After The Past

Author : Andrew Feldherr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119076706
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Past written by Andrew Feldherr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a unique and accessible understanding of Sallust and his influence on writing the history of Rome Gaius Sallustius Crispus (‘Sallust’, 86-35 BCE) is the earliest Roman historian from whom any works survive. His two extant writings chronicle crucial moments of a political, social, and ethical revolution with profound consequences for his own life and those of his audience. After the Past: Sallust on History and Writing History examines what it meant to write the history of contentious events—Catiline’s famous rebellion in 63 BCE and the war waged against the North African king Jugurtha fifty years earlier—while their effects were still so vividly felt. One of the first book-length treatments of Sallust in over fifty years, the text offers a comprehensive reading of Sallust’s works using the tools of narratology and intertextual analysis to reveal the changing functions of historiography at the end of the Roman Republic. Author Andrew Feldherr’s comprehensive approach examines the literary strategies used by Sallust and many of the most interesting and significant aspects of the historian’s accomplishment while advancing the study of historiography as a literary form, reconsidering its relationship to rival genres such as rhetoric and tragedy. Pursuing a focused and distinctive scholarly argument, this book: Provides a comprehensive approach to Sallust’s extant works Explores how Sallust helped his readers to reflect on their own relationship with their tumultuous past Contributes to understanding Roman conceptualizations of space and of writing Challenges the core assumption that literary historiography of the time period is essentially rhetorical nature After the Past: Sallust on History and Writing History is an accessible and useful resource for students of Latin literature and Roman history from the advanced undergraduate through professional levels, and for all those with an interest in historiography as a literary genre in Greco-Roman antiquity and in the literary history of the late Republic and triumviral period.

Author : Willem Jongman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004350918
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Past written by Willem Jongman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was funny about ancient jokes, and why? Why did the Roman state legislate to curb the behaviour of its obscenely rich and powerful elite, if it never really expected such laws to be obeyed? Why did it oppress the poor, and lavish public child support on them? These are important questions, but ancient Greeks and Romans could never have thought of them. They never questioned the right of the rich to be rich. They could not improve their understanding of Homeric gift-giving with the experience of ritualized friendship among the Trobriand islanders. Such questions and such answers can only come from those who live after the ancient past. This volume honours the well-known Dutch epigraphist and ancient historian H.W. Pleket. Ten substantial essays reflect his wide range, from early Greece to the Roman Empire, and his taste for comparative economic and social history.

Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345475577
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manifold: Time written by Stephen Baxter and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reading Manifold: Time is like sending your mind to the gym for a brisk workout. If you don’t feel both exhausted and exhilirated when you’re done, you haven’t been working hard enough.”—The New York Times Book Review The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world’s governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter future. That man, Reid Malenfant, has a very different solution to the problems plaguing the planet: the exploration and colonization of space. Now Malenfant gambles the very existence of time on a single desperate throw of the dice. Battling national sabotage and international outcry, as apocalyptic riots sweep the globe, he builds a spacecraft and launches it into deep space. The odds are a trillion to one against him. Or are they? “A staggering novel! If you ever thought you understood time, you’ll be quickly disillusioned when you read Manifold: Time.”—Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Author : Sarah Greer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429683030
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire written by Sarah Greer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire offers a new take on European history from c.900 to c.1050, examining the ‘post-Carolingian’ period in its own right and presenting it as a time of creative experimentation with new forms of authority and legitimacy. In the late eighth century, the Frankish king Charlemagne put together a new empire. Less than a century later, that empire had collapsed. The story of Europe following the end of the Carolingian empire has often been presented as a tragedy: a time of turbulence and disintegration, out of which the new, recognisably medieval kingdoms of Europe emerged. This collection offers a different perspective. Taking a transnational approach, the authors contemplate the new social and political order that emerged in tenth- and eleventh-century Europe and examine how those shaping this new order saw themselves in relation to the past. Each chapter explores how the past was used creatively by actors in the regions of the former Carolingian Empire to search for political, legal and social legitimacy in a turbulent new political order. Advancing the debates on the uses of the past in the early Middle Ages and prompting reconsideration of the narratives that have traditionally dominated modern writing on this period, Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire is ideal for students and scholars of tenth- and eleventh-century European history.

