Автор: Miller, Nathaniel Ian Название: The memoirs of stockholm sven ISBN: 1529359910 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529359916 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 10110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: On a remote Norwegian archipelago, a man finds his salvation on the remote island of Svalbard, in the Arctic Circle
Автор: Miller, Nathaniel Ian Название: Memoirs of stockholm sven ISBN: 1529359902 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529359909 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 14160.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: With varied activities - including sorting, matching and drawing - these workbooks help your learners practise what they have learnt. Focus, Practice and Challenge exercises provide clear progression through each topic, helping learners see what they`ve achieved. Ideal for use in the classroom or for homework. Links to `Language focus` boxes in the learner`s book provide more grammar practice.
Автор: Nathaniel A. Miller Название: Emergence of Arabic Poetry: From Regional Identities to Islamic Canonization ISBN: 1512825301 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781512825305 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 54340.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A new literary history of Arabic poetry from 500–750 CE that includes hundreds of lines of poetry never before translated into English To interpret the Quran's Arabic, early medieval Muslims turned to pre-Islamic poetry, a corpus that the Prophet Muhammad's cousin called "the archive of the Arabs." While this principle seems straightforward, pre-Islamic Arabs did not, in fact, think of themselves as either pre-Islamic or Arab. The term Arab barely appears at all in pre-Islamic poetry. The Emergence of Arabic Poetry reexamines this early poetry to reconstruct what pre-Islamic culture actually entailed. Nathaniel A. Miller draws on a wide range of texts, including hundreds of lines of poetry never before translated into English—in addition to new inscriptional, archaeological, and non-Arabic sources—to explore the diverse world of pre- and early-Islamic Arabia in which Islam developed. Miller traces the emergence of two regional identities, and their distinctive poetic traditions, in the Arabian Peninsula of late antiquity: Najdi in the center and northeast and Hijazi in the southwest. The book shows how later efforts of Muslim scholars to use early poetry as an aesthetic, linguistic ideal to interpret the Quran resulted in an image of a unitary, exceptional, and isolated Arab identity and culture. These scholars drew on the Najdi tradition, canonizing its forms as classical Arabic poetry par excellence, and solidifying many tropes of Arabness that are still ubiquitous today: of nomadism, performative generosity, and martial equestrianism. However, Miller argues, it was the neglected Hijazi tradition that was actually more central to the emergence of early Islam. Early Arabic poetry has been largely overlooked in current scholarship in adjacent fields, largely due to twentieth-century controversies over whether this corpus is legitimate or was forged. In combining a reconstruction of pre-Islamic poetry's social function with a consideration of the circumstances of its later canonization, The Emergence of Arabic Poetry offers an urgently needed reappraisal of a significant but underexamined poetic corpus, as well as a new literary history of the origins of Arabic poetry from 500 to 750 CE.
Автор: Bradley Camp Davis, Brian Lander, Ian M. Miller, John S. Lee Название: Cultivated Forest: People and Woodlands in Asian History ISBN: 0295751320 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295751320 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 91960.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Forests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the history of forest management across these regions as well as the distinctive qualities of human-forest relations within each context. With a general introduction to forest histories in East and Southeast Asia and a multidisciplinary set of authors, The Cultivated Forest constructs alternative lineages of forest knowledge that aim to transcend the frameworks imposed by colonial or national histories. Across these regions, forests were sites of exploitation, contestation, and ritual just as they were in Europe and America. This volume puts studies of Asian forests into conversation with global forest histories.
Автор: Miller William Ian Название: Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices ISBN: 0198793030 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198793038 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 196570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. His account of this complex and nuanced saga corrects simplistic readings which have governed interpretation of the saga in the past.
The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back against this narrative of deforestation, Ian Miller charts the rise of timber plantations between about 1000 and 1700, when natural forests were replaced with anthropogenic ones. Miller demonstrates that this form of forest management generally rested on private ownership under relatively distant state oversight and taxation. He further draws on in-depth case studies of shipbuilding and imperial logging to argue that this novel landscape was not created through simple extractive pressures, but by attempts to incorporate institutional and ecological complexity into a unified imperial state.
Miller uses the emergence of anthropogenic forests in south China to rethink both temporal and spatial frameworks for Chinese history and the nature of Chinese empire. Because dominant European forestry models do not neatly overlap with the non-Western world, China’s history is often left out of global conversations about them; Miller’s work rectifies this omission and suggests that in some ways, China’s forest system may have worked better than the more familiar European institutions.
The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.
