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Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy

Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy

The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of new essays on the philosophy and philosophers of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Written by a cast of international scholars it covers the full range of ancient philosophy from the sixth century BC to the sixth century AD and beyond. There are dedicated discussions of the major areas of the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle together with accounts of their predecessors and successors. The contributors also address various problems of interpretation and method highlighting the particular demands and interest of working with ancient philosophical texts. All original texts discussed are translated into English.

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Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of history. This new edition is a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of the Near East from prehistory and the beginnings of farming to the fall of Achaemenid Persia. Through text images maps and historical documents readers discover the material social and political world of cultures from Egypt to India allowing students to see how these intertwined cultures interacted throughout history. Now fully updated and incorporating the latest scholarship on society religion and the economy this book highlights the changing fortunes of these great civilizations. A special feature of this book is its many Debating the Evidence sections where the reader becomes familiar with scholarly disputes concerning the interpretation of textual and archaeological evidence on a variety of topics and case studies. The fourth edition of Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture remains a crucial textbook for undergraduates and general readers studying the ancient Near East particularly the political and social history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia as well as students of archaeology and biblical studies who are working on the region.

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Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy Sacred Science and the Search for Soul

Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy Sacred Science and the Search for Soul

In Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy Todd Hayen explores what the spiritual concepts of the enigmatic ancient Egyptians can teach us about our own modern psyches and the pursuit of a meaningful life. Hayen examines the ancient Egyptians’ possession of a concept contemporary academics have labeled consciousness of the heart: an innate knowledge of the entirety of the universe. While all human beings possess this consciousness of the heart our modern culture has largely lost the ability to tap into this inborn knowledge. By examining the material accomplishments of ancient Egypt and how their seemingly deeper awareness of their inner world created a harmonious outer world we can begin to understand how modern psychotherapy through a Jungian perspective could be instrumental in achieving a more profound and meaningful personal experience of life. Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy will be insightful reading for analytical psychologists in practice and in training Jungian psychotherapists and psychologists and academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies and ancient spirituality. | Ancient Egypt and Modern Psychotherapy Sacred Science and the Search for Soul

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Alaska Dinosaurs An Ancient Arctic World

Alaska Dinosaurs An Ancient Arctic World

Anthony Fiorillo has been exploring the Arctic since 1998. For him like many others the Arctic holds the romance of uncharted territory extreme conditions and the inevitable epic challenges that arise. For Fiorillo however the Arctic also holds the secrets of the history of life on Earth and its fossils bring him back field season after field season in pursuit of improving human understanding of ancient history. His studies of the rocks and fossils of the Arctic shed light on a world that once was and provide insight into what might be. | Alaska Dinosaurs An Ancient Arctic World

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Ancient Egyptian Temple Ritual Performance Patterns and Practice

Ancient Egyptian Temple Ritual Performance Patterns and Practice

Large state temples in ancient Egypt were vast agricultural estates with interests in mining trading and other economic activities. The temple itself served as the mansion or palace of the deity to whom the estate belonged and much of the ritual in temples was devoted to offering a representative sample of goods to the gods. After ritual performances produce was paid as wages to priests and temple staff and presented as offerings to private mortuary establishments. This redistribution became a daily ritual in which many basic necessities of life for elite Egyptians were produced. This book evaluates the influence of common temple rituals not only on the day to day lives of ancient Egyptians but also on their special events economics and politics. Author Katherine Eaton argues that a study of these daily rites ought to be the first step in analyzing the structure of more complex societal processes. | Ancient Egyptian Temple Ritual Performance Patterns and Practice

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Pomegranates Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine

