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Like the constellations in the sky, words such as aphrodisiac, hubris, museum, galaxy and mentor each contain within them a story, if only you knew to look closely. This collection retells the myths behind common words and expressions in English, bringing to life the heroes, monsters and gods whose deeds and battles have left a hidden mark on our language. Compiling more than seventy-five myths, the stories in this book feature well-known figures such as Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Hercules, Achilles, the Amazons, Medusa and the Minotaur. The entries are supplemented with original illustration reproductions of scenes from ancient pottery, and include translations from Ancient Greek epics such as the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Argonautica and Theogony.

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Who would top your list of the fifty people who have done the most to make the modern world a worse place?'I can't imagine how they whittled it down to just 50 people' - comedianNik Rabinowitz 'A fantastic thought-provoking book that renews my appreciation for history. It reminds us how we got here and how we can avoid things getting worse'Mandla Shongwe, SAFM Lifestyle'A fascinating, terrific read' Gareth Cliff, CliffCentral From despotic mass-murderers to sports cheats, and from corrupt politicians to truly dreadful celebrities, who has had the most damaging -- or vexatious -- impact in their particular sphere of modern life?This line-up of the very worst of the twentieth century and beyond includes the obvious candidates: those who have caused extraordinary damage through their murderous paranoia, brutal avarice, or demented self-regard -- Stalin, King Leopold, Idi Amin and the like. But murderous dictators aside, there are plenty of others who deserve recognition for their role in making the world a significantly more dangerous or, at the very least, more annoying place: terrorist Carlos the Jackal; Robert Oppenheimer, the man who gave the world the atomic bomb; notorious sports cheat Lance Armstrong; and the one and only President Donald Trump, who has of course succeeded in making the world both more annoying and more dangerous. This perfectly focused spotlight on infamy is illustrated throughout by award-winning political cartoonist Zapiro.

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A drama of ambition, murder, remorse and retribution, Boris Godunov charts the decline of a Russian statesman, whose dynastic aims were foiled by a guilty past and an audacious upstart. Based on history and inspired by Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin’s daring masterwork is presented here in its rarely published uncensored version of 1825. Set in Vienna, Flanders, Madrid and London, Pushkin’s celebrated Little Tragedies – Mozart and Salieri, The Mean-Spirited Knight, The Stone Guest and A Feast during the Plague – each focus on a protagonist’s driving obsession – with status, money, sex or risk-taking – and its devastating consequences.

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This collection of Pushkin’s stories begins with ‘The Queen of Spades’, perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. The young Hermann, while watching some friends gambling, hears a rumour of how an officer’s grandmother is always able to predict the three winning cards in a game. He becomes obsessed with the woman and her seemingly mystical powers, and seeks to extract the secret from her at any cost. This volume, part of a new series of the complete works of Pushkin in English, also includes ‘Dubrovsky’, the story of a man’s desire to avenge himself after his land is unjustly taken from him by an aristocrat; ‘The Negro of Peter the Great’, a tale inspired by Pushkin’s maternal grandfather; and the unfinished story ‘Egyptian Nights’, a meditation on poetry and the poet. Together, they represent some of the most striking and enduring pieces of Pushkin’s prose fiction.

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In order to rescue his beloved Lyudmila, who has been abducted by the evil wizard Chernomor, the warrior Ruslan faces an epic and perilous quest, encoutering a multitude of fantastic and terrifying characters along the way. The basis for Glinka's famous opera of the same name, Ruslan and Lyudmila - Pushkin's second longest poetical work - is a dramatic and ingenious retelling of Russian folklore, full of humour and irony.

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Drawing from newspapers, journals, government reports, and archival records, Terry Copp – one of Canada’s leading military historians – tells the story of how citizens in Canada’s largest city responded to the challenges of the First World War. Montreal at War addresses responses to the outbreak of war in Europe and the process of raising an army for service overseas. It details the shock of intense combat and heavy casualties, studies the mobilization of volunteers, and follows the experience of battalions from Montreal to the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Challenging long-held assumptions, Montreal at War aims to understand the war experience as it unfolded, approaching history from the perspective of those who lived through it.

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A festive treat filled with quiz questions, trivia, witty facts and longer stand-up style pieces from the stars of the hit BBC quiz show Pointless. A Pointless History of the World is a journey through time pulling out some of the most 'pointless', comedic and interesting events - from the obvious to the obscure - and combines brilliant quiz content from the show with Richard and Xander's own brilliantly funny and incredibly intelligent quick-witted stand-up style writing. Interactive, hilarious and jam-packed full of quiz questions that will have every Pointless fan vying to be crowned the Pointless champion in their own household this Christmas.

