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Book SynopsisThe puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. In this book, the author contemplates the fascination of these unsettling objects - objects that are also actors and images of life.Trade Review"No one better illustrates the evolution of academic literary criticism into poetry than Kenneth Gross.... He dreams and muses, offering endless insights into the strange and archaic world of puppets, inanimate things breathed to life. This is a book of literary mysticism, rich with accrued culture yet never weighed down by it." (New York Times) "You have in your hands a uniquely beautiful book, a book of uncommon brilliance and lucidity. It is as wondrous as the theaters of marvels it describes; its leaps and mutabilities provide a thrilling adventure in imaginative thinking. 'How are we devoured by the things we make?' it asks. 'And when might that devouring save us?' My copy burns brightly on my favorite shelf, beside The Poetics of Space, Eccentric Spaces, and In Praise of Shadows.... A treasure!" (Rikki Ducornet, author of Netsuke and The Fan-Maker's Inquisition)"

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Book SynopsisFirst published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume "Bonaventura," this is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, in which the narrator and anti-hero is not Bonaventura, but a night watchman named Kreuzgang, a failed poet, actor, and puppeteer who claims to be the spawn of the devil himself.Trade Review"But be that as it may, poetizing nowadays is everywhere still in a critical state, because there are so few deranged people anymore and such a surplus of rational ones is on hand that they can, out of their own means, occupy all specialties, even poetry. A sheer madman like me finds no employment under such circumstances, and therefore I'm merely skirting poetry now; that is, I have become a humorist, for which, as night watchman, I have the greatest leisure." (from "Second Nightwatch")"Table of ContentsPreface Introduction THE NIGHTWATCHES Nightwatch 1. The dying freethinker Nightwatch 2. The devil's apparition Nightwatch 3. Stony Crispin's discourse on the chapter de adulteriis Nightwatch 4. Woodcuts; along with the life of a madman as a marionette play Nightwatch 5. The brothers Nightwatch 6. Doomsday Nightwatch 7. Self-portraiture - Funeral oration on a child's birthday - The itinerant minstrel - Suit for slander Nightwatch 8. The poet's apotheosis - Farewell letter to life - Hanswurst's prologue to the tragedy Man Nightwatch 9. The madhouse - Monologue of the insane creator of the world - The reasonable fool Nightwatch 10. The winter's night - Love's dream - The white and the crimson bride - The nun's burial - Run through the musical scale Nightwatch 11. Premonitions of one born blind - The vow - The first sunrise Nightwatch 12. The solar eagle - The immortal wig - The false pigtail - Apology of life - The comedian Nightwatch 13. Dithyramb on spring - The title without book - The invalid home of the gods - The backside of Venus Nightwatch 14. The love of two fools Nightwatch 15. The marionette theater Nightwatch 16. The Bohemian woman - The man with second sight - The father's grave Afterword: Authorship and Reception Notes Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExplores the enterprise of philanthropy - its assumptions, aspirations, and achievements. This work brings together key texts that can provide guidance to donors, trustees and professional staff of foundations, and leaders of nonprofit organizations. It seek to illuminate fundamental questions about the idea and practice of philanthropy.Trade ReviewThis book is a sequel-of-sorts to Kass' highly successful first edited anthology of writings about philanthropy, The Perfect Gift, which gained sales outside the usual academic audience. This volume includes a selection of readings from the classics to the contemporary, and its breadth encompasses political speeches, foundation documents and the words of poets and novelists. The extracts are organised within five themes: goals and intentions; gifts, donors, recipients; bequests and legacies, effectiveness, accountability; and philanthropic leadership. It is the sort of book that can be dipped into for inspiration and stimulation. * Philanthropy UK *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Goals and Intentions2. Gifts, Donors, Recipients; Grants, Grantors, Grantees3. Bequests and Legacies4. Effectiveness5. Accountability6. Philanthropic LeadershipIndex

