... ofthe artists equal, as a description ofa walk in a forest,' it may be answered that the materials are certainly not equal, but that the artist who has rendered the game of cards poetical is ... the charge and demands of art that it give us the present and the actual; and again and again the imagination eludes the demand and makes an ideal world for itself in the blue distance Two favourite ... of which he was the spokesman, in his view ofthe sacred art ofthe Italian Middle Age he anticipated the Pre-Raphaelites and the modern interpreters of Dante Here isa part ofwhat he says of...
... out ofthe affairs ofthe Palatinate 484 III Parliament ofthe year 1621 497 IV Negotiations for the marriage ofthe Prince of Wales with a Spanish Infanta 509 V The Parliament of 1624 Alliance ... been abridged on this account Thehistoryofthe Stuart dynasty and of William III make up the central part ofthe edifice; whatis given to the earlier, as well as the later times may, if I may ... might say that it consisted in this, that the glory of their arms abroad lay nearest to the heart ofthe French nation, and the legal settlement of their home affairs to that ofthe English How often...
... thehistoryof representation, as well as thehistoryof medicine, the law, the police, religion and, of course, political history Literary history, art history, and thehistoryof language also ... Worship ofthe body followed naturally in the wake ofthe great carnage ofthe war of 1914, and it is indissociable from the slogan, Never again. Naturism, the rise of movements along the lines ofthe ... than a woman She has the spirit ofa man.88 Beyond the traditional image ofthe flapper, the figure ofthe lesbian can be distinguished While the flapper is accused of casting doubt on the value...
... influenced the last great era of neoclassicism in the visual arts, and the Italian Antonio Canova, the Englishman John Flaxman, the Swiss Angelica Kauffmann, and the Dane Bertel Thorvaldsen—artists ... archaeologists clear the fora ofthe Caesars to provide an appropriate backdrop to his military parades Ahistoryof classical archaeology during the past two hundred years, then, must be ahistory ... dominated Italy They defeated the Austrians and the Bourbons and humiliated the popes They also had a major cultural and archaeological impact They hauled off some ofthe great papal treasures...
... large family firms and groups remain very important there Japan’s variant of managerialism was a forced postwar transplant of American institutions In Canada, managerial capitalism displaced family ... accumulate and allocate capital Banks play much greater capital allocation roles in German and Japanese capitalism than in the Anglo-American variant, although, as Morck and Nakamura (1999) and Fohlin ... entrepreneurs Of course, no country isa pure example of any of these flavors of capitalism Each variant of capitalism accounts for part ofthe capital formation in all the countries covered in this book But...
... Mediterranean was mainly a transit trade in goods that came from far away—from India, Southeast Asia, and China —and that Italian ships loaded at Alexandria and other ports in the Levant; Italian merchants ... and slavery, which had long been a basic trait of society, gave way to one between warriors and peasants Together, the chaos ofthe period, the scarcity of labor, and the abundance of land made ... the North and Baltic Seas In the Adriatic, the island of Rialto (part of Venice) rose by trading in salt, slaves, and timber Located at the center ofthe lagoons, it attracted population at the...
... the map? Then ask them to make a historical map of their own country What place names will they include, and why? In a mixed-nationality class, students could show their maps to the rest ofthe ... Don’t look at the book! (a) America (b) Canada (c) Japan (d) India (e) Egypt (f) Spain (g) Prussia (h) Poland (i) Australia (j) South Africa (k) China (l) Pakistan ACTIVITIES AFTER READING THE BOOK ... and themes Although Britain isa small country, it still plays a relatively important role on the world stage Much of its history, too, is important on a world scale; and the themes of its history...
... contributing factor was the passage ofthe Tax Reform Act of 1986 Reagan’s tax cuts eliminated many ofthe tax shelters that had made real estate an attractive investment in the first place, and ... industry The repeal of GlassSteagall was a monumental piece of deregulation, but in many ways it ratified the status quo ofthe time.21 Hands-Off Regulation Many argued that consolidation in banking ... options, there was no clearinghouse for trades in most ofthe 21 Barth, James R., R Dan Brumbaugh Jr and James A Wilcox, The Repeal of Glass-Steagall and the Advent of Broad Banking,” Journal of Economic...
... questions as: who are the parties to an exchange? Whatisthe motivation ofthe parties to reach agreement? Whatisthe context of exchange? Most marketing theoreticians have argued that exchange isthe ... traditional schools are discussed in his general marketing section, and there isa chapter on marketing management and one on ‘newer areas’, the book isa general historyof marketing as an academic ... include thehistoryof marketing thought and theory, the performance of marketing systems, and decision-making under conditions of risk His research has appeared in the Journal ofthe Academy of Marketing...
