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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Martin Arnold
This concise and balanced history traces the 300-year saga of the pirates and warlords who poured out of Scandinavia between the eighth and eleventh centuries, terrorizing, conquering, and ultimately settling vast tracts of land throughout Europe. Undaunted by the might of the Arab caliphates and the Byzantine Empire, they founded Russia, originated the bloodline that came to rule France, and created a North Sea empire that included England. They also established settlements across the North Atlantic, notably in Iceland and Greenland, and their adventurous spirit and extraordinary seafaring skills led them to explore and briefly build colonies in North America. These were the Vikings, initially ferocious pagan warriors seeking land and booty under the banners of their gods, but eventually belligerent Christian kings commanding vast armies. Martin Arnold provides a lively and accessible account of the early medieval period that became known as the Viking Age. Drawing on rich literary and archaeological source material, the first half of the book focuses especially on Viking culture, religious beliefs, and battle tactics and weaponry. The second half ranges over the four main theaters of Viking activity—the British Isles, Western Europe, the Slavic regions, and the North Atlantic settlements. Arnold vividly illustrates the two faces of the Vikings: on the one hand, savage, greedy, and implacable; on the other, adventurous, innovative, and artistic.
Provides an account of the early medieval period that became known as the Viking Age. Drawing on literary and archaeological source material, this title illustrates the two faces of the Vikings: on the one hand, savage, greedy, and implacable; on the other, adventurous, innovative, and artistic.
This is an exploration of how the legend of Thor has been adopted, adapted and transformed through history. The myths of the Norse god Thor were preserved in the Icelandic Eddas, set down in the early Middle Ages. The bane of giants and trolls, Thor was worshipped as the last line of defence against all that threatened early Nordic society. Thor's significance persisted long after the Christian conversion and, in the mid-eighteenth century, Thor resumed a symbolic prominence among northern countries. Admired and adopted in Scandinavia and Germany, he became central to the rhetoric of national romanticism and to more belligerent assertions of nationalism. Resurrected in the latter part of the twentieth century in "Marvel Magazine", Thor was further transformed into an articulation both of an anxious male sexuality and of a parallel nervousness regarding American foreign policy. Martin Arnold explores the extraordinary regard in which Thor has been held since medieval times and considers why and how his myth has been adopted, adapted and transformed.
This is an exploration of how the legend of Thor has been adopted, adapted and transformed through history. The myths of the Norse god Thor were preserved in the "Icelandic Eddas", set down in the early Middle Ages. The bane of giants and trolls, Thor was worshipped as the last line of defence against all that threatened early Nordic society. Thor's significance persisted long after the Christian conversion and, in the mid-eighteenth century, Thor resumed a symbolic prominence among northern countries. Admired and adopted in Scandinavia and Germany, he became central to the rhetoric of national romanticism and to more belligerent assertions of nationalism. Resurrected in the latter part of the twentieth century in "Marvel Magazine", Thor was further transformed into an articulation both of an anxious male sexuality and of a parallel nervousness regarding American foreign policy. Martin Arnold explores the extraordinary regard in which Thor has been held since medieval times and considers why and how his myth has been adopted, adapted and transformed.
Dragons are a global phenomenon, one that has troubled mankind for thousands of years. From the fire-breathing beasts of North European myth and legend to the Book of Revelation’s Great Red Dragon of Hell, from those supernatural agencies of imperial authority in ancient China to those dragon-women posing a threat to male authority, dragons have a wide variety of forms and meanings. But there is one thing they all have in common: our fear of their formidable power and, as a consequence, our need to overcome them, to appease them or in some way to assume their power as our own. How can this be explained? Is it our need to impose order on chaos in the person of a dragon-slaying hero? Is it our terror of Nature unleashed in its most destructive form? Or is the dragon nothing less than an expression of that greatest and most disturbing mystery of all – our mortality? Martin Arnold traces the history of ideas about dragons, from the earliest of times to Game of Thrones, and asks what exactly it might be in our imaginations that appears to have necessitated such a creature.
The story of the Vikings is one of the most dramatic in European history. From their base in Scandinavia, Viking warriors and settlers spread across northern Europe, into Russia and across the Atlantic. After their first impact as fearsome raiders, destroying monasteries and plundering coastal settlements, the Vikings turned to conquest in England, Ireland and Normandy. In their longships they also penetrated into the Mediterranean and as far as Byzantium, as well as establishing settlements in Iceland and Greenland and discovering Vinand, or America. This book is a concise and clear survey of who the Vikings were, what they did, why they did it and how we know about them. It includes an account of heir remarkable saga literature and is likely to become a standard work on the subject.
Führen VOR Wissen: Wieso der Führungsstil entscheidend ist
Martin Arnold
tredition GmbH
2024
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Das Buch beinhaltet keine theoretische Abhandlung des Themas F hrung. Es basiert auf Erfahrungsbeispielen, welche ich in meiner bisherigen Laufbahn gemacht habe. Auf diese Weise soll der Leser in ganz konkrete Situationen eingef hrt werden und direkt erleben, was die jeweiligen Konsequenzen waren. Die Beispiele analysiere ich jeweils im Anschluss und fasse die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse daraus zusammen.
Führen VOR Wissen: Wieso der Führungsstil entscheidend ist
Martin Arnold
tredition GmbH
2024
sidottu
Das Buch beinhaltet keine theoretische Abhandlung des Themas F hrung. Es basiert auf Erfahrungsbeispielen, welche ich in meiner bisherigen Laufbahn gemacht habe. Auf diese Weise soll der Leser in ganz konkrete Situationen eingef hrt werden und direkt erleben, was die jeweiligen Konsequenzen waren. Die Beispiele analysiere ich jeweils im Anschluss und fasse die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse daraus zusammen.
Die Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit dem "Trade-off" zwischen Wachstum und Umweltqualitat. Dabei werden Schadstoffakkumulation und eine naturliche Reinigungsaktivitat der Umwelt als wesentliche Charakteristika des Umweltbereichs angesehen. Die naturliche Reinigungsleistung ist vom Umweltzustand abhangig und zeichnet sich durch eine maximale Reinigungsfahigkeit und eine maximale Belastbarkeit der Umwelt mit Schadstoffen aus. Zunachst werden anhand eines dynamischen Wachstumsmodells optimale Entwicklungspfade des okonomisch-okologischen Gesamtsystems identifiziert und daraufhin untersucht, inwieweit es ein langfristiges Gleichgewicht geben kann. Danach wird gezeigt, dass in einer dezentralen Marktokonomie ohne staatliches Eingreifen moglicherweise kein langfristiges okonomisch-okologisches Gleichgewicht existiert. Selbst wenn ein solcher "steady state" vorliegt, wird dennoch auf Dauer eine zu hohe Umweltverschmutzung in Kauf genommen. Staatliche Eingriffsmoglichkeiten, insbesondere der Vergleich von Preismanipulationen und Mengenbeschrankungen werden vor diesem Hintergrund beleuchtet, was die Schwergewichte der Beurteilung gegenuber der statischen Betrachtung verschiebt."
Über den Unterricht in der Aussprache des Englischen
Michael Martin Arnold Schröer
Springer
1884
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An Investigation of Fluid Flow Through Orifices in Series
Robert Arnold Martin John M. Boscole
Hassell Street Press
2021
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Martin Buber - Leben und Werk im Zeichen des Dialogischen
Gertrud Arnold
Frank und Timme GmbH
2019
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