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Book SynopsisDietrich Bonhoeffer, best known for his involvement in the anti-Nazi resistance, was one of the 20th century's important theologians. His ethics have been a source of guidance and inspiration for men and women in the face of evil. This title presents Bonhoeffer's thought as a model of Christian thinking that can help shape a religious philosophy.Trade ReviewThis essay collection explores relationships between the theology of 20th-century Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whom the Nazis executed for his participation in armed struggle against Hitler, and philosophy. Some essays explore the philosophical roots of Bonhoeffer's project and the ways he employed philosophy to do theological work or corrected philosophical assumptions with theological ends. Other essays show the ways Bonhoeffer's theology, especially concerning interactions between human beings, resonates with the philosophy of later Continental philosophers such as Emmanuel Levinas. This collection is insightful and its essays largely careful explorations. However, the essays are also works of fairly technical philosophy and theology that would be most useful to specialists in the field and graduate students working on original research. Libraries with faculty who regularly teach classes on Bonhoeffer or other topics in philosophical theology may wish to consider this volume. Despite its outstanding essays, it is probably too narrow and specialized to be useful in collections that do not support significant programs in theology. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty. -- ChoiceA. W. Klink, Duke University, March 2010"This collection is insightful and its essays largely careful explorations....Recommended. —Choice" —A.W. Klink, Duke University, March 2010"Bonhoeffer and Continental Thought... is an important contribution to the philosophical understanding and application of the thought of the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer." —Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies"Long before the authors of the Radical Orthodoxy movement sought to move beyond the hegemony of secular reason and the false humility of theology, Bonhoeffer was pressing these very same issues." —Barry Harvey, Baylor University"After decades of focusing on Bonhoeffer's theological oeuvre, recent Bonhoeffer scholarship is finally discovering the philosophical richness that has shaped Bonhoeffer's theology in the first place. This volume is a praiseworthy effort in this respect." —Modern Theology"This is an outstanding collection of essays that aims to read and introduce Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a philosophical theologin." —Heythrop JournalTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Cruciform PhilosophyBrian Gregor and Jens ZimmermannPart 1. Bonhoeffer on the Limits of Philosophy1. Ratio in se ipsam incurva: Bonhoeffer on the Uses and Limits of PhilosophyChristiane Tietz2. Bonhoeffer, This-worldliness, and the Limits of PhenomenologyPaul D. JanzPart 2. Bonhoeffer vis-à-vis Nietzsche and Heidegger3. Aristokratisches Christentum: On Bonhoeffer and NietzscheFrits de Lange4."Who Stands Fast?" Do Philosophers Make Good Résistants?Jean Greisch5. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Heidegger: Two Different Visions of HumanityJens ZimmermannPart 3. Regarding "Religionless Christianity"6. Philosophical Influences on Bonhoeffer's "Religionless Christianity"Ralf K. Wüstenberg7. The Non-Religious Interpretation of Christianity in BonhoefferPaul Ricoeur8. Bonhoeffer's "Religious Clothes": The Naked Man, the Secret, and What We HearKevin HartPart 4. Bonhoeffer on Ethics and the Eschaton9. Bonhoeffer's "Christian Social Philosophy": Conscience, Alterity, and the Moment of ResponsibilityBrian Gregor10. At the Recurrent End of the Unending: Bonhoeffer's Eschatology of the PenultimateJohn Panteleimon ManoussakisAppendix: The Penultimate and the PrecursorList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisPlaces Levinas in the context of American philosophyTrade Review[This] book is recommended for anyone interested in a new reading of Levinas as well as the benefit of applying pragmatism to phenomenology. * American Journal of Theology and Philosophy *Craig's book is most welcome, as it puts James into conversation with one of the most important continental (post-)phenomenological thinkers of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Levinas. These two philosophers might seem to be very different, and their divergences in writing styles, for instance, cannot be denied; yet, Craig shows convincingly that they do share a number of important ideas, many of which should make us rethink the very nature of ethics (and philosophy). * Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society *Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Insomnia2. Faces3. Experience4. Emotion5. Poetry6. PaintingAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe first ethnographic book devoted to lowrider custom car culture puts a new spin on an aesthetic and mechanical achievement through which Mexican Americans alter the urban landscape and make a place for themselves in an often segregated society.Trade ReviewThe book is thus an example of a good, systematic analysis of spatial phenomena. The book ultimately explores the myriad ways that these cars can be experienced as spatial phenomena, and how such realities create a compelling visual culture. * American Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Cruising Spaces Chapter Two. Inside Out: The Ambivalent Aesthetics of Lowrider Interiors Chapter Three. Auto Bodies Chapter Four. Work: The Producer as Author Chapter Five. Neither Gangsters nor Santitos Conclusion Notes Reference List Index

