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  • Through a Glass, Darkly: Blurred Images of Cultural by Wilhelmus Antonius Arts

    By Wilhelmus Antonius Arts

    The query this article addresses is whether or not it truly is attainable to get a nearly face-to-face intimacy with a variety of different types of cultural culture and modernity by utilizing our stories and our powers of mind's eye - for instance, our expectancies - in a extra fruitful manner. The participants try and supply solutions to this query by way of taking as a tenet Erasmus's well-known motto "ad fontes" or, regularly visit the assets - with out, in spite of the fact that, nursing the appearance that our partial wisdom will ever be entire. Is there, they ask, a true chasm among the "modern" West and the "traditional" East, as such a lot of authors have argued? And if that is so, how deep is the chasm and the way is it to be bridged? How a lot do humans within the West learn about their very own cultural culture and the fashionable instances they reside in? How a lot do they be aware of of the traditions and the modernities of the East and what sort of do they should be aware of in orde r to deal with what the long run will most likely deliver? Are our photos of cultural culture and modernity in East and West, in previous and current, so blurred that we glance at them as via a pitcher, darkly? What the participants argue for is the need of taking a look at advancements either in East and West, either in earlier and current, from a much broader point of view, of taking a world aspect of departure. They argue for better figuring out and verbal exchange among cultures, for cultural pluralism (as particular from cultural relativism). They argue for the open, tolerant, non-dogmatic and demanding notion that was once crucial attribute of Erasmus's philosophy.

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  • Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in by Wladyslaw Duczko

    By Wladyslaw Duczko

    This quantity offers with the most arguable concerns in writings approximately early medieval heritage: the presence of Scandinavians, often called Rus, and their impression on japanese Europe through the Viking Age. those reports supply for the 1st time an in depth and specific photograph of the Norse inhabitants within the East by utilizing, in addition to written narratives, a variety of archaeological assets. The seven chapters survey the heritage, then depict the 1st Norse centres and websites of Norse colonists within the northwestern Russia; extra chapters comprise information regarding the nice variety of settlements within the Volga quarter and, ultimately describe the actions of a gaggle of Rus that ended in construction of the principality of Kiev. With assistance from various illustrations the contents of the ebook make clear many difficulties and help the belief that during the East genuine Norse societies existed that have been a massive and typical a part of the Scandinavian varld.

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  • To Your Tents, O Israel!: The Terminology, Function, Form, by Michael M Homan PH.D.

    By Michael M Homan PH.D.

    An exam of the functionality, shape and symbolism of historic tents, particularly within the Hebrew Bible, but in addition within the higher context of the traditional close to East. Terminology linked to tents and the mixing of phrases for domiciles are firstly explored. Then, utilizing ancient, mythological, archaeological and anthropological insights, tents are tested of their manifold utilization: domiciliary, army, nuptial and non secular. a number of parallels and types of the Tabernacle are assessed, and the Tabernacle's historicity is addressed. The paintings ends by way of interpreting a biblical word that dismisses councils: "To your tents, O Israel!"

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  • Cottage: America's Favorite Home Inside and Out by M. Caren Connolly

    By M. Caren Connolly

    Notice the appeal and straightforwardness of the cottage shape and the weather that make this kind precise Cottage: Americas favourite domestic inside and outside celebrates the romance and straightforwardness that provide cottage houses their unending allure. With inspiring destinations, colourful gardens, comfortable interiors, and interesting nooks and crannies, the 24 cottages featured during this specified assortment are guaranteed to satisfaction with equivalent measures of attraction and variety. Illustrated with stunning photos and watercolor drawings, the cottages span the rustic from Florida to the Pacific Northwest, with stops alongside the best way at a switched over schoolhouse in Missouri, a prefab cottage in Wisconsin, a straw-bale cottage in California, and a cottage neighborhood in Washington nation. no matter if new or reworked, everlasting domestic or weekend getaway, all the cottages is in detail scaled, seamlessly associated with the panorama, and brimming with own element all strong the reason why the cottage is still Americas favourite domestic, inside and outside.

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  • Heresiography in Context: Hippolytus’ "Elenchos" as a Source by Jaap Mansfeld

    By Jaap Mansfeld

    The research of the "Elenchos" (c. 225 CE) consists of the complete diversity of historic interpretative traditions concerned about Greek Philosophy, from Aristotle to the past due Neoplatonists. the current inquiry areas Hippolytus' very important experiences concerning the Greek philosophers within the context of those traditions and so is ready to remove darkness from not just what he has to provide but in addition to extend our wisdom of the traditions he relies on. For him the Pythagoreanizing present in Pre-Neoplatonism is of paramount significance. as a result, he constructs a succession ("diadoche") beginning with Pythagoras and together with Empedocles, Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, and argues that the "diadoche" of the Gnostic heresiarchs is parasitical on its Pythagorean predecessor. a brand new review of the assets used the 1st severe test given that that of Diels in 1879 hinges on an research of Hippolytus' approach to presentation, that's a mix of cento and exegesis geared to his anti-Gnostic purpose."

