Author: Simon Kuper File Type: pdf Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesnt America dominate the sport internationally...and why do the Germans play with such an efficient but robotic style? These are questions every soccer aficionado has asked. Soccernomics answers them. Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology, and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game works, Soccernomics reveals the often surprisingly counterintuitive truths about soccer. An essential guide for the 2010 World Cup, Soccernomics is a new way of looking at the worlds most popular game.

Author: Yang Mu File Type: pdf Two contemporary poets from Taiwan, Yang Mu (pen name for Wang Ching-hsien, b. 1940) and Lo Ching (pen name for Lo Ching-che, b. 1948), are represented in this bilingual edition of Chinese poetry ranging from the romantic to the postmodern. Both poets were involved in the selection of poems for this volume, the first edition in any language of their selected work. Their backgrounds, literary styles, and professional lifes are profiled and compared by translator Joseph R. Allen in critical essays that show how Yang and Lo represent basic directions in modern Chinese poetics and how they have contributed to the definition of modernism and postmodernism in China. The books organization reflects each poets method of composition. Yangs poems are chronologically arrangd, as his poetry tends to describe a narrative line that closely parallels his own biography. Los poems, which explore a world of concept and metaphor, are grouped by theme. Although each poet has a range of poetic voices, Yangs work can be considered the peak of high modernism in Chinese poetry, while Los more problematic work suggests the direction of new explorations in the art. In this way the two poets are mutually illuminating. Each group of poems is prefaced by an illustration that draws from another side of the poets intellectual life. For Yang, who is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington, these are excerpts from his academic work (written under the name C.H. Wang) in English. The poems by Lo, a well-known painter living in Taiwan, are illustrated by five of his own ink paintings. **

Author: Alexandre Kojève File Type: pdf The original text of this work was published in the French journal Revue dHistoire et de Philosophie Religieuses. This English translation presents Kojeves attempt to unify the religious philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov into a metaphysical system that Solovyov strived for but was never able to fully articulate in his lifetime. **Review This early text on Solovyov sheds light on the origins of Kojeves thinking and thus allows an English reader to better understand one of the key figures of European intellectual history. (Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University, USA) This short translation by Merlin and Pozdniakov is invaluable for our understanding of twentieth century philosophy and the role of Alexandre Kojeve. This critical explication of Solovyovs religious metaphysics shows Solovyovs connections to Russian Orthodoxy as well as his profound emphasis on Sophia, or Wisdom, in philosophical and theological terms. We can see the roots of Kojeves Russian background and certain seeds of the interpretations of Hegel that so profoundly shaped French philosophy. (Clayton Crockett, Professor and Director of Religious Studies, University of Central Arkansas, USA) Here is a text by a young Kojeve on the works of Vladimir Solovyov. This early philosophical piece bares traces discernible throughout his later works. The scope of this text is far reaching from the impossibility of thinking man and being without recourse to God, the rupture of Christianity, and the isolation of man, who in some regards is bound to divinity itself. (Juan Pablo Lucchelli, Research Associate, Universite Rennes 2, France) In addition to making Kojeves treatment of Solovyovs metaphysical system available in Englishof value in its own rightthe translators offer a minutely observant account of Kojeves method, offering insight into one of the twentieth centurys most influential philosophers. This volume is all the more significant for its apprehension of the rhetorical peculiarities of Kojeves critical exposition. Philosophy of religion stands to be enriched by such attention to style. (Jeremy Biles, Assistant Professor, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA) With this long-overdue, and exigent, translation of Kojeves study, Merlin and Pozdniakov make a major contribution toward restoring an undeniable, if uneasy and conflicted, balance, with regard to the place and role of what Kojeve himself called religious metaphysics(and, more simply, the philosophy of religion) in the history of twentieth-century thought and one of his most significant figures. (Gil Anidjar, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Columbia University, USA) From the Back Cover The original text of this work was published in the French journal Revue dHistoire et de Philosophie Religieuses. This English translation presents Kojeves attempt to unify the religious philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov into a metaphysical system that Solovyov strived for but was never able to fully articulate in his lifetime.

Author: Peter N. Peregrine File Type: pdf A comprehensive overview of all of human history from two million years ago to the historic period. Prepared under the auspices and with the support of the Human Relations Area Files and an internationally distinguished advisory board and edited by Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, the encyclopedia is organised regionally with entries on each major archaeological tradition written by noted experts in the field. The entries follow a standard format and employ comparable units of description and analysis, making them easy to use and compare.