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Marxism-Leninism and the Theory of International Relations (Routledge Library Editions: International Relations #4)
by V. Kubalkova A. CruickshankRefuting the assumption that orthodox Marxist theory contains anything of relevance on international relations, this book, originally published in 1980, clarifies, reconstructs, and summarizes the theories of international relations of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet leadership of the 1970s. These are subjected to a comparative analysis and their relative integrity is examined both against one another and against selected Western theories. Marxist-Leninist models of international relations are fully explored, enabling the reader to appreciate the essence and evolution of fundamental Soviet concepts as such as proletarian, socialist internationalism, peaceful co-existence, national liberation movement and détente.
Topics on the Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 1
by Paul Reynolds A. Cunha K. Salyards V. Racic F. N. Catbas J. M. CaicedoTopics on the Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 1, Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2012, the first volume of six from the Conference, brings together 45 contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on: Human Induced Vibrations Bridge Dynamics Operational Modal Analysis Experimental Techniques and Modeling for Civil Structures System Identification for Civil Structures Method and Technologies for Bridge Monitoring Damage Detection for Civil Structures Structural Modeling Vibration Control Method and Approaches for Civil Structures Modal Testing of Civil Structures
Mobile Technologies in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond (Trans-Saharan Archaeology)
by A. Cuénod C. Duckworth D. MattinglyThe ancient Sahara has often been treated as a periphery or barrier, but this agenda-setting book – the final volume of the Trans-Saharan Archaeology Series – demonstrates that it was teeming with technological innovations, knowledge transfer, and trade from long before the Islamic period. In each chapter, expert authors present important syntheses, and new evidence for technologies from oasis farming and irrigation, animal husbandry and textile weaving, to pottery, glass and metal making by groups inhabiting the Sahara and contiguous zones. Scientific analysis is brought together with anthropology and archaeology. The resultant picture of transformations in technologies between the third millennium BC and the second millennium AD is rich and detailed, including analysis of the relationship between the different materials and techniques discussed, and demonstrating the significance of the Sahara both in its own right and in telling the stories of neighbouring regions.
Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond (Trans-Saharan Archaeology)
by V. Leitch A. Cuénod M. Sterry F. Cole D. J. Mattingly C. N. DuckworthSaharan trade has been much debated in modern times, but the main focus of interest remains the medieval and early modern periods, for which more abundant written sources survive. The pre-Islamic origins of Trans-Saharan trade have been hotly contested over the years, mainly due to a lack of evidence. Many of the key commodities of trade are largely invisible archaeologically, being either of high value like gold and ivory, or organic like slaves and textiles or consumable commodities like salt. However, new research on the Libyan people known as the Garamantes and on their trading partners in the Sudan and Mediterranean Africa requires us to revise our views substantially. In this volume experts re-assess the evidence for a range of goods, including beads, textiles, metalwork and glass, and use it to paint a much more dynamic picture, demonstrating that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought. Re-unites separate traditions of archaeological and historical study of the Sahara and its neighbouring regions. Proposes a new model of origins of Saharan trade networks. Presents new scientific evidence and techniques that may help resolve questions about provenance and directionality of trade in ancient Sahara.
John Anderson: 2 - Njaka (John Anderson #2)
by A. D MurphyeDespués de cambiar el curso del tiempo, John Anderson y Jane regresan al 2019 para evitar una catástrofe global orquestada por Njaka, un vampiro hambriento de poder. Su misión es simple: salvar a la humanidad. Pero nada es fácil en una carrera contra el tiempo donde intrigas políticas, una epidemia mortal y alianzas inesperadas ponen todo en peligro. Entre el amor, el sacrificio y el destino, John y Jane tendrán que enfrentarse a sus demonios internos y a un enemigo que conoce sus más profundas debilidades.
John Anderson: Cataclismo
by A. D Murphye¿Y si los vampiros fueron la solución para salvar a la humanidad? Estaba tomando un café tranquilamente en Brooklyn cuando me encontré sepultado bajo toneladas de escombros. ¿Comentarios? un loco lanzó un ataque que diezmó a tres cuartas partes de la población humana del planeta. ¿Algún superviviente? Sí, muy pocos humanos, la mayoría zoántropos y unos pocos vampiros, incluyéndome a mí. Al final, ¡la eternidad no es un picnic!
