Vita Edwardi Secundi: The Life of Edward the Second
Author: Wendy R. Childs File Type: pdf The Vita Edwardi Secundi is the best and most readable of the chronicles of the reign of Edward II, and throws a fascinating light on the world of high politics. The anonymous author was close to the centre of politics, probably a royal clerk, and possibly John Walwayn (or someone with a similar career). His focus is largely on domestic politics and the relationship of the king and his barons, and he records the clashes and reconciliations of the period 1311-22 in valuable detail. He also has much to say on the Scottish war, the appointment of bishops, and the outbreak of the French war. The work ends in the winter of 13256 with Queen Isabellas refusal to return from France while Despenser remained with the king. The work is much more than a simple chronicle. The author consciously wrote history and so commented extensively on personalities, and also on causation, motivation, and the vices of his age. He was generous to Gaveston despite his pride, more condemning of the Despensers greed, and lamented Lancasters wasted gifts. His reports on the arguments of both sides in the clashes between the king and his opponents are particularly enlightening, and show how serious were the threats to the kings authority, especially those voiced in 1321. The authors fear of civil war and attempts to define the fine line dividing resistance and treason probably reflect the concerns of many close to the court at that time. Recent research has emphasized that the Vita should be seen as a journal rather than a memoir, and this enhances its value further, allowing historians to chart the changing views of a well-placed observer during the dramatic events of Edwards reign.The Vita has been edited three times before, once in each century since its discovery in 1728, but the last edition of 1957 has long been out of print. This new edition revises the Latin text and translation, provides a completely new introduction and historical notes to take account of recent scholarship, and includes a new and full apparatus and indices.About the AuthorWendy Childs is a Reader in Medieval History, University of Leeds.
Author: Ronan McDonald
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This is an eloquent and accessible introduction to one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. This book provides biographical and contextual information, but more fundamentally, it also considers how we might think about an enduringly difficult and experimental novelist and playwright who often challenges the very concepts of meaning and interpretation. It deals with his life, intellectual and cultural background, plays, prose, and critical response and relates Becketts work and vision to the culture and context from which he wrote. McDonald provides a sustained analysis of the major plays, including Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days and his major prose works including Murphy, Watt and his famous trilogy of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable). This introduction concludes by mapping the huge terrain of criticism Becketts work has prompted, and it explains the turn in recent years to understanding Beckett within his historical context. **Review ... it is an excellent book it does exactly what it says on the tin. ... The greatest strength of the book is in McDonalds ability to articulate a shapely overview while maintaining a sharp sense of the distinctions ... Irish Studies Review Book Description This is an eloquent and accessible introduction to one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, explaining how we might interpret famously difficult and experimental works such as Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days and providing an invaluable overview of Beckett and his time.
Author: Shinsuke Hara
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The research for future fourth generation (4G) mobile communication systems has been launched worldwide in major companies and academic institutions. This manual seeks to help forward-thinking engineers, researchers and academics gain a thorough understanding of the cutting-edge technologies and design techniques that will make these systems work.(Artech House Universal Personal Communications Series)
Author: Stanley Jablonski
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This best-selling portable resource provides authoritative definitions for all of the medical acronyms and abbreviations you can expect to encounter in medicine today. The new, 5th Edition features 10,000 completely new entries reflecting the most recent developments in health care-including new clinical trials, new technologies, and new advances. Highlights include the latest virus nomenclature, computer technology, medical informatics, and molecular biology, along with more from the ever-expanding list of organizations and associations.It also includes a CD-ROM that makes the content accessible via computer. Whats more, a handheld software version is available on CD-ROM-sold separately, or in a money-saving package together with the book.ullFeatures a concise, pocket-sized format that is easy to carry, easy to consult, and easy to afford. llDelivers all of the authority readers expect from the publisher of Dorlands Illustrated Medical Dictionary.llOffers 10,000 brand-new entries encompassing all of the latest acronyms and abbreviations from every front in health care. llIncludes a CD-ROM that makes the content accessible via computer. llIs available separately on CD-ROM as software for most handheld devices, and in a money-saving package together with the book.lul**
Author: Paul Brodwin
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This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on years of fieldwork in a community psychiatry outreach team, Brodwin traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. On the street, in staff room debates, or in private confessions, these psychiatrists and social workers confront ongoing challenges to their self-image as competent and compassionate advocates. At times they openly question the coercion and forced-dependency built into the current system of care. At other times they justify their use of extreme power in the face of loud opposition from clients. This in-depth study exposes the fault lines in todays community psychiatry. It shows how people working deep inside the system struggle to maintain their ideals and manage a chronic sense of futility. Their commentaries about the obligatory and the forbidden also suggest ways to bridge formal bioethics and the realities of mental health practice. The experiences of these clinicians pose a single overarching question how should we bear responsibility for the most vulnerable among us?** This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on years of fieldwork in a community psychiatry outreach team, Brodwin traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. On the street, in staff room debates, or in private confessions, these psychiatrists and social workers confront ongoing challenges to their self-image as competent and compassionate advocates. At times they openly question the coercion and forced-dependency built into the current system of care. At other times they justify their use of extreme power in the face of loud opposition from clients. This in-depth study exposes the fault lines in todays community psychiatry. It shows how people working deep inside the system struggle to maintain their ideals and manage a chronic sense of futility. Their commentaries about the obligatory and the forbidden also suggest ways to bridge formal bioethics and the realities of mental health practice. The experiences of these clinicians pose a single overarching question how should we bear responsibility for the most vulnerable among us?
