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Available in paperback for the first time, the modern classic that introduced the beloved baby-sitting rottweiler to the world.
Demetrios of Scepsis and His Troikos Diakosmos
Alexandra Trachsel
Harvard University Press
2021
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Ancient scholarship had many faces, but most have faded away over time. Demetrios of Scepsis is one of the more shadowy of these lost figures, best known for his commentary on the Trojan Catalogue in Book 2 of the Iliad. Alexandra Trachsel’s work represents the first treatment dedicated to Demetrios of Scepsis in over a century. Because of the incomplete transmission of Demetrios’s work, Trachsel necessarily focuses on the way later readers understood the ancient author’s engagement with the Homeric text. Indeed, modern scholars have access to Demetrios’s analysis of the Trojan Catalogue only through their readings.Trachsel’s work offers a thorough analysis of the ancient and modern reactions to Demetrios’s research into the Homeric text and the Trojan landscape, and it revisits the ongoing debate about the setting for Homer’s Trojan poem. Trachsel also provides new evidence about the impressively wide range of other topics Demetrios’s work may have contained.
Available in paperback for the first time, the modern classic that introduced the beloved baby-sitting rottweiler to the world.
Available in paperback for the first time, the modern classic that introduced the beloved baby-sitting rottweiler to the world.
A personal account of the implementation of a controversial credit transfer program at the nation's third-largest university Change is notoriously difficult in any large organization. Institutions of higher education are no exception. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra Logue, then chief academic officer of The City University of New York, led a controversial reform initiative known as Pathways. The program aimed to facilitate the transfer of credits among the university's nineteen constituent colleges in order to improve graduation rates--a long-recognized problem for public universities such as CUNY. Hotly debated, Pathways met with vociferous resistance from many faculty members, drew the attention of local and national media, and resulted in lengthy legal action. In Pathways to Reform, Logue, the figure at the center of the maelstrom, blends vivid personal narrative with an objective perspective to tell how this hard-fought plan was successfully implemented at the third-largest university in the United States. Logue vividly illustrates why change does or does not take place in higher education, and the professional and personal tolls exacted. Looking through the lens of the Pathways program and factoring in key players, she analyzes how governance structures and conflicting interests, along with other institutional factors, impede change--which, Logue shows, is all too rare, slow, and costly. In this environment, she argues, it is shared governance, combined with a strong, central decision-making authority, that best facilitates necessary reform. Logue presents a compelling investigation of not only transfer policy but also power dynamics and university leadership. Shedding light on the inner workings of one of the most important public institutions in the nation, Pathways to Reform provides the first full account of how, despite opposition, a complex higher education initiative was realized. All net royalties received by the author from sales of this book will be donated to The City University of New York to support undergraduate student financial aid.
A beautifully illustrated look at the paints and palettes used by many of the world's greatest artists from the sixteenth century to today What can the palette an artist used or depicted tell us about their artistic process, preferences, and finished works? From traditional wooden boards to paint pots, ceramic plates, and studio walls, these deceptively simple yet potent tools provide vital evidence. The Artist's Palette presents fifty unique palettes alongside paintings by the celebrated artists who used them, gathering expert analysis of color, brushstroke, and technique to offer new histories of these artists and their work. Alexandra Loske pairs each artist's color palette with one or more of their paintings, revealing how the artist used paints and pigments. While Georges Seurat meticulously arranged the paints on his palette in prismatic order, a pointillist technique reflected on his canvases, Kerry James Marshall uses blots of zinc white and smears of pale pink on the surfaces of symbolically oversized white palettes held by the Black artists in his portraits, raising provocative questions about the role of color in Black history and Western art. Through these and other compelling accounts, Loske shows how, behind every great painting, there is a palette that tells its story. Featuring a wealth of original photographs of palettes, paints, and pigments of all kinds, The Artist's Palette takes readers into the studios of artists from Artemisia Gentileschi, Rembrandt, Paul C zanne, Vincent van Gogh and John Singer Sargent to Egon Schiele, Georgia O'Keeffe, Helen Frankenthaler, Lucian Freud, and Keith Haring, revealing how the materials and tools they used hide secrets and are often reflections of the life and times of the artist who once held, prepared, and used them.
