Alison Cornish offers a compelling new take on the Commedia with modern sensibilities in mind. Believing in Dante re-examines the infernal dramas of Dante's masterpiece that alienate and perplex modern readers, offering an invigorating view of the whole Divine Comedy, bringing it to meaningful life today. Addressing the characteristics that distance an author like Dante from the modern world, Alison Cornish shows the value of critically and constructively engaging with texts that do not coincide with current worldviews. She thereby reveals how we might discover constellations by which to navigate the process of reading. Written with incisiveness and sophistication, this landmark book elucidates Dante's eminently readable universe: one where we can and must choose what we want to believe. Eminently readable, this book tackles specific issues in the Divine Comedy that seem particularly alien to modern ways of thinking and renders them compelling. It shows why faith is a question of trust and cannot be bracketed off as merely religious; rather it is a central theme of literature generally. Autorid: Alison Cornish
"In Isis in a Global Empire, Lindsey Mazurek explores the growing popularity of Egyptian gods and its impact on Greek identity in the Roman Empire. Bringing together archaeological, art historical, and textual evidence, she demonstrates how the diverse devotees of gods such as Isis and Sarapis considered Greek ethnicity in ways that differed significantly from those of the Greek male elites whose opinions have long shaped our understanding of Roman Greece. These ideas were expressed in various ways-sculptures of Egyptian deities rendered in a Greek style, hymns to Isis that grounded her in Greek geography and mythology, funerary portraits that depicted devotees dressed as Isis, and sanctuaries that used natural and artistic features to evoke stereotypes of the Nile. Mazurek's volume offers a fresh, material history of ancient globalization, one that highlights the role that religion played in the self-identification of provincial Romans and their place in the Mediterranean world"-- Autorid: Lindsey A. Mazurek
Unmaking Sex is the first history of intersex in both medicine and literature. It opens up new lines of inquiry in both literary and gender studies, advancing the history of sexuality and medicine through a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach. Newly-uncovered accounts reveal the complex history underpinning trans and intersex activism today. During the nineteenth century, words like 'intersex' and 'trans' had not yet been invented to describe individuals whose bodies, or senses of self, conflicted with binary sex. But that does not mean that such people did not exist. In nineteenth-century France, case studies filled medical journals, high-profile trials captured headlines, and doctors staked their reputations on sex determinations only to have them later reversed by colleagues. While medical experts fought over what separated a man from a woman, novelists began to explore debates about binary sex and describe the experiences of gender-ambiguous characters. Anne Linton discusses over 200 newly-uncovered case studies while offering fresh readings of literature by several famous writers of the period, as well as long-overlooked popular fiction. This landmark contribution to the history of sexuality is the first book to examine intersex in both medicine and literature, sensitively relating historical 'hermaphrodism' to contemporary intersex activism and scholarship. Autorid: Anne E. Linton
Saage korda köök, majapidamisruum, kapid või koridorialad Command universaalsete konksudega. Meie universaalkonksud kleepuvad hästi mitmesugustele pindadele, sealhulgas tahketele, õõnsatele ja värvitud seintele. Need on kergesti eemaldatavad ega jäta maha pragusid, auke, kahjustatud kipsi ega kleepjälgi. Ideaalne üüripindadele, kus võid muretseda pindade kahjustamise pärast. Kinni taaskasutamine on väga lihtne, kuna iga pakend sisaldab lisaks ühte Command riba ning vajadusel saab osta täitepakendeid.
In Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, Ankhi Mukherjee offers a magisterial work of literary and cultural criticism which examines the relationship between global cities, poverty, and psychoanalysis. Spanning three continents, this hugely ambitious book reads fictional representations of poverty with each city's psychoanalytic and psychiatric culture, particularly as that culture is fostered by state policies toward the welfare needs of impoverished populations. It explores the causal relationship between precarity and mental health through clinical case studies, the product of extensive collaborations and knowledge-sharing with community psychotherapeutic initiatives in six global cities. These are layered with twentieth- and twenty-first-century works of world literature that explore issues of identity, illness, and death at the intersections of class, race, globalisation, and migrancy. In Unseen City, Mukherjee argues that a humanistic and imaginative engagement with the psychic lives of the dispossessed is key to an adapted psychoanalysis for the poor, and that seeking equity of the unconscious is key to poverty alleviation. Autorid: Ankhi Mukherjee
The Institute of International Law's 2019 Resolution on the Equality of Parties before International Investment Tribunals represents a major step forward in codification of this essential principle as it applies to investor-state dispute settlement: a principle whose application in this context has attracted increasing controversy in recent years. In this commentary, Campbell McLachlan, who served as the Institute's Rapporteur on the topic, explains the context for the Resolution and sets forth an article-by-article analysis of its provisions, drawing upon a wealth of prior case-law as well as the discussions within the Institute that led to the Resolution. The resulting text is designed to assist counsel and tribunals in investment cases, as well as contribute to the wider debate on the reform of investor-state dispute settlement. The equality of parties is a fundamental procedural principle, yet its application to investor-state dispute settlement has become increasingly controversial. It has never been subjected to comprehensive examination. This authoritative commentary explains this major new codification by the eminent Institute of International Law, adopted in 2019. Autorid: Campbell McLachlan
"This monograph attempts to offer new perspectives on the shared experience of indenture by looking at two colonies, Mauritius and Fiji, in between 1871 and 1916. It introduces the concept of subaltern careering, which essentially studies the re-migration of Indian indentured labourers between sugar colonies and the world beyond. The author demonstrates how a geographical analysis of indenture brings vital new understandings of the system itself, but also of the broader imperial geographies of the post-slavery world. Indian indenture was global. It was a trans-oceanic phenomenon drawing actors together from different parts of the globe. These actors were elite, middle-class and subaltern. They were male, they were female; European and non-European; adults and children; human and non-human. To appreciate the scale of the system and the connectivity between the colonies which recruited Indian indentured labour, the term archipelago is used. Contextualising the experiences of indenture in Mauritius and Fijiwithin an indentured archipelago ensures that the connectivity of these colonial spaces which were bound together by the cord of indenture is not severed"-- Autorid: Reshaad Durgahee
In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century. Fabian Klose traces how the idea of humanitarian intervention first established itself as a recognized instrument in international politics and international law. In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century when the question of whether, when and how the international community should react to violations of humanitarian norms and humanitarian crises first emerged as a key topic of controversy and debate. Fabian Klose investigates the emergence of legal debates on the protection of humanitarian norms by violent means, revealing how military intervention under the banner of humanitarianism became closely intertwined with imperial and colonial projects. Through case studies including the international fight against the slave trade, the military interventions under the banner of humanitarian aid for Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire, and the intervention of the United States in the Cuban War of Independence, he shows how the idea of humanitarian intervention established itself as a recognized instrument in international politics and international law. Autorid: Fabian Klose
In November 2020, The New York Times asked fifteen of its columnists to 'explain what the past four years have cost America.' Not one of the columnists focused on President Trump's racism. This book seeks to redress this imbalance and bring Black Americans' role in our economy to the forefront. While all humans were created equal, economic history in the United States tells a different story. Reconstruction lasted for only a decade, and Jim Crow laws replaced it. The Civil Rights Movement lasted through the 1960s, yet decayed under President Nixon. The United States has been declining in the Social Product Index, where it now is the lowest of the G7 and 26th in the world. For health and happiness, Temin argues that we need lasting integration efforts that allow Black Americans equal opportunity. This book convincingly integrates Black and white activities into an inclusive economic history of America. While all humans were created equal, economic history in the United States tells a different story. Black and white economic histories are quite different, and racism still dominates America today. This inclusive economic history of America describes two centuries of recent American racial conflicts since the Constitution was written. Autorid: Peter Temin
In the fourteenth century, the Black Death killed as much as two thirds of Europe's population; in the fifteenth, the introduction of moveable-type printing rapidly expanded Europe's supply of human capital; between 1850 and 1914, Russia's population almost tripled; and in World War I, the British blockade starved some 800,000 Germans. Each of these, Shocking Contrasts argues, amounted to an unanticipated shock, positive or negative, to the supply of a crucial factor of production; and elicited one of four main responses: factor substitution; factor movement to a different sector or region; technological innovation; or political action, sometimes extending to coercion at home or conquest abroad. This book examines parsimonious models of factor returns, relative costs, and technological innovation. It offers a framework for understanding the role of supply shocks in major political conflicts and argues that its implications extend far beyond these specific cases to any period of human history. Autorid: Ronald L. Rogowski