Author: A. C. Baantjer
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Een jongeman meldt zich bij het bureau Warmoesstraat omdat hij zich ongerust maakt over zijn oudoom die opeens niets meer van zich laat horen.
Author: Elizabeth Woyke
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We think we know everything about our smartphones. We use them constantly. We depend on them for every conceivable purpose. We are familiar with every inch of their compact frames. But there is more to the smartphone than meets the eye. How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact? Who tracks our actions, our preferences, our movements as recorded by our smartphones? These are just some of the questions that journalist Elizabeth Woyke answers in this muckraking expose of the $241 billion industry that produces more than 700 million devices each year. In the tradition of The Coffee Book, The Sneaker Book, Oil, and Cigarettes, The Smartphone offers not only a step-by-step guide to how smartphones are designed and manufactured but also a bold exploration of the darker side of this massive industry, including the exploitation of labor, the disposal of electronic waste, and the underground networks that hack and smuggle smartphones. Featuring interviews with key figures in the development of the smartphone and expert assessments of the industrys main playersApple, Google, Microsoft, and SamsungThe Smartphone is the perfect introduction to this most personal of gadgets. Your smartphone will never look the same again. **
Author: Joost van de Vondel
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An influential and controversial work by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), the colossus of Dutch literature, regarded as a major influence on Miltons Paradise Lost. An angel returns from Eden, his wings singed by the beauty of Adam and Eves world, longing for the pleasures of their flesh.**
Author: Zygmunt Bauman
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Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time.Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that ordinary people can understandabout problems they feel ill equipped to solve.This book is no dry treatise but is instead what Bauman calls a report from a battlefield, part of the struggle to find new and adequate ways of thinking about the world in which we live. Rather than searching for solutions to what are perhaps the insoluble problems of the modern world, Bauman proposes that we reframe the way we think about these problems. In an era of routine travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs that aid our thinking about the world have become an obstacle. Bauman seeks to liberate us from the thinking that renders us hopeless in the face of our own domineering governments and threats from unknown forces abroad.He shows us we can give up belief in a hierarchical arrangement of states and powers. He challenges members of the knowledge class to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society. Gracefully, provocatively, Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. As Bauman notes, quoting Vaclav Havel, hope is not a prognostication. It is, rather, alongside courage and will, a mundane, common weapon that is too seldom used. From BooklistImmanuel Kant extrapolated the trajectory of eighteenth-century history into a future that would demand a universal morality. That future, Bauman announces, has now arrived. But serious thinkers must proceed with the Kantian project in circumstances more difficult than the German philosopher could ever have anticipated, as traditional, locally grounded absolutes dissolve in the flux of twenty-first-century lifestyle consumerism. Tragically, some uprooted groups have tried to recreate the reassuring ethical order of a monolithic community, even when doing so has meant unleashing genocidal violence against outsiders (as in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Kosovo). Doubtful that an American superpower that excels only in military technology will offer better cultural options, Bauman adumbrates a hopeful orientation inspired by the transnational aspirations of Europeans. These aspirations are already restraining profit-seeking global capitalism while advancing a progressive code of planetary responsibility. Some readers may suspect that the very different universalism of a resurgent Islam deserves more attention that it receives, but Bauman poses questions deserving attention from anyone trying to understand our rapidly globalizing society. --Bryce Christensen ReviewZygmunt Baumans voice is as exemplary as it is powerful. He writes not only in Max Webers spirit, but also in that of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, as well as Hannah Arendt and Norbert Elias. This is a very important collection by one of the leading thinkers of our time.--Ron Eyerman, Yale UniversityThis thoughtful and elegant little book by one of the worlds most humble but distinguished intellectuals conveys a sense that the wisdom of a lifetime is being distilled here in a pithy but above all in a usable form.--Paul Gilroy, London School of Economics
Author: Katy Siegel
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For the USA, 1945 was a victory not only over the Axis powers, but also over the hegemony of European power and culture. This book explores how, since that time, American social and artistic history has shaped what we know as contemporary art, and how American art has responded to the unique cultural conditions of the time. For fifty years following World War II, New York was the centre of world art, influencing artists well beyond the USA. And, as Katy Siegel argues, since America lacked the European traditions underlying art, American art instead responded to extreme social conditions native to the country. Artists preoccupations ranged across a broad spectrum that encompassed issues of race, mass culture, the individual, suburbia, apocalypse and nuclear destruction, and Since 45 discusses how these themes came to find their place in artworks. From Rothkos planes of colour to Warhols serial silkscreens, from Richard Princes cowboys to Faith Ringgolds Black Light series, Since 45 examines artists and artworks within the broader spectrum of American society. Siegels narrative moves fluidly from discussion of artists works, art museums and galleries over the decades, to cultural influences and momentous historical events. In addition, rather than arguing on nationalist grounds, or viewing American culture as representative of a now-devalued nation, she explores how US culture dominated not only Americas artists, but created conditions that now, after the full globalization of the art world, affect artists worldwide. Lucidly argued and readable, combining aesthetic and social concerns, Since 45 sheds light on the complexities of American art over half a century and more. It will interest all readers engaged in post-war and contemporary art in the USA and beyond. **