Author : Professor P.J. Marshall, CBE, FBA
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780197263518
The topical issues debated in this volume include the patenting of AIDS drugs, the future pensions crisis, Britain's universities, and Pan-Islam.There are studies of Shakespeare, Pope, Montaigne, Robert Graves, and William Faulkner. And there are lectures on the Inquisition, empires in history, and the journey towards spiritual fulfilment.
Author : Jonas Braasch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3030150461
This book presents a novel method of grafting musical wind instruments by exchanging an instrument’s standard mouthpiece with different tone generators. Using the concrete example of the soprano saxophone, it describes how, with six other tone generators, including brass, double reed, and free reed mechanisms, the saxophone can be extended to nearly every wind instrument category in the von Hornbostel and Sachs classification system. The book demonstrates how it is possible to play these instrument variations with high proficiency, and describes the method of hyper-specialization, including acoustical insights, conservatory training methods and the underlying philosophy. The latter is based on the cultural traditions of the different wind instrument prototypes and the Deep Listening philosophy of cultivating internal diversity, and approach that leads to a new level of wind instrument virtuosity that offers great timbral variety combined with the flexibility of a regular acoustic wind instrument.
Author : Michael Loewe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9004314903
Michael Loewe calls on literary and material evidence to examine three problems that arose in administering China’s early empires. Religious rites due to an emperor’s predecessors must both pay the correct services to his ancestors and demonstrate his right to succeed to the throne. In practical terms, tax collectors, merchants, farmers and townsmen required the establishment of a standard set of weights and measures that was universally operative and which they could trust. Those who saw reason to criticise the decisions taken by the emperor and his immediate advisors, whether on grounds of moral principles or political expediency, needed opportunities and the means of expressing their views, whether as remonstrants to the throne, by withdrawal from public life or as authors of private writings.
Author : Wolfram Schmidgen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812253299
Infinite Variety offers a brilliantly learned analysis of a seventeenth-century aesthetic framed not by the rise of secularism, but by its opposite, and embraced by English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe.
Author : Lesley Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 904743191X
The Glossa Ordinaria on the Bible was the ubiquitous text of the Middle Ages. Compiled in twelfth-century France, this multi-volume work, containing the entire text of Scripture surrounded by a commentary drawn from patristic and medieval authors, is still extant in thousands of manuscripts, testifying to the centrality of the work for generations of medieval scholars. Although the Glossa has been the subject of modern study, it is surrounded by myth. This book, based on manuscript evidence, is the first to draw together the history of this monumental work, its authorship, content, layout, production and use. Raising new questions, and pointing the way to further research, it opens up the Glossa to all students of medieval religion and intellectual history.
Author : Professor Ron Johnston, FBA
Publisher : OUP/British Academy
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197264584
This volume contains 10 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2008. From an exploration of the relationship between reason and identity, to an examination of social integration as the world becomes a more diverse place, to a consideration of the works of four great literary figures: King Alfred, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and W H Auden.
Author : Elizabeth Childs-Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2020
Category : China
ISBN : 0199328366
A chronological and interdisciplinary study of early China from the Neolithic through Warring States periods (ca 5000-500BCE).
Author : Ina Merdjanova
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0199964033
This book discusses the role of Islam in the political and social developments in the Balkans after the fall of communism. It explores comparatively the transformations of Muslim identities under the influence of various national and transnational, domestic and global factors.
Author : Malcolm Godden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521767361
Anglo-Saxon England is the only publication which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture - linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic - and which promotes the more unusual interests - in music or medicine or education, for example. Articles in volume 37 include: Record of the thirteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, 30 July to 4 August 2007; The virtues of rhetoric: Alcuin's Disputatio de rhetorica et de uirtutibus; King Edgar's charter for Pershore (972); Lost voices from Anglo-Saxon Lichfield; The Old English Promissio Regis; 'lfric, the Vikings, and an anonymous preacher in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College (162); Re-evaluating base-metal artifacts: an inscribed lead strap-end from Crewkerne, Somerset; Anglo-Saxon and related entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004); Bibliography for 2007.
Author : Shahram Akbarzadeh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0857713760
How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the age of the 'war on terror'? The widely felt sense of insecurity in the West is shared by Muslims both within and outside Western societies. Growing Islamic militancy and resulting increased security measures by Western powers have contributed to a pervasive sense among Muslims of being under attack (both physically and culturally). "Islam and Political Violence" brings together the current debate on the uneasy and potentially mutually destructive relationship between the Muslim world and the West and argues we are on a dangerous trajectory, strengthening dichotomous notions of the divide between the West and the Muslim world.
