Drawing on the best recent scholarship, this short introductory volume examines the motivations and calculations of the major participants in the conflict, sets the 'opening' of Japan in the context of broader global history, and traces the effects of the crisis on subsequent international and regional geopolitical relations.
Drawing on the best recent scholarship, this short introductory volume examines the motivations and calculations of the major participants in the conflict, sets the 'opening' of Japan in the context of broader global history, and traces the effects of the crisis on subsequent international and regional geopolitical relations.
*Includes pictures *Includes the rock stars' quotes about their lives and careers *Includes an introduction and bibliography for each one In 1964, girls all across the United States filled venues, almost literally screamed their heads off, and fainted en masse. Almost from the second they played the first note, The Beatles would be hit with the resounding screams, which made it impossible for them to even hear themselves sing. When they made their American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show in early 1964, they were greeted by young fans who whipped themselves up into such a frenzy that some of them fainted. Beatlemania had struck North America, creating a musical and pop culture phenomenon unlike anything the world had ever seen. At the center of it all was John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the principal songwriting duo who were instrumental in creating the soundtrack of the 1960s, while producing some of the world's most timeless classics. Together with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, Lennon and McCartney propelled The Beatles to unprecedented heights, sparking Beatlemania on two sides of the Atlantic and experimenting with their sound in ways that revolutionized rock and inspired bands across various musical genres. In the space of just a few years, Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, rose from the obscurity of a small Minnesota town to a position of royalty atop the folk music landscape of the 1960s, with a universal esteem and status on a par with Elvis Presley and The Beatles. In the 1960s, "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are A' Changing" "became anthems of the anti-war and civil rights movements," but long after the transition from the '50s to the late '60s and '70s was accomplished, the initially baffling young folk singer who appeared out of nowhere was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize for "his profound impact on popular music, and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." Over the span of his career, he has received Grammy Awards, Golden Globes, Academy Award Oscars, and he has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, not to mention the Pulitzer Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom. It is rare in the world of music for a general consensus to form over who was the best at anything. Many would call The Beatles the greatest rock band, but it's easy to find strongly opinionated dissenters. However, when it came to playing a guitar and laying the soundtrack for the psychedelic era, just about everyone agrees there was Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) and then there was everyone else. Anyone arguing otherwise either never heard his music or saw him perform. In fact, Jimi Hendrix is one of the few musicians known primarily for his sound and what he could do with a guitar than for his discography. Dubbed by many as the "First Lady" or "Queen" of Rock & Roll, Joplin both invented and installed the "rock mama paradigm" into the American rock consciousness, a patriarchal and fraternal industry that, much like the societal traits it protested, restricted women to a narrow and conservative criteria for entrance. With only a very few kindred spirits, such as Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, "she pioneered a new range of expression for white women." In the mid-1960s, an era on the cusp of change from the musical and social norms of the previous decade, the emergence of Jim Morrison, the charismatic poet/musician of The Doors, helped to transform the subgenre of rock n' roll as a stylistic flavor to the full-fledged institution of Rock Music. Morrison accomplished this transformation by avoiding membership in any of the known categories of modern rock music during the age of protest, but at the same time, he became the general symbol of anti-authoritarianism for his generation and the next.
Celebrated chef Paul Kahan's game plan and recipe repertoire of rustic, super-delicious, low-stress food to cook for gatherings. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWChicago chef Paul Kahan is legendary for cooking up amazing food at home while everyone--including him--is hanging out in the kitchen, talking, and having a great time. Cooking for Good Times shares Kahan's best secrets for low-stress cooking for friends and family, using his program of twelve basic actions to mix and match (such as "Roast Some Roots, "Make Some Grains," "Braise a Pork Shoulder," and "Make a Simple Dessert"). In every chapter, Kahan gives six to eight customizations for each core recipe for ways to make dishes seem new. Simple recommendations for wine and beer styles to pour remove the fuss over beverage options. With recipes ranging from Roasted Chicken with Smashed Potatoes and Green Sauce to Farro with Roasted Cauliflower and Oranges and Steak with Radicchio and Honey-Roasted Squash, plus more than 125 mouth-watering photographs, Kahan's playbook is guaranteed to make hosting more relaxing, fun, and delicious.