John Anderson: Cataclysm
by A. D MurphyeWhat if vampires were the solution to saving humanity? I was quiet drinking a coffee in Brooklyn when I found myself buried under tons of rubble. How? A patient launched an attack that decimated three quarters of humans on the planet. Survivors? Yes, very few humans, a majority of zoanthropes and a few vampires of which I belong. We survive in a world destroyed and become dangerous... Finally, eternity is far away from being easy!
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by A. D MurphyeLa Tierra es amenazada por el despertar de los dioses egipcios debido a un experimento científico. Ocho jóvenes estudiantes van a descubrir que son los únicos que pueden detenerlos. A continuación vivirán aventuras que los llevarán a viajar por toda la Tierra y más allá. Descubrirán su auténtica naturaleza y, sobre todo, que la amistad lo puede todo.
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by A. D MurphyeLa terra è minacciata da divinità egiziane risvegliate a causa di un esperimento scientifico. Otto giovani studenti scopriranno che sono gli unici a fermarli. Seguono le avventure che li porterà a viaggiare in tutta la terra e oltre. Scopriranno la loro vera natura e soprattutto che l'amicizia Prima di tutto.
Hillslope Processes: Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium 16 (Routledge Library Editions: Geology #19)
by A. D. AbrahamsThis book, first published in 1986, collects the articles presented to the 16th Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium and is a ground-breaking work in the study of hillslope processes. Hillslope processes are studied in a variety of disciplines other than geomorphology, such as hydrology, pedology, agricultural engineering, civil engineering and engineering geology – the study is truly an interdisciplinary science.
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by A. N. Kolmogorov A. D. Aleksandrov M. A. Lavrent’evThis major survey of mathematics, featuring the work of 18 outstanding Russian mathematicians and including material on both elementary and advanced levels, encompasses 20 prime subject areas in mathematics in terms of their simple origins and their subsequent sophisticated developement. As Professor Morris Kline of New York University noted, "This unique work presents the amazing panorama of mathematics proper. It is the best answer in print to what mathematics contains both on the elementary and advanced levels."Beginning with an overview and analysis of mathematics, the first of three major divisions of the book progresses to an exploration of analytic geometry, algebra, and ordinary differential equations. The second part introduces partial differential equations, along with theories of curves and surfaces, the calculus of variations, and functions of a complex variable. It furthur examines prime numbers, the theory of probability, approximations, and the role of computers in mathematics. The theory of functions of a real variable opens the final section, followed by discussions of linear algebra and nonEuclidian geometry, topology, functional analysis, and groups and other algebraic systems.Thorough, coherent explanations of each topic are further augumented by numerous illustrative figures, and every chapter concludes with a suggested reading list. Formerly issued as a three-volume set, this mathematical masterpiece is now available in a convenient and modestly priced one-volume edition, perfect for study or reference.
Managing by the Bhagavad Gītā: Timeless Lessons for Today’s Managers (Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership)
by Satinder Dhiman A. D. AmarDrawing upon the timeless wisdom of the Bhagavad Gītā, a philosophical-spiritual world classic, this professional book highlights the spiritual and moral dimensions of management using an inside-out leadership development approach. It interprets the Bhagavad Gītā’s teachings on the personality types and psychological makeup of managers and employees; self-knowledge and self-mastery; and the leadership concepts of vision, motivation, and empowerment. This book covers topics such as training of the mind, ethical leadership, communication, stress management, and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Collectively, the enclosed contributions provide managers with an enhanced outlook on management functions such as leading, planning, organizing, and controlling in today’s organizations, particularly those run by knowledge workers. Management research in the 20th century has mainly focused on the industrial paradigm characterized by a hierarchical structure of authority and responsibility with an individualistic focus on the personality of the manager. However, this traditional paradigm cannot solve many of the problems that confront leaders and mangers today. Recent studies have shown that values traditionally associated with spirituality—such as integrity, honesty, trust, kindness, caring, fairness, and humility—have a demonstrable effect on managerial effectiveness and success. Although traditionally interpreted as a religious-spiritual text, the Bhagavad Gītā teaches these values which can be extrapolated and applied to practical management lessons in today’s corporate boardrooms. Applying the text of the Bhagavad Gītā to the context of management, this book views the manager as an “enlightened sage” who operates from higher stance, guided by self-knowledge and self-mastery. It demonstrates how character is the key ingredient for effective management and leadership. This book is therefore applicable to all managers, from first-line to CEOs, in their management and leadership roles in organizations.