Автор: Miller Ian Название: Sanctum ISBN: 1532687540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781532687549 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 29430.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Overcome by the death of his closest friend, Destiny Unsought, Timothy risks all in an abandoned pursuit through the mysterious mountains of Sanctum, the traditional home of the Mighty Ones and the resting place of the dead. There, with no hope of return, he finds the answer to the dark sea of his own soul and the destiny to which he was born. But first he must do what no other had done before him: cross back from death to life. ""Ian Miller's sci-fi trilogy takes the reader on a journey to distant worlds, but more importantly, deep into our own soul. Timothy Martin, an astronomy professor, discovers he has the ability to transport himself to other worlds. His ability to embrace the impossibility of the wonder he experiences will determine not only his own fate, but also that of entire alien worlds."" --Mark Worthing, author of Iscariot and The Winter Fae ""This utopian science fantasy with echoes of CS Lewis is a well-imagined and sympathetic exploration of how a world might operate without original sin. I found it refreshing and inspiring."" --Claire Belberg, author of The Golden Hour ""Ian Miller's trilogy combines fantasy, science, theology, human interest and cosmic conflict in one captivating package. It is a well-written, exciting tale with plenty of gripping adventure, intriguing suspense and fast-moving action. The characters reflect real-life passion, courage and frailty, and the issues are universal."" --Barry Chant, author and teacher Ian Miller grew up north of Brisbane on Australia's east coast. With a background in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Theology and Education, Ian brings alternate realities to life in worlds that challenge the very nature of humanity. Sanctum is the final book of the Emissary of the Oppressed trilogy. He is a popular public speaker, currently living in Sydney, Australia, with his wife, Christine. Together they are preparing to move to Tennessee where Ian will work on his next book, Perishing Waste. Visit Ian at ianmiller.net.au
Название: Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of William Ian Miller ISBN: 9004342729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004342729 Издательство: Brill Цена: 131500.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Contributions to this Festschrift for the renowned American legal and literary scholar William Ian Miller reflect the extraordinary intellectual range of the honorand, who is equally at home discussing legal history, Icelandic sagas, English literature, anger and violence, and contemporary popular culture. Professor Miller's colleagues and former students, including distinguished academic lawyers, historians, and literary scholars from the United States, Canada, and Europe, break important new ground by bringing little-known sources to a wider audience and by shedding new light on familiar sources through innovative modes of analysis.Contributors are Stuart Airlie, Theodore M. Andersson, Nora Bartlett, Robert Bartlett, Jordan Corrente Beck, Carol J. Clover, Lauren DesRosiers, William Eves, John Hudson, Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Kimberley-Joy Knight, Simon MacLean, M.W. McHaffie, Eva Miller, Hans Jacob Orning, Jamie Page, Susanne Pohl-Zucker, Amanda Strick, Helle Vogt, Mark D. West, and Stephen D. White.
How do we feel when our friend turns up with a holiday present and we have nothing ready to give in exchange? What lies behind our small social panics and the maneuvers we use, to avoid losing face? Recognizing how much we care about how others see us, this wise and witty book tackles the complex subject of humiliation and the emotions that keep us going as self-respecting social actors.
William Ian Miller writes astutely about a host of homely and seemingly banal social occasions and shows us what is buried behind them. In his view, our lives are permeated with sometimes merely uncomfortable, sometimes hair-raising rituals of shame and humiliation. Take the unwanted dinner invitation, the exchange of valentines in grade school, or the "diabolically ingenious invention of the bridal registry." Readers will have no trouble recognizing the social situations he finds indicative of our often perilous dealings with each other.
Educated as a literary critic and philologist, by profession a historian of medieval Iceland, by employment a law professor, Miller ranges comfortably beyond his areas of formal expertise to talk about emotions across time and culture. His scenarios are based on incidents from his own college town and from the Iceland of the sagas. He also makes incursions into the emotional worlds represented in the Middle English poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and in some of the works of Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, and others. Indeed, one theme that gradually becomes specific is how meaning travels from one culture to another. Ancient codes of honor, he insists, still function in contemporary American life.
Some of Miller's narratives are unsettling, and he acknowledges that a certain ironical misanthropy may run through his discussions. But he succeeds in cutting through a mountain of pretensions to entertain and enlighten us.
Автор: Colquhoun, Ian Название: Hibs are here, the ISBN: 1785318292 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785318290 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17940.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Hibs are Here is the follow up to Ian Colquhoun`s previous book on Hibernian Football Club: From Oblivion to Hampden. That culminated in the club`s successful League Cup winning season in 1991/92. This next volume is subtitled Miller to Millennium and charts the period from 1992 through to 1999.
Автор: Ian M. Miller Название: Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China ISBN: 0295752874 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295752877 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29260.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE
Restores China's place in forest history
The disappearance of China's naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country's history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China's early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back against this narrative of deforestation, Ian Miller charts the rise of timber plantations between about 1000 and 1700, when natural forests were replaced with anthropogenic ones. Miller demonstrates that this form of forest management generally rested on private ownership under relatively distant state oversight and taxation. He further draws on in-depth case studies of shipbuilding and imperial logging to argue that this novel landscape was not created through simple extractive pressures, but by attempts to incorporate institutional and ecological complexity into a unified imperial state.
Miller uses the emergence of anthropogenic forests in south China to rethink both temporal and spatial frameworks for Chinese history and the nature of Chinese empire. Because dominant European forestry models do not neatly overlap with the non-Western world, China's history is often left out of global conversations about them; Miller's work rectifies this omission and suggests that in some ways, China's forest system may have worked better than the more familiar European institutions.
The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.
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