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Book SynopsisBorn in 1852 in the last years of serfdom, Vera Figner came of age as Imperial Russian society was being rocked by the massive upheaval that culminated in the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. At first champion of populist causes and champion of women's higher education, Figner later became a leader of the terrorist party The People's Will.Trade ReviewHartnett clearly depicts her subject's gradual transformation from a severe ideologue into a revered martyr whose 'suffering became enshrined,' and the book revivifies a legendary socialist whose violent extremism evolved into humanitarianism on behalf of political prisoners and exiles sentenced to hard labor. * Publishers Weekly *Hartnett is an able storyteller, and the chapters portraying Figner's involvement in the People's Will, her prolonged ordeal in Schlisselburg, and her harrowing experiences during the 1917 revolution and Civil War make riveting reading. Scholars will benefit from this more expansive and thorough treatment of Figner's astonishing career in Soviet Russia, when her youthful defiance had mellowed to carefully calibrated accommodation with and resistance to a regime that was in part her legacy. * The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review *Although Figner was a famous and politically active figure throughout her life, historians have overlooked her part in the events of 1917 and after. Hartnett's biography is an excellent and comprehensive effort to correct this situation, but there is always the danger that once one book has been written about a prominent woman, no further works are published. . . . The greatest achievement of Hartnett's impressive work would be that it encourages further study of a woman who did not simply survive the Revolution, but lived it. * Slavonic & East European Review *This interesting and well-written biography . . . should be recommended for courses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian history. It is a valuable addition to what remains quite a limited selection of accessible English-language monographs on the nineteenth-century revolutionary movement in Russia. * Slavic Review *The Defiant Life of Vera Figner is a valuable contribution to our understanding of an important Russian political figure and of broader political developments. * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsTable of Contents1. In the Twilight of a Fading Age 2. Age of Consciousness 3. Pioneers Diverted 4. Town and Country 5. The Tsar's Death Sentence 6. Revolutionary Iconography 7. Transformation 8. Life and Death 9. Resurrection in Exile 10. An Old Revolutionary in a New Revolution 11. Revolutionary Survivor

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Book SynopsisIntends to bear on a variety of ancient and modern masterpieces - Homer's "Odyssey", the Bible, Fielding, Trollope, Balzac, Jane Austen, Henry James, and Faulkner, among others.Table of ContentsChapter One What is Exposition? An Essay in Temporal Delimitation Chapter Two Exposition and Order of Presentation: Some Preliminary Notes Chapter Three Delayed and Distributed Exposition in the Odyssey: The Dynamics of Narrative Interest Chapter Four Order of Presentation, Delayed and Distributed Exposition, and Strategies of Rhetorical Control Chapter Five The Rhetoric of Anticipatory Caution: First Impressions in oFirst ImpressionsO and the Poetics of Jane Austen Chapter Six Retardatory Structure, Expositional Suspension, and the Detective Story Chapter Seven A Plea for Preliminary and Concentrated Exposition: The Cases of Trollope and Balzac Chapter Eight Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (1): Varieties of Omniscient Narration Chapter Nine Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (2): Restricted and Self-Restricted Narration Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAn excellent reference by leading performers in the field.Trade ReviewI would recommend this book to all who have an interest in medieval music, thought and culture.May 2004 * Early Music *Table of ContentsPart 1: RepertoireI. Sacred 1. Chant 2. Organum 3. Motet & Cantilena 4. Polyphonic Mass OrdinaryII. Non-Liturgical Monophony 5. Introduction 6. Latin 7. Occitan 8. French 9. Iberian 10. Sephardic 11. Italian 12. German 13. English III. Lyric Forms post 1300 14. French Ars Nova 15. Italian Ars Nova 16. Ars Subtilior 17. Early Du FayIV. Drama 18. Litugical 19. VernacularPart 2: Voices & InstrumentsV. The Voice in the Middle Ages 20. Poetics as Technique VI. Bowed Strings 21a. Vielle before 1300 21b. Vielle after 1300 22. Rebec 23. SymphoniaVII. Plucked Strings 24a. Harp 24b. Imagining the Early Medieval Harp 24c. Playing the Late Medieval Harp 25. Lute, Gittern, & CitoleVIII.Winds 26. Flutes 27. Reeds & Brass 28. BagpipeIX. Keyboard & Related Types 29. Organ 30. String Keyboards 31. Psaltery & DulcimerX. Percussion 32. PercussionXI. Instrumental Usage 33. Untexted Repertoire 34. Improvisation & Accompaniment before 1300 35. Ornamentation & Improvisation after 1300Part 3: Theory & PracticeXII. Essential Theory for Performers 36. The Gamut, Solmization & Modes 37. Musica ficta 38. Proportion 39. Notation & Editions 40. Tuning Select DiscographySelect BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSmart, funny, often irreverent observations on 150 years of science fiction writing, from a literary master. This book brings together, from a quarter century of writing, great essays by the celebrated writer Thomas Disch from such diverse places as ""The Nation"", ""New York Times Book Review"", ""Atlantic Monthly"", ""Fantasy"", and ""Twilight Zone"".

