An Introduction to the Desert Fathers, John Wortley

Автор: Gidley Jennifer
Название: The Future: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0198735286 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198735281
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Описание: Can we ever truly influence, predict, and direct our own futures? Are there multiple futures or only one awaiting us? Jennifer Gidley explains our innate fascination with the unknown future, and considers the role of the human consciousness in embracing multiple future possibilities, and creating a world of our choices.

Автор: Echevarria Antulio J. II
Название: Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0199340137 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199340132
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Описание: This Very Short Introduction adapts Clausewitz`s framework to highlight the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, Echevarria discusses the major types of military strategy and how emerging technologies are affecting them.

Автор: Jeremy Black
Название: Introduction to Global Military History
ISBN: 0415353955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415353953
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Описание: Completely unique in its global scope, this major new text does what no other book in the field does and provides students with an excellent account of modern military history with analysis of strategy, as well as tactical and operational developments in the field of war. Carefully written and produced by a hugely renowned author, this book has been widely praised by American and UK reviewers for its astonishing grasp of detail and its encyclopedic knowledge. The book works chronologically and spans the American War of Independence, through the French Revolion, right up to the latest conflicts in the 2000s. Specially designed to be user-friendly, "Introduction to Global Military History" offers: - chapter introductions and conclusions to assist study and revision - 'Voices of war' sourced extracts from the field of war - case studies in each chapter to support the narrative and provoke discussion - vivid engravings, plans, paintings, photos to bring the conflicts alive - a twelve-page colour map section plus twenty-one other integrated maps - annotated references from the latest publications in the field. Black covers all aspects of military conflict and masterfully combines the study of tactics and war strategy with the social, cultural and political consequences of war. This is "essential" course material for all students of modern military history, modern world history, international studies, and war and society.

Автор: Berridge Virginia
Название: Public Health: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 019968846X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199688463
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Описание: This Very Short Introduction outlines the nature of public health in our world today and places public health in its historical context from the earliest times, analysing in particular the changes in public health regulation through the nineteenth century and the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

Автор: Boddice Rob
Название: Pain: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0198738560 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198738565
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Описание: Rob Boddice considers how perceptions of pain have varied across history, and how the treatment of pain has also changed. Beginning with the classical world, he charts the increasing distinction drawn between physical and emotional pain, and the growing modern focus on empathy and compassion towards pain in others, and in animals.

Автор: Radner Karen
Название: Ancient Assyria: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0198715900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198715900
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Описание: From city state to empire, in the early 2nd millennium BC to the end of the 7th century BC, Assyria was one of the most influential kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. Using archaeological discoveries from across the Middle East, Karen Radner demonstrates the vast, socially diverse, multicultural nature of Ancient Assyria and the Assyrian Empire.

Автор: Cheek
Название: A Critical Introduction to Mao
ISBN: 0521711541 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521711548
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Описание: Mao Zedong`s political career spanned more than half a century. The ideas he championed transformed China and inspired revolutionary movements across the world. In this book, leading scholars offer a critical evaluation of the life and legacy of China`s most famous - some would say infamous - son.

Автор: Blockmans
Название: Introduction to Medieval Europe 300?1550
ISBN: 0415675871 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415675871
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Описание: Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history. Covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianization, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the growth of cities, the Crusades, the effects of plague, and the intellectual and cultural life of the Middle Ages, the book explores the driving forces behind the formation of medieval society and the directions in which it developed and changed. In doing this, the authors cover a wide geographic expanse, including Western interactions with the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic World.

Автор: Morgan, Kenneth
Название: Australia: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0199589933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199589937
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Описание: In this Very Short Introduction, Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia; examining the main features of its history, geography, and culture and drawing attention to the distinctive features of Australian life and its indigenous population and culture.

Автор: Bull Anna
Название: Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0198726511 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198726517
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Описание: This Very Short Introduction considers the history of Italy from the Risorgimento (the movement leading to Italian Unification in 1861) to the present. It also discusses Italy`s political system and style of government; economic modernisation; emigration, internal migration and immigration; and the modern Italian culture and lifestyle.

Автор: T. J. Leary
Название: Symphosius The Aenigmata: An Introduction, Text and Commentary
ISBN: 147425764X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474257640
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The post-classical compilation known to modern scholarship as the Latin Anthology contains a collection of a hundred riddles, each consisting of three hexameters and preceded by a lemma. It would seem from the preface to this collection that they were composed extempore at a dinner to celebrate the Roman Saturnalia. The work was to have a defining influence on later collections of riddles; yet its title (probably the Aenigmata) has been debated, and almost nothing is known about its author: questions have even been asked about his name (Symphosius?) and date (4th-5th centuruy AD?).

In this edition of the riddles, the Introducion discusses the work's title and its author's identity: as well as his name and date, it considers his national origin (North African?) and intellectual background (a professional grammarian?), and argues that he was not Christian, as has been suggested. It examines the Saturnalian background to the work, setting it in its sociological context, and discusses the author's literary debts - especially to Martial. The Introduction also explores the author's ordering and arrangement of the riddles, discusses his literary style, Latinity and metre, and comments briefly on his Nachleben. It concludes with a survey of the textual tradition. The commentary on each riddle includes a translation, general notes on the object it describes (with reference, as necessary, to museums and artefacts), and discussion of how it fits into the ordering of the collection, of variant readings and, with suitable illustration, of literary, stylistic and metrical considerations. Other areas, such as history and mythology, are also covered where relevant.

Автор: John Wortley
Название: An Introduction to the Desert Fathers
ISBN: 1108481027 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108481021
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: An accessible introduction exploring how the earliest Christian monks lived and taught in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth to the seventh centuries AD, using their own tales and sayings. Shows the gradual transformation of their essentially solitary existence into communal co-existence which defined the monasteries of the Middle Ages.