Eastern Approaches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eastern Approaches write by Fitzroy MaClean. This book was released on 2015-05-07. Eastern Approaches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. Maclean's extraordinary adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia are blistering reading and show what it took to be a British hero who broke the mould . . .
Eastern Approaches to Byzantium
Eastern Approaches to Byzantium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eastern Approaches to Byzantium write by Antony Eastmond. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Eastern Approaches to Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The eastern frontier of Byzantium and the interaction of the peoples that lived along it are the themes of this book. With a focus on the ninth to thirteenth centuries and dealing with both art history and history, the essays provide reconsiderations of Byzantine policy on its eastern borders, new interpretations and new materials on Byzantine relations with the Georgians, Armenians and Seljuqs, as well as studies on the writing of history among these peoples. Presenting research from Russia and Georgia as well as Europe and the USA, the contributors stress the interaction and interdependence of all the peoples along this frontier zone, and consider the different ways in which the political and cultural power of Byzantium was appropriated. They provide important comparative evidence for the relationship between local and Byzantine cultures, and open up new avenues for research into the history of eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus. The volume arises from the thirty-third Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held at the University of Warwick in March 1999.
Eastern Approaches to Western Film
Eastern Approaches to Western Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eastern Approaches to Western Film write by Stephen Teo. This book was released on 2019-07-11. Eastern Approaches to Western Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eastern Approaches to Western Film: Asian Aesthetics and Reception in Cinema offers a renewed critical outlook on Western classic film directly from the pantheon of European and American masters, including Alfred Hitchcock, George Lucas, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer, Jean-Pierre Melville, John Ford, Leo McCarey, Sam Peckinpah, and Orson Welles. The book contributes an “Eastern Approach” into the critical studies of Western films by reappraising selected films of these masters, matching and comparing their visions, themes, and ideas with the philosophical and paradigmatic principles of the East. It traces Eastern inscriptions and signs embedded within these films as well as their social lifestyle values and other concepts that are also inherently Eastern. As such, the book represents an effort to reformulate established discourses on Western cinema that are overwhelmingly Eurocentric. Although it seeks to inject an alternative perspective, the ultimate aim is to reach a balance of East and West. By focusing on Eastern aesthetic and philosophical influences in Western films, the book suggests that there is a much more thorough integration of East and West than previously thought or imagined.
Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond
Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond write by Stephanie Lynn Budin. This book was released on 2018-10-04. Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of 23 essays, presented in three sections, aims to discuss women’s studies as well as methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the broad framework of ancient Near Eastern studies. The first section, comprising most of the contributions, is devoted to Assyriology and ancient Near Eastern archaeology. The second and third sections are devoted to Egyptology and to ancient Israel and biblical studies respectively, neighbouring fields of research included in the volume to enrich the debate and facilitate academic exchange. Altogether these essays offer a variety of sources and perspectives, from the textual to the archaeological, from bodies and sexuality to onomastics, to name just a few, making this a useful resource for all those interested in the study of women and gender in the past.
Wharton on Making Decisions
Wharton on Making Decisions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wharton on Making Decisions write by Stephen J. Hoch. This book was released on 2004-08-20. Wharton on Making Decisions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perspectives from leaders in decision science at Wharton Organized in part through Wharton's Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, the book assembles leading researchers from Wharton's business faculty who demonstrate how to apply the latest approaches in decision-making from four perspectives: personal, managerial, negotiator, and consumer. Each chapter describes how decisions are actually made, presents the ideal scenario, and then provides practical suggestions for improvement. The subjects range from when consumers will choose variety, integrating intuition into decisions, and applying game theory and strategic decisions, to decision factors in negotiations and how choices are made about insurance and health care.