Naresh Magan; Esther Garcia-Cela; Carol Verheecke-Vaessen; Angel Medina; Zhao Jin; Paul Schwarz; David Jordan; Rick Brandenburg; Gary Payne; David Hoisington; Nick Magnan; James Rhoads; Mumuni Abudulai; Koushik Adhikari; Jinru Chen; Richard Akromah; William Appaw; William Ellis; Maria Balota; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Ken Boote; Greg MacDonald; Kira Bowen; Boris Bravo-Ureta; Jeremy Jelliffe; Agnes Budu; Hendrix Chalwe; Alice Mweetwa; Munsanda Ngulube; Awere Dankyi; Brandford Mochia; Vivian Hoffmann; Amade Muitia; Agnes Mwangwela
This collection features five peer-reviewed literature reviews on mycotoxin control in agriculture.The first chapter reviews advances in post-harvest detection and control of fungal contaminants in cereals. It examines abiotic factors affecting spoilage, methods for early detection of contamination and the range control measures for preventing toxin growth.The second chapter focuses on post-harvest storage and handling practices of barley grain and how these methods can be used to mitigate mycotoxin issues. The chapter also reviews the various mycotoxins and fungi that are associated with barley.The third chapter considers the current strategies available to prevent mycotoxin contamination in groundnut cultivation, focussing on peanuts. It also covers models that predict contamination, as well as the challenges associated with research and quantification of aflatoxin.The fourth chapter presents an overview of the current understanding of mycotoxin contamination of cocoa. The chapter summarises the various methods available to aid detection of mycotoxins and control further contamination.The final chapter addresses the critical safety issue of mycotoxin contamination of food waste planned for re-use. It reviews factors affecting mycotoxin growth and the particular problem of masked mycotoxins.
English summary: Cross-border Relocation of Partnerships - New options of Choosing the Legal Structure and Transferring the Head Office in the EU Internal Market? Cross-border corporate mobility has been the subject of profound changes in recent years, culminating in the recently enacted Act to Implement the Mobility Directive and the Act to Modernise the Law on Civil-Law Partnerships. Motivated by the inherent innovations, the author analyses the potential on mobility of registered and unregistered partnerships regarding cross-border transfers of their administrative head offices and cross-border conversions by changing their legal form. German description: Die grenzuberschreitende Unternehmensmobilitat war in den vergangenen Jahren Gegenstand tiefgreifender Umwalzungen, die in den Gesetzen zur Umsetzung der Umwandlungsrichtlinie und zur Modernisierung des Personengesellschaftsrecht gipfelten. Die damit einhergehenden Neuerungen nimmt der Verfasser zum Anlass, das Mobilitatspotential eingetragener und nicht eingetragener Personengesellschaften in Bezug auf grenzuberschreitende Verwaltungssitzverlegungen und Formwechsel zu untersuchen. Basierend auf einer Analyse des neuen Sitzbegriffs im Personengesellschaftsrecht pladiert er fur einen Ubergang zur Grundungstheorie in unionalen Sachverhalten. Er arbeitet heraus, dass grenzuberschreitende Verwaltungssitzverlegungen und Formwechsel eingetragener Personengesellschaften im Binnenmarkt umfassend zu gewahrleisten sind und unter Ruckgriff auf den neuen Rechtsrahmen rechtssicher durchgefuhrt werden konnen. Lediglich bei nicht eingetragenen Personengesellschaften kommt es zu erheblichen Friktionen, die der Verfasser ebenfalls untersucht. Abschliessend legt er dar, dass das dargestellte Mobilitatspotenzial auch mit Blick auf die Grenzen richterlicher Rechtsfortbildung nicht zu beanstanden ist.
"Du solltest Z gerlichkeit und Langsamkeit nicht verwechseln. Das eine dehnt den Moment, das andere verpasst ihn." Lange hat sich Tajo dieser Reise versperrt, doch nun k nnte es seine letzte sein. Also steigt er auf sein Rad und macht sich auf die Suche nach seinem Sohn, quer ber den s damerikanischen Kontinent. Immer wieder muss er sich dabei seinen hartn ckigen Verfolgern stellen, die ihn vor langer Zeit in den tiefen S den vertrieben hatten. Ein Buch ber das Suchen und Finden, den Abenteuern der Stra e und der Hoffnung auf eine rettende Begegnung am Ende des Asphalts.
