Balkan Prehistory: Exclusion, Incorporation and Identity
Author: Douglass Whitfield Bailey File Type: pdf Douglass Baileys volume fills the huge gap that existed for a comprehensive synthesis, in English, of the archaeology of the Balkans between 6,500 and 2,000 BC much research on the prehistory of Eastern Europe was inaccessible to a western audience before now, because of linguistic barriers.Bailey argues against traditional interpretations of the period, which focus on the origins of agriculture and animal breeding. He demonstrates that this was a period when monumental social and material changes occurred in the lives of the people in this region, with new technologies and ways of displaying identity.Balkan Prehistory will be required reading for everyone studying the Neolithic, Copper and early Bronze Ages of Eastern Europe.ReviewI think this is a very valuable addition to the literature in this important field of European prehistory. It is very useful to have an up to date treatment of this rich and interesting material. I shall certainly use this book in my undergraduate classes. - Professor Lord Renfrew of KaimsthornThis is a very valuable synthesis and required reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and specialists alike John Chapman, Cambridge Archaeological Journal The period from 6500 to 2500 BC was one of the most dynamic eras of the prehistory of south-eastern Europe, for it saw many fundamental changes in the ways in which people lived their lives. This up-to-date and authoritative synthesis both describes the best excavated relevant Balkan sites and interprets long-term trends in the central themes of settlement, burial, material culture and economy. Prominence is given to the ways people organized themselves, the houses and landscapes where they lived and the objects, plants and animals that they kept. The key developments are seen as the creation of new social environments through the construction of houses and villages, and a new materiality of life which filled the built environment with a wide variety of objects. Against the prevailing trends in European prehistory, the author argues for a prehistoric past riven with tension and conflict, where hoarding and exclusion of people was just as frequent as sharing and helping. Balkan Prehistory provides a much-needed guide to a period which has previously been inaccessible to western scholars.
Author: Fabio Geda
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When ten-year-old Enaiatollah Akbaris small village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule in early 2000, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiats remarkable and often punishing five-year ordeal, which takes him through Iran, Turkey, and Greece before he seeks political asylum in Italy at the age of fifteen. Along the way, Enaiat endures the crippling physical and emotional agony of dangerous border crossings, trekking across bitterly cold mountain pathways for days on end or being stuffed into the false bottom of a truck. But not everyone is as resourceful, resilient, or lucky as Enaiat, and there are many heart-wrenching casualties along the way. Based on Enaiats close collaboration with Italian novelist Fabio Geda and expertly rendered in English by an award- winning translator, this novel reconstructs the young boys memories, perfectly preserving the childlike perspective and rhythms of an intimate oral history. Told with humor and humanity, In the Sea There Are Crocodiles brilliantly captures Enaiats moving and engaging voice and lends urgency to an epic story of hope and survival.From the Hardcover edition.
Author: Philip K. Dick
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The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Martian time-slip. Do Androids dream of electric sheep?. Ubik. A scanner darkly This volume contains DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (filmed as BLADERUNNER), MARTIAN TIME SLIP, UBIK, THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH and A SCANNER DARKLY. Taken together they represent the best of Philip K. Dicks unique imagination. In Dicks writing nothing is what it seems, our sense of the worlds order is fatally undermined and mass media tells us nothing but artful lies. Films such as THE MATRIX and THE TRUMAN SHOW would not have been made but for Philip K. Dick. His work has never been more timely.
Author: James Baldwin
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Author: Kathleen E Kennedy
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the word [hacker] itself is quite old. In fact, the earliest record of the noun hacker is medieval a type of chopping implement was known as a hacker from the 1480s. Evidently, over time the term moved from the implement to the person wielding the implement. Today the grammatical slippage remains, as the hacker hacked the hack is grammatically sound, if stylistically unfortunate. Notably, even in its earliest uses, hacker and hacking referred to necessary disruption. Arboriculture required careful pruning (with a hacker) to remove unwanted branches and cultivation necessitated the regular breaking up of soil and weeds in between rows of a crop (with a hacker). Such practices broke limbs and turf in order to create beneficial new growth. Such physical hacking resembles the actions of computer hackers who claim to identify security exploits (breaking into software) in order to improve computer security, not to weaken it. ~Kathleen E. Kenndy, Medieval Hackers Medieval Hackers calls attention to the use of certain vocabulary terms in the Middle Ages and today commonness, openness, and freedom. Today we associate this language with computer hackers, some of whom believe that information, from literature to the code that makes up computer programs, should be much more accessible to the general public than it is. In the medieval past these same terms were used by translators of censored texts, including the bible. Only at times in history when texts of enormous cultural importance were kept out of circulation, including our own time, does this vocabulary emerge. Using sources from Anonymouss Fawkes mask to William Tyndales bible prefaces, Medieval Hackers demonstrates why we should watch for this language when it turns up in our media today. This is important work in media archaeology, for as Kennedy writes in this book, the effluorescence of intellectual piracy in our current moment of political and technological revolutions cannot help but draw us to look back and see that the enforcement of intellectual property in the face of traditional information culture has occurred before. We have seen that despite the radically different stakes involved, in the late Middle Ages, law texts traced the same trajectory as religious texts. In the end, perhaps religious texts serve as cultural bellwethers for the health of the information commons in all areas. As unlikely as it might seem, we might consider seriously the import of an animatronic [John] Wyclif, gesturing us to follow him on a (potentially doomed) quest to preserve the information commons.**
Author: Michael Prestwich
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This book is an excellent introduction to this eventful period in history,offering students of history and the Middle Ages a fascinating insight into the reigns of three very different sovereigns ul lEdward Ia confident and masterful conqueror of Wales l lEdward II defeated by the Scots, humiliated and deposed l lEdward III triumphant against the French, but reigned through the ravages of plague. l ulThe book focuses on each kings approach to war - an essential determinant of political and constitutional development, and emphasizes how the importance of war stretches far beyond the traditional boundaries of military history. For any student or researcher of history and the Middle Ages, this highly acclaimed book provides excellent research and course study opportunities. **
Author: Edward Feser
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In this lively and entertaining introduction to the philosophy of mind, Edward Feser explores the questions central to the discipline such as do computers think, and what is consciousness and gives an account of all the most important and significant attempts that have been made to answer them.