In 1968, Wilfred Bion and Albert Mason emigrated to Los Angeles at the invitation of a group of young analysts to teach and train local clinicians in the British object relations tradition. They were joined by Susanna Isaacs Elmhirst for a period. London Kleinians in Los Angeles is a colorful account of the early days of psychoanalysis in LA, punctuated by in-person presentations from the leading Kleinians of the day, including Hanna Segal, Herbert Rosenfeld, Donald Meltzer, and Wilfred Bion himself. Their unpublished lectures from the 1960s and 1970s appear in Part I. Part II features seminal papers by the founding fathers of the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC): James Gooch, James Grotstein, Arthur Malin, and Albert Mason, the groups leading spokesperson. PCC continues to function as a vital center of psychoanalytic training and education in the British object relations tradition. The unearthing of four unpublished contributions from four founding Kleinians is an incredible find for psychoanalysis and this book is highly recommended to all professionals and trainees in the field. Those with an interest in the history of psychoanalysis will find much to excite them. Autorid: Jennifer Langham
Collects important papers, some previously unpublished, written by one of the greatest modern scholars of ancient philosophy. Volume 3 introduces Plato and the Republic, explains his importance to John Stuart Mill, and shows how ancient philosophical thinking can be applied to contemporary questions about key philosophical and psychological topics. Myles Burnyeat (19392019) was a major figure in the study of ancient Greek philosophy during the last decades of the twentieth century and the first of this. After teaching positions in London and Cambridge, where he became Laurence Professor, in 1996 he took up a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, from which he retired in 2006. In 2012 he published two volumes collecting essays dating from before the move to Oxford. Two new posthumously published volumes bring together essays from his years at All Souls and his retirement. The main body of Volume 3 presents studies written for a wide readership, first on Plato's Republic and then on the reading and interpretation of Plato in subsequent periods, particularly in nineteenth-century Britain. The volume also includes hitherto unpublished lectures, 'The Archaeology of Feeling', on the ancient origins of some key modern philosophical and psychological concepts. Autorid: Myles Burnyeat, Carol Atack, Malcolm Schofield, David Sedley
Representations of civil war in classical and Christian Latin and their reception in French literature reveal the formative influence of the Roman civil wars on the modern imagination. Optimistic solutions defer resolution beyond the end of history. Within history, a decadent empire resolves republican discord at a terrible price. Can civil war ever be overcome? Can a better order come into being? This book explores how the Roman civil wars of the first century BCE laid the template for addressing perennially urgent questions. The Roman Republic's collapse and Augustus' new Empire have remained ideological battlegrounds to this day. Integrative and disintegrative readings begun in antiquity (Vergil and Lucan) have left their mark on answers given by Christians (Augustine), secular republicans (Victor Hugo), and disillusioned satirists (Michel Houellebecq) alike. France's self-understanding as a new Rome republican during the Revolution, imperial under successive Napoleons makes it a special case in the Roman tradition. The same story returns repeatedly. A golden age of restoration glimmers on the horizon, but comes in the guise of a decadent, oriental empire that reintroduces and exposes everything already wrong under the defunct republic. Central to the price of social order is patriarchy's need to subjugate women. Autorid: Michèle Lowrie, Barbara Vinken
"Risk is often defined by the probabilities of possible future outcomes, be they the tossing of coins, the rolling of dice or the prices of assets at some future date. Uncertainty exists as the possible outcomes are many and the actual outcome that will eventuate is not known. This uncertainty is resolved when at some future time the actual outcome becomes known. The risk may be valued statistically at its expected value or in a market at the current price to be paid or received for acquiring or delivering a unit of currency on the resolution of the risk. The market value is also understood to be a discounted expected value under altered probabilities that reflect prices of events as opposed to their real probabilities. By construction the value of a risk is hence a linear function on the space of risks with the value of a combination being equal to an equivalent combination of values. As a consequence value maximization is not possible as non constant linear functions have no maximal values. Optimization becomes possible only after introducing constraints that limit the set of possibilities"-- Autorid: Dilip B. Madan, Wim Schoutens
This is the first collection to systematically combine the study of memory and affect in early modern culture. Essays by leading and emergent scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies offer an innovative research agenda, inviting new, exploratory approaches to Shakespeare's work that embrace interdisciplinary cross-fertilization. Drawing on the contexts of Renaissance literature across genres and on various discourses including rhetoric, medicine, religion, morality, historiography, colonialism, and politics, the chapters bring together a broad range of texts, concerns, and methodologies central to the study of early modern culture. Stimulating for postgraduate students, lecturers, and researchers with an interest in the broader fields of memory studies and the history of the emotions two vibrant and growing areas of research it will also prove invaluable to teachers of Shakespeare, dramaturges, and directors of stage productions, provoking discussions of how convergences of memory and affect influence stagecraft, dramaturgy, rhetoric, and poetic language. The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies, this volume offers an innovative research agenda and invites new, explorative interdisciplinary methodologies. Essays by leading and emergent scholars provide fresh readings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries across literary genres. Autorid: Jonathan Baldo, Isabel Karremann
Optimization techniques are at the core of data science, including data analysis and machine learning. An understanding of basic optimization techniques and their fundamental properties provides important grounding for students, researchers, and practitioners in these areas. This text covers the fundamentals of optimization algorithms in a compact, self-contained way, focusing on the techniques most relevant to data science. An introductory chapter demonstrates that many standard problems in data science can be formulated as optimization problems. Next, many fundamental methods in optimization are described and analyzed, including: gradient and accelerated gradient methods for unconstrained optimization of smooth (especially convex) functions; the stochastic gradient method, a workhorse algorithm in machine learning; the coordinate descent approach; several key algorithms for constrained optimization problems; algorithms for minimizing nonsmooth functions arising in data science; foundations of the analysis of nonsmooth functions and optimization duality; and the back-propagation approach, relevant to neural networks. Autorid: Stephen J. Wright, Benjamin Recht