Pomegranates Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine

While one may not find ancient studies that substantiate the pomegranate's curative and preventive qualities the exalted status of this fruit goes back as far as the history of agriculture itself. Allusions to the pomegranate are readily found in the oldest cultures of the Indus Valley ancient China and classical Greece as well as in the Old Testament. To modern scientists the biochemistry of the pomegranate is as equally fascinating as its storied place in literature and religion. Providing an unprecedented compilation of scientific information Pomegranates: Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine offers an exploration of the biochemistry health effects and cultivation of the pomegranate that is as authoritative as it is unparalleled. Featuring the contributions of a multidisciplinary and international team of prominent researchers it presents the latest findings on the potential human health benefits of this exceptionally polyphenol-rich fruit. As the research indicates the physiological effects of pomegranate juice constituents are remarkable in their preventive potential against two of the major chronic diseases of aging - heart disease and cancer. Many of the pioneering researchers responsible for initiating our newfound fascination with pomegranates discuss its biochemistry detailing the location and action of the phytochemicals found in the fruit's flesh peels and seeds. They present evidence of the pomegranate's impact on heart disease including its ability to enhance nitric oxide production in endothelial cells. They also reveal the significant antiproliferative and proapoptotic effects attributed to the pomegranate in battling several different types of cancer cells as well as its ability to retard tumor growth in animals. Recognizing that the pomegranate is only as valuable as it is available the editors include a substantial section on commercialization and another on plant growth and improvement. These additions mak | Pomegranates Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine

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Ancient Loons Stories Pingree Told Me

Ancient Loons Stories Pingree Told Me

Ah I’m Pingree. We meet again. Splendid. Won’t you sit down?I looked around David’s room. Short of the library stacks I had never seen so many books piled into a single room. Where could I sit down? Every square inch of horizontal surface was covered. Books papers notes manuscripts—all congregated in random and chaotic disorder. This small encounter and the snapshot of the protagonist on the cover of this book introduce the reader to David E. Pingree the eminent classicist Orientalist historian of ancient science and member of the Department of the History of Mathematics at Brown University. This is a book of his stories retold by Phil Davis award-winning author and raconteur par excellence who reconstructs them from letters and many conversations with his friend Pingree. The stories trace connections between ancient characters historical and mythical and recreate a world in which the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake leads to unexpected pleasures and associations. They capture a world best described by Saul Lieberman’s quip about Gershom Scholem’s great work on the Kabala: Trash is trash; but the study of trash is scholarship and David Pingree’s imagined response Yes but there’s always something of value to be learned. The book is dedicated to preserving and promoting the specialized knowledge and thoughts of David Pingree a truly remarkable person and to inspire readers to follow academic tradition and at the same time explore unusual connections. | Ancient Loons Stories Pingree Told Me

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Ancient Chinese Encyclopedia of Technology Translation and Annotation of Kaogong ji The Artificers' Record

Ancient Chinese Encyclopedia of Technology Translation and Annotation of Kaogong ji The Artificers' Record

This book presents the first translation into English of the full text of the Kaogong ji. This classic work described by the great scholar of the history of Chinese science and technology Joseph Needham as the most important document for the study of ancient Chinese technology dates from the fifth century BC and forms part of the Zhouli (The Rites of the Zhou Dynasty) one of the great Confucian classics. The text itself describes the techniques of working and the technologies used by over twenty different kinds of craftsmen and artificers such as metal workers chariot makers weapon makers music instrument makers potters and master builders. This edition besides providing the full text in English also provides a substantial introduction and other supporting explanatory material over one hundred illustrations of ancient Chinese artefacts and the original Chinese text itself. | Ancient Chinese Encyclopedia of Technology Translation and Annotation of Kaogong ji The Artificers' Record

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Ancient Sacred Sites in the Gulf of Naples The Sanctuary of Athena at Punta Campanella

Ancient Sacred Sites in the Gulf of Naples The Sanctuary of Athena at Punta Campanella

