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Achilles beside Gilgamesh : mortality and wisdom in early epic poetry
\"It is widely recognised that the epics of Homer are closely related to the earlier mythology and literature of the ancient Near East, above all the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. But how should this influence our response to the meaning and message of either poem? This book addresses this question through an experiment in intertextual reading\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Transmedia television : new trends in network serial production
Split into two complementary parts, this book first paints a picture of how transmedia producers were, or were not, incorporated into creative decision-making centres of serialized programs. The second section explains how the presence of off-site transmedia texts begins to alter the very narrative construction of the non-air series themselves.
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The NSA Report
\"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake of wholly 'trusting' our public officials.\"--The NSA Report
This is the official report that is helping shape the international debate about the unprecedented surveillance activities of the National Security Agency. Commissioned by President Obama following disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden, and written by a preeminent group of intelligence and legal experts, the report examines the extent of NSA programs and calls for dozens of urgent and practical reforms. The result is a blueprint showing how the government can reaffirm its commitment to privacy and civil liberties--without compromising national security.
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A Companion to Life Course Studies
Since the end of the Second World War, society has been characterised by rapid and extensive political, economic, scientific and technological change. Opportunities for education, employment, human relations and good health have all been greatly affected by those changes, as have all aspects of life. Consequently, each post-war generation has been like no other before or since.
Britain, uniquely, has five large-scale life course studies that began at intervals throughout that period. They have shown how lives are shaped by individual characteristics, their past and current experiences and opportunities, and so reflect their times. This book describes those fundamental changes that affected life chances differently in each generation, and how governments struggled to accommodate the changes with new policies for improving and managing the nation's capital in terms of education, family policy, health, human rights and economics.
A Companion to Life Course Studies provides a resource for the interpretation of the findings and design differences in the five studies, and the stimulus for new comparisons of the life course between these differing generations that would contribute to policy and to understanding.
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Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Berühmt geworden ist Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects durch elegante und technisch anspruchsvolle Hochhauslösungen. Diese zeichnen sich zumeist durch glatte, straffe Hüllen ohne Profile aus - die Gliederung und visuelle Akzentuierung erfolgt dann durch sanfte Abtreppung oder Variation in der Farbigkeit oder der Materialität der Verglassung. Diese Publikation dokumentiert eine Auswahl von Arbeiten des Büros aus den letzten acht Jahren.
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Systematic reviews in health care : meta-analysis in context
The second edition of this best-selling book has been thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect the significant changes and advances made in systematic reviewing. New features include discussion on the rationale, meta-analyses of prognostic and diagnostic studies and software, and the use of systematic reviews in practice.
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Beyond Goals
What is there in developmental relationships beyond setting and striving to achieve goals? The presence of goals in coaching and mentoring programs has gone largely unquestioned, yet evidence is growing that the standard prescription of SMART, challenging goals is not always appropriate - and even potentially dangerous - in the context of a complex and rapidly changing world. Beyond Goals advances standard goal-setting theory by bringing together cutting-edge perspectives from leaders in coaching and mentoring. From psychology to neuroscience, from chaos theory to social network theory, the contributors offer diverse and compelling insights into both the advantages and limitations of goal pursuit. The result is a more nuanced understanding of goals, with the possibility for practitioners to bring greater impact and sophistication to their client engagements. The implications of this reassessment are substantial for all those practicing as coaches and mentors, or managing coaching or mentoring initiatives in organizations.
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Pediatric Otolaryngology
Highly Commended by the BMA Medical Book Awards for Surgical Specialties!
Ear, nose, and throat diseases present and progress very differently in children than in adults, needing different diagnostic and treatment strategies. Training in the subspecialty of pediatric otolaryngology is often part of a general ENT program and not a program in itself. As such, the general otolaryngologist may be insufficiently prepared to handle certain pediatric cases.
R. W. Clarke's Pediatric Otolaryngology: Practical Clinical Management aims to provide the pediatric ENT resident or fellow, as well as the general ENT practitioner, with sound clinical guidance on ENT pathologies as they affect the pediatric population.
Key Features:
* Fully describes the characteristics of ENT diseases in children, as opposed to only describing how the disorders differ from their presentations in adults
* International cast of expert contributors
* Practice based, for the clinician
* Comprehensive accounts of hearing loss in children, often poorly covered in standard texts
* Text boxes orient the reader to \"danger signs, \" \"top tips\" in surgery, advice regarding potential complications, situations that need urgent referral, and medicolegal pitfalls
Pediatric Otolaryngology is an essential reference of this important subspecialty for ENT doctors in practice, as well as in preparation for board examinations.
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A companion to the literatures of colonial America
This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period and highlights the interactions between native, non-scribal groups, and Europeans that helped to shape early American writing.
* Situates the writing of this period in its various historical and cultural contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, diaspora, and nation formation.
* Highlights interactions between native, non-scribal groups and Europeans during the early centuries of exploration.
* Covers a wide range of approaches to defining and reading early American writing.
* Looks at the development of regional spheres of influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
* Serves as a vital adjunct to Castillo and Schweitzer's 'The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology' (Blackwell Publishing, 2001).
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