Author: Leo Strauss File Type: pdf The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problemthe relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial and heterodox ideas. **From the Back Cover The essays collected in Persecution And The Art Of Writing all deal with one problem-- the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial and heterodox ideas. About the Author Leo Strausss contributions to political philosophy include Natural Right and History, Platonic Political Philosophy, and The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Author: Christian Roy File Type: pdf ISSUE 7 - Table of Contents The Use-Value of Documents hr noshade ARTICLES Denis Hollier, a href=httpwww.surrealismcentre.ac.ukpapersofsurrealismjournal7acrobat%20filesarticlesHollierpdf.pdf target=mainFrameSurrealism and its Discontentsa Julia Kelly, a href=httpwww.surrealismcentre.ac.ukpapersofsurrealismjournal7acrobat%20filesarticlesKellypdf.pdf target=mainFrameDiscipline and Indiscipline The Ethnographies of Documentsa Neil Cox, a href=httpwww.surrealismcentre.ac.ukpapersofsurrealismjournal7acrobat%20filesarticlesCoxfinal.pdf target=mainFrameA Painting by Antoine Carona Sebastian Zeidler, a href=httpwww.surrealismcentre.ac.ukpapersofsurrealismjournal7acrobat%20filesarticlesZeidlerpdf.pdf target=mainFrameLife and Death from Babylon to Picasso Carl Einsteins Ontology of Art at the Time of Documentsa Georges Didi-Huberman, a href=httpwww.surrealismcentre.ac.ukpapersofsurrealismjournal7acrobat%20filesarticlesDidi-Hubpdf.pdf target=mainFramePicture=Rupture Visual Experience, Form and Symptom according to Carl Einsteina Lisa Florman, a href=httpwww.surrealismcentre.ac.ukpapersofsurrealismjournal7acrobat%20filesarticlesFlormanpdf.pdf target=mainFrameLArt Mantique of Picasso, and Documentsa C.F.B. Miller, a href=httpwww.surrealismcentre.ac.ukpapersofsurrealismjournal7acrobat%20filesarticlesmillerpdf.pdf target=mainFrameBataille with Picasso Crucifixion (1930) and Apocalypsea Christian Roy, a href=httpwww.surrealismcentre.ac.ukpapersofsurrealismjournal7acrobat%20filesarticlesroypdf.pdf target=mainFrameArnaud Dandieu and the Epistemology of Documentsa Patrick ffrench, a href=httpwww.surrealismcentre.ac.ukpapersofsurrealismjournal7acrobat%20filesarticlesffrenchpdf.pdf target=mainFrameDocuments in the 1970s Bataille, Barthes and Le gros orteila Sophie Berrebi, a href=httpwww.surrealismcentre.ac.ukpapersofsurrealismjournal7acrobat%20filesarticlesBerrebipdf.pdf target=mainFrameJean-Luc Moulenes Dialectical Documentsa a href=httpwww.surrealismcentre.ac.ukpapersofsurrealismjournal7acrobat%20filesarticlesbakerpdf.pdf target=mainFrameRobert Desnos, Pygmalion and the Sphinxa (trans. Simon Baker)

Author: Daniel Fleisch File Type: pdf Gausss law for electric fields, Gausss law for magnetic fields, Faradays law, and the Ampere-Maxwell law are four of the most influential equations in science. In this guide for students, each equation is the subject of an entire chapter, with detailed, plain-language explanations of the physical meaning of each symbol in the equation, for both the integral and differential forms. The final chapter shows how Maxwells equations may be combined to produce the wave equation, the basis for the electromagnetic theory of light. This book is a wonderful resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in electromagnetism and electromagnetics. A website hosted by the author at www.cambridge.org9780521701471 contains interactive solutions to every problem in the text as well as audio podcasts to walk students through each chapter.Reviewhttpelectronicdesign.comArticlesArticleID1949319493.html Book DescriptionMaxwells equations are four of the most influential equations in science. In this book, each equation is the subject of an entire chapter, making it a wonderful resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in electromagnetism and electromagnetics. Audio podcasts and solutions to the problems are available at www.cambridge.org9780521701471.