Author : Daniel I. Chu
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323642357
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: Past, Present, and Future, An Issue of Surgical Clinics E-Book written by Daniel I. Chu and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Surgical Clinics of North America focuses on Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: Past, Present, and Future, and is edited by Dr. Daniel I. Chu. Articles will include: Overview of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery: The Evolution and Adoption of ERAS in North America; ERAS and Effects on Quality Metrics; ERAS and Effects on Patient-Reported Outcomes; ERAS: Economic Impact and Value; Pre-Op Preparations for ERAS: A Role for Prehabilitation; ERAS and Multimodal Strategies for Analgesia; ERAS and Intra-operative Fluid Strategies; ERAS Implementation: Strategies, Barriers and Facilitators; Nursing Perspectives on ERAS; ERAS and Reduction of Surgical Disparities; ERAS in Community Hospitals; ERAS: What's New in Colorectal; ERAS: Hepatobiliary; ERAS: Urology; ERAS: Gyn-Oncology; ERAS and Future Directions; and more!

Author : Louise Bannerman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453518215
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with Victory After Past Mistakes written by Louise Bannerman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uplifting, inspiring and heartfelt. This book lets you know God is a God of second chance. I have enjoyed reading this book and already I have read it about six times. Elder William Stewart, Detroit, MI Overall, this book was refreshingly honest, inspiring, and good reading. Ron Bennett, Detroit, MI Few people endeavor to share their personal struggles and glaring mistakes as Louise Bannerman has done in her book Living with Victory After Past Mistakes. With courage and candor, Ms. Bannerman reveals the intimate details of her life's most difficult experiences. This book is for anyone who is looking for a way out of the darkness of despair into a place of hope. It will be a light unto your path to victorious living. Janice Smith, Author, A Place Without Noise Very open; it's inspiring and uplifting to know everyone is not alone. We must devote ourselves and know that the challenges will give us the experiences to take us to the next level. We must all go through something to make us one of God's creations and to make us a leader so that others can be lifted up while we are living here on earth today. Nicole Harris, Detroit MI Pain echoes throughout the generations and the cries remain the same. Living with Victory After Past Mistakes unlocks the door to everything done in the dark and exposes it to the light. Beverly Welch, Author of The Art of Walking Through Fires Do you feel defeated and that you cannot go on living? Do you believe that God will never forgive you for things that you have done? Life is filled with decisions. Are you ashamed of the ones that you have made? Well, there is good news for you. Even with all our mistakes, God yet loves us. We can live with ourselves in the face of our many painful mistakes. It takes God's love to overcome them. He has forgiven us. God wants to unite with us. He wants us to live in His word and have a new life. Come and discover the powerful truth about God's Word and love, which will transform your heart forever. God's love reaches out to you to bring this change. You can be set free from the past. God has changed my life with His love. And now, I pass love to you by sharing Biblical truths that set me free. Learn from my past bitter mistakes how to live victoriously in Christ. I pray that your heart will be delivered as you read my collection of poems. Experience the characteristics of God's love page by page. There is victory in Jesus!

Author : Mario Vaneechoutte
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608052443
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years After Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution written by Mario Vaneechoutte and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book starts from the observation that humans are very different from the other primates. Why are we naked? Why do we speak? Why do we walk upright? Fifty years ago, in 1960, marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy tried to answer this when he announced his so-called aquatic hypothesis: human ancestors did not live in dry savannahs as traditional anthropology assumes, but have adapted to live at the edge between land and water, gathering both terrestrial and aquatic foods. This eBook is an up-to-date collection of the views of the most important protagonists of this long-neglected theory of huma.

Author : Hilary Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009005200
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Virus written by Hilary Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the deep roots of the UK's lack of resilience when COVID-19 hit and sets out an ambitious manifesto for change.

Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253000556
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Dinosaurs written by Donald R. Prothero and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the thousands of new animal species that walked in the footsteps of the dinosaurs—and the climate changes that brought them forth. The fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their place evolved an enormous variety of land creatures, especially mammals, which in their way were every bit as remarkable as their Mesozoic cousins. The Age of Mammals, the Cenozoic Era, has never had its Jurassic Park, but it was an amazing time in earth’s history, populated by a wonderful assortment of bizarre animals. The rapid evolution of thousands of species of mammals brought forth many incredible creatures―including our own ancestors. Their story is part of a larger story of new life emerging from the greenhouse conditions of the Mesozoic, warming up dramatically about 55 million years ago, and then cooling rapidly so that 33 million years ago the glacial ice returned. The earth’s vegetation went through equally dramatic changes, from tropical jungles in Montana and forests at the poles. Life in the sea underwent striking evolution reflecting global climate change, including the emergence of such creatures as giant sharks, seals, sea lions, dolphins, and whales. Engaging and insightful, After the Dinosaurs is a book for everyone who has an abiding fascination with the remarkable life of the past.

Author : Sabine Hildebrandt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789207851
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recognizing the Past in the Present written by Sabine Hildebrandt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent of that complicity. This interdisciplinary collection of studies presents documentation of the critical role medicine played in realizing the policies of Hitler’s regime. It traces the history of Nazi medicine from its roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through its manifestations during the Nazi period, on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present.