Politics and philosophy in Plato's Menexenus : education and rhetoric, myth and history
【作 者】Nickolas Pappas
【出版社】Routledge 2014
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【索书号】B502.232 /P218 /E
【简 介】Menexenus is one of the least studied among Plato's works, mostly because of the puzzling nature of the text, which has led many scholars either to reject the dialogue as spurious or to consider it as a mocking parody of Athenian funeral rhetoric. In this book, Pappas and Zelcer provide a persuasive alternative reading of the text, one that contributes in many ways to our understanding of Plato, and specifically to our understanding of his political thought.
The book is organized into two parts. In the first part the authors offer a synopsis of the dialogue, address the setting and its background in terms of the Athenian funeral speech, and discuss the alternative readings of the dialogue, showing their weaknesses and strengths. In the second part, the authors offer their positive interpretation of the dialogue, taking particular care to explain and ground their interpretive criteria and method, which considers Plato's text not simply as a de-contextualized collection of philosophical arguments but offers a theoretically reading of the text that situates it firmly within its historical context.
The book will become a reference point in the debate about the Menexenus and Plato's political philosophy more generally and marks an important contribution to our understanding of ancient thought and classical Athenian society.
Modelling population dynamics : model formulation, fitting and assessment using state-space methods
【作 者】K. B. Newman
【出版社】Springer 2014
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【索书号】C921 /M689 /E
【简 介】This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within the framework of an annual cycle, and for which stochastic variability in the demographic processes is usually modest. Discrete-time models are developed in which animals can be assigned to discrete states such as age class, gender, maturity, population (within a metapopulation), or species (for multi-species models).
The book goes well beyond estimation of abundance, allowing inference on underlying population processes such as birth or recruitment, survival and movement. This requires the formulation and fitting of population dynamics models. The resulting fitted models yield both estimates of abundance and estimates of parameters characterizing the underlying processes.
Marketing and social media : a guide for libraries, archives, and museums
【作 者】Christine Koontz and Lorri Mon
【出版社】Rowman & Littlefield 2014
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【索书号】C912.3 /K82 /E
【简 介】Marketing and Social Media: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums is a much-needed guide to marketing for libraries, archives, and museum professionals in the social media age. Each chapter includes explanatory topical content designed to build a framework of marketing and social media management understanding including discussion questions (which can be developed into classroom or workshop assignments and key terms. Illustrative and brief case study examples from all three institution types are embedded in chapters as relevant. This book is both an introductory textbook and a guide for working professionals who want to go beyond mere promotion to developing a planned and deliberately managed marketing campaign.
Upheavals in the Middle East : the theory and practice of a revolution
【作 者】Ronen A. Cohen.
【出版社】Lexington Books 2014
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【索书号】D737.00 /C678 /E
【简 介】Upheavals in the Middle East: The Theory and Practice of a Revolution engages with some of the most sensitive issues in the Middle East—revolutions and social protests. The book offers theoretical paradigms that suit the Middle East’s conditions—culturally, religiously and historically. It deals with seventeen case studies from a range of Muslim and Arab states and provides a theoretical framework to study other situations all over the world, including cases from the recent Arab Spring. Revolution, as political action, can occur in all societies, but in recent years it has appeared most frequently in the Middle East. Will this trend continue? What makes the Middle Eastern revolution unique and surprising? This book seeks to answer these questions, placing side by side those cases that were successful and those that were doomed to fail.
Strategy + teamwork = great products
【作 者】Frederick Parker
【出版社】 CRC Press 2014
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【索书号】F406 /P239 /E
【简 介】Manufacturing companies employ hundreds and in many cases thousands of people with different skill sets, ideas, and values. Strategy + Teamwork = Great Products: Management Techniques for Manufacturing Companies explains how to mold employees from various walks of life into a cohesive and successful manufacturing team.
It describes the best methods and programs to do that and includes examples that illustrate how to do so.
After reading this book, you will understand how to avoid common pitfalls and steer clear of useless fads that can be destructive to your organization. The book details powerful methods for motivating people, reducing costs, and improving strategic decision making. It also identifies the role of human resources in providing the training required to help manufacturing management in their tasks.
Mass Media Revolution
【作 者】J. Charles Sterin
【出版社】Pearson 2013
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【索书号】G206.3 /S838m(2) /E
【简 介】With a storytelling narrative and chapter-specific videos, Mass Media Revolution helps students experience mass media, enhancing their development as critical consumers. They can study, read, interact and consume their course material in print and online in a way that best suits their individual learning needs.
Troy : a study in Homeric geography
【作 者】Walter Leaf
【出版社】Cambridge University Press 2014
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【索书号】I545.072 /L434 /E
【简 介】Walter Leaf draws on the archaeological work of Schliemann and Dörpfeld at Troy, but also on his own expert knowledge of the Iliad to provide a thorough exploration of the historical geography of the Troad.
Literature, intertextuality, and the American Revolution : from Common Sense to "Rip Van Winkle"
【作 者】Steven Blakemore
【出版社】 Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2014
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【索书号】I712.064 /B636 /E
【简 介】Dealing with Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1776), John Trumbull's M'Fingal (1776–82), Philip Freneau's "The British-Prison Ship" (1781), J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782), and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (1819–20), Steven Blakemore breaks new ground in assessing the strategies of subversion and intertextuality used during the American Revolution. Blakemore also crystallizes the historical contexts that link these works together – contexts that have been missed or overlooked by critics and scholars. The five works additionally illuminate issues of history (The Norman Conquest, the English Civil War, and the French Revolution) and gender as they impinge on American-revolutionary discourse. The result is five new readings of significant revolutionary-era works that suggest fruitful entries into other literatures of the Revolution. Blakemore demonstrates the nexus between literature and history in the revolutionary era and how it created an intertextual dialogue in the formation of the first postcolonial critiques of the British Empire.
Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence
【作 者】Ann G. Carmichael
【出版社】Cambridge University Press 2014
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【索书号】K546.9 /C287 /E
【简 介】Originally published in 1986, this book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Professor Carmichael finds that there were many differences between the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century epidemics.
The Cambridge Rawls lexicon
【作 者】Jon Mandle
【出版社】Cambridge University Press 2015
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【索书号】B712.59-61 /C178 /E
【简 介】Written by an international team of the world's leading Rawls scholars, this volume provides an accessible and complete guide to all the central ideas and terminology of Rawls' political and moral philosophy. It is of vital interest to students and scholars of Rawls, political philosophy, ethics, political science, sociology, and law.