The geographical position between the gulfs of Naples and Salerno made pre-Roman Sorrento a fundamental point of passage. Around the inhabited centre sacred sites or scattered settlements developed including the sanctuary of Athena on the extreme tip of the peninsula near Punta Campanella. This book explores the historical development of the sanctuary from the 6th century BC to the 1st century AD. Drawing on partly unpublished archaeological documentation and literary sources the book provides useful elements for understanding the site and its relationship with the surrounding area. Sorrento and the Greek presence in the Gulf of Naples are linked to the sanctuary installation perhaps first dedicated to the Sirens but surely after to Athena. Judging from literary sources it was one of the best-known places of worship in ancient Italy. It was only in the 1980s that the discovery of an Oscan inscription with a dedication to Minerva made it possible to hypothesise the presence of a sanctuary near the Medieval tower at Punta Campanella. The analysis of the archaeological documentation known until now the study of the new archaeological plans and the material culture (ceramics) from the site make it possible to better understand the development and the importance of the sanctuary. This book therefore defines the historical and territorial development of the sanctuary of Athena reconstructing the history of the territory of ancient Surrentum and above all its most important sanctuary. The book will be of particular interest to archaeologists ancient historians and historians of religion. | Ancient Sacred Sites in the Gulf of Naples The Sanctuary of Athena at Punta Campanella

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How to Extend Your Victorian Terraced House

How to Extend Your Victorian Terraced House

Brimming with design ideas drawings and photographs of exemplary projects this is a must-have highly visual guide to extending a Victorian terraced house for designers architects and homeowners. An essential resource for designing and delivering a wide variety of extensions it features case studies from the full gamut of nineteenth-century terrace house types. Detailed plans reveal floor by floor a range of options for extending and/or reconfiguring space. Colour-coded before-and-after plans show at a glance which walls have been removed or changed in each option. This is complemented by extensive colour photography of realised built work. Ideas and inspiration are supplemented by practical guidance with ‘rules of thumb’ for design and key information on permitted development rights. All plans are drawn to scale so that they may be measured from and used for planning any renovation project. Covering different types of briefs and design solutions this indispensable guide to renovating Victorian terraces features extensions loft conversions basements and interior remodelling. It contains over 150 floor plans and 100 full-page colour images. | How to Extend Your Victorian Terraced House

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Rape Culture in the House of David A Company of Men

Rape Culture in the House of David A Company of Men

Rape Culture in the House of David: A Company of Men describes a biblical rape culture sustained and maintained by Yhwh and a host of men—from royal kings and princes to their relatives counselors generals and servants. This volume reveals that sexual violence in the house of David is not simply perpetrated by its most powerful men. Rather in the pursuit of power status authority and honor men form alliances and networks that support the use and abuse of women’s bodies and valorize sexualized violence against other men. The man who is most capable of sexual violence is Israel’s ideal king. Barbara Thiede deftly addresses the power and contemporary relevance of these narratives and argues that exposing and naming rape culture in biblical literature is essential—in social economic and political realms. This is a meaningful feminist intervention in the field of biblical studies and is of great benefit to graduate students and scholars of religion gender studies and masculinity studies. | Rape Culture in the House of David A Company of Men

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Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War Pepys's Navy White Book and Brooke House Papers

Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War Pepys's Navy White Book and Brooke House Papers

The two pieces of work which make up this volume were compiled by Pepys in the 1660s. The first is Pepys’s own record of how the Navy Board functioned. It records details of meetings with fellow officers such as Sir William Penn and Sir John Mennes and how work could be hampered at times by the refusal of an officer to sign a contract or bill as he had not been present at the original discussions. The Navy White Book gives the discussions which took place over a variety of matters such as contracts with Sir William Warren a timber merchant; costs and quality of masts and canvas. The Brooke House Papers deal with the inquiry set up by the House of Commons into the conduct of the Second Dutch War following the humiliation of the Dutch invasion of 1667 and the inefficiency of the Navy Board. The Brooke House Papers further show Pepys defending the Navy Board’s professionalism and integrity and also that naval administration during the Second Dutch War was efficient. The Papers also show Charles II ‘s role in protecting the Navy Board by making his dissatisfaction with the inquiry known through his disrespectful language and interruptions as well as his support for Pepys whom he makes the Board’s spokesman. | Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War Pepys's Navy White Book and Brooke House Papers

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Full House Reassessing the Earth’s Population Carrying Capacity