A beautifully illustrated look at the complex past of Princeton’s Mallorcan stairway and patioFrom Palma to Princeton weaves together a rich history that crisscrosses the Atlantic, offering a picture of trends and tastes in twentieth-century art collecting in Europe and the United States and debates regarding cultural property. How and why did stone architectural elements from Mallorca, Spain, make the journey from the Balearic Islands to New Jersey? Art historian Alexandra Letvin traces the fascinating story of how a fifteenth- to sixteenth-century stairway, together with balustrades and columns from a sixteenth-century residential patio, were dismantled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mallorca and reconfigured by American and Spanish art dealers living in Spain. The resulting assemblage made its way first into the collection of William Randolph Hearst, then to the home of the Baron and Baroness Cassel van Doorn in Englewood, New Jersey, and finally, in 1955, to Princeton University.Conservator Elena Torok details how cross-disciplinary research leading to the grouping’s 2025 reinstallation in the Princeton University Art Museum’s new building yielded discoveries about the stones’ past, including the fact that by the time it left the island of Mallorca in 1929, elements had been modified and recombined in ways that left them permanently altered. As the stairway, balustrades, and columns changed hands during the twentieth century and their connections to their source locations became blurred, they became challenging to recognize; for many years these pieces had been considered lost, despite having been installed in the galleries of the Princeton University Art Museum in 1965 and viewed by generations of visitors.
Aleph Worf-Sapir is sinking deeper into interlunar politics.The Prismatic Men are in desperate need of liberation. A dead man needs his help. His time on this moon is running out. And all of that is put on hold when the news arrives.There's been a grisly murder in University Village.Aleph is returning home, albeit briefly, to an incredible situation: the exchange students and Heads of Department are converging on his hometown. Behind the whirlwind of family secrets, internal politics, and ticking clocks, Aleph comes to a conclusion.It's time to speak up.The Letter Mage: Quartos are novella-length collections of Patreon serial The Letter Mage.
Aleph Worf-Sapir, nearly fifteen and uninterested in school, has been offered the chance of a lifetime: an opportunity to study on the different moons of the Lunar University After decades of infighting, the other Departments have opened their doors. Aleph's job is to attend each school for a month, learning as much as he can and reporting back to the Glottal Moon. Sounds easy, right?But so far, Aleph's journey has been fraught with complications. He's been imprisoned, romanced, kidnapped, attacked by giant snakes, lectured, and assigned as a juror on his mother's murder trial. Worst of all, he's pretty sure he killed Olive Gilbreth, leader of the College of the Gear. But it couldn't have been his fault. Aleph's a good person.Right?Huey Gilbreth, a kid with a mouth as big as her brain, is convinced that she's meant to take the seat of power her late mother left behind. Aleph's jury duty is approaching fast. Mysteries from the Prismatic Moon are catching up to him. Unanswered questions are piling up.Something's got to give, and soon.
Aleph could never have guessed how deeply the Lunar University was broken.Defecting professors. Jealous wizards. Exceedingly handsome enemies. His mother's imprisonment is still burning in Aleph's mind, and he has a thousand complications to deal with. So of course it gets worse: when the Head Researcher of the Helical College goes missing, Aleph is instantly under suspicion. Can he throw himself into his work? Deal with each problem when it comes his way?Or will the secrets of his parents make Aleph do something he regrets?In the third collection of The Letter Mage serial, Aleph battles with mechs, mutants, blackmail, and love. This isn't a story you want to miss.
Thank you for taking the time to read jabs of my life, If you could relate to being heartbroken, falling into lust, and at times confusing that with love, then I hope you have found some inspiration in gaining new ways to heal your soul, and know you are not alone as you begin to fi nd yourself again. My aim is that you could feel the aches of myself beginning to treasure herself again, just as much as I hope you have found some inspiration in your own life as your own soul begins to heal. Cheers to us humans, and whatever life has in mind for us next.
Healing the Military Soul: How Warriors Can Regain Strength from Within
Alexandra H. Roach Chhp
Holistic Publishing
2014
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"Healing the Military Soul - How Warriors Regain Strength from Within" targets the current health crisis in this country, which does not stop at the ranks of our Armed Forces. Demands on the military grow; so does their pain. Who cares? Alexandra Roach does. She writes from a heartfelt perspective and captivates the reader with personal accounts every military member can relate to. These stories provide the backdrop that supports her proposal of integrating holistic health practices to strengthen active duty military personnel and their families. Alexandra provides insight on how service members can: -Take control of their own health -Free themselves from depression, PTSD, and chronic pain From micro to macro - if each individual is physically and emotionally strong, vital, and energetic, the entire military will be too. This creates Tomorrow's Power for our nation.
He just lost his parents. He was just chased by wolves. He just fell off a cliff... Behold, before this young boy's very eyes, there stands an old, "forbidden-to-enter" edifice. With the mysterious figure as his guide, the eight year old is given the task to translate a stack of parchments that have been completely forgotten by the people of the city; yet, they are so vitally important. This is a children's book written by a child. Grown ups will enjoy it too.