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A global reconsideration and broadening of the definition of art conservation through the lenses of theory, ethics, culture, and history Thought-provoking and timely, this volume challenges inherited thinking on art conservation practice and purposefully reconsiders the definition of the field. Scholars from around the world discuss topics including the conservation of global painting practices, cold storage and digitization, conservation within institutions, and the decolonization of art conservation. The authors seek to broaden the scope of conservation practice and challenge the boundaries that set it apart from art history and art making. They thoughtfully consider the implications of conservation beyond museum walls. This volume in the esteemed Clark Studies in the Visual Arts maintains the series’s tradition of providing a nuanced reckoning with vital themes in the field.Distributed for the Clark Art Institute

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WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature. This collection includes his strongly personal lyric verse, which springs spontaneously from his everyday life - his numerous loves, his exile, his hectic life in St Petersburg - while the narrative poems here, from exotic Southern tales to comic parodies and fairy tales of enchanted tsars, display his endless ability to surprise. His landmark work The Bronze Horseman, with its ghostly central figure of Peter the Great, holds the meaning of all Russian history. Antony Wood's translations reveal the variety, inventiveness and perfection of Pushkin's verse.

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Europe is facing its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, yet the institutions responding to it remain virtually unchanged from those created in the post-war era. Going beyond the scenes of desperation which have become all-too-familiar in the past few years, Alexander Betts and Paul Collier show that this crisis offers an opportunity for reform if international policy-makers focus on delivering humane, effective and sustainable outcomes - both for Europe and for countries that border conflict zones. Refugees need more than simply food, tents and blankets, and research demonstrates that they can offer tangible economic benefits to their adopted countries if given the right to work and education. Refuge sets out an alternative vision that can empower refugees to help themselves, contribute to their host societies, and even rebuild their countries of origin.

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Since the riots on the occasion of the anti-G20 protests in July 2017, the radical left has received increased media attention. In the course of this, fundamental questions about the backgrounds, actors and networks of left militancy are raised: Who are 'the Autonomous'? What is 'the Antifa'? Question marks usually outweigh the certainties. The radical left, in its most varied, often competing forms and cycles, has been an actor in political disputes since the origins of liberal democracy. Avoiding security and regulatory policy as well as affirmative-sympathetic short circuits, this anthology aims to provide orientation with the help of historical longitudinal sections, country and case studies as well as highlight approaches to present-day phenomena. The guiding basic motif of the tape is the desire for objectification and differentiation.

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This volume provides a wide-ranging account of Middle English, organized by linguistic level. Not only are the traditional areas of linguistic study explored in state-of-the-art chapters on Middle English phonology morphology, syntax, and semantics written by experts in the field, but the volume also covers less traditional areas of study, including Middle English creolization, sociolinguistics, literary language (including the language of Chaucer), pragmatics and discourse, dialectology, standardization, language contact, and multilingualism.

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This volume provides an in-depth account of Old English, organized by linguistic level. Individual chapters, written by recognized experts in the field, review the state of the art in phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic studies of Old English. Key areas of debate, including dialectology, language contact, standardization, and literary language, are also explored. The volume sets the scene with a chapter on pre-Old English and ends with a chapter discussing textual resources available for the study of earlier English.

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Go beyond Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton and get to know the real Alexander Hamilton in this Library of America collection of the Founding Father’s own public and private writings. A brash immigrant who rose to become George Washington’s right-hand man. A fierce partisan whose nationalist vision made him Thomas Jefferson’s bitter rival. An unfaithful husband whose commitment to personal honor brought his life to a tragic early end. The amazing success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton has stoked an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Alexander Hamilton, the brilliant and divisive founder who profoundly shaped the American republic. Now, Library of America presents an unrivaled portrait of Hamilton in his own words, charting his meteoric rise, his controversial tenure as treasury secretary, and his scandalous final years—all culminating in his infamous duel with Aaron Burr. Selected and introduced by acclaimed historian Joanne B. Freeman, The Essential Hamilton is a reader’s edition of the Founding Father's public writings and private letters, plus the correspondence between Burr and Hamilton that led to their duel and two conflicting eyewitness accounts of their fatal encounter.

