postcolonial the first phase of a new universalism, one which would be truly universal because it would be fully inclusive, or is it on the contrary the denial of all universalism, the triumph of the pa...

Designed to Sell presents an engaging account of mid-twentieth century department store design and display in America from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Wildness was once integral to our ancestor's lives as they struggled to survive in an unpredictable environment. Today, most of us live in relative stability insulated from the vicissitudes of nature. Wildness is over, right? Wrong, argues leading environmental scholar Paul Wapner. Wildness may have disappeared from our immediate lives, but it's been catapulted up to the global level. The planet itself has gone into spasm - calving glaciers, w...

With irrepressible humour Slavoj ?i?ek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex 'unicorns' to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. Taking aim at his enemies on left, right and centre, he argues that contemporary society can only be properly understood from a communist standpoint. Why communism? The greater the triumph of global capitalism, the more its dangerous antagonisms multiply: cl...

With irrepressible humour Slavoj ?i?ek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex 'unicorns' to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. Taking aim at his enemies on left, right and centre, he argues that contemporary society can only be properly understood from a communist standpoint. Why communism? The greater the triumph of global capitalism, the more its dangerous antagonisms multiply: cl...

Wildness was once integral to our ancestor's lives as they struggled to survive in an unpredictable environment. Today, most of us live in relative stability insulated from the vicissitudes of nature. Wildness is over, right? Wrong, argues leading environmental scholar Paul Wapner. Wildness may have disappeared from our immediate lives, but it's been catapulted up to the global level. The planet itself has gone into spasm - calving glaciers, w...

Presents the physical reasoning, mathematical modeling and algorithmic implementation of each method Updates on the latest trends, including sparsity, convex analysis and optimization, online distributed algorithms, learning in RKH spaces, Bayesian inference, graphical and hidden Markov models, particle filtering, deep learning, dictionary learning and latent variables modeling Provides case studies on a variety of topics, including protein fo...

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Explore Canada from coast to coast to coast in this charming new board book from bestselling children's book illustrator Jocey Asnong!

A unique gift and engaging resource for dog lovers of all types!

David Bowie was one of the world's most famous rock stars. But, as David Bowie FAQ shows, he was also far more than that. After spending the latter part of the 1960s searching for the best medium through which to express his artistic aspirations-and trying out several performing arts in the process-he experienced fleeting but significant success in music with the top-ten UK hit "Space Oddity, " released at the time of the successful Apollo 11 ...

This commentary on Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) provides a feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that explicitly mention women. It addresses not only issues of gender but also those of power, authority, ethnicity, racism, and classism"--

Kenyon's Living Poems is a collection of sacred and secular poems, rhymes, and musings that Dr. E. W. Kenyon (1867-1948) wrote through his life on various subjects. Born in Saratoga County, New York, Kenyon's earliest desire was to become an actor, He attended the Emerson School of Oratory in Boston for one year in 1892. But in 1893, after a two-and-a-half-year crisis of faith, Kenyon attended the services of Clarendon Street Baptist Church, l...

Historian Adam Lunney's authoritative account of two RAF fighter squadrons that fought through WW2.