Clothing Sacred Scriptures

Clothing Sacred Scriptures
Author: David Ganz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018-12-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110558602

According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.

Cinema of Confinement

Cinema of Confinement
Author: Thomas J. Connelly
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2019-02-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0810139235

In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, as well as current films such as Room, Green Room, and 10 Cloverfield Lane, Connelly shows that the source of enjoyment of confined spaces lies in the viewer's relationship to excess. Cinema of Confinement offers rich insights into the appeal of constricted filmic spaces at a time when one can easily traverse spatial boundaries within the virtual reality of cyberspace.

Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions

Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions
Author: Ruth L. Okediji
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2017-03-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107132371

In this book, leading scholars analyze the important role played by copyright exceptions in economic and cultural productivity.

The Animal Trade

The Animal Trade
Author: Clive JC Phillips
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2015-09-14
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1780643136

The trade in live and dead animals and animal parts is a significant aspect of the global economy, but economic considerations are inevitably at odds with optimal animal welfare. Providing a snapshot of the current situation, this book discusses the background to modern international trade, welfare, and the environmental, economic and cultural issues. Covering farm, zoo and sport animals as well as the pet industry, the author draws together the competing interests and issues involved. Critically examining the overall ethics of the current situation and future of animal trade, he considers it within the context of food security, climate change, cultural sensitivities and consumer opinion.

Pharmacoepidemiology

Pharmacoepidemiology
Author: Brian L. Strom
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1220
Release: 2019-12-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1119413419

Dieses Lehrbuch, ein wegweisender Klassiker, bietet in der 6. Auflage noch mehr Inhalte für Leser, die aktuelle Informationen zur Pharmakoepidemiologie benötigen. Die vorliegende Auflage wurde vollständig überarbeitet und aktualisiert. Sie bietet einen Überblick über sämtliche Facetten des Fachgebiets, aus Sicht von Lehre und Forschung, aus Sicht der Industrie und von Regulierungsbehörden. Datenquellen, Anwendungen und Methodiken werden verständlich erläutert.

Medieval Women Writers

Medieval Women Writers
Author: Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 1984
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 082030641X

This is one of the first anthologies devoted to the writings of women in the Middle Ages. The fifteen women whose works are represented span seven centuries, eight languages, and ten regions or nationalities. Many are recognized, taught, and anthologized in their own countries but have been inaccessible to students in English. Others are little read today because their literary fortunes have paralleled fluctuations in literary taste and literary patronage. Katharina M. Wilson's introduction to the volume places these writers in historical context and explores the question of the female imagination and who these women were who were writing at a time when very few women were literate and most literature, sacred and secular, was penned by men. Each of the fifteen chapters has been written by a different scholar and includes a biographical and critical introduction to the writer, a representative selection of her works in translation, and a bibliography.

Redeeming the Dream

Redeeming the Dream
Author: David Boies
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 014751620X

Previous edition published under the title Redeeming the dream: the case for marriage equality.

106 Geometry Problems from the AwesomeMath Summer Program

106 Geometry Problems from the AwesomeMath Summer Program
Author: Titu Andreescu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Geometry
ISBN: 9780979926945

This book contains 106 geometry problems used in the AwesomeMath Summer Program to train and test top middle and high-school students from the U.S. and around the world. Just as the camp offers both introductory and advanced courses, this book also builds up the material gradually. The authors begin with a theoretical chapter where they familiarize the reader with basic facts and problem-solving techniques. Then they proceed to the main part of the work, the problem sections. The problems are a carefully selected and balanced mix which offers a vast variety of flavors and difficulties, ranging from AMC and AIME levels to high-end IMO problems. Out of thousands of Olympiad problems from around the globe, the authors chose those which best illustrate the featured techniques and their applications. The problems meet the authors' demanding taste and fully exhibit the enchanting beauty of classical geometry. For every problem, they provide a detailed solution and strive to pass on the intuition and motivation behind it. Many problems have multiple solutions.Directly experiencing Olympiad geometry both as contestants and instructors, the authors are convinced that a neat diagram is essential to efficiently solve a geometry problem. Their diagrams do not contain anything superfluous, yet emphasize the key elements and benefit from a good choice of orientation. Many of the proofs should be legible only from looking at the diagrams.