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Book SynopsisFollows grief across generations and oceans to reveal a language of suffering understood and shared across diverse early American communities.

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Book SynopsisOffers an ecological critique to the history of sound media technologies in order to amplify the environmental undertones in sound studies and turn up the audio in discussions of greening the media. By looking at early and neglected forms of sound technology, the author seeks to create a revisionist, ecologically aware history of sound media.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Green Discs 2. Birdland Melodies 3. Subterranean Signals 4. Radio's Dark Ecology The Run-Out Groove Index

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Book SynopsisThe Millowners' Association Building in Ahmedabad, designed by Le Corbusier and completed in 1954, has rarely been published, but is nevertheless considered an important milestone in the architect's work. In particular, the building influenced his later work, such as the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard. This book documents the building and relates it to Le Corbusier's theoretical work, especially Vers une architecture. The significance of key figures such as Paul Valéry and John Ruskin for Le Corbusier's work is explained. Characteristic design elements such as the promenade architecturale and the use of brise-soleils are explored. In addition to numerous scaled drawings, newly produced models clarify the most important design aspects of the building.

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Book SynopsisSpiders are among the most diverse groups of terrestrial invertebrates, yet they are among the least studied and understood. Suitable for curious naturalists who want to understand this ubiquitous and ecologically critical component of our biosphere, this introduction to spider biology and anatomy explains spider relationships.Trade Review"People with an interest in North American spiders should enjoy this book." -- Ian Paulsen Birdbooker Report/The Guardian "This is a fabulous book, worthy of a place on the bookshelves of any arachnological library." -- David Penney British Arachnological Society Newsletter "High quality." "We only wish we had had access to this book when we were first learning the sometimes difficult art of spider identification." -- Paula E. Cushing American Entomologist "A critical resource for curious naturalists." Northeastern "Bradley's admiration of and attention to these animals is evident... The result is not only a remarkable compendium of information about conspicuous spiders in North America, but a gateway to their study and appreciation." -- Paula E. Cushing American EntomologistTable of ContentsPREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FINDING, STUDYING, AND IDENTIFYING SPIDERS SPIDERS: AN INTRODUCTION FINDING AND STUDYING SPIDERS IDENTIFYING