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Is the U.S. tort system in crisis? CBS television's 60 Minutes has said the tort system metes out ""jackpot justice,"" and Newsweek has called America a ""Lawsuit Hell."" Other observers of the legal system, however, argue that the tort crisis is a myth. Although both sides of the debate rely primarily on anecdote and the selective use of evidence, a sound diagnosis of the tort system requires a rigorous analysis of hard data, not a retelling of sensationalistic sound bites.In Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial, economists Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok present their study of tens of thousands of tort cases from across the United States. The result is the most complete picture of the U.S. system of civil justice to date. Examining three of the key players of the tort system (juries, judges, and lawyers), Helland and Tabarrok conclude that the tort system is badly broken in some respects but functions surprisingly well in others.

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This comprehensive text is suitable for researchers and graduate students of a ‘hot’ new topic in medical physics. Written by the world’s leading experts, this book aims to present recent developments in plasma medicine, both technological and scientific, reviewed in a fashion accessible to the highly interdisciplinary audience consisting of doctors, physicists, biologists, chemists and other scientists, university students and professors, engineers and medical practitioners. The book focuses on major topics and covers the physics required to develop novel plasma discharges relevant for medical applications, the medicine to apply the technology not only in-vitro but also in-vivo testing and the biology to understand complicated bio-chemical processes involved in plasma interaction with living tissues.

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This is a three-volume set about the founding, the 50-year history, and the collections of the Austrian Film Museum. Volume 1 (in German) is a work of historical research, describing in detail the establishment and development of the institution—from postwar Viennese film culture and its protagonists to the tenth anniversary of the Film Museum in 1974. Volume 2 (in German, with some parts in English) extends the time-frame to the year 2014 and offers a richly illustrated anthology of essays, documents, memoirs, and correspondence. It highlights the major retrospectives staged by the Film Museum over a period of 50 years and celebrates many of the visiting artists as well as the writers who contributed to the museum's international recognition and to its curatorial positions. Volume 3 (in German) focuses on the museum's holdings by picturing and describing 50 objects from various subfields of the collectionVand suggesting a non-dogmatic reading of film history.

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Streng hierarchische Führung oder total agile Demokratie? Die Unternehmensorganisation der Zukunft muss beides können. Wie das gelingen kann, beschreibt dieses Fachbuch ausführlich – in einem neuen Organisationsmodell, das beide Herangehensweisen situativ möglich macht. Und damit einen systemischen Brückenschlag zwischen „alter“ und „neuer“ Welt schafft. Dabei gibt das Buch einen Überblick über aktuelle Formen klassischer sowie agiler Organisationsmodelle. Es beleuchtet die Entwicklung gängiger Organisationsformen von komplexen Hierarchien über Lean und Scrum bis hin zur Holokratie. Anschließend wird das innovative Konzept beschrieben, das die besten Ansätze vereint: situativ statt festgelegt, systemisch statt hierarchisch, lateral statt vertikal. Praxisnah am Beispiel einer Unternehmensberatung und Kreativagentur, die dieses Organisationsmodell seit über sieben Jahren lebt. Das Ergebnis? Beyond Agile.

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Dieses Buch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über Potenziale und Herausforderungen von eHealth im deutschen Kontext. Aus interdisziplinärer Sicht werden zunächst die Grundlagen und Voraussetzungen dargestellt, wie z. B. technische Standards, rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen sowie Aspekte in Bezug auf Qualität und Finanzierung von eHealth-Anwendungen. Bei der Beschreibung wichtiger Anwendungsfelder wird neben allgemeinen eHealth-Anwendungen insbesondere auf die Telemedizin als einem zentralen Instrument von eHealth eingegangen. Dabei werden Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und Anforderungen an die Telemedizin aus unterschiedlichen fachlichen Disziplinen aufgezeigt. Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt bildet die onlinebasierte Gesundheitskommunikation, wobei das Internet im Mittelpunkt der Diskussion steht; dieses nimmt für die Bevölkerung einen immer höheren Stellenwert beim Erwerb von (gesundheitsbezogenen) Informationen ein.Die ZielgruppenDas Buch wendet sich sowohl an Wissenschaftler und Studierende unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen, u.a. der Gesundheitswissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik und Kommunikationswissenschaften, als auch an Praktiker wie z.B. Beschäftigte im Gesundheitswesen und in der Medizintechnik.