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  • The Anthropology of Johannes Scottus Eriugena by Professor of the Theology and History of Christianity

    By Professor of the Theology and History of Christianity Willemien Otten

    This booklet bargains with Eriugena's anthropology within the normal context of his considering on common nature. on the outset the function of guy looks conditioned by means of nature's dynamic improvement during the Neoplatonic levels of procession and go back. As guy is found on the turning- element among procession and go back, he isn't purely ruled via nature's unfolding, yet may also workout regulate over it. therefore it truly is proven that guy could be noticeable as even more autonomous than the cosmological constitution of Eriugena's philosophy of nature turns out to point. The research of Eriugena's anthropology urges a second look of the location of guy within the early medieval interval. even supposing guy commonly possesses a sinful, created country, Eriugena exhibits that this doesn't hinder him from interesting a unfastened and direct courting with God and the encompassing universe. In facing the matter of human sin, Eriugena brings out Christ's saving position, however it turns out counterbalanced by means of man's intrinsic strength because the "divine photograph" to rehabilitate himself. during this appreciate Eriugena's versatile approach to reasoning - his dealing with of damaging theology, theophany and allegorical exegesis - serves as a impressive instance of human independence in what has so usually been portrayed because the "static" early-medieval global.

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  • Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design & Planning by Julius Panero

    By Julius Panero

    It is a accomplished sourcebook for making plans and designing residential and advertisement interiors. the amount presents time and money-saving information for all sorts of building information and finishes, woodworking and distinct remedies. The publication bargains drawings, facts and information on regular layouts and clearances for residential kitchens, toilets, residing rooms and bedrooms. There also are building info flooring, partitions, doorways, home windows, stairs, metalwork, swimming pools, fountains, finishes, furniture and furnishings in addition to electric, lights, HVAC, and plumbing structures.

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  • Franciscan Literature Of Religious Instruction Before The by Bert Roest

    By Bert Roest

    This booklet offers, for the 1st time, an exhaustive dialogue of the Franciscan construction of texts of spiritual guide in the course of the later medieval interval (c. 1210-c. 1550). In 8 chapters, it introduces the reader to crucial Franciscan sermon cycles, the Franciscan guidance for residing the lifetime of evangelical perfection, the various Franciscan amateur education manuals, the Franciscan catechisms and confession manuals, the Franciscan output of liturgical handbooks, the massive variety of Franciscan texts containing extra wide-ranging different types of spiritual edification, and Franciscan prayer publications. This publication presents medievalists and Renaissance students alike with a brand new instrument to evaluate the highbrow and spiritual ameliorations among the 13th and the 16th century, and contributes to the present re-interpretation of the overdue medieval pastoral revolution.

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  • Polymer Surface Modification, Volume 3 by Kash L. Mittal

    By Kash L. Mittal

    This e-book records the complaints of the Fourth foreign Symposium on Polymer floor amendment: Relevance to Adhesion held lower than the auspices of MST meetings, LLC in Orlando, FL, June September 11, 2003. Polymers are used for numerous reasons in a bunch of technological purposes or even a cursory examine the literature will evince that presently there's large curiosity and R & D task in the Read more...

    content material: entrance disguise; Contents; Preface; half 1: Plasma floor amendment concepts; the consequences of atmospheric strain plasma remedies on adhesion and mechanical houses of high-performance fibers for composites; amendment of electrostatic houses of polymer powders through atmospheric strain plasma therapy; enhanced stain-release houses of puppy cloth by means of plasma-surface alterations; floor characterization and houses of keratin fibers handled with low-temperature plasmas; floor amendment of puppy movies by way of plasma resource ion implantation. Functionalised plasma polymer coatings for selling the adhesion of high-performance polymer fibresPart 2: Other/Miscellaneous floor amendment ideas; Photon-based approaches for floor amendment of artificial fibers; Wettability and floor loose energies of polymeric fabrics uncovered to excimer ultraviolet mild and particle deposition onto their surfaces in water; Adhesion of copper to poly(tetrafluoroethylene) surfaces converted with vacuum UV radiation downstream from He and Ar microwave plasmas. KrF excimer laser floor amendment of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fibers for superior adhesion to epoxy resinsThe results of excimer laser irradiation at the floor morphology and self-adhesion homes of a few engineering polymers as evaluated by way of ultrasonic welding; Structural and chemical floor amendment of polymers by means of low-energy ions and impact on nucleation, progress and adhesion of noble metals; floor amendment of ordinary fibers by way of photo-grafting and photo-curing; floor amendment of polypropylene for superior adhesion. floor amendment of polymer-based fabrics to reinforce their resistance to hugely competitive oxidative environmentsFixation ideas for macrocyclic ligands resembling cyclodextrins or cucurbit[6]uril on polymeric surfaces; Functionalization of man-made polymers by means of supramolecular compounds: Immobilization of calix[n]arenes on polyester; half three: basic Papers; Quantitative intensity profiles from polymer surfaces by means of angle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Adhesion failure of paints on thermoplastic polyolefin substrates. Adhesion among hydroxyl graft-modified polypropylene and polycarbonate filmsA novel strategy for formation of polymer liberate surfaces; a singular strategy in response to scanning probe microscopy for nanolithography in polymer movies; managed grafting of well-defined sensible polymers on hydrogen-terminated silicon substrates: Relevance to adhesion of electrolessh -deposited copper; gasoline barrier houses of obvious ceramic skinny layers deposited on puppy substrate movie by means of reactive sputtering; The amendment of interphase layer and adhesion: Tuning and predictability.
    summary: This booklet records the complaints of the Fourth foreign Symposium on Polymer floor amendment: Relevance to Adhesion held below the auspices of MST meetings, LLC in Orlando, FL, June Sep 11, 2003. Polymers are used for various reasons in a bunch of technological functions or even a cursory examine the literature will evince that at the moment there's super curiosity and R & D job within the zone of polymer floor amendment to achieve their wanted floor features, quite to augment their adhesion. This quantity incorporates a overall of 25 papers that have been prope

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