Author: Stephen Kotkin File Type: pdf In the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, nobody envisaged that the collapse of the Soviet Union would come from within, still less that it would happen meekly, without global conflagration. In this brilliantly compact, original, engaging book, Stephen Kotkin shows that the Soviet collapse resulted not from military competition but, ironically, from the dynamism of Communist ideology, the long-held dream for socialism with a human face. The neo-liberal reforms in post-Soviet Russia never took place, nor could they have, given the Soviet-era inheritance in the social, political, and economic landscape. Kotkin takes us deep into post-Stalin Soviet society and institutions, into the everyday hopes and secret political intrigues that affected 285 million people, before and after 1991. He conveys the high drama of a superpower falling apart while armed to the teeth with millions of loyal troops and tens of thousands of weapons of mass destruction. Armageddon Averted vividly demonstrates the overriding importance of history, individual ambition, geopolitics, and institutions, and deftly draws out contemporary Russias contradictory predicament.From Library JournalThe director of Russian studies at Princeton and a published scholar in the field of Soviet studies, Kotkin has written a lively and provocative work on a subject that has already attracted much scholarly attention. His central question is, however, his own why didnt Soviet elites defend their Union, using their vast military arsenal to bring about a cataclysmic super-Yugoslavia in the dying USSR? How could such a massive police state have died so quietly? He points in response to those same elites who, for over 30 years, constituted themselves as vast loot chains, preferring to plunder their country of its wealth than risk losing everything in large-scale war. Through the medium of the Union republics, local elites led the charge for their own aggrandizement, thus cashier[ing] the Union. As he delivers telling jabs, Kotkin spares no one neither Soviet politician-gangsters nor arrogant U.S. administrators and academics. This is a much more readable and lively monograph on the Soviet collapse than others, such as Michael McFauls Russias Unfinished Revolution (Cornell Univ., 2001), which has a more purely academic appeal. Kotkins book should attract both the academic and the informed general reader. Robert Johnston, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont. The director of Russian studies at Princeton and a published scholar in the field of Soviet studies, Kotkin has written a lively and provocative work on a subject that has already attracted much scholarly attention. His central question is, however, his own why didnt Soviet elites defend their Union, using their vast military arsenal to bring about a cataclysmic super-Yugoslavia in the dying U.S.S.R.? How could such a massive police state have died so quietly? He points in response to those same elites who, for over 30 years, constituted themselves as vast loot chains, preferring to plunder their country of its wealth than risk losing everything in large-scale war. Through the medium of the Union republics, local elites led the charge for their own aggrandizement, thus cashier[ing] the Union. As he delivers telling jabs, Kotkin spares no one neither Soviet politician-gangsters nor arrogant U.S. administrators and academics. This is a much more readable and lively monograph on the Soviet collapse than others, such as Michael McFauls Russias Unfinished Revolution (Cornell Univ., 2001), which has a more purely academic appeal. Kotkins book should attract both the academic and the informed general reader. Robert Johnston, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont. 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. From The New YorkerIn 1995, Kotkin, a professor of history at Princeton, published Magnetic Mountain, a groundbreaking study of Stalinist socialism as it developed in the gargantuan steel town of Magnitogorsk, in central Russia. In his portrayal of that perverse utopia, the author displayed the skills of a dogged reporter and a meticulous archivist. The same strengths are evident in this brief, lucid study, which draws upon dozens of obscure Kremlin memoirs, provincial records, and interviews with top-level officials and oligarchs to provide us with the clearest picture we have to date of the post-Soviet landscape. Kotkin effectively describes how what was called reform was actually a continuing freefall collapse he also expertly depicts the lingering networks and habits of the Soviet era, and how they have formed a post-imperial world in all its corrupt splendor. 2005 The New Yorker In the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, nobody envisaged that the collapse of the Soviet Union would come from within, still less that it would happen meekly, without global conflagration. In this brilliantly compact, original, engaging book, Stephen Kotkin shows that the Soviet collapse resulted not from military competition but, ironically, from the dynamism of Communist ideology, the long-held dream for socialism with a human face. The neo-liberal reforms in post-Soviet Russia never took place, nor could they have, given the Soviet-era inheritance in the social, political, and economic landscape. Kotkin takes us deep into post-Stalin Soviet society and institutions, into the everyday hopes and secret political intrigues that affected 285 million people, before and after 1991. He conveys the high drama of a superpower falling apart while armed to the teeth with millions of loyal troops and tens of thousands of weapons of mass destruction. Armageddon Averted vividly demonstrates the overriding importance of history, individual ambition, geopolitics, and institutions, and deftly draws out contemporary Russias contradictory predicament.