This volume presents a galaxy of traditional and modern critical approaches to Joseph Conrad's oeuvre, ranging from biographical and autobiographical studies to literary comparisons with John Milton, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Cormac McCarthy; from postcolonial and Marxist analyses to reader-response, intertextual, and archetypal criticism. Some pieces incorporate the theoretical-philosophical insights of Josiah Royce, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Lacan; others consult Jacques Derrida, Homi Bhabha, and Slavoj Žižek.

Apart from Conrad's life and its...

This is the first English translation of the History of Leo the Deacon (born circa 950), a little-known but lively author intimately familiar with the palace politics of Constantinople.Leo's firsthand experience of the campaigns and courts of two Byzantine emperors provides vivid descriptions of sieges, pitched battles, and ambushes. An extensive introduction and detailed notes guide the reader through the complex chronology, geography, and text of the History. Also included are five maps, two genealogical tables, and four indexes.

This reference source on water efficiency in buildings provides comprehensive and up-to-date information. Both multi-disciplinary and practical, it signposts current knowledge, innovation, expertise and evidence on an important subject which is high in the resource management debate.

Water Efficiency in Buildings: a review of theory and practice is structured into five sections: Policy; People; Building Design and Planning; Alternative Water Technologies; and Practical Examples & Case Studies. This final section of the book presents new and current practice as well as lessons...

Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries.

• Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
• Considers the ways in which a city's relationships with other places influences its urban development
• Provides fresh ideas for comparative urban studies that move beyond discussions of economic and policy factors
• Offers a clear and concise narrative accompanied by more than 45 photos and...

Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries.

• Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
• Considers the ways in which a city's relationships with other places influences its urban development
• Provides fresh ideas for comparative urban studies that move beyond discussions of economic and policy factors
• Offers a clear and concise narrative accompanied by more than 45 photos and...

Innumerable sacrificial altars and ancestral temples bear witness to the role of Confucianism, which was the dominant ideology in China for over 2000 years. Many of these elegant ritual and ceremonial buildings are devoted exclusively to the remains of illustrious forebears, emperors and kings. The scale and form adopted by the various buildings was dictated by the strict codes of Confucian rites which were often also dedicated to the moon, the sun, the universe and the rivers. Among the most elegant examples are the Temple of Heaven, The Temple of Confucius, The Ancestral Temple, The Temple...

"Transfer Projekt Damaskus" hat Fremdes und Ahnliches, den Stadtraum als solchen zum Thema. Auf der Textebene wird mit dem syrischen Philosophen Sadik J. Al-Azm und dem libanesischen Schriftsteller Amin Maalouf diskutiert. Namhafte Personlichkeiten beschaftigen sich mit den Themen urbane Entwicklung, reale und gedankliche Vermischungszonen, Realitatsuberlagerungen, Okologie sowie der Situation der Frauen. Jamal Chehayed kommentiert seine Ubersetzung von Proust ins Arabische. Christian Reder geht von der lokalen Gedenkstatte fur Kain und Abel aus, um tradierte Bilder von Urbanitat und...

Max Weber famously argued that the rise of capitalism in early modern Europe was premised on the emergence of a distinctive set of attitudes - including the pursuit of profit for its own sake - which he called 'the spirit of capitalism'. Today, when capitalism has spread across the globe, the spirit of capitalism would appear to reign supreme.

In this important book Bernard Stiegler takes a very different view: what we are witnessing today is not the triumph of the spirit of capitalism but rather its demise, as our contemporary 'hyper-industrial' societies become increasingly...

Crucial to an understanding of life in the past is an appreciation of how individuals perceived their world. This book captures the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and feelings of the late medieval period to recreate and explain the kinds of lives lived by medieval men and women. Based on a wide range of sources, from saints' lives, collections of miracles and literary works, to domestic financial records and the remains of buildings, the book reveals a physical experience very different from our own. Popular beliefs about the senses were closely intertwined with intellectual ideas about their...

This book provides a simple but precise framework for describing complex predicates.