Full House Reassessing the Earth’s Population Carrying Capacity

Originally published in 1995 after decades of steady growth this book was written at a time when the world’s food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. This book examines the causes of the imbalance in the food/population equation and suggests ways in which Malthusian checks can be countered. It calls for an international strategy to restore global security and a budget to implement it with a massive redirection of the world’s financial resources. On one side of the argument the authors advocate increased expenditure on family planning services education and women’s rights. On the other they stress the environmental importance of reforestation and soil conservation schemes to halt the deterioration of the agricultural resource base. | Full House Reassessing the Earth’s Population Carrying Capacity

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Graffiti in Antiquity

Graffiti in Antiquity

Ancient graffiti - hundreds of thousands of informal ephemeral texts spanning millennia - offer a patchwork of fragmentary conversations in a variety of languages spread across the Mediterranean world. Cut painted inked or traced in charcoal the surviving graffiti present a layer of lived experience in the ancient world unavailable from other sources. Graffiti in Antiquity reveals how and why the inhabitants of Greece and Rome - men and women and free and enslaved - formulated written and visual messages about themselves and the world around them as graffiti. The sources - drawn from 800 BCE to 600 CE - are examined both within their individual historical cultural and archaeological contexts and thematically allowing for an exploration of social identity in the urban society of the ancient world. An analysis of one of the most lively and engaged forms of personal communication and protest Graffiti in Antiquity introduces a new way of reading sociocultural relationships among ordinary people living in the ancient world.

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The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in ancient philosophy. An international team of scholars situates and re-evaluates Neoplatonism within the history of ancient philosophy and thought and explores its influence on philosophical and religious schools worldwide. Over thirty chapters are divided into seven clear parts: (Re)sources instruction and interaction Methods and Styles of Exegesis Metaphysics and Metaphysical Perspectives Language Knowledge Soul and Self Nature: Physics Medicine and Biology Ethics Political Theory and Aesthetics The legacy of Neoplatonism. The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is a major reference source for all students and scholars in Neoplatonism and ancient philosophy as well as researchers in the philosophy of science ethics aesthetics and religion.

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Saul and the Monarchy: A New Look

Saul and the Monarchy: A New Look

The negative biblical presentation of King Saul of Israel has been biased in favour of David at the expense of Saul. This book presents a more positive picture and more realistic view of the culture of the period extending from Saul to the schism. Simcha Shalom Brooks explores a number of controversial issues such as the historicity of the biblical text on which so many modern scholars are sharply divided; that David was ambitious and coveted Saul's throne and even though David became king the people continued to support the house of Saul. This book makes a valuable contribution to the current biblical debate as to the existence of ancient Israel in the Iron Age 1 Period. Simcha Shalom Brooks draws on literary historical and archaeological material to present a balanced view of the period. | Saul and the Monarchy: A New Look

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Groundwater Response to Changing Climate

Groundwater Response to Changing Climate

Groundwater systems are vital to both society and the environment supporting food production and many other ecosystem services. Sustainable management of this vital resource for future generations requires a sound understanding of how groundwater might respond to the inevitable changes in future climate. In this volume recent developments within the interlinked areas of the response of groundwater systems to climate variability and climate change are highlighted using contemporary field investigations and monitoring of aquifers numerical simulations of aquifer response to climate change predictions and paleohydrogeological studies of ancient groundwater systems. The book provides an up-to-date description of the relationship between groundwater behaviour and ancient historical current and future climates for a range of diverse aquifer systems around the world. | Groundwater Response to Changing Climate

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Self-build How to design and build your own home

Self-build How to design and build your own home

If you’ve ever dreamt of designing and building your own home this book is for you. Becoming a ‘self-builder’ doesn’t necessarily mean learning to build a house physically from scratch. Anyone can be a self-builder – you can do so without ever having to lay a brick yourself. Self-built homes can also be more individual better designed and more economical than buying from a developer. This book is designed for homeowners and self-builders whether aspiring or on the brink of starting a project. It provides a jargon-free step-by-step guide to the process of designing and building your own home distilling all of the practical information needed to make your dream house a reality. Carefully crafted to offer friendly easy-to-understand practical guidance and packed with watch points hints and tips it also highlights the potential pitfalls and suggests ways of avoiding them. Including indications of costs and timescales Self-build demystifies the process of budgeting finding a site gaining planning permission designing your home and all of the surrounding issues to do with sustainability planning regulations procurement and the use of building contracts. Beautifully illustrated with over 230-colour photos diagrams and plans it provides all the inspiration and ideas you need to bring your own project to life. Featured houses include: Amphibious House by Baca Architects Corten Courtyard House by Barefoot Architects Haringey Brick House by Satish Jassal Architects Shawm House by Mawson Kerr Architects Sussex House by Wilkinson King Architects The Pocket House by Tikari Works Architects. | Self-build How to design and build your own home