SPIDERS KEYS TO FAMILIES WITHIN GROUPS UNDER DEBRIS GROUP SPACE-FILLING WEB GROUP SHEET WEAVERS GROUP ORB-SHAPED WEB GROUP FUNNEL-SHAPED WEB GROUP SIX-EYED SPIDERS GROUP JUMPING SPIDERS GROUP CRABLIKE SPIDERS GROUP SURFACE HUNTERS GROUP GROUND HUNTERS GROUP FOLIAGE HUNTERS GROUP MYGALOMORPH GROUP TINY SPIDERS GROUP COLOR PLATES SECTION BETWEEN PAGES 60 AND 61 SPIDER ACCOUNTS FAMILY AGELENIDAE * FUNNEL WEAVERS FAMILY AMAUROBIIDAE * HACKLEDMESH WEAVERS FAMILY AMPHINECTIDAE * AMPHINECTIDS FAMILY ANAPIDAE * GROUND ORBWEAVERS FAMILY ANTRODIAETIDAE * FOLDINGDOOR TRAPDOOR SPIDERS FAMILY ANYPHAENIDAE * GHOST SPIDERS FAMILY ARANEIDAE * ORBWEAVERS FAMILY ATYPIDAE * PURSEWEB SPIDERS FAMILY CAPONIIDAE * BRIGHT LUNGLESS SPIDERS FAMILY CLUBIONIDAE * SAC SPIDERS FAMILY CORINNIDAE * ANTMIMIC SPIDERS FAMILY CTENIDAE * WANDERING SPIDERS FAMILY CTENIZIDAE * TRAPDOOR SPIDERS FAMILY CYBAEIDAE * SOFT SPIDERS FAMILY CYRTAUCHENIIDAE (NOW EUCTENIZIDAE) * WAFERLID TRAPDOOR SPIDERS FAMILY DEINOPIDAE * OGREFACED SPIDERS FAMILY DESIDAE * DESIDS FAMILY DICTYNIDAE * MESHWEAVERS FAMILY DIGUETIDAE * DESERTSHRUB SPIDERS FAMILY DIPLURIDAE * FUNNELWEB SPIDERS FAMILY DYSDERIDAE * WOODLOUSE SPIDERS FAMILY FILISTATIDAE * CREVICE WEAVERS FAMILY GNAPHOSIDAE * STEALTHY GROUND SPIDERS FAMILY HAHNIIDAE * COMBTAILED SPIDERS FAMILY HERSILIIDAE * LONGSPINNERET SPIDERS FAMILY HOMALONYCHIDAE * DUSTY DESERT SPIDERS FAMILY HYPOCHILIDAE * LAMPSHADE WEAVERS FAMILY LEPTONETIDAE * MIDGET CAVE SPIDERS FAMILY LINYPHIIDAE * SHEETWEB WEAVERS FAMILY LIOCRANIDAE * SPINYLEGGED SAC SPIDERS FAMILY LYCOSIDAE * WOLF SPIDERS FAMILY MECICOBOTHRIIDAE * MIDGET FUNNELWEB TARANTULAS FAMILY MIMETIDAE * PIRATE SPIDERS FAMILY MITURGIDAE * PROWLING SPIDERS FAMILY MYSMENIDAE * DWARF COBWEB WEAVERS FAMILY NEMESIIDAE * WISHBONE SPIDERS FAMILY NESTICIDAE * CAVE COBWEB SPIDERS FAMILY OCHYROCERATIDAE * MIDGET GROUND WEAVERS FAMILY OECOBIIDAE * FLATMESH WEAVERS FAMILY OONOPIDAE * GOBLIN SPIDERS FAMILY OXYOPIDAE * LYNX SPIDERS FAMILY PHILODROMIDAE * RUNNING CRAB SPIDERS FAMILY PHOLCIDAE * CELLAR SPIDERS FAMILY PIMOIDAE * LARGE HAMMOCKWEB SPIDERS FAMILY PISAURIDAE * NURSERY WEB SPIDERS FAMILY PLECTREURIDAE * SPURLIPPED SPIDERS FAMILY PRODIDOMIDAE * PRODIDOMIDS FAMILY SALTICIDAE * JUMPING SPIDERS FAMILY SCYTODIDAE * SPITTING SPIDERS FAMILY SEGESTRIIDAE * TUBEWEB SPIDERS FAMILY SELENOPIDAE * FLATTIES FAMILY SICARIIDAE * SIXEYED BROWN SPIDERS FAMILY SPARASSIDAE * HUNTSMAN SPIDERS FAMILY SYMPHYTOGNATHIDAE * DWARF ORBWEAVERS FAMILY TELEMIDAE * LONGLEGGED CAVE SPIDERS FAMILY TENGELLIDAE * TENGELLIDS FAMILY TETRAGNATHIDAE * LONGJAWED ORBWEAVERS FAMILY THERAPHOSIDAE * TARANTULAS FAMILY THERIDIIDAE * COBWEB WEAVERS FAMILY THERIDIOSOMATIDAE * RAY ORBWEAVERS FAMILY THOMISIDAE * CRAB SPIDERS FAMILY TITANOECIDAE * ROCK WEAVERS FAMILY TRECHALEIDAE * LONGLEGGED WATER SPIDERS FAMILY ULOBORIDAE * HACKLED ORBWEAVERS FAMILY ZODARIIDAE * ZODARIIDS FAMILY ZORIDAE * ZORIDS FAMILY ZOROCRATIDAE * ZOROCRATIDS FAMILY ZOROPSIDAE * ZOROPSIDS GLOSSARY REFERENCES INDEX

