Published By
Created On
20 Jul 2021 23:33:16 UTC
Transaction ID
Cost
Safe for Work
Free
Yes
Xenephon: The Shorter Writings
Author: Xenephon
File Type: pdf
This book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophons eight shorter writings, accompanied by interpretive essays that reveal these works to be masterful achievements by a serious thinker of the first rank who raises important moral, political, and philosophical questions. Five of these shorter writings are unmistakably devoted to political matters. The Agesilaos is a eulogy of a Spartan king, and the Hiero, or the Skilled Tyrant recounts a searching dialogue between a poet and a tyrant. The Regime of the Lacedaemonians presents itself as a laudatory examination of what turns out to be an oligarchic regime of a certain type, while The Regime of the Athenians offers an unflattering picture of a democratic regime. Ways and Means, or On Revenues offers suggestions on how to improve the political economy of Athens troubled democracy. The other three works included hereThe Skilled Cavalry Commander, On Horsemanship, and The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogstreat skills deemed appropriate for soldiers and leaders, touching on matters of political importance, especially in regard to war. By bringing together Xenophons shorter writings, this volume aims to help those interested in Xenophon to better understand the core of his thought, political as well as philosophical. Interpretive essays by Wayne Ambler, Robert C. Bartlett, Amy L. Bonnette, Susan D. Collins, Michael Ehrmantraut, David Levy, Gregory A. McBrayer, Abram N. Shulsky. **Review This is a most welcome volume. Xenophons shorter writingsall eight of themhave here been collected and translated literally for the first time. The interpretive essays are rich and thought provoking. A significant contribution to the modern recovery of Xenophons Socratic wisdom. (Eric Buzetti, Associate Professor, Concordia University, and author of Xenophon the Socratic Prince The Argument of the Anabasis of Cyrus.) By making available the shorter writings of Xenophon in reliably accurate translations, accompanied by consistently illuminating interpretations, this volume makes an important contribution to one of the most heartening and consequential scholarly achievements of the past fifty years the rediscovery of Xenophon as a political philosopher of the first rank. (Peter J. Ahrensdorf, James Sprunt Professor of Political Science, Davidson College) About the Author Wayne Ambler is Associate Professor and Director of the Herbst Program of Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Eric Buzzetti is Associate Professor in the Liberal Arts College of Concordia University, Montreal.
File Type: pdf
This book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophons eight shorter writings, accompanied by interpretive essays that reveal these works to be masterful achievements by a serious thinker of the first rank who raises important moral, political, and philosophical questions. Five of these shorter writings are unmistakably devoted to political matters. The Agesilaos is a eulogy of a Spartan king, and the Hiero, or the Skilled Tyrant recounts a searching dialogue between a poet and a tyrant. The Regime of the Lacedaemonians presents itself as a laudatory examination of what turns out to be an oligarchic regime of a certain type, while The Regime of the Athenians offers an unflattering picture of a democratic regime. Ways and Means, or On Revenues offers suggestions on how to improve the political economy of Athens troubled democracy. The other three works included hereThe Skilled Cavalry Commander, On Horsemanship, and The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogstreat skills deemed appropriate for soldiers and leaders, touching on matters of political importance, especially in regard to war. By bringing together Xenophons shorter writings, this volume aims to help those interested in Xenophon to better understand the core of his thought, political as well as philosophical. Interpretive essays by Wayne Ambler, Robert C. Bartlett, Amy L. Bonnette, Susan D. Collins, Michael Ehrmantraut, David Levy, Gregory A. McBrayer, Abram N. Shulsky. **Review This is a most welcome volume. Xenophons shorter writingsall eight of themhave here been collected and translated literally for the first time. The interpretive essays are rich and thought provoking. A significant contribution to the modern recovery of Xenophons Socratic wisdom. (Eric Buzetti, Associate Professor, Concordia University, and author of Xenophon the Socratic Prince The Argument of the Anabasis of Cyrus.) By making available the shorter writings of Xenophon in reliably accurate translations, accompanied by consistently illuminating interpretations, this volume makes an important contribution to one of the most heartening and consequential scholarly achievements of the past fifty years the rediscovery of Xenophon as a political philosopher of the first rank. (Peter J. Ahrensdorf, James Sprunt Professor of Political Science, Davidson College) About the Author Wayne Ambler is Associate Professor and Director of the Herbst Program of Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Eric Buzzetti is Associate Professor in the Liberal Arts College of Concordia University, Montreal.
