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Book Synopsis Metamorphosis by : Alvin Silverstein
Download or read book Metamorphosis written by Alvin Silverstein and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy-to-read book offers a well-illustrated look at how some baby creatures develop from a larval stage into adults that bear no resemblance to their former selves.
Book Synopsis Ovidian Transformations by : Philip Hardie
Download or read book Ovidian Transformations written by Philip Hardie and published by Cambridge Philological Society. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important collection of essays on Ovid's Metamorphoses and its reception.
Download or read book Televisuality written by John T Caldwell and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the "decline" of network television in the face of cable programming was an institutional crisis of television history, John Caldwell's classic volume Televisuality reveals that this decline spawned a flurry of new production initiatives to reassert network authority. Television in the 1980s hyped an extensive array of exhibitionist practices to raise the prime-time marquee above the multi-channel flow. Televisuality demonstrates the cultural logic of stylistic exhibitionism in everything from prestige series (Northern Exposure) and "loss-leader" event-status programming (War and Remembrance) to lower "trash" and "tabloid" forms (Pee-Wee's Playhouse and reality TV). Caldwell shows how "import-auteurs" like Oliver Stone and David Lynch were stylized for prime time as videographics packaged and tamed crisis news coverage. By drawing on production experience and critical and cultural analysis, and by tying technologies to aesthetics and ideology, Televisuality is a powerful call for desegregation of theory and practice in media scholarship and an end to the willful blindness of "high theory."
Book Synopsis Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations by : Harry N. K. Odamtten
Download or read book Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations written by Harry N. K. Odamtten and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished by its multidisciplinary dexterity, this book is a masterfully woven reinterpretation of the life, travels, and scholarship of Edward W. Blyden, arguably the most influential Black intellectual of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces Blyden’s various moments of intellectual transformation through the multiple lenses of ethnicity, race, religion, and identity in the historical context of Atlantic exchanges, the Back-to-Africa movement, colonialism, and the global Black intellectual movement. In this book Blyden is shown as an African public intellectual who sought to reshape ideas about Africa circulating in the Atlantic world. The author also highlights Blyden’s contributions to different public spheres in Europe, in the Jewish Diaspora, in the Muslim and Christian world of West Africa, and among Blacks in the United States. Additionally, this book places Blyden at the pinnacle of Afropublicanism in order to emphasize his public intellectualism, his rootedness in the African historical experience, and the scholarship he produced about Africa and the African Diaspora. As Blyden is an important contributor to African studies, among other disciplines, this volume makes for critical scholarly reading.
Book Synopsis Transformations of a Genre by : Ralph Cohen
Download or read book Transformations of a Genre written by Ralph Cohen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to orchestrate “a generic reconstitution of literary studies” based on a comprehensive theory of genre and generic transformation. Taking “An Excellent Ballad of George Barnwel,” a seventeenth-century broadside of sex and greed, Ralph Cohen analyzes the generic transformations—including Addison’s ballad criticism in The Spectator, The London Merchant, Percy’s ballad editing in Reliques, and Barnwell. A Novel—in which this particular ballad exhibits remarkable continuity over the next four centuries, culminating with his personal re-formation; what was considered non-literary criticism becomes literary. This unique literary history reconceives narrative as a component of genre rather than a genre itself, demonstrates the ineluctably mixed nature of genres and the literary nature of our humanness, and analyzes the shifting generic contexts for interpretation and gender relations. Incorporating theory consciousness into the literary genre he is regenerating, Cohen offers a brilliant example of how future literary histories might be written.
Download or read book The Vertue Method written by Shona Vertue and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionise the way you approach fitness with yoga expert and celebrity trainer Shona Vertue - in just 28 days! 'Shona changed my perspective on yoga. Working with her made my aches and pains after playing disappear. She is the best.' - David Beckham Are you someone who has tried every fitness class out there, but nothing has ever really stuck? Or perhaps you can run a 10k but can barely touch your toes? Heard lifting weights is good, but feel lost in the gym? Keen to calm your racing mind and get the focus you need to train? Shona Vertue's 28-day reset plan will revolutionise the way you approach fitness. Her groundbreaking three-in-one method features a blend of resistance training with weights to build strength, yoga to aid flexibility and lengthen muscles, and a positive, mindful approach to exercise, combined with delicious, nourishing recipes. Get in the best shape of your life, both physically and mentally, and feel stronger, healthier and more flexible - in just 28 days. Features photos of every exercise, complete with food plan and nutritious, energising recipes.