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Book SynopsisScholars have long argued that early Hasidic teachings introduced a psychological dimension to kabbalistic traditions and revitalized modern Judaism. Focused on the inner soul, Hasidism encouraged worshippers to experience joy and delight through their enthusiastic practices. In this new work grounded in the historical study of emotions, Leore Sachs-Shmueli shows that Hasidic teachers and preachers also nurtured and even promoted the negative emotions of yirah, an emotional cluster that encompasses fear, apprehension, anxiety, and awe. Exploring their roots in classical texts of Kabbalah, including the Zohar and works of Safed Kabbalah, Sachs-Shmueli demonstrates how early Hasidic masters like the Baal Shem Tov, the circle of the Maggid of Mezhrich, Shneur Zalman of Liadi, and R. Nachman of Bratslav deliberately cultivated a tense emotional culture through the mental guidelines in their texts. Through an emphasis on God-fearing and the fear of sin, they motivated followers of the new movement to attain the mystical ideal while simultaneously fostering a social community devoted to divine worship according to Jewish law, in the face of persecution and secularization. For readers interested in Jewish mysticism and Hasidism, Sacred Emotions argues that negative emotions serve as crucial catalysts for intensifying religious devotion and shaped the rise and cohesion of the Hasidic movement.

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Book SynopsisThe Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance. This book incorporates twenty-eight new lines in the first Hymn to Dionysos, along with expanded notes, a new preface, and an enhanced bibliography.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Map Introduction 1. Dionysos 2. Demeter 3. Apollo 4. Hermes 5. Aphrodite 6. Aphrodite 7. Dionysos 8. Ares 9. Artemis 10. Aphrodite 11. Athena 12. Hera 13. Demeter 14. Mother of the Gods 15. Herakles 16. Asklepios 17. Dioskouroi 18. Hermes 19. Pan 20. Hephaistos 21. Apollo 22. Poseidon 23. Zeus 24. Hestia 25. The Muses, Apollo, and Zeus 26. Dionysos 27. Artemis 28. Athena 29. Hestia and Hermes 30. Gaia 31. Helios 32. Selene 33. Dioskouroi 34. Xenoi Notes Select Bibliography Glossary

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Book SynopsisWhat can Aboriginal filmmaking reveal about Indigenous presence and futures? The product of years of embedded fieldwork within Indigenous film crews in Northwestern Australia, Dreaming Down the Track delves deeply into Aboriginal cinema as a transformative community process. It follows the social lives of projects throughout their production cycles, from planning and editing to screening, broadcasting, and after-images. Across its narrative sweep, this ethnography engages the film career of Kukatja elder Mark Moora to demonstrate the impact of filmmaking on how Aboriginal futures are collectively imagined and called forth. William Lempert highlights a series of awakenings through which Moora ultimately came to view cinema as a process for catalyzing his family's return to their home country of Mangkayi. This biographical media journey paints an intimate portrait of the inspiring possibilities and sobering limitations of Indigenous envisioning within settler states. Lempert traces how Moora's life and films convey a multiplicity of Aboriginal experiences across time and space, from colonial contact to contemporary life in communities like Balgo, including the continued governmental attempts to undermine them. Amid ongoing negotiations to establish the first treaties between Indigenous nations and Australian states, Dreaming Down the Track illustrates what is at stake in how AboriginalState relations are represented and understood, both within communities and for the broader public. Lempert stays true to Moora's insight that film can preserve community stories for generations to come, toward the aim of enacting sovereign futures.