... again had another commentary called _Varddha-mânendu_ upon it by Padmanâbha Mis'ra, and this again had another named _Nyâya-tâtparyama@n@dana_ by S 'a@ nkara Mis'ra The names of Vâtsyâyana, Vâcaspati, ... the Ka@tha school the Kâ@thaka, ofthe Maitrâya@nî school the Maitrâya@nî The B@rhadâra@nyaka Upani@sad forms part ofthe S'atapatha Brâhma@na ofthe Vâjasaneyi schools The Îs'â Upani@sad also ... Thus the Upani@sads attached to the Brâhma@nas ofthe Aitareya and Kau@sîtaki schools are called respectively Aitareya and Kau@sîtaki Upani@sads Those ofthe Tâ@n@dins and Talavakâras ofthe Sâma-veda...
... herself and them, rather than that they should fall again into the hands ofthe Romans CHAPTER 15 CHAPTER THE LAST OFTHE ROMANS CARACTACUS was dead, Boadicea was dead, many other brave British leaders ... because he was the first ofa great many kings of that name He was a good king and was greatly helped by his sister, Ethelfleda, who was called the Lady of Mercia She was a brave, wise woman and, like ... won a great victory That was the first of many, many sea-victories which the English have won, and ever since the days of Alfred, England has had a navy and Britannia has ruled the waves "Ye mariners...
... Opotiki—Station there—Maunsell at Waikato Heads—Visit of Bishop Broughton—Influenza—Octavius Hadfield The east coast—Taumatakura—W Williams moves to Poverty Bay—Ripahau at Cook Strait—Rauparaha—Tamihana ... to Waikato—Station at Mangapouri—Tauranga—Rotorua The Rotorua-Thames war—Looting of Ohinemutu station—Flight from Matamata—Mrs Chapman's bonnet—Withdrawal of missionaries—Ngakuku and Tarore—Marsden's ... Australia, Ruatara was once again a man, and now almost a Christian This meeting was momentous in its results "Mr Marsden and Ruatara," as Carleton says, "were each necessary to the other; each...
... as a leader ofthe hosts of atheism against the walls of heaven He explains the scientific arguments as if they were the radiant revelation ofa new world; and the rapture of his enthusiasm is ... who played prominent parts in Athenian history If the Athenians had had a daily press, Socrates would have been denounced by the journalists as a dangerous person They had a comic drama, which ... consider a new idea an annoyance and probably a danger Of those to whom socialism is repugnant, how many are there who have never examined the arguments for and against it, but turn away in disgust...
... treatment, as well as a reassuring atmosphere The shaman cannot isolate and secularize pharmacologically active drugs, because ofthe holistic nature ofthe healing ritual Butthe problem of evaluating ... medicine, the supernatural is involved in all aspects of disease and healing Because disease and misfortune are attributed to supernatural agents, magic is essential to the prevention, diagnosis, and ... chemistry, the analysis of inorganic and organic materials, has been used in the discovery, dating, interpretation, and authentication of ancient remains This approach provides many ways of reconstructing...
... University of Paris, where he was a distinguished professor of theology and philosophy and was also among the most learned in the science ofthe day Also at the University of Paris at the same time was ... and Savart; Faraday's Rotating Conductor and Magnet and Barlow's Wheel; Sturgeon's Electromagnet, Galvanometers; Ampère's and Ohm's Laws FARADAY AND HENRY 52 Faraday's Formative Years; Faraday ... Age, the Iron Age, etc.-that preceded the 1800s, and that led one into the other, none was as rewarding to mankind as the electrical age We now stand in awe ofthe space age, andin fear we face...
... island’s history, marked by the arrival of several waves of immigrants Taiwan was originally settled by the ancestors ofthe aborigines, who inhabited the low-lying coastal plains ofthe island ... The occasion becomes a small social gathering In the clubhouse players rarely use Mandarin, the island’s of cial language, but rather speak Taiwanese, which isa dialect of Chinese The reasons ... 1911 and 1914 Baseball remained the prerogative ofthe Japanese during the early years ofthe occupancy The colonists, who were arrogant about their national sport and thought ofthe Taiwanese as...
... New World was the Christianity of Spain the Spain of Isabella and Ximenes, of Loyola and Francis Xavier and St Theresa, the Spain also of Torquemada and St Peter Arbues and the zealous and orthodox ... foundations ofa Swedish Lutheran colony were laid on the banks ofthe Delaware A new purchase was made ofthe Indians (who had as little scruple as the Stuart kings about disposing ofthe same land ... thehistoryofthe New Netherlands In the early records of no one ofthe American colonies is there less manifestation ofthe Puritan characteristics than in the records ofthe colony that was absolutely...
... and the passage ofthe crusaders in 1096 The wholesale depredations ofthe latter naturally made the inhabitants ofthe Balkan peninsula anything but sympathetically disposed towards their cause ... own and to claim as early a date as possible for the authentic appearance of their ancestors on the kaleidoscopic stage ofthe Balkan theatre They are also unwilling to admit that they were anticipated ... Montenegro, and Albania, and later of Bulgaria and Greece, will disappear, de factoif not in appearance, and both materially and morally they will become the slaves ofthe central empires If the Balkan...