Book Synopsis Homer, His Art and His World by : Joachim Latacz
Download or read book Homer, His Art and His World written by Joachim Latacz and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to great success in Europe, Joachim Latacz's bookHomer, His Art and His Worldis now widely available to an English-speaking audience.Homer, His Art and His Worldtakes Homer out of the preserve of specialists, and carefully outlines the historical background to Homer and his poetry. Current perspectives on the Iliad and the Odyssey are explained clearly, and narrow philological questions are deliberately avoided. Written in an accessible style for lovers of Homer and all who would like to be, Latacz's book brings Homer closer to the modern audience as a poet, and not as a historical source.Homer, His Art and His Worldincludes sections on the relevance of Homer to modern issues in literary criticism; on contemporary culture and history, including the Mycenaean era; the renaissance of the eighth century B.C.E.; and the poetical context of Homer's work; as well as specific chapters on theIliadandOdysseyand features peculiar to each poem. Homer, His Art and His Worldwill be of interest to a broad range of readers, including those interested in the literary history of Western culture. Joachim Latacz is Professor of Greek at the University of Basel, Switzerland. James P. Holoka is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Eastern Michigan University.
Book Synopsis The Transformation of Hera by : Joan V. O'Brien
Download or read book The Transformation of Hera written by Joan V. O'Brien and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...an exciting and meticulously detailed exploration of this most enigmatic of Olympian goddesses'-Richard Martin, Princeton University
Book Synopsis Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity by : Ian Fielding
Download or read book Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity written by Ian Fielding and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid could be considered the original poet of late antiquity. In his exile poetry, he depicts a world in which Rome has become a distant memory, a community accessible only through his imagination. This, Ovid claimed, was a transformation as remarkable as any he had recounted in his Metamorphoses. Ian Fielding's book shows how late antique Latin poets referred to Ovid's experiences of isolation and estrangement as they reflected on the profound social and cultural transformations taking place in the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries AD. There are detailed new readings of texts by major figures such as Ausonius, Paulinus of Nola, Boethius and Venantius Fortunatus. For these authors, Fielding emphasizes, Ovid was not simply a stylistic model, but an important intellectual presence. Ovid's fortunes in late antiquity reveal that poetry, far from declining into irrelevance, remained a powerful mode of expression in this fascinating period.
Book Synopsis The Book of Transformations by : Mark Charan Newton
Download or read book The Book of Transformations written by Mark Charan Newton and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corrupt politics and surprising superheroes, The Book of Transformations is the third book in Mark Charan Newton's Legends of the Red Sun fantasy series. A new and corrupt Emperor seeks to rebuild the ancient structures of Villjamur. But when the stranger Shalev arrives, empowering a militant underground movement, crime and terror become the rule. Emperor Urtica calls upon cultists to help construct a group to eliminate those involved with the uprising, and calm the populace. But there’s more to these Villjamur Knights than just phenomenal skills and abilities - each have a secret that, if exposed, could destroy everything they represent. Investigator Fulcrom of the Villjamur Inquisition is given the unenviable task of managing the Knights’, but his own skills are tested when a mysterious priest, who has travelled from beyond the Empire’s edge, seeks his help. The priest’s existence threatens the church, and his quest promises to unweave the fabric of the world. Then in a distant corner of the Empire, the enigmatic cultist Dartun Súr steps back into this world, having witnessed horrors beyond his imagination. Broken, altered, he and the remnants of his cultist order are heading back to Villjamur. All eyes turn to the Sanctuary City, for Villjamur’s ancient legends are about to be shattered.
Book Synopsis Managing Agricultural Greenhouse Gases by : Mark Liebig
Download or read book Managing Agricultural Greenhouse Gases written by Mark Liebig and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global climate change is a natural process that currently appears to be strongly influenced by human activities, which increase atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG). Agriculture contributes about 20% of the world’s global radiation forcing from carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, and produces 50% of the methane and 70% of the nitrous oxide of the human-induced emission. Managing Agricultural Greenhouse Gases synthesizes the wealth of information generated from the GRACEnet (Greenhouse gas Reduction through Agricultural Carbon Enhancement network) effort with contributors from a variety of backgrounds, and reports findings with important international applications. Frames responses to challenges associated with climate change within the geographical domain of the U.S., while providing a useful model for researchers in the many parts of the world that possess similar ecoregions Covers not only soil C dynamics but also nitrous oxide and methane flux, filling a void in the existing literature Educates scientists and technical service providers conducting greenhouse gas research, industry, and regulators in their agricultural research by addressing the issues of GHG emissions and ways to reduce these emissions Synthesizes the data from top experts in the world into clear recommendations and expectations for improvements in the agricultural management of global warming potential as an aggregate of GHG emissions
Book Synopsis Graph Transformation, Specifications, and Nets by : Reiko Heckel
Download or read book Graph Transformation, Specifications, and Nets written by Reiko Heckel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume pays tribute to the scientific achievements of Hartmut Ehrig, who passed away in March 2016. The contributions represent a selection from a symposium, held in October 2016 at TU Berlin, commemorating Hartmut’ s life and work as well as other invited papers in the areas he was active in. These areas include Graph Transformation, Model Transformation, Concurrency Theory, in particular Petri Nets, Algebraic Specification, and Category Theory in Computer Science.