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Book SynopsisThe French New Wave cinema is the most fascinating of all film movements, famous for its exuberance, daring, and avant-garde techniques. This work offers a look at the social, economic, and aesthetic mechanisms that shaped French film in the 1950s, as well as detailed studies of the important New Wave movies of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Book SynopsisCombines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. This work finds a balance between past and present and examines how dance practices are core identity and cultural creators.Trade ReviewA wonderful collage of enquiries and a remarkable view into the discourses of dance history and dance ethnography. - Mohd Anis Md Nor, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur ""Dancing from Past to Present stands alone as an entry to dance and ethnographic studies. An exemplary offering of interdisciplinary scholarship that deserves attention from historians and practitioners."" - Thomas DeFrantz, editor of Dancing Many Drums

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Book SynopsisIn 1999, Rabbi Steven Greenberg challenged this tradition when he became the first Orthodox rabbi ever to openly declare his homosexuality. Wrestling with God and Men is the product of Rabbi Greenberg's ten-year struggle to reconcile his two warring identities.

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Book SynopsisThe definitive guide for navigating todayâs credit agreementsTodayâs syndicated loan market and underlying credit agreements are far more complex than ever.  Since the global financial crisis, the art of corporate loan syndications, loan trading, and investing in this asset class have changed dramatically.  Lenders are more diverse,  borrowers more demanding, and regulations more stringent.  Consequently, the credit agreement has evolved, incorporating many new provisions and a host of revisions to existing ones.  The LSTAâs Complete Credit Agreement Guide brings you up to speed on todayâs credit agreements and helps you navigate these complex instruments. This comprehensive guide has been fully updated to address seven years of major changeâwhich has all but transformed the loan market as we knew it. It provides everything you need to address these new developments, including what to look for in large sponsor-driven dTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1: The Credit AgreementChapter 2: Commitments, Loans, and Letters of CreditChapter 3: Interest and FeesChapter 4: Amortization and MaturityChapter 5: Conditions PrecedentChapter 6: RepresentationsChapter 7: CovenantsChapter 8: Guarantees and SecurityChapter 9: Defaults and EnforcementChapter 10: Interlender, Voting and Agency Issues; Defaulting LendersChapter 11: Assignments and ParticipationsChapter 12: The BoilerplateChapter 13: Borrower RightsChapter 14: Regulatory DevelopmentsAppendix I Table of AuthoritiesAppendix II LSTA Model Credit Agreement ProvisionsAppendix III LSTA Form of Contractual Recognition ProvisionIndex

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Book SynopsisThe last writings of Antonin Artaud published in English and brought together in one edition for the first time. Artaud spent the last years of his life, from his incarceration in the psychiatric hospital of Rodez to the last month in freedom until his death in March 1948, working and writing. This collection includes numerous poems, radio works, texts on his drawings, vocal improvisations, letters, and fragments, some of which have never or only partially been published in English. Artaud's late writings intensify and accumulate the author's most urgent preoccupations: the transmutation of the human anatomy into a skeletal configuration without organs; the imminent threat from malevolent assassins to steal his semen and kill him; his hatred of psychiatry and all religions and the necessity for a new and insurgent creation of art, dance, and vocal cacophony. Including additional new translations, this issue edited by Stephen Barber finishes the project by American poet and translator Clayton Eshleman and his collaborators to translate and publish these works in English in their entirety.

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Book SynopsisPhotography and the Making of the Nazi Racial Community examines the role of photography in the construction of the Nazi Volksgemeinschaft, a racially exclusive community, during the Third Reich. Julie R. Keresztes explores how the dictatorship promoted photography for those who belonged to that community and excluded Jews from the practice. As Nazi officials dispossessed Jewish photographers and robbed them of their equipment, studios, and eventually their lives, they made photography more accessible to non-Jewish Germans. But they inadvertently created spaces for photography to be used as resistance and revenge in concentration camps, where forced laborers salvaged photographs that exposed the extermination of Europe's Jews. As the victims of Nazi persecution used photography to gather evidence of the Holocaust, German troops and their families used photography to portray themselves as dutiful members of the Volksgemeinschaft rather than show the reality of war and genocide. Ultimate

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Book SynopsisKatarzyna Pieprzak examines how contemporary visual, literary, and performance art of the Maghreb has the potential to change the terms, histories, and imagined futures of mass housing in North Africa.

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