Author
Content Type
Unspecified
application/pdf
Language
English
More from the publisher
Controlling
MISSI
21345
Author: Martin J. Blaser
File Type: epub
A critical call to arms about the harmful effects of some of our most revered modern medical practices.Welcome to the wilds of the microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have co-existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the equilibrium and health of our bodies. But now this invisible Eden is under assault. Our overreliance on medical advances such as antibiotics and Cesarean sections is threatening the extinction of these irreplaceable microbes and leading to severe health problems.In Missing Microbes, Dr. Martin Blaser goes back to the discovery of antibiotics, which ushered in a golden age of medicine, and traces how our subsequent overuse of these supposed wonder drugs has left its mark on our systems and contributed to the rise of what Blaser calls our modern plagues obesity, asthma, allergies, diabetes and certain forms of cancer. Blasers studies suggest that antibiotic use during early childhood poses the greatest risk to long-term health alarmingly, American children receive on average seventeen courses of antibiotics before they are twenty years old. His studies also suggest that C-sections deprive babies of important contact with their mothers microbiomes.Taking us into the lab to explain his groundbreaking studies, Blaser not only provides elegant support for his theories but guides us toward avoiding even more catastrophic health problems in the future.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/epub+zip
English
Controlling
COLLE
56817
Author: Herbert Marcuse
File Type: pdf
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
PHOTO
23134
Author: David Duchemin
File Type: epub
When looking at a photograph, too often a conversation startsand, unfortunately, endswith a statement such as, I like it. The logical next question, Why?, often goes unasked and unanswered. As photographers, we frequently have difficulty speaking about images because, frankly, we dont know how to think about them. And if we dont know how to think about a photograph and its visual language how an image is constructed, how it works, and why it worksthen, when were behind the camera, are we really making images that best communicate our vision, our original intent? Visioncrucial as it isis not the ultimate goal of photography expression is the goal. And to best express ourselves, it is necessary to learn and use the grammar and vocabulary of the visual language. Photographically Speaking is about learning photographys visual language to better speak to why and how a photograph succeeds, and in turn to consciously use that visual language in the creation of our own photographs, making us stronger photographers who are able to fully express and communicate our vision. By breaking up the visual language into two main componentselements make up its vocabulary, and decisions are its grammarDavid duChemin transforms what has traditionally been esoteric and difficult subject matter into an accessible and practical discussion that photographers can immediately use to improve their craft. Elements are the words of the image, what we place within the framelines, curves, light, color, contrast. Decisions are the choices we make in assembling those elements to best express and communicate our visionthe use of framing, perspective, point of view, balance, focus, exposure.All content within the frame has meaning, and duChemin establishes that photographers must consciously and deliberately choose the elements that go within their frame and make the decisions about how that frame is constructed and presented. In the second half of the book, duChemin applies this methodology to his own craft, as he explores the visual language in 20 of his own images, discussing how the intentional choices of elements and decisions that went into their creation contribute to their success.About the AuthorAn assignment photographer specializing in humanitarian projects and world photography, David duChemin has been creating compelling stories with a camera in hand for over twenty years. A passionate contributor to the international photography community, duChemins first book, Within the Frame The Journey of Photographic Vision, received worldwide acclaim for its vision, passion, and depth. David has shot on five continents for assignments and projects covering places as diverse as Paris, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, India, Nepal, and Mongolia. Find David online at Pixelatedimage.com. When looking at a photograph, too often a conversation startsand, unfortunately, endswith a statement such as, I like it. The logical next question, Why?, often goes unasked and unanswered. As photographers, we frequently have difficulty speaking about images because, frankly, we dont know how to think about them. And if we dont know how to think about a photograph and its visual language how an image is constructed, how it works, and why it worksthen, when were behind the camera, are we really making images that best communicate our vision, our original intent? Visioncrucial as it isis not the ultimate goal of photography expression is the goal. And to best express ourselves, it is necessary to learn and use the grammar and vocabulary of the visual language. Photographically Speaking is about learning photographys visual language to better speak to why and how a photograph succeeds, and in turn to