COMEDIA is a book about time, the emotions of time and the metaphors of time. It describes the cycle of the year in terms of the human heart: the year being the ideal paradigm or pattern of all human experience.
COMEDIA is a book about time, the emotions of time and the metaphors of time. It describes the cycle of the year in terms of the human heart: the year...
COMEDIA is a book about time, the emotions of time and the metaphors of time. It describes the cycle of the year in terms of the human heart: the year being the ideal paradigm or pattern of all human experience.
COMEDIA is a book about time, the emotions of time and the metaphors of time. It describes the cycle of the year in terms of the human heart: the year...
This volume is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahabharata, and focuses particularly on the role of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them.
This volume is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahabharata, and focuses particularly on the role of wife, daughter-in-law, and ...
Al Qaeda killed over 3,000 US citizens on September 11, 2001, and terrorism leapt to the fore of US strategic and political priorities. Yet, after nearly six years of concentrated effort by the United States, the dominant power in the international system, Al Qaeda survives and is still acknowledged as a potent threat. This begs the question not just of why, but also of what the United States can do to redress the situation.
Confronting Al-Qaeda asserts that Al-Qaeda is primarily a political threat, not a military one. This is because terrorists subvert legitimate political...
Al Qaeda killed over 3,000 US citizens on September 11, 2001, and terrorism leapt to the fore of US strategic and political priorities. Yet, after nea...
Presents the study of how the four poets of the Indian epic Mahabharata fuse their separate performances of the poem into a single and seamless work of art. This book examines the different mnemonic forms engaged by this verbal activity focusing primarily on the distinction between what is seen and what is heard.
Presents the study of how the four poets of the Indian epic Mahabharata fuse their separate performances of the poem into a single and seamless work o...
Nature learned long ago how useful proteins are as a diverse set of building blocks to make materials with very diverse properties. Spider webs, egg whites, hair follicles, and skeletal muscles are all largely protein. This book provides a glimpse into both nature's strategies for the design and produc tion of protein-based materials, and how scientists have been able to go beyond the constraints of natural materials to produce synthetic analogs with potentially wider ranges of properties. The work presented is very much the beginning of the story. Only recently has there been much progress...
Nature learned long ago how useful proteins are as a diverse set of building blocks to make materials with very diverse properties. Spider webs, egg w...
"AS" two lovers lie upon a shore the sun of justice passes overhead and observes their consummation. There is only one narrative in the world of time and human effort which we attempt to apprehend and to imitate in all our works and WINDWARD is a book about this voyage and how it is that the lovers arrived where they are now, following the circuit of the annual year, its ritual metaphors and images. Whether we admit it or not we are all lovers and each pursues that same one genius of life.
For those who can love - all at once - the words of Homer, of Sappho, of English renaissance verse...
"AS" two lovers lie upon a shore the sun of justice passes overhead and observes their consummation. There is only one narrative in the world of ti...