2015, ISBN: 9781421416533

The Roman emperor Commodus wanted to kill a rhinoceros with a bow and arrow, and he wanted to do it in the Colosseum. Commodus's passion for hunting animals was so fervent that he dreamt … Mehr…

The Roman emperor Commodus wanted to kill a rhinoceros with a bow and arrow, and he wanted to do it in the Colosseum. Commodus's passion for hunting animals was so fervent that he dreamt of shooting a tiger, an elephant, and a hippopotamus; his prowess was such that people claimed he never missed when hurling his javelin or firing arrows from his bow. For fourteen days near the end of AD 192, the emperor mounted one of the most lavish and spectacular gladiatorial games Rome had ever seen. Commodus himself was the star attraction, and people rushed from all over Italy to witness the spectacle. But this slaughter was simply the warm-up act to the main event: the emperor was also planning to fight as a gladiator. Why did Roman rulers spend vast resources on such over-the-top displays--and why did some emperors appear in them as combatants? Why did the Roman rabble enjoy watching the slaughter of animals and the sight of men fighting to the death? And how best can we in the modern world understand what was truly at stake in the circus and the arena? In The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino, Jerry Toner set out to answer these questions by vividly describing what it would have been like to attend Commodus' fantastic shows and watch one of his many appearances as both hunter and fighter. Highlighting the massive logistical effort needed to supply the games with animals, performers, and criminals for execution, the book reveals how blood and gore were actually incidental to what really mattered. Gladiatorial games played a key role in establishing a forum for political debate between the rulers and the ruled. Roman crowds were not passive: they were made up of sophisticated consumers with their own political aims, which they used the games to secure. In addition, the games also served as a pure expression of what it meant to be a true Roman. Drawing on notions of personal honor, manly vigor, and sophisticated craftsmanship, the games were a story that the Romans loved to te ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/131871be/the-day-commodus-killed-a-rhino-jerry-toner-9781421415864.jpg|9781421415864|The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino : Paperback : Johns Hopkins University Press : 9781421415864 : 19 Dec 2014 : Drawing on notions of personal honor, manly vigor, and sophisticated craftsmanship, the games were a story that the Romans loved to tell thems ...|new|1|1|1|15|0|GBP|Jerry Toner|Johns Hopkins University Press|19 Dec 2014|Classical history / classical civilisation 9781421414140|Track-Two Diplomacy toward an Israeli-Palestinian Solution, 1978-2014|16.06|https://wordery.com/track-two-diplomacy-toward-an-israeli-palestinian-solution-1978-2014-yair-hirschfeld-9781421414140|Track-Two Diplomacy toward an Israeli-Palestinian Solution, 1978?2014 is an important insider account of a crucial set of negotiations aimed at settling a seemingly endless conflict. It brings out many new details of negotiating sessions and internal policy and strategy debates, and it is especially insightful on the thirteen-year process that led to the September 1993 Oslo Accords. Signed on the White House lawn in the presence of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat, the treaty was a landmark occasion followed shortly thereafter by the unraveling of the Israeli-Palestinian permanent status negotiations. The historical narrative focuses on series of negotiations and ongoing efforts under particular Israeli governments. Each chapter concludes with discussions of successes, failures, and lessons learned.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/c702aa7f/track-two-diplomacy-toward-an-israeli-palestinian-solution-1978-2014-yair-hirschfeld-9781421414140.jpg|9781421414140|Track-Two Diplomacy toward an Israeli-Palestinian Solution, 1978-2014 : Paperback : Woodrow Wilson Center Press : 9781421414140 : 24 Oct 2014 : Each chapter concludes with discussions of successes, failures, and lessons learned.|new|1|1|1|33.5|0|GBP|Yair Hirschfeld|Johns Hopkins University Press|24 Oct 2014|Diplomacy 9781421416182|Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City|9.66|https://wordery.com/field-guide-to-the-neighborhood-birds-of-new-york-city-leslie-day-9781421416182|Look around New York, and you'll probably see birds: wood ducks swimming in Queens, a stalking black-crowned night-heron in Brooklyn, great horned owls perching in the Bronx, warblers feeding in Central Park, or Staten Island's purple martins flying to and fro. You might spot hawks and falcons nesting on skyscrapers or robins belting out songs from trees along the street. America's largest metropolis teems with birdlife in part because it sits within the great Atlantic flyway where migratory birds travel seasonally between north and south. The Big Apple's miles of coastline, magnificent parks, and millions of trees attract dozens of migrating species every year and are also home year-round to scores of resident birds. There is no better way to identify and learn about New York's birds than with this comprehensive field guide from New York City naturalist Leslie Day. Her book will quickly teach you what each species looks like, where they build their nests, what they eat, the sounds of their songs, what time of year they appear in the city, the shapes and colors of their eggs, and where in the five boroughs you can find them?which is often in the neighborhood you call home. The hundreds of stunning photographs by Beth Bergman and gorgeous illustrations by Trudy Smoke will help you identify the ninety avian species commonly seen in New York. Once you enter the world of the city's birds, life in the great metropolis will never look the same.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/311a622a/field-guide-to-the-neighborhood-birds-of-new-york-city-leslie-day-9781421416182.jpg|9781421416182|Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City : Paperback : Johns Hopkins University Press : 9781421416182 : 31 Jul 2015 : Once you enter the world of the city's birds, life in the great metropolis will never look the same.|new|1|1|1|20.5|0|GBP|Leslie Day|Johns Hopkins University Press|31 Jul 2015|Wildlife: birds & birdwatching 9781421415741|Putting a Name to It|11.78|https://wordery.com/putting-a-name-to-it-annemarie-goldstein-jutel-9781421415741|Over a decade after medical sociologist Phil Brown called for a sociology of diagnosis,Putting a Name to It provides the first book-length, comprehensive framework for this emerging subdiscipline of medical sociology. Diagnosis is central to medicine. It creates social order, explains illness, identifies treatments, and predicts outcomes. Using concepts of medical sociology, Annemarie Goldstein Jutel sheds light on current knowledge about the components of diagnosis to outline how a sociology of diagnosis would function. She situates it within the broader discipline, lays out the directions it should explore, and discusses how the classification of illness and framing of diagnosis relate to social status and order. Jutel explains why this matters not just to doctor-patient relationships but also to the entire medical system. As a result, she argues, the sociological realm of diagnosis encompasses not only the ongoing controversy surrounding revisions to theDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in psychiatry but also hot-button issues such as genetic screening and pharmaceutical industry disease mongering. Both a challenge and a call to arms, Putting a Name to It is a lucid, persuasive argument for formalizing, professionalizing, and advancing longstanding practice. Jutel's innovative, open approach and engaging arguments will find support among medical sociologists and practitioners and across much of the medical system.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/f51e8b64/putting-a-name-to-it-annemarie-goldstein-jutel-9781421415741.jpg|9781421415741|Putting a Name to It : Paperback : Johns Hopkins University Press : 9781421415741 : 01 Dec 2014 : Jutel's innovative, open approach and engaging arguments will find support among medical sociologists and practitioners and across much of the medical sy ...|new|1|1|1|26|0|GBP|Annemarie Goldstein Jutel|Johns Hopkins University Press|01 Dec 2014|Medical sociology 9781421416533|Wolf by the Ears|7.56|https://wordery.com/wolf-by-the-ears-john-r-van-atta-9781421416533|From the early days of the republic, American leaders knew that an unpredictable time bomb--the question of slavery--lay at the heart of national politics. An implicit understanding between North and South helped to keep the issue at bay: Northern states, where slavery had been set on course for extinction via gradual emancipation, tacitly agreed to respect the property rights of Southern slaveholders; in return, Southerners essentially promised to view slaveholding as a practical evil and look for waysto get rid of it. By 1819-1820, however, westward expansion had brought the matter to a head. As Thomas Jefferson wrote at the time, a nation dealing with the politically implacable issue of slavery essentially held the 'wolf' by the ears--and could neither let go nor hang on forever. In Wolf by the Ears, John R. Van Atta discusses how the sectional conflict that led to the Civil War surfaced in the divisive fight over Missouri statehood. The first organized Louisiana Purchase territory to lie completelywest of the Mississippi River and northwest of the Ohio, Missouri carried special significance for both pro- and anti-slavery advocates. Northern congressmen leaped out of their seats to object to the proposed expansion of the slave 'empire,' while slave-state politicians voiced outrage at the Northerners' blatant sectional attack. Although the Missouri confrontation ultimately appeared to end amicably with a famous compromise that the wily Kentuckian Henry Clay helped to cobble together, the passions itunleashed proved vicious, widespread, and long lasting. Van Atta deftly explains how the Missouri crisis revealed the power that slavery had already gained over American nation building. He explores the external social, cultural, and economic forces thatgave the confrontation such urgency around the country, as well as the beliefs, assumptions, and fears that characterized both sides of the slavery argument. Wolf by the Ears provides students in American history wi ... Books<

