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The Iliad dealing with the final stages of the Trojan War and The Odyssey with return and aftermath were central to the Classical Greeks' self identity and world view. Epic poems attributed to Homer, they underpinned ideas about heroism, masculinity and identity; about glory, sacrifice and the pity of war; about what makes life worth living. From Achilles, Patroclus and Agamemnon in the Greek camp, Hektor, Paris and Helen in Troy's citadel, the drama of the battlefield and the gods looking on, to Odysseus' adventures and vengeful return - Jan Parker here offers the ideal companion to exploring key events, characters and major themes. A book-by-book synopsis and commentary discuss the heroes' relationships, values and psychology and the narratives' shimmering presentation of war, its victims and the challenges of return and reintegration. Essays set the epics in their historical context and trace the key terms; the 'Journey Home from War' continues with 'Afterstories' of both heroes and their women. Whether you've always wanted to go deeper into these extraordinary works or are coming to them for the first time, The Iliad and the Odyssey: The Trojan War, Tragedy and Aftermath will help you understand and enjoy Homer's monumentally important work.

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'We shall go out and bomb every building in Britain marked with three stars in the Baedeker Guide' the German Foreign Office announced in April 1942 as the Luftwaffe attacked Exeter, Bath, Norwich, York and Canterbury. Over a thousand people died. These raids were direct retaliation for RAF raids on equally historic German cities. Hitler had ordered that 'Preference is to be given...where attacks are likely to have the greatest possible effect on civilian life' and in this narrow aim - as Jan Gore shows in the first full history of the raids to be published for over twenty years - they certainly succeeded. She explains the Luftwaffe's tactics, the types of bombs that were used - high explosive, parachute mines and incendiaries - and records the devastating damage they caused. Her main focus is on the effect of the bombing on the ground. In graphic detail she describes the air raid precautions, the role of the various civil defence organisations and the direct experience of the civilians. Their recollections - many of which have not been published before - as well as newspaper articles and official reports give us a vivid impression of the raids themselves and their immediate aftermath. Jan Gore's original and painstaking research provides the fullest insight yet into the impact of this bombing campaign on Britain's home front during the Second World War.

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Since the second edition of this text, the use of the Internet and networks generally has continued to expand at a phenomenal rate. This has led to both an increase in demand for network software and to improvements in the technology used to run such networks, with the latter naturally leading to changes in the former. During this time, the Java libraries have been updated to keep up with the new developments in network technology, so that the Java programming language continues to be one of the mainstays of network software development.In providing a very readable text that avoids getting immersed in low-level technical details, while still providing a useful, practical guide to network programming for both undergraduates and busy IT professionals, this third edition continues the trend of its predecessors. To retain its currency, the text has been updated to reflect changes that have taken place in Java's network technology over the past seven years (including the release of Java 7), whilst retaining its notable features of numerous code examples, screenshots and end-of-chapter exercises.

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Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as subsistence-oriented dependency. Breman argues that with colonial rule came the intrusion of capitalism into India's agrarian economy, leading to a decline in the idea of patronage in the relationship between bonded labour and landowner. Instead, servitude was reshaped as indebtedness. As labour became transformed into a commodity, peasant workers were increasingly pushed out of agriculture and the village but remained adrift in the wider economy. This footloose workforce is subjected to exploitation when their labour power is required and is left in a state of exclusion when it is surplus to demand. The outcome is progressive inequality that is thoroughly capitalist in nature.

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Lucy Locket lost her pocket,' teases Lucy's brother, Matthew.Lucy doesn't lose things, she insists to her brother, they just disappear! But who'd have guessed that a monster under her bed was taking them? Finally Lucy discovers the monster and his secret passion - chocolate. Before too long, she enters an excellent bargain with the greedy little monster. He gets all the chockie he wants, she gets all her things back...but Matthew's stuff suddenly starts vanishing!

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Número 104 de la colección Magos del humor.La nueva aventura de Superlópez aborda el apasionante tema de la clonación humana.En esta ocasión nuestro héroe ha de enfrentarse al siniestro doctor Menguelele, un extraterrestre que pretende conquistar nuestro planeta mediante la creación de un nuevo ser, a partir del ADN de un ser humano, y su posterior clonación.Afortunadamente, Chico pone a Superlópez tras la pista del malvado Refuller D'abastos, y éste se decide a investigarlo hasta dar con la implicación de Refuller en todo el asunto.Sobre la colección:La colección Magos del Humor nació en la editorial Bruguera en el año 1984 recuperando títulos que ya habían sido publicados en su antecesora Ases del Humor (1969). Debido al cierre de Bruguera en 1986, en esta etapa solo llegaron a ver la luz los primeros 12 volúmenes de la serie, pero en 1987 Ediciones B retomó la publicación de la colección desde su primer número hasta la actual

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Súper Humor, la colección que arrasa entre los fans de Súperlópez.Tomo recopilatorio de las cinco primeras aventuras del superhéroe español más famoso.Este tomo contiene las historias:Las aventuras de Superlópez: La obra se centra principalmente en la explicación del origen del personaje y en batallas singulares con enemigos bien diferentes a los que luego serían propios de la serie.El Supergrupo: Tras la parodia de Superman, ahora le toca el turno a los grupos de superhéroes. Superlópez y otros superhéroes se unen en el Supergrupo. Siempre peleándose entre sí y acudiendo tarde a las alarmas no podrán evitar los planes de su siniestro enemigo.Todos contra uno, uno contra todos!: Superlópez y sus compañeros deberán enfrentarse a unos dobles que ha creado su misterioso enemigo, pero todavía faltará el enfrentamiento final.Los alienígenas: Unos alienígenas quieren invadir la tierra y dos de ellos, con