Book Synopsis The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West by : Ewan Harrison
Download or read book The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West written by Ewan Harrison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the paradox of the worldwide spread of democracy and capitalism in an era of Western decline. The rest is overtaking the West as Samuel Huntington predicted, but because it is adopting Western institutions. The emerging global order offers unprecedented opportunities for the expansion of peace, prosperity, and freedom. Yet this is not the 'end of history', but the beginning of a post-Western future for the democratic project. The major conflicts of the future will occur between the established democracies of the West and emerging democracies in the developing world as they seek the benefits and recognition associated with membership of the democratic community. This 'clash of democratizations' will define world politics.
Book Synopsis The Environmental Documentary by : John A. Duvall
Download or read book The Environmental Documentary written by John A. Duvall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Environmental Documentary provides the first extensive coverage of the most important environmental films of the decade, including their approach to their topics and their impacts on public opinion and political debate. While documentaries with themes of environmental activism date back at least to Pare Lorenz's films of the 1930's, no previous decade has produced the number and quality of films that engage environmental issues from an activist viewpoint. The convergence of high profile issues like climate change, fossil fuel depletion, animal abuse, and corporate malfeasance has combined with the miniaturization of high quality recording equipment and the expansion of documentary programming, to produce an unprecedented number of important and influential documentary productions. The text examines the processes of production and distribution that have produced this explosion in documentaries. The films range from a high-profile Hollywood production with theatrical distribution like An Inconvenient Truth, to shorter independently produced films like The End of Suburbia that have reached a small audience of activists through video distribution, interviews with many of the filmmakers, and word of mouth.
Book Synopsis The Isthmus of Corinth by : David Pettegrew
Download or read book The Isthmus of Corinth written by David Pettegrew and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrow neck of land that joins the Peloponnese with the Greek mainland was central to the fortunes of the city of Corinth and the history of Greece from the classical Greek period to the end of the ancient world. Corinth was perfectly situated for monitoring land traffic between Athens and Sparta and overland movements between eastern and western seas. David Pettegrew’s book offers a new history of the Isthmus of Corinth from the Romans’ initial presence in Greece during the Hellenistic era to the epic transformations of the Empire in late antiquity. A new interpretation of the extensive literary evidence outlines how the Isthmus became the most famous land bridge of the ancient world, central to maritime interests of Corinth, and a medium for Rome’s conquest, annexation, and administration in the Greek east. A fresh synthesis of archaeological evidence and the results of a recent intensive survey on the Isthmus describe the physical development of fortifications, settlements, harbors, roads, and sanctuaries in the region. The author includes chapters on the classical background of the concept isthmos, the sacking of Corinth and the defeat of the Achaean League, colonization in the Late Roman Republic, the Emperor Nero’s canal project and its failure, the growth of Roman settlement in the territory, and the end of athletic contests at Isthmia. The Isthmus of Corinth offers a powerful case study in the ways that shifting Mediterranean worlds transformed a culturally significant landscape over the course of a millennium.
Book Synopsis The Causality of Time by : Johnnathan Strawthorne
Download or read book The Causality of Time written by Johnnathan Strawthorne and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a story of antiquity forgotten by most people of this twenty first century however the hopes, dreams and aspirations of the characters are no less poignant for today. Has 3,000 years truly changed the nature of man? Have the questions we all ask ourselves been answered? This story revolves around a man given the ability to live forever, never get sick or old and regenerates his tissue if catastrophically damaged. As time moves forward he witnesses the frailties of men and women with all of their love and hate, selfishness and selflessness and their ability to transcend above the greed and savage violence to actions of benevolence and creative will. The over powering and continuous struggle for freedom and liberty is at the core of the story. The main character pondering the inconsistencies of mankind and the futility of their lives and actions. All of this going on to a backdrop of alien intelligence and intervention.
Book Synopsis Receptions and Transformations of the Bible by : Kirsten Jensen
Download or read book Receptions and Transformations of the Bible written by Kirsten Jensen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes of Religion and Normativity present the latest research in three central fields. Volume II deals with Reception and Transformation of the Bible as it occurs in modern literature (in both Danish and English), philosophy (including Kierkegaard), and Jewish and Christian religious practice. The researchers base their work on the theories and methods of the study of religion, philosophy, theology and literature.
