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Philosophers explain and criticize many controversial aspects of the ambitious new TV show, His Dark Materials.

Cyrus the Great was a brilliant general who founded the Persian Empire, greatest empire of its day. He was also the king who freed the Jews from exile at Babylon and allowed them to return to Jerusalem, with the Bible describing him as the only non Jew "anointed by god." Cyrus influenced the US Bill of Rights, and is the biblical figure to whom US President Donald Trump has been favorably compared by Christian evangelicals and the Prime Minist...

For decades neuroscientists understood sensory perception as a matter of external stimuli ¿sparking¿ regions of the brain. But this view has a key flaw: odors don¿t line up consistently with the neural map. A. S. Barwich explores the new science of smell and urges us to rethink theories of mind and brain inspired by the mapping model.

A fateful journey taken in the ancient Assyria of Ashurbanipal is interweaved with an archaeological dig in Mosul, twenty-six centuries later, which devolves into a hostage situation. Cooper is the author of "River Of Ink" and the host of the "Fall Of Civilisations" podcast.

The gripping, intensely personal story of a mother struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her twenty-two-year-old son.

Prepare for the highly anticipated movie Wonder Woman 1984, the sequel to the 2017 blockbuster hit Wonder Woman starring Gal Gadot, with this trade paperback featuring stories about the Princess of the Amazons from some of the best writers and artists in the industry!This is the ultimate graphic novel companion collection to the Wonder Woman 1984 movie, premiering in 2020. This graphic novel contains stories from legendary writers and artists,...

Die praktische Arbeitsbuch-Reihe für berufsbezogene Schulen vermittelt handlungsorientiert und kleinschrittig die Grundlagen der Datenverarbeitung mit Windows/Microsoft Office bzw. OpenOffice.Unterricht in Modulen:Modul 1: grafische BenutzeroberflächeModul 2: Textverarbeitung mit WordModul 3: Tabellenkalkulation mit ExcelModul 4: Präsentieren mit PowerpointModul 5: Das Internet als InformationsquelleModul 6: Aufbau eines Computersystems Lösung...

A first-to-market resource that focuses on how to cultivate the maker mind-set in the youngest learners, use open-ended materials, and design makerspaces.

A world-renowned printmaker, Tom Killion's books and note card sets are consistently among Heyday's bestsellers California's Wild Coast Note Card Box, composed of images taken from this book, is Heyday's bestselling note card set California's Wild Coast includes poems by Jane Hirshfeld, Czeslaw Milosz, Gary Snyder, Jaime de Angulo and many others Includes a section on "Making a Woodblock Print, " illustrating Killion's process Includes over 90...

Heirloom Fruits of America features 100 full-color illustrations selected from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection, an archive of 7, 584 paintings, lithographs, and line drawings created from 1886 to 1942 by about sixty-five commissioned artists. These images served as de facto trademarks in the highly competitive and fraud-plagued American fruit industry in a time before patent protection extended to living or...

Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans. Stepchildren of the Shtetl tells the story of these marginalized figures from the dawn of modernity to the eve of the Holocaust. Combining archival research with analysis of literary, cultural, and religious texts, Natan M. Meir recovers the lived experience of Jewish ...

Digital Pirates examines the unauthorized creation, distribution, and consumption of movies and music in Brazil. Alexander Sebastian Dent offers a new definition of piracy as indispensable to current capitalism alongside increasing global enforcement of intellectual property (IP). Complex and capricious laws might prohibit it, but piracy remains a core activity of the twenty-first century. Combining the tools of linguistic and cultural anthrop...

A unique investigation into how alliances form in highly polarized times among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists, revealing the impacts within each rights movement. Queer Alliances investigates coalition formation among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists in the United States, revealing how these new alliances impact political movement formation. In the early 2000s, the LGBTQ and immigrant rights movements operated separate...

Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-94) was a renowned Palestinian poet and a committed communist activist. For four decades, he was a dominant figure in political life in Israel, as a local council member, mayor of Nazareth, and member of the Israeli parliament. Zayyad personified the collective struggle of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, challenging the military government following the creation of the state of Israel, leading the 1976 nationwide strike...

The German language holds an ambivalent and controversial place in the modern history of European Jews, representing different?often conflicting?historical currents. It was the language of the German classics, of German Jewish writers and scientists, of Central European Jewish culture, and of Herzl and the Zionist movement. But it was also the language of Hitler, Goebbels, and the German guards in Nazi concentration camps. The crucial role of ...

Although the United Kingdom's entry to the European Community (EC) in 1973 was initially celebrated, by the end of the first year the mood in the UK had changed from 'hope to uncertainty'. When Edward Heath lost the 1974 General Election, Harold Wilson returned to No. 10 promising a fundamental renegotiation and referendum on EC membership. By the end of the first year of membership, 67% of voters had said 'yes' to Europe in the UK's first-eve...

In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare rewrites epic history as a study in erotic politics. At its centre, a star couple. The fascinating black Egyptian queen, Cleopatra, and the super-sized Roman general she's seduced. Are they magnificent? Or doomed by tawdry, self-absorbed folly? And what of the cold-blooded imperialist, Octavius, who's bent on controlling the future history of the world by destroying them both?In a script that soars into the...

Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans. Stepchildren of the Shtetl tells the story of these marginalized figures from the dawn of modernity to the eve of the Holocaust. Combining archival research with analysis of literary, cultural, and religious texts, Natan M. Meir recovers the lived experience of Jewish ...

This book asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors. Long isolated and opposed to multilateral agreements, Japan proposed East Asia's first multilateral security forum in the early 1990s, emerging as a regional leader. Overcoming Isolationism explores what led to this surprising about-face and offers a corrective to the misperception that Japan's secu...

Digital Pirates examines the unauthorized creation, distribution, and consumption of movies and music in Brazil. Alexander Sebastian Dent offers a new definition of piracy as indispensable to current capitalism alongside increasing global enforcement of intellectual property (IP). Complex and capricious laws might prohibit it, but piracy remains a core activity of the twenty-first century. Combining the tools of linguistic and cultural anthrop...