2015, ISBN: 1421416530

[EAN: 9781421416533], Neubuch, [SC: 0.0], [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press Apr 2015], Neuware - From the early days of the republic, American leaders knew that an unpredictable time bo… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781421416533], Neubuch, [SC: 0.0], [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press Apr 2015], Neuware - From the early days of the republic, American leaders knew that an unpredictable time bomb - the question of slavery - lay at the heart of national politics. An implicit understanding between North and South helped to keep the issue at bay: northern states, where slavery had been set on course for extinction via gradual emancipation, tacitly agreed to respect the property rights of southern slaveholders; in return, southerners essentially promised to view slaveholding as a practical evil and look for ways to get rid of it. By 1819¿1820, however, westward expansion had brought the matter to a head. As Thomas Jefferson wrote at the time, a nation dealing with the politically implacable issue of slavery essentially held the ¿wolf¿ by the ears - and could neither let go nor hang on forever.In Wolf by the Ears, John R. Van Atta discusses how the sectional conflict that led to the Civil War surfaced in the divisive fight over Missouri statehood. The first organized Louisiana Purchase territory to lie completely west of the Mississippi River and northwest of the Ohio, Missouri carried special significance for both pro- and anti-slavery advocates. Northern congressmen leaped out of their seats to object to the proposed expansion of the slave ¿empire,¿ while slave-state politicians voiced outrage at the northerners¿ blatant sectional attack. Although the Missouri confrontation ultimately appeared to end amicably with a famous compromise that the wily Kentuckian Henry Clay helped to cobble together, the passions it unleashed proved vicious, widespread, and long lasting.Van Atta deftly explains how the Missouri crisis revealed the power that slavery had already gained over American nation building. He explores the external social, cultural, and economic forces that gave the confrontation such urgency around the country, as well as the beliefs, assumptions, and fears that characterized both sides of the slavery argument. Wolf by the Ears provides students in American history with an ideal introduction to the Missouri crisis while at the same time offering fresh insights for scholars of the early republic. 216 pp. Englisch<