This book argues that the notions of happiness, unhappiness and chance in the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur offer an overarching conceptualisation of happiness that has significant implications for contemporary popular and philosophical accounts of happiness. This alternative understanding of happiness can serve as a corrective to the kind of happiness presented by the happiness sciences, religion, and consumerism. By analysing Ricoeur's philosophy, and specifically his two articles on happiness, "Le Bonheur Hors Lieu" (1994) and "L'optatif du bonheur" (2001), Ann H. Verhoef argues that a significant alternative mode of understanding happiness is found in the dialectical thinking of Ricoeur. Ricoeur's dialectic of happiness and unhappiness entails that unhappiness is always part of happiness; not something to be overcome, but something to be integrated in who we are. Unhappiness is not a lack, and happiness is not a desire to not lack the lack. Happiness is always in a dialectical tension with unhappiness. Furthermore, Ricoeur's recognition of chance as part of happiness opens a recognition for happiness as something received without any effort, while simultaneously keeping the ethical vision of Aristotle intact, namely that one should strive for the good, eudaimonia. There is fragile dialectics of receiving and striving for happiness within the simultaneous dialectic between happiness and unhappiness.
Design for the Unexpected: From Holonic Manufacturing Systems Towards a Humane Mechatronics Society presents new, even revolutionary, ideas to managing production and production systems which may fundamentally shift the paradigm of manufacturing systems design. It provides guidelines for the design of complex systems that can deal with unexpected disturbances and presents a decentralized control methodology that goes far beyond the traditional hierarchical control approach that currently prevails. The benefits are illustrated by a variety of examples and case studies from different fields, with the book's well-established authors presenting Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) as the framework for the ‘factory-of-the-future’, and suggesting that the application of biologically inspired control paradigms can control complex manufacturing systems, and that there are far wider applications for these systems than pure manufacturing. In addition, the book explores how this multi-agent control framework can be extended to other fields such as traffic, transport, services, and health care.
Bent Ottesen; Bjarke à Rogvi-Hansen; Christian Torp-Pedersen; Steen Walter; Else Kirstine Tønnesen; Frank Mirz; Hans Karle; Hans Kristian Pilegaard; Hendrik von Arenstorff Vilstrup; Jacob Rosenberg; Jens Sandahl Christiansen; Jens Thorup Andersen; Jes Bruun Lauritzen; Kristian Stengaard-Pedersen; Lars Christian Laursen; Lisbeth Nilas; Marie Seibæk; Mette Rosendal Darmer; Mikael Rørth; Morten Bagge Hansen; Ole Hamberg; Paul Lehm Andersen; Peer Christiansen; Svend Schulze; Svend Strandgaard; Toke Bek; Tonny Karlsmark
Basisbog i sygdomslære omfatter alle de kirurgiske og intern medicinske sygdomme og også alle de øvrige store fag som gynækologi, obstetrik, øre-, næse- og halssygdomme, hud- og kønssygdomme samt øjensygdomme. Bogen er rigt illustreret med kliniske fotos, heraf mange i farver, og de farvelagte og detaljerede tegninger underbygger beskrivelsen af sygdommene. De mange krydshenvisninger i mellem bogens kapitler og det omfattende stikordsregister gør det let for læseren at finde rundt i bogen. Bagerst i bogen er en fyldig ordliste med forklaringer på de hyppigst anvendte begreber, forkortelser og termer. Basisbog i sygdomslære tager udgangspunkt i sygeplejerskeuddannelsen, men kan anvendes af studerende ved alle de mellemlange sundhedsuddannelser, som fx fysio- og ergoterapeutuddannelserne og bioanalytikeruddannelsen. Bogen er også relevant for praktikere som opslagsbog i det daglige arbejde i klinikken. Redaktørerne: Svend Schulze, overlæge, dr. med., ansat som ledende overlæge på gastroenheden, Hvidovre Hospital. Torben V. Schroeder, professor, dr.med. og overlæge ved karkirurgisk afd. Rigshospitalet.
Paul is the most powerful human personality in the history of the Church. A missionary, theologian, and religious genius, in his epistles he laid the foundations on which later Christian theology was built. In his highly original introduction to Paul's life and thought, E. P. Sanders, whose research on Paul has substantially influenced recent scholarship, pays equal attention to Paul's fundamental convictions and the sometimes convoluted ways in which they were worked out. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
For someone who has exercised such a profound influence on Christian theology, Paul remains a shadowy figure behind the barrier of his complicated and difficult biblical letters. Debates about his meaning have deflected attention from his personality, yet his personality is an important key to understanding his theological ideas. This book redresses the balance. Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's disciplined imagination, nourished by a lifetime of research, shapes numerous textual, historical, and archaeological details into a colourful and enjoyable story of which Paul is the flawed but undefeated hero. This chronological narrative offers new insights into Paul's intellectual, emotional, and religious development and puts his travels, mission, and theological ideas into a plausible biographical context. As he changes from an assimilated Jewish teenager in Tarsus to a competitive Pharisee in Jerusalem and then to a driven missionary of Christ, the sometimes contradictory components of Paul's complex personality emerge from the way he interacts with people and problems. His theology was forged in dialogue and becomes more intelligible as our appreciation of his person deepens. In Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's engaging biography, the Apostle comes to life as a complex, intensely human individual.