Oceanography And Marine Biology: Volume 36 (Oceanography And Marine Biology Ser. #Vol. 36)
by Margaret Barnes R. N. Gibson Harold Barnes A. D. AnsellOceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review considers basic areas of marine research, returning to them when appropriate in future volumes, and deals with subjects of special and topical importance in the field of marine biology. The thirty-sixth volume follows closely the objectives and style of the earlier well recieved volumes, conti
Routledge Revivals: Development and Social Change in the Pacific Islands (1989)
by A. D. CouperFirst published in 1989. The Pacific Islands are amongst the poorest countries of the developing world. The special problems of their small size, immense distance from major centres and, for many, very poor agricultural possibilities make development extremely difficult. However, recent new advances in maritime technology in a wide range of different areas present substantial new opportunities. This book surveys the new developments — including extended maritime boundaries; giant clam farming; increased exploitation of ocean minerals and new fisheries techniques — and demonstrates the potential for far-reaching economic and social development.
Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne: Reconsiderations of His Early Career (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature)
by Daniel Derrin A. D. CousinsThis is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn’s landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume covers Pope’s writings from across the reign of Queen Anne and just beyond. It focuses, in particular, on his interaction with the courtly culture constellated round the Queen. It examines, for instance, his representations of Queen Anne herself, his portrayals of politics and patronage under her reign, his negotiations with current literary theory, with the classical tradition, with chronologically distant yet also contemporaneous English poets, with current thought on the passions, and with membership of a religious minority. In doing so, it comprehensively reconsiders anew the ways in which Pope, increasingly supportive of Anne’s rule and mindful of the Virgilian rota, sought at first to realise his authorial aspirations.
Andrew Marvell: Loss and aspiration, home and homeland in Miscellaneous Poems
by A. D. CousinsThis monograph studies how, across the Folio of 1681, Marvell's poems engage not merely with different kinds of loss and aspiration, but with experiences of both that were, in mid-seventeenth-century England, disturbingly new and unfamiliar. It particularly examines Marvell's preoccupation with the search for home, and with redefining the homeland, in times of civil upheaval. In doing so it traces his progression from being a poet who plays sophisticatedly with received myth to being one who is a national mythmaker in rivalry with his poetic contemporaries such as Waller and Davenant. Although focusing primarily on poems in the Folio of 1681, this book considers those poems in relation to others from the Marvell canon, including the Latin poems and the satires from the reign of Charles II. It closely considers them as well in relation to verse by poets from the classical past and the European, especially English, present.
Pope’s Mythologies: Alexander Pope and Myth in the Early British Enlightenment (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature)
by A. D. Cousins Daniel DerrinThis volume is the first to discuss the canon of Pope’s verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking about mythology and mythography. Pope did not merely use classical (along with non-classical) mythology in his verse as a traditional, richly diverse medium through which to represent the diversity of private and civic life in his day, but he was an ambitious translator as well as refashioner of myth. It is a medium that he shapes anew and variously across all his major poems. This volume enhances appreciation of myth as a mode of apprehension as well as expression throughout Pope’s verse. In doing so it illuminates how, in early eighteenth-century Britain, understandings of what myth is and what it does were taking new directions – not least in response to Baconian thought and its legacy.
Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama
by A. D. Cousins Daniel DerrinEncompassing nearly a century of drama, this is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy. Considering the antecedents of the form in Roman, late fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century drama, it analyses its diversity, its theatrical functions and its socio-political significances. Containing detailed case-studies of the plays of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ford, Middleton and Davenant, this collection will equip students in their own close-readings of texts, providing them with an indepth knowledge of the verbal and dramaturgical aspects of the form. Informed by rich theatrical and historical understanding, the essays reveal the larger connections between Shakespeare's use of the soliloquy and its deployment by his fellow dramatists.