2015, ISBN: 1421416530

[EAN: 9781421416533], Neubuch, [SC: 0.0], [PU: John Hopkins University Press Apr 2015], Neuware - From the early days of the republic, American leaders knew that an unpredictable time bom… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781421416533], Neubuch, [SC: 0.0], [PU: John Hopkins University Press Apr 2015], Neuware - From the early days of the republic, American leaders knew that an unpredictable time bomb - the question of slavery - lay at the heart of national politics. An implicit understanding between North and South helped to keep the issue at bay: northern states, where slavery had been set on course for extinction via gradual emancipation, tacitly agreed to respect the property rights of southern slaveholders; in return, southerners essentially promised to view slaveholding as a practical evil and look for ways to get rid of it. By 1819¿1820, however, westward expansion had brought the matter to a head. As Thomas Jefferson wrote at the time, a nation dealing with the politically implacable issue of slavery essentially held the ¿wolf¿ by the ears - and could neither let go nor hang on forever.In Wolf by the Ears, John R. Van Atta discusses how the sectional conflict that led to the Civil War surfaced in the divisive fight over Missouri statehood. The first organized Louisiana Purchase territory to lie completely west of the Mississippi River and northwest of the Ohio, Missouri carried special significance for both pro- and anti-slavery advocates. Northern congressmen leaped out of their seats to object to the proposed expansion of the slave ¿empire,¿ while slave-state politicians voiced outrage at the northerners¿ blatant sectional attack. Although the Missouri confrontation ultimately appeared to end amicably with a famous compromise that the wily Kentuckian Henry Clay helped to cobble together, the passions it unleashed proved vicious, widespread, and long lasting.Van Atta deftly explains how the Missouri crisis revealed the power that slavery had already gained over American nation building. He explores the external social, cultural, and economic forces that gave the confrontation such urgency around the country, as well as the beliefs, assumptions, and fears that characterized both sides of the slavery argument. Wolf by the Ears provides students in American history with an ideal introduction to the Missouri crisis while at the same time offering fresh insights for scholars of the early republic. Englisch<

2015, ISBN: 1421416530

[EAN: 9781421416533], Neubuch, [PU: John Hopkins University Press Apr 2015], Neuware - From the early days of the republic, American leaders knew that an unpredictable time bomb - the que… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781421416533], Neubuch, [PU: John Hopkins University Press Apr 2015], Neuware - From the early days of the republic, American leaders knew that an unpredictable time bomb - the question of slavery - lay at the heart of national politics. An implicit understanding between North and South helped to keep the issue at bay: northern states, where slavery had been set on course for extinction via gradual emancipation, tacitly agreed to respect the property rights of southern slaveholders; in return, southerners essentially promised to view slaveholding as a practical evil and look for ways to get rid of it. By 1819¿1820, however, westward expansion had brought the matter to a head. As Thomas Jefferson wrote at the time, a nation dealing with the politically implacable issue of slavery essentially held the ¿wolf¿ by the ears - and could neither let go nor hang on forever.In Wolf by the Ears, John R. Van Atta discusses how the sectional conflict that led to the Civil War surfaced in the divisive fight over Missouri statehood. The first organized Louisiana Purchase territory to lie completely west of the Mississippi River and northwest of the Ohio, Missouri carried special significance for both pro- and anti-slavery advocates. Northern congressmen leaped out of their seats to object to the proposed expansion of the slave ¿empire,¿ while slave-state politicians voiced outrage at the northerners¿ blatant sectional attack. Although the Missouri confrontation ultimately appeared to end amicably with a famous compromise that the wily Kentuckian Henry Clay helped to cobble together, the passions it unleashed proved vicious, widespread, and long lasting.Van Atta deftly explains how the Missouri crisis revealed the power that slavery had already gained over American nation building. He explores the external social, cultural, and economic forces that gave the confrontation such urgency around the country, as well as the beliefs, assumptions, and fears that characterized both sides of the slavery argument. Wolf by the Ears provides students in American history with an ideal introduction to the Missouri crisis while at the same time offering fresh insights for scholars of the early republic. Englisch<