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The Family Women and Death Comparative Studies

The Family Women and Death Comparative Studies

Originally published in 1983 and as a second edition in 1993 this book deals with 3 universal but culturally variable phenomena: the family women and death. The book poses questions about our own ways of looking at the family and private life at sex and gender and at death by analysing ancient Greek ideas and by showing how researchers’ presuppositions have been influenced by their own culture and experience. The views of Fustel de Coulanges on the place of tomb-cult in the evolution of the family in the ancient world are critically examined and related to their 19th Century context; the study of the classical Athenian family is related to current historical and sociological debates on the separation between public and private life. | The Family Women and Death Comparative Studies

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PHPP Illustrated A designer's companion to the Passivhaus Planning Package

PHPP Illustrated A designer's companion to the Passivhaus Planning Package

Passive House is a leading low energy building standard. An important tool for designing Passive House buildings is the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP). This book is an essential guide to the PHPP and sets out clear and easy-to-follow steps for inputting and understanding a building in PHPP. Fully-revised and updated this new edition provides essential updates on the latest version of the Planning Package - an essential read for any architects designers and students wanting utilise the PHPP as a design tool. A short pragmatic guide ideal for the time-poor A very visual easy-to-use guide allowing you to quickly get to grips with PHPP Designed for both practitioners and students - you don't need prior experience of low-energy or Passive House design. | PHPP Illustrated A designer's companion to the Passivhaus Planning Package

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Greek and Roman Technology A Sourcebook of Translated Greek and Roman Texts

Greek and Roman Technology A Sourcebook of Translated Greek and Roman Texts

In this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient texts to provide a history and analysis of the origins and development of technology in the classical world. Sherwood and Nikolic with Humphrey and Oleson provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings of technology. Among the topics covered are energy basic mechanical devices hydraulic engineering household industry medicine and health transport and trade and military technology. This fully revised Sourcebook collects more than 1 300 passages from over 200 ancient sources and a diverse range of literary genres such as the encyclopaedic Natural History of Pliny the Elder the poetry of Homer and Hesiod the philosophies of Plato Aristotle and Lucretius the agricultural treatises of Varro Columella and Cato the military texts of Philo of Byzantium and Aeneas Tacticus as well as the medical texts of Galen Celsus and the Hippocratic Corpus. Almost 100 line drawings indexes of authors and subjects introductions outlining the general significance of the evidence notes to explain the specific details and current bibliographies are included. This new and revised edition of Greek and Roman Technology will remain an important and vital resource for students of technology in the ancient world as well as those studying the impact of technological change on classical society. | Greek and Roman Technology A Sourcebook of Translated Greek and Roman Texts

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The Jews A History

The Jews A History

The Jews: A History is a comprehensive and accessible text that explores the religious cultural social and economic diversity of the Jewish people and their faith. Placing Jewish history within its wider cultural context the book covers a broad time span stretching from ancient Israel to the modern day. It examines Jewish history across a range of settings including the ancient Near East the age of Greek and Roman rule the medieval realms of Christianity and Islam modern Europe including the World Wars and the Holocaust and contemporary America and Israel covering a variety of topics such as legal emancipation acculturation and religious innovation. The third edition is fully updated to include more case studies and to encompass recent events in Jewish history as well as religion social life economics culture and gender. Supported by case studies online references further reading maps and illustrations The Jews: A History provides students with a comprehensive and wide-ranging grounding in Jewish history. | The Jews A History

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