Author: Richard L. Hasen
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Engaging but caustic and openly ideological, Antonin Scalia was among the most influential justices ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. In this fascinating new book, legal scholar Richard L. Hasen assesses Scalias complex legacy as a conservative legal thinker and disruptive public intellectual. The left saw Scalia as an unscrupulous foe who amplified his judicial role with scathing dissents and outrageous public comments. The right viewed him as a rare principled justice committed to neutral tools of constitutional and statutory interpretation. Hasen provides a more nuanced perspective, demonstrating how Scalia was crucial to reshaping jurisprudence on issues from abortion to gun rights to separation of powers. A jumble of contradictions, Scalia promised neutral tools to legitimize the Supreme Court, but his jurisprudence and confrontational style moved the Court to the right, alienated potential allies, and helped to delegitimize the institution he was trying to save.**ReviewLike a Scalia opinion, The Justice of Contradictions is superbly written, filled with brilliant insights and unsparing in its analysis. Both liberals and conservatives will see Scalia and his legacy in a new and more illuminating light.Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in AmericaRick Hasen uses his powerful analytic ability to point out the numerous contradictions and inconsistencies in Scalias jurisprudence. Any serious student of the Supreme Court will find much to admire, and something to disagree with, in this important book.Burt Neuborne, author of Madisons Music On Reading the First Amendment A brilliant analysis of Justice Antonin Scalias work. This clearly written and accessible book will be an essential resource for all thinking about Scalias place in history and the last three decades of American law.Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law An accessible and insightful account of Antonin Scalia, one of the Supreme Courts most colorful, controversial, and iconoclastic justices. Hasen delivers a nuanced appreciation of a brilliant man whose many internal contradictions undermined his own potential for influence on the Courteven as he profoundly shaped the way we think and argue about constitutional law today.David Cole, National Legal Director, ACLU, and author of Engines of Liberty How Citizen Movements Succeed Antonin Scalia was one of the most consequential and controversial justices in the history of the Supreme Court. Rick Hasen has given us a masterpiece on his jurisprudence and his personalitysophisticated but accessible, insightful and penetrating. A must-read for anyone interested in the Court and its impact on society.Norman Ornstein, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute Like a Scalia opinion, The Justice of Contradictions is superbly written, filled with brilliant insights and unsparing in its analysis. Both liberals and conservatives will see Scalia and his legacy in a new and more illuminating light.Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America(Adam Winkler) Rick Hasen uses his powerful analytic ability to point out the numerous contradictions and inconsistencies in Scalias jurisprudence. Any serious student of the Supreme Court will find much to admire, and something to disagree with, in this important book.Burt Neuborne, author of Madisons Music On Reading the First Amendment (Burt Neuborne) A brilliant analysis of Justice Antonin Scalias work. This clearly written and accessible book will be an essential resource for all thinking about Scalias place in history and the last three decades of American law.Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Erwin Chemerinsky) About the Author Richard L. Hasen is Chancellors Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. He was named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by The National Law Journal.
Author: Tim Cahill
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Drawing on exclusive interviews and previously unreported material, journalist Tim Cahill offers the stuff of wrenching nightmares (The Wall Street Journal) a harrowing journey inside the mind of a serial killer. Meticulously researched and graphically recounted, Buried Dreams brings to vivid life the real John Wayne Gacyhis complex personality, compulsions, inadequacies, and tormentsoften in the killers own words.Called an absorbing and disturbing story by Publishers Weekly and surprisingly graceful by the New York Times, this is a journey to the heart of human evil that you will never forget.