consciously use that visual language in the creation of our own photographs, making us stronger photographers who are able to fully express and communicate our vision. By breaking up the visual language into two main componentselements make up its vocabulary, and decisions are its grammarDavid duChemin transforms what has traditionally been esoteric and difficult subject matter into an accessible and practical discussion that photographers can immediately use to improve their craft. Elements are the words of the image, what we place within the framelines, curves, light, color, contrast. Decisions are the choices we make in assembling those elements to best express and communicate our visionthe use of framing, perspective, point of view, balance, focus, exposure. All content within the frame has meaning, and duChemin establishes that photographers must consciously and deliberately choose the elements that go within their frame and make the decisions about how that frame is constructed and presented. In the second half of the book, duChemin applies this methodology to his own craft, as he explores the visual language in 20 of his own images, discussing how the intentional choices of elements and decisions that went into their creation contribute to their success. About the AuthorAn assignment photographer specializing in humanitarian projects and world photography, David duChemin has been creating compelling stories with a camera in hand for over twenty years. A passionate contributor to the international photography community, duChemins first book, Within the Frame The Journey of Photographic Vision, received worldwide acclaim for its vision, passion, and depth. David has shot on five continents for assignments and projects covering places as diverse as Paris, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, India, Nepal, and Mongolia. Find David online at Pixelatedimage.com.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/epub+zip
English
Controlling
THE S
139285
Author: Martin Gardner
File Type: pdf
This delightful collection from the magician of math introduces readers to magic squares, the Generalized Ham Sandwich Theorem, origami, digital roots, an update of the Induction Game of Eleusis, Dudeney puzzles, the maze at Hampton Court palace, and many more mathematical puzzles and principles.Gardner is often the clown prince of science. . . . His Mathematical Games column in Scientific American is one of the few bridges over C. P. Snows famous gulf of mutual incomprehension that lies between the technical and literary cultures.Time About the AuthorMartin Gardner is the author of The Annotated Casey at the Bat, Martin Gardners New Mathematical Diversions, Logic Machines and Diagrams, Martin Gardners Sixth Book of Mathematical Diversions, and many other books.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
THE A
120774
Author: Eric Hobsbawm
File Type: pdf
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawms epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes.ReviewThe work is challenging, learned, brilliant in its analytical power, wide-ranging in its lucid exposition of literary, aesthetic and scientific achievments and packed with novel insight. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Brilliant. TLS From the Inside FlapThis magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawms epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes. The first in Eric Hobsbawms dazzling trilogy on the history of the nineteenth century. Between 1789 and 1848 the world was transformed both by the French Revolution and also by the Industrial Revolution that originated in Britain. This Dual Revolution created the modern world as we know it. Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant analytical clarity the transformation brought about in every sphere of European life by the Dual Revolution - in the conduct of war and diplomacy in new industrial areas and on the land among peasantry, bourgeoisie and aristocracy in methods of government and of revolution in science, philosophy and religion in literature and the arts. But above all he sees this as the period when industrial capitalism established the domination over the rest of the world it was to hold for a century. Eric Hobsbawms enthralling and original account is an impassioned but objective history of the most significant sixty years in the history of Europe. **Review The work is challenging, learned, brilliant in its analytical power, wide-ranging in its lucid exposition of literary, aesthetic and scientific achievments and packed with novel insight. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Brilliant. TLS From the Inside Flap This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawms epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The Age of Empire, and The Age of Extremes.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
‘AE
39044
Author: Terry Eagleton
File Type: pdf
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
DESIG
62632
Author: Katharina Pfützner
File Type: pdf