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Superlópez se adentra en el mágico mundo de las bibliotecas. Súperlopez se encuentra en la biblioteca con un niño, junto al que vivirá una gran aventura. Un libro les dará la clave para adentrarse en un mundo extraordinario al pisar la baldosa 457 de la biblioteca. Al bajar por unas escaleras descubrirán un mundo extraordinario que les llevará a un barco pirata, en donde conocerán al capitán Barbatinta y a toda la tripulación. Al pisar fortuitamente una tabla del barco volverán al mundo real. La aventura termina con un preciosa frase de Súperlópez: "Los libros son mágicos...por eso las bibliotecas también"

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The Apocryphal Acts of Thomas is the first modern collection of studies on the most important aspects of the Acts of Thomas, an early Christian kind of novel, which was originally written either in Greek or Syriac. The volume starts with the memoirs of the Altmeister Fre Klijn regarding his own role in the study of the Acts. He is followed by an analysis of the elusive phenomenon of Thomas Christianity. The major part of the book studies various aspects and passages of the Acts: narrative strategies, the heavenly palace, factors of plot, the famous Hymn of the Pearl, the serpent, women, and the much-debated connection of Thomas with India. As a kind of summary of the results of some of our previous investigations, the penultimate chapter takes a fresh look at the authors, place, time and readership of the major Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles. As has become customary, the volume is rounded off by a bibliography and a detailed index.

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This is the first modern collection of studies on the most important aspects of the Acts of Peter, the source of the famous novel Quo Vadis ? by Henry Sienkiewicz. The collection of essays discusses many aspects of the Acts of Peter: its relationship with the Acts of John and the Acts of Paul, but also important themes such as the fascinating figure of Simon the Magician, Agrippa and his concubines. It looks at the nature of the theos aner, the role of women, the place of magic, the performance of miracles, the famous death of Peter upside-down, the regulae fidei and other early credal formulations. Finally it discusses the transmission and Latinity of the Acts, and the date and place of its publication.

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This book delves into the comprehensive history of the Miles M.25 Martinet, a pioneering British aircraft specifically designed for target towing, and its role in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Fleet Air Arm (FAA) during World War II. Enriched with an array of photographs, detailed scale plans, intricate drawings, and vivid colour profiles, the narrative captures the essence of the Martinet''s development and its operational service, offering a thorough exploration of this significant aircraft.

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Was haben Ordner mit Lawinenkatastrophen, Katastrophen mit Ordnungen zu tun? In dieser historisch-ethnografischen Studie beschreibt Jan Hinrichsen, wie sich Wissen und Katastrophe, Archiv und Krise, Ordnung und Bedrohung zueinander verhalten. Die Ordner, deren Rücken dieses Buch zieren, ordnen Unsicheres und öffnen den Blick auf das Ordnen als verwundbare Praktik und Praktik der Verwundbarkeit. Jan Hinrichsen breitet mit wissensanthropologischem Blick aus, wie sich die Lawine von Galtür 1999 in das Archiv einschreibt und wie dieses Archiv die Katastrophe schreibt. Er analysiert Sicherheitstechnologien zur Abwehr von Naturgefahren in der Tiroler Gemeinde und versteht sie als Assemblagen von Diskursen, Praktiken und Dingen. In dieser Genealogie der Unsicherheit wird ersichtlich, wie die Lawinenkatastrophe aus jenen Wissensordnungen hervorgeht, die sie zeitgleich schlagartig in Frage stellt.

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Freiheit ist die Überschrift über eine Geschichte, die erzählt werden muß. Sie wird zum ersten Male faßbar bei Plato und erstreckt sich dann in großem Bogen über die christliche Heilsgeschichte bis hin in die Aufklärung zu Hobbes und Kant. Der heutige Jurist arbeitet vor diesem Hintergrund."... Das originelle Werk läßt sich mit Gewinn lesen, vielleicht auch, weil es sich der allgegenwärtigen Diskurs- oder Systemtheorie einmal nicht bedient. Statt dessen lenkt es den Blick auf anthropologische, theologische und aufklärerische Voraussetzungen des Rechts, was erhellend wirkt, wie auch immer man das Recht heute verstehen und gestalten möchte."Steffen Wesche Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 1997, S. 597

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Dieser Band enthält eine Gesamtdarstellung des spannungsreichen Verhältnisses von Philosophie und Theologie in der abendländischen Geschichte. Ausgehend von der Entwicklung der griechischen Philosophie und der Ausbildung einer philosophischen Theologie fragt Jan Rohls zunächst nach der Reaktion des Judentums und des frühen Christentums auf die antike Philosophie. Er zeichnet die Rezeption des arabisch-jüdischen Aristotelismus durch die mittelalterliche Theologie ebenso nach wie die Auflösung der scholastischen Synthese von Theologie und aristotelischer Philosophie im Nominalismus.Besonderes Gewicht erhält die Epoche zwischen Renaissance und Aufklärung. Hier wird nicht nur die gesamte antike Philosophie wiederentdeckt und eine aristotelisch geprägte Schulphilosophie in den verschiedenen konfessionellen Lagern entwickelt, sondern mit Descartes, Locke und Leibniz kommt es schließlich auch zum endgültigen Abschied von Aristoteles. In der Neuzeit steht seit Kant das Verhältnis der Theologie zur Metaphysik, vor allem in Gestalt des Hegelschen Idealismus, und zur Metaphysikkritik, am radikalsten repräsentiert durch Nietzsche, im Vordergrund.Der Autor widmet sich sodann den Auswirkungen der drei wichtigsten Richtungen der Philosophie des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts auf die Theologie der Gegenwart: der analytischen und der hermeneutischen Philosophie sowie der Frankfurter Schule samt Transzendentalpragmatik. Er schließt mit der Erörterung des Verhältnisses von Theologie und Metaphysik.

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