For someone who has exercised such a profound influence on Christian theology, Paul remains a shadowy figure behind the barrier of his complicated and difficult biblical letters. Debates about his meaning have deflected attention from his personality, yet his personality is an important key to understanding his theological ideas. This book redresses the balance. Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's disciplined imagination, nourished by a lifetime of research, shapes numerous textual, historical, and archaeological details into a colourful and enjoyable story of which Paul is the flawed but undefeated hero. This chronological narrative offers new insights into Paul's intellectual, emotional, and religious development and puts his travels, mission, and theological ideas into a plausible biographical context. As he changes from an assimilated Jewish teenager in Tarsus to a competitive Pharisee in Jerusalem and then to a driven missionary of Christ, the sometimes contradictory components of Paul's complex personality emerge from the way he interacts with people and problems. His theology was forged in dialogue and becomes more intelligible as our appreciation of his person deepens. In Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's engaging biography, the Apostle comes to life as a complex, intensely human individual.
This study of the Apostle to the Gentiles combines scholarship with an unusual approach. Schoeps interprets Paul's theology in the light of his Jewish background, which coloured and conditioned his Christological teaching.
Since its first publication in German in 1959, Paul has been hailed as a major study of the apostle to the Gentiles, combining exceptional scholarship with an unusual approach. Schoeps interprets Paul's theology in the light of his Jewish background, which coloured and conditioned his Christological teaching. Paul's conception of Jesus differs from that of the Synoptics: what and how extensive the difference is and whence it is derived are among the questions Schoeps examines. After surveying major problems in Pauline research, the Author relates the apostle to primitive Christianity, discussing his eschatology and his teachings on salvation, the law, and saving history. The final chapter shows that Paul's distinctive doctrines result from two converging factors: that Paul never saw Jesus in the flesh, and the influence of Jewish teaching. The consequence was his concern with the resurrected Saviour of the world, the pre-existent and eternal Son of God. Schoeps shows that Paul betrayed a fundamental misconception of the law and the covenantal agreement between God and his chosen people. The result is a thought-provoking, and somewhat startling, study of the first, the greatest, and the most difficult of all Christian theologians.
'There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.' (Galatians 3.28) The revolutionary writings of St Paul have had an incalculable impact on Western history, and continue to influence directly the two billion Christians living today. Written by a world authority, this brief history begins by assessing what we know about Paul's life and letters, and his impact on the Roman world of the first century. It concludes by highlighting the key elements of Paul's thought and considering their consequences as they have played out over two millennia.
This compelling reconstruction of the life and thought of St Paul paints a vivid picture of the Roman world in which he preached his revolutionary message and explains the significance of his lasting impact on both the Church and the world. Regarded by many as the founder of Christianity, Paul of Tarsus is one of the most controversial and powerful figures in history. His writings have had an incalculable influence on Western culture and beyond, and his words continue to guide the lives of over two billion Christians across the world today. In this superbly detailed biography Tom Wright traces Paul's career from zealous persecutor of the fledgling Church, through his journeys as the world's greatest missionary theologian, to his likely death as a Christian martyr at the hands of Nero in the mid 60s CE. Drawing judiciously on the latest research into the Jewish, Greek and Roman worlds, and enriched by a wealth of critical insight into Paul's own writings, this is the most rounded portrait of the apostle ever painted – his development, motivations, spiritual struggles and intellectual achievements, and his lasting impact over two millennia.
A groundbreaking new portrait of the apostle Paul, from one of today’s leading historians of antiquity Often seen as the author of timeless Christian theology, Paul himself heatedly maintained that he lived and worked in history’s closing hours. His letters propel his readers into two ancient worlds, one Jewish, one pagan. The first was incandescent with apocalyptic hopes, expecting God through his messiah to fulfill his ancient promises of redemption to Israel. The second teemed with ancient actors, not only human but also divine: angry superhuman forces, jealous demons, and hostile cosmic gods. Both worlds are Paul’s, and his convictions about the first shaped his actions in the second. Only by situating Paul within this charged social context of gods and humans, pagans and Jews, cities, synagogues, and competing Christ-following assemblies can we begin to understand his mission and message. This original and provocative book offers a dramatically new perspective on one of history’s seminal figures.
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