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Urban Elites of Zadar
This book examines economic, geographical, and social mobility in the early modern Adriatic by focusing on the urban elites of Zadar during the crucial decades between the naval battles of Preveza (1538) and Lepanto (1571). The city, then known as Zara, was the nominal capital of Venice’s possessions in the Adriatic, and was a major hub for commerce, communication, and exchange. This case study aims at three aspects of everyday life along the frontiers of Latin Christianity during the apogee of Ottoman dominance in the Mediterranean. First, it analyses early modern communication, network density, and the protagonists’ interactions in the Adriatic. This analysis is based, for the first ti...
Ignition!
This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space. A classic work in the history of science, and described as “a good book on rocket stuff…that’s a really fun one” by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.
Outópos
Die Welt ist im Wandel. Entgrenzt durch die Technik formt der Mensch aus ihr eine globale Maschine, in der alles nach scheinbar objektiven Kriterien vermessen und vereinnahmt ist. Der Mensch selbst wird dabei zur Ressource und ist von sich stetig wandelnden Sinnbezügen in medialen Systemen umgeben. Im Akt der permanenten Transformation scheinbarer Komplexität verschwinden so Erkenntnispotentiale in einer zunehmend künstlichen Umgebung. Ist eine andere Welt denkbar? Im vorliegenden Band entwirft Gerhard Martin Burs eine konkrete Utopie. Basierend auf der Analyse der globalen Zivilisationswerdung sowie der Synthese von gesellschaftlicher Weltgestaltung und subjektiver Weltbildung entwickelt der Autor einen ausgeglichenen Kreislauf. Durch einen umfassenden Ansatz entsteht im Outópos eine Welt der Freiheit und damit die mögliche Basis für eine universelle Erkenntnis.
Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice
Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world pro...
The Road to Results
'The Road to Results: Designing and Conducting Effective Development Evaluations' presents concepts and procedures for evaluation in a development context. It provides procedures and examples on how to set up a monitoring and evaluation system, how to conduct participatory evaluations and do social mapping, and how to construct a "rigorous" quasi-experimental design to answer an impact question. The text begins with the context of development evaluation and how it arrived where it is today. It then discusses current issues driving development evaluation, such as the Millennium Development Goals and the move from simple project evaluations to the broader understandings of complex evaluations....
Rethinking Europe
The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) lies at the intersection of early modern and modern times. Frequently portrayed as the concluding chapter of the Reformation, it also points to the future by precipitating fundamental changes in the military, legal, political, religious, economic, and cultural arenas that came to mark a new, the modern era. Prompted by the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, the contributors reconsider the event itself and contextualize it within the broader history of the Reformation, military conflicts, peace initiatives, and negotiations of war.
Europas habsburgisches Jahrhundert
Der vorliegende Band umfasst in einem Panorama von rund 100 Jahren den erfolgreichen Machtzuwachs habsburger Herrscher am Ende des Mittelalters und zu Beginn der frühen Neuzeit. Vom letzten Drittel des 15. Jahrhunderts unter der erfolgreichen Expansionspolitik Maximilians I. bis zur ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts und der Abdankung Karls V. umgreift der Autor den Aufstieg der Habsburgermonarchie zur europäischen Zentralmacht und schließlich deren Teilung in eine spanische und eine österreichische Linie. Beginnend mit der Kaiserkrönung Friedrichs III. 1440 und der erfolgreichen Heiratspolitik seines Sohnes Maximilian, welche die Grundlage für den großdynastischen Aufstieg der Habsburger bedeutete, schließt der Band mit der zugleich größten Machtfülle und dem Scheitern dieser Ambitionen unter Karl V. Dabei werden sowohl dynastische, rechtliche und territoriale Aspekte als auch zentrale politische Ereignisse wie der Schmalkaldische Krieg und der Augsburger Religionsfriede untersucht.
The Crisis of Global Capitalism
The current economic crisis stems from a deeper crisis of cultural imagination and civilisational ethics: here is the starting point of this collection of essays which draw a new political economy facing the crisis of Western civilization. This bookgathers together a range of audacious and provocative readings of Caritas in Veritate, the first papal encyclical that addresses issues immediately relevant for politic, economic, and social theory. These readings embody the kind of fruitful dialogue Pope Benedict XVI wanted to generate with his radical discourse for an alternative political economy.
Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women
Fifty years of feminist thought have made the idea that women stay at home while men dominate the streets seem outdated; nevertheless, Ceuterick argues that theoretical considerations of gender, space, and power in film theory remain limited by binary models. Looking instead to more fluid models of spatial relations inspired by Sara Ahmed, Rosi Braidotti, and Doreen Massey, this book discovers wilful, affirmative, and imaginative activations of gender on screen. Through close, micro-analysis of historic European Messidor (Alain Tanner, 1979) and contemporary world cinema: Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis, 2002), Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012), and Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004), this book identifies affirmative aesthetics: light, texture, rhythm, movement and sound, all of which that participate in a rewriting of bodies and spaces. Ultimately, Ceuterick argues, affirmative aesthetics can challenge the gender categories and power structures that have been thought to determine our habitation of cars, homes, and city streets. Wilful women drive this book forward, through their movement and stillness, imagination and desire, performance and abjection.
Comprehensive Dermatologic Drug Therapy
Designed with practical usability in mind, Comprehensive Dermatologic Drug Therapy, 4th Edition, helps you safely and effectively treat the skin disorders you're likely to see in your practice. Dr. Stephen E. Wolverton and new associate editor Dr. Jashin J. Wu lead a team of global experts to bring you concise, complete guidance on today's full spectrum of topical, intralesional, and systemic drugs. You'll prescribe with confidence thanks to expert coverage of which drugs to use, when to use them, and adverse effects to monitor. - Includes new drug interaction tables, drug risk profiles, and FDA guidelines, as well as two new appendices that summarize chapter questions and summarize highest-...