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​Die Wissenschaftssoziologie Pierre Bourdieus steht im Zentrum seines soziologischen Gesamtwerkes. Die vorliegende Einführung stellt erstmalig Bourdieus wissenschaftssoziologisches Werk in systematischer Form dar und verdeutlicht den zentralen Mehrwert seiner Sozialtheorie für die moderne Wissenschaftsforschung. Es wird gezeigt, wie sich Bourdieus Wissenschaftstheorie und erkenntnistheoretische Kritik mit seiner soziologischen Analyse des wissenschaftlichen Feldes verbinden. Diese Synthese liefert die Begründung für die öffentliche und politische Intervention von Soziolog*innen und Intellektuellen.Der Inhalt• Bourdieus Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftstheorie• Das wissenschaftliche Feld• Vom Gebrauch der Wissenschaft• Bourdieu und die moderne Wissenschaftssoziologie• Bourdieu in der WissenschaftsforschungDie Zielgruppen• Studierende und Lehrende der Soziologie, Philosophie, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften• Studierende und Lehrende der Wissenschaftssoziologie und Science and Technology Studies• Studierende und Lehrende der Wissenschafts- und HochschulforschungDie AutorenDr. Alexander Lenger vertritt seit März 2018 die Professur für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Didaktik der Wirtschaftslehre an der Universität Siegen. Zuvor hat er von April 2016 bis März 2017 die Professur für Soziologie des Wissens am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie und von April bis August 2015 die Professur für Soziologie an der Universität Freiburg vertreten.Philipp Rhein ist Lehrbeauftragter am Institut für Soziologie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und arbeitet am Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung – ISF München.

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Nachhaltige Museumsarbeit lebt von der kontinuierlichen Auseinandersetzung mit den Objekten der Sammlung. Denn sie bieten die Antwort auf unterschiedlichste Fragestellungen – vorausgesetzt, sie werden langfristig über die Zeiten gerettet. Die Basis für diese Aufgabe sind gut geplante Museumsdepots. Hier lagert, von der Öffentlichkeit kaum beachtet und meist nur den Fachleuten zugänglich, ein Großteil der Museumssammlungen. Die Depots sind damit ein unentbehrlicher Material- und Wissenspool für gegenwärtige und künftige Forschungs-, Ausstellungs- und Vermittlungsarbeit. Ein fachgerecht geführtes Museumsdepot schützt die Sammlung vor Schäden, ob mechanischer Art, durch ungeeignetes Klima, Verschmutzung, Licht, mikrobiellen Befall, Insekten oder Katastrophen. Die Lagerung muss in einer Weise erfolgen, die jederzeit den Überblick über die Bestände gewährleistet und den leichten Zugriff auf einzelne Objekte ermöglicht. Der vorliegende Band vermittelt praxisgerecht die Grundlagen für die Aufbewahrung von Museumsgut und zeigt an Beispielen Lösungen für unterschiedlichste Anforderungen auf.

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The SCALE series, spanning five volumes, discusses all relevant building components from design to actual construction. It systematically presents design as a process for the integrative development of form, structure, and technology. The planning process is illuminated by showcasing uniform planning documents from international example projects.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 46th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2023, which took place in Berlin, Germany, in September 2023.The 14 full and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers deal with research on theory and applications across all methods and topic areas of AI research.

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The beauty of bees, ants, butterflies, spiders, and more are showcased in this meticulously illustrated picture book. What's more, each spread includes laser cuts on every spread, which enhance the details of the little creatures and their environment. A visual treat! Age-appropriate text about each insect provides just the right amount of information for young readers.

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A novel at once about social justice, romance, and Gramsci.Is it possible to fight for social justice if you’ve never really loved another person? Can you save a country if you’re in love? Forty-six-year-old Anton Stöver’s marriage is broken. His affairs are a thing of the past, and his career at the university has reached a dead end. One day he is offered the chance to go to Rome to conduct research on Antonio Gramsci, at one time the leading figure of Italian communism. Once there, he falls obsessively in love with a young woman he has met while continuing to focus his attention on the past: the frail and feverish Gramsci recovering in a Soviet sanatorium. Though Gramsci is supposed to save Italy from Mussolini’s seizure of power, he falls in love with a Russian comrade instead. With a subtle sense of the absurd, Nora Bossong explores the conflicts between having intense feelings for another and fighting for great ideals.

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