How does industrial design operate outside of capitalist consumer culture? Designing for Socialist Need assembles a detailed picture of industrial design practice in the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR). Drawing on much previously unexplored material from a wide variety of sources, it not only maps out some of the ideological, institutional and economic contexts within which GDR design functioned, it also critically reconstructs the designers aims and perspectives in order to argue that they shared a profoundly socially responsible approach to design. By focusing on their ideas and approaches, this volume attends to the previously unacknowledged intellectual and practical richness of GDR design culture and demonstrates that it can provide pertinent insights not only for scholars of GDR history or German design, but also for contemporary design practitioners, theorists and educators with an interest in sustainability in design.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
THE G
128989
Author: Jonathan Harris
File Type: pdf
The final installment in the critically-acclaimed trilogy on globalization and art explores the growing dominance of Asian centers of art This book takes readers on a fascinating journey around five Asian centers of contemporary art and its myriad institutions, agents, forms, materials, and languages, while posing vital questions about the political economy of culture and the power of visual art in a multi-polar world. He analyzes the financial powerhouse of Art Basel Hong Kong, new media art in South Korea, the place of the Kochi Biennale within contemporary art in India, transnational art and art education in China, and the geo-politics of art patronage in Palestine, and he develops a highly original synthesis of theoretical perspectives and empirical research. Drawing on detailed case studies and personal insights gained from his extensive experience of the contemporary art scene in Asia, Professor Harris examines the evolving relationship between the western centers of art practice, collection, and validation and the emerging peripheries of Asian Tiger societies with burgeoning art centers. And he arrives at the somewhat controversial conclusion that dominance of the art world is rapidly slipping away from Europe and North America. The Global Contemporary Art World is essential reading for undergraduates and postgraduate students in modern and contemporary art, art history, art theory and criticism, cultural studies, the sociology of culture, and globalization studies. It is also a vital resource for research students, academics, and professionals in the art world. **From the Back Cover This book takes readers on a fascinating journey around five Asian centers of contemporary art and its myriad institutions, agents, forms, materials, and languages, while posing vital questions about the political economy of culture and the power of visual art in a multi-polar world. The author analyzes the financial powerhouse of Art Basel Hong Kong, new media art in South Korea, the place of the Kochi Biennale within contemporary art in India, transnational art and art education in China, and the geo-politics of art patronage in Palestine, and develops a highly original synthesis of theoretical perspectives and empirical research. Drawing on detailed case studies and personal insights gained from his extensive experience of the contemporary art scene in Asia, Jonathan Harris examines the evolving relationship between the western centers of art practice, collection, and validation and the emerging peripheries of Asian Tiger societies with burgeoning art centers. He also discusses the controversial question of whether the dominance of the art world is rapidly slipping away from Europe and North America. ul lThe Global Contemporary Art World* is essential reading for undergraduates and postgraduate students in modern and contemporary art, art history, art theory and criticism, cultural studies, the sociology of culture, and globalization studies. It is also a vital resource for research students, academics, and professionals in the art world. l ul About the Author JONATHAN HARRIS is Head of Birmingham School of Art at Birmingham City University, UK. He has taught and lectured on modern and contemporary art at universities, museums and galleries worldwide for over thirty years. His The New Art History A Critical Introduction (2001) remains a classic text, and he has published twenty books as editor, author and co-author, including Globalization and Contemporary Art and The Utopian Globalists (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 and 2013).
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English
Controlling
BETWE
50601
Author: Martin Buber
File Type: pdf
Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth centurys most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. Between Man and Man is the classic work where he puts this belief into practice, applying it to the concrete problems of contemporary society. Here he tackles subjects as varied as religious ethics, social philosophy, marriage, education, psychology and art. Including some of his most famous writings, such as the masterful What is Man?, this enlightening work challenges each reader to reassess their encounter with the world that surrounds them.** Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth centurys most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. Between Man and Man is the classic work where he puts this belief into practice, applying it to the concrete problems of contemporary society. Here he tackles subjects as varied as religious ethics, social philosophy, marriage, education, psychology and art. Including some of his most famous writings, such as the masterful What is Man?, this enlightening work challenges each reader to reassess their encounter with the world that surrounds them.
Transaction
Created
1 year ago
Content Type
Language
application/pdf
English