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Céramiques Mycéniennes d'Ougarit
Marguerite Yon, Vassos Karageorghis, and Nicolle E. Hirschfeld
Les fouilles menées depuis 1929 par la mission française de Ras Shamra-Ougarit sur la côte de Syrie, et qui se poursuivent à ce jour, ont livre une quantité considérable de céramique de type mycénien, qui constitue dans la dernière phase de l'Age du Bronze un des fossiles directeurs les plus significatifs. Les objets mycéniens d'Ougarit déjà publiés representaient la proportion la plus importante du repertoire connu à travers tout le Proche-Orient; mais une partie restait inédite, comprenant notamment des échantillons d'étude rapportés au Louvre et les découvertes des campagnes récentes. Le présent volume fait connaître près de quatre cents nouveaux documents, que l'on a tenté de replacer dans leur contexte archéologique, et qui bénéficient des travaux les plus récents sur cette céramique et sa diffusion dans l'antiquité.
Marguerite YON, qui a poursuivi des recherches sur la céramique antique, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS (Maison de l'Orient, Lyon), fouilleur de Salamine (site de la ville) et des sanctuaires phéniciens et du port de guerre de Kition Bamboula (Larnaca) a Chypre, a dirigé de 1978 à 1998 la mission française de Ras Shamra-Ougarit (Syrie).
Vassos KARAGEORGHIS, dont les travaux sur la céramique mycénienne font autorité, Directeur des Antiquités de Chypre (1963-1989), puis Professeur d'Archéologie a l'Université de Chypre (1992-1996), a fouillé en particulier la nécropole royale de Salamine et le quartier des temples du Bronze Récent et phéniciens de Kition-Kathari (Larnaca) a Chypre.
Nicolle HIRSCHFELD, Professeur a I'Université du Texas à Austin et candidate au doctorat, a mené des travaux importants sur la céramique mycénienne trouvée en Égée, en Turquie (épave d'Uluburun), à Chypre, en Syrie et sur la côte du Levant, en Égypte, en même temps que des recherches sur le commerce de l'Age du Bronze Récent en Méditerranée orientale.
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The Moral Life
Steven Luper and Curtis Brown
The second edition of The Moral Life covers a wide variety of applied ethical issues, from issues that confront the individual to international, intergenerational, and interspecies issues. The diverse readings cover a range of differing viewpoints chosen to stimulate class discussions.
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The Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck's Early Works
Heather I. Sullivan
One of the major challenges in Western literature and philosophy today is seeking non-dualistic perspectives of the world. This study examines the German romantic Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) with just such an end in mind. It focuses on how Tieck's early works combine multifaceted narrative contexts, like framing tales and the mixing of genres, with ambiguously defined connections among the various figures and the natural world in order to reveal unexpected and often inexplicable interdependencies. It also demonstrates how Tieck's early novellas and novels, when considered in light of the «intercontextuality» of the figures in their layered tales, suggest a much less autonomous «subject.»
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A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction
Victoria Aarons
Exploring the importance of storytelling in articulating the vicissitudes of individual and communal identity in 20th-century American Jewish fiction, this study focuses upon the short story, and on figures such as Aleichem, Schwartz, Roth, Malamud, Salinger and Spiegelman.
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Beyond the Swastika
Peter O'Brien
Since unification, alarmist reports of neo-Nazi attacks against foreign workers and new immigrants have led to fears that Germany is reverting to a xenophobic nationalist stance. Peter O'Brien argues that fears of a resurgent German nationalism are overstated. He traces, in the policies of the Federal Republic, a longstanding and steadily increasing commitment to the liberal principles of the Basic Law, which legally protect foreigners from hostile German nationalism. The real cause for concern in Germany, O'Brien argues, is the very entrenched liberalism which holds nationalism in check; a 'technocratic liberalism' which overzealously protects Germany's liberal democracy and prevents minority groups from achieving full rights of political participation.
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Introduction to a Special Education: The Inclusive Classroom
Karen A. Waldron
A unique introduction text that guides prospective special and regular educators toward understanding and meeting the needs of students with exceptionalities. Written in an integrated, non-categorical format to match the placement of most students. This book maintains the critical information of the traditional introductory text: the history of special education, state and federal legislation, and the role of the courts. Yet this book goes beyond conventional content. Based on the premise that all students are special and that "good teaching is still good teaching," it provides more than one hundred reproducible tables listing collaborative and teaching strategies to improve the education of all students, including those traditionally not eligible for special services.
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Syria and the United States: Eisenhower's Cold War in the Middle East
David W. Lesch
The "Syrian crisis" of 1957, sparked by a covert attempt by the Eisenhower administration to overthrow what it perceived to be an emerging Soviet client-state in the Middle East, represented the denouement of a badly misguided U.S. foreign policy, according to David Lesch. The repercussions of this incident, which almost precipitated a superpower confrontation, made glaringly obvious the pitfalls of a Middle East policy so obsessed with the "Soviet threat" that it precluded a reasoned analysis of the complex dynamics of the region.
Focusing on regional politics and utilizing newly available primary documentation, Syria and the United States offers a multi-dimensional analysis of Syrian-American relations during the Eisenhower years and presents a new interpretation of the "Syrian crisis" and the evolution of U.S. foreign policy that led to it. In addition, Lesch offers important new insight into the roles played by Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and the United Nations as well as a thorough examination of the Syrian political scene. The implications of the past for the present, Lesch emphasizes, should not go unremarked in light of current events - and Syria's pivotal role in them - in the Middle East. -
Constructivity in Computer Science
J. Paul Myers Jr. and Michael J. O'Donnell
Mathematicians have long recognized the distinction between an argument showing that an interesting object exists and a procedure for actually constructing the object. Computer science adds a new dimension of interest in constructivity, since a computer program is a formal description of a constructive procedure that can be executed automatically. It has beenover a decade since a conference was devoted to constructivity, and never before has one been held specifically relating computer science to constructivity. Thus, this proceedings volume is the most concentrated offering ever produced of the diverse ways in which constructivity and computer science are related. The papers cover semantics and type theory, logic and theorem proving, real and complex analysis, topology and combinatorics, nonconstructive graph-theoretical techniques, and curriculum and pedagogic issues. The book offers a concentrated view of the many ways in which constructivity has assumed importance in computer science, and contains results available nowhere else.
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Special Education: The Challenge of the Future
Karen A. Waldron, Albert E. Riester, and John H. Moore
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Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems: An Introductory Reader for Philosophy
Peter A. French and Curtis Brown
This anthology features uncommonly interesting readings, both classical and contemporary, which approach central problems of philosophy of the intriguing puzzles, paradoxes, and problems.
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