Shakespeare's Sonnets and Narrative Poems (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library)
by A. D. CousinsAlongside Spenser, Sidney and the early Donne, Shakespeare is the major poet of the 16th century, largely because of the status of his remarkable sequence of sonnets. Professor Cousins' new book is the first comprehensive study of the Sonnets and narrative poems for over a decade. He focuses in particular on their exploration of self-knowledge, sexuality, and death, as well as on their ambiguous figuring of gender. Throughout he provides a comparative context, looking at the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The relation between Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse and his plays is also explored.
The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
by Peter Howarth A. D. Cousins"Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets - Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today"--
How Do You Feel?: An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self
by A. D. CraigA book that fundamentally changes how neuroscientists and psychologists categorize sensations and understand the origins and significance of human feelingsHow Do You Feel? brings together startling evidence from neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry to present revolutionary new insights into how our brains enable us to experience the range of sensations and mental states known as feelings. Drawing on his own cutting-edge research, neurobiologist Bud Craig has identified an area deep inside the mammalian brain—the insular cortex—as the place where interoception, or the processing of bodily stimuli, generates feelings. He shows how this crucial pathway for interoceptive awareness gives rise in humans to the feeling of being alive, vivid perceptual feelings, and a subjective image of the sentient self across time. Craig explains how feelings represent activity patterns in our brains that signify emotions, intentions, and thoughts, and how integration of these patterns is driven by the unique energy needs of the hominid brain. He describes the essential role of feelings and the insular cortex in such diverse realms as music, fluid intelligence, and bivalent emotions, and relates these ideas to the philosophy of William James and even to feelings in dogs.How Do You Feel? is also a compelling insider's account of scientific discovery, one that takes readers behind the scenes as the astonishing answer to this neurological puzzle is pursued and pieced together from seemingly unrelated fields of scientific inquiry. This book will fundamentally alter the way that neuroscientists and psychologists categorize sensations and understand the origins and significance of human feelings.
A Sociology of Organisations (Routledge Library Editions: Organizations)
by J. E. Eldridge A. D. CrombieAn understanding of the nature and forms of organisation, particularly with reference to industrial societies, is a key area in sociological analysis. This book discusses and explains what concepts to employ and what analytical procedures to adopt as well as conveying a sense of the theoretical and empirical diversity involved in the study of organisations. Among the questions explored are: why do we classify organisations in particular ways and for what purpose? how can on explore the relationships pertaining to an organisation and its environment? what issues are raised by the existence of many varied and often competing organisations in industrial societies?
Thermal Performance of Nanofluids in Miniature Heat Sinks with Conduits (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications #131)
by Hafiz Muhammad Ali S. Harikrishnan A. D. DhassThis comprehensive book focuses on the basic physical features and purpose of nanofluids and miniature heat sinks. The contents demonstrate the design modification, fabrication, experimental investigation, and various applications of miniature heat sinks. The book provides context for thermal performance of miniature heat sinks as well as summaries of experimental results correlations that reflect the current technical innovations are included. This book is a useful reference for both academia and industry alike.
Biotechnology of Aquatic Animals
by R. Nagabhushanam A. D. Diwan B. J. Zahuranec R. SarojiniThe book aims to present the current developments in select areas of biotechnology of aquatic animals, covering relevant information from the different fields. The book is a comprehensive set of reviews of our existing knowl-edge in biotechnology of aquatic animals. It is written principally as a comprehen-sive reference for students and teachers,
Holiday Island (2018 Advent Calendar - Warmest Wishes)
by A. D. EllisNo peacocks were harmed in the making of this story. Rafa’s nautical skills are less than stellar. He’d rather be a full-time artist, but he has a duty to the family business and a fear of standing up to his father and brother. Carpenter Lucas is determined to rebuild his business after a lover’s betrayal nearly destroyed it. But he runs into a snag when he misses the last boat to the job site. Rafa offers to take him, but Rafa isn’t much of a sailor. When they end up on the wrong island, fears for survival gradually give way to an appreciation of the beauty around them—and each other. Rafa insists a holiday miracle will save them, and he teases Lucas for being a Scrooge. In the end, Rafa’s miracle might come from the last place he expects: inside himself.A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2018 Advent Calendar "Warmest Wishes."