Being unlike any other dogs he knows because of his interest in surfing the Internet, playing with people toys, and watching the night sky through a telescope, Chowder thinks the world is a lonely place, but when a petting zoo opens close to his home, Chowder is thrilled to discover a group of new friends who truly appreciate his original style and flare.

Explores two centuries of history in the Middle East, from Napoleon's invasions of Egypt, through the Ottoman Empire's collapse, to the discovery of oil, the founding of Israel, and beyond.

How many rooms in the X-Mansion? What makes web-shooters work? Find out as Spider-Man and the X-Men join forces to highlight the third volume of this Guide to the Greats! Featuring full profiles on Rogue, Shadowcat, Storm, the White Queen, Wolverine and more! The Scarlet Witch, the Silver Surfer and so many more in glorious color! The secrets of S.H.I.E.L.D.! The schematics of the Sentinels! The story of Subterranea and the wonders of Wakanda! Plus: details on more than a hundred alien races! Collects Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe - Deluxe Edition (3 of 3)

La 'forma' di questo saggio di amplissimo respiro cronologico e geografico è determinata dalla convinzione che il 'Grande Racconto' tradizionale del periodo compreso tra la nascita del cristianesimo nell'impero romano e la conversione del mondo scandinavo, otto secoli più tardi, debba essere ampiamente rivisto. E prima di tutto, per Peter Brown, è necessario mettere l'Europa occidentale sullo sfondo di un mondo più vasto e partire dal fatto che il cristianesimo 'europeo' rappresenta semplicemente la variante più occidentale di un mondo cristiano amplissimo, il cui baricentro era situato originariamente nel Mediterraneo orientale e nelle grandi capitali dell'impero d'Oriente: sono Costantinopoli, Alessandria, Antiochia, e non Roma, a trovarsi allo snodo di un cristianesimo di portata mondiale. Con la nascita poi dell'islam e la sua conquista del Medio Oriente e del Nordafrica -e per mezzo millennio anche della Spagna meridionale - una barriera si interpose fra il mondo cristiano occidentale e un mondo cristiano più antico, che aveva compreso tanta parte dell'Oriente.

Women were never members of professional troupes in early modern England, but literature and drama scholars here show that the royal, aristocratic, common, and foreign women on stage were not exceptions, and that women players were a lively presence on stage whose impact on culture and drama was profound. From a 2000 seminar of the Shakespeare Association of America, 14 essays examine such examples as universal suffrage in Medieval and early modern Lincolnshire, female mountebanks in England and Italy, reading the actress in Commedia imagery, and the theatrical evocation of Elizabeth Tudor in Heywood's If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, Part I. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

How do new diseases become part of the public health agenda? Emerging Illnesses and Society brings together historians, sociologists, epidemiologists, public health experts, and others to explore this vital issue. Contributors describe the processes by which patients' groups interact with medical researchers, public health institutions, and the media to identify and address previously unknown illnesses, including multiple sclerosis, Tourette syndrome, AIDS, lead poisoning, Lyme disease, and hepatitis C. The introductory chapter develops a general theoretical model of the social process of 'emerging'illness, identifying critical epidemiologic, social and political factors that shape different trajectories toward the construction of public health priorities. Through case studies of individual diseases and analyses of public awareness campaigns and institutional responses, this timely volume provides important insights into the medical, social, and economic factors that determine why some illnesses receive more attention and funding than others.

Contributors: Deborah Barrett, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Steven Epstein, University of California, San Diego; Phyllis Freeman, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Diane E. Goldstein, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Peter J. Krause, University of Connecticut School of Medicine; Howard I. Kushner, Emory University; Lawrence D. Mass, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York; Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto; Lydia Ogden, Global AIDS Program, CDCR; Sandy Smith-Nonini, Elon University; Ellen Griffith Spears, Southern Regional Council; Andrew Spielman, Harvard School of Public Health; Colin Talley, University of California San Francisco; Sam R. Telford III, Harvard School of Public Health; Christian Warren, New York Academy of Medicine.

The sweeping diversity of complex life on Earth, Ward and Brownlee argue, evolved out of an extraordinary set of physical conditions and chance events that would be extremely hard to duplicate--though not impossible. Many planets throughout the vastness of the Universe may be teeming with microbial life, but advancement beyond this stage is very rare. Everyone with an interest in the possible extent of life in the Universe and the nature of life's evolution on our own planet will be fascinated by Rare Earth. '...likely to cause a revolution in thinking...' The New York Times '...[the book] has hit the world of astrobiologists like a killer asteroid...' Newsday (New York) '...a sobering and valuable perspective...' Science '...a startling new hypothesis...' Library Journal '...Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee offer a powerful argument...' The Economist '...provocative, significant, and sweeping...' Northwest Science & Technology '...a stellar example of clear writing...' American Scientist

Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 18th century, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. Surprisingly, heretofore there has been no truly extensive, broad-based treatment of the genre, and the best of the existing studies are now several decades old. In this five-volume series, A. Peter Brown explores the symphony from its 18th-century beginnings to the end of the 20th century. Synthesizing the enormous scholarly literature, Brown presents up-to-date overviews of the status of research, discusses any important former or remaining problems of attribution, illuminates the style of specific works and their contexts, and samples early writings on their reception. The Symphonic Repertoire provides an unmatched compendium of knowledge for the student, teacher, performer, and sophisticated amateur. The series is being launched with two volumes on the Viennese symphony.

Volume IV
The Second Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony
Brahms, Bruckner, Dvorák, Mahler,
and Selected Contemporaries

Although during the mid-19th century the geographic center of the symphony in the Germanic territories moved west and north from Vienna to Leipzig, during the last third of the century it returned to the old Austrian lands with the works of Brahms, Bruckner, Dvorák, and Mahler. After nearly a half century in hibernation, the sleeping Viennese giant awoke to what some viewed as a reincarnation of Beethoven with the first hearing of Brahms’s Symphony No. 1, which was premiered at Vienna in December 1876. Even though Bruckner had composed some gigantic symphonies prior to Brahms’s first contribution, their full impact was not felt until the composer’s complete texts became available after World War II. Although Dvorák was often viewed as a nationalist composer, in his symphonic writing his primary influences were Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms. For both Bruckner and Mahler, the symphony constituted the heart of their output; for Brahms and Dvorák, it occupied a less central place. Yet for all of them, the key figure of the past remained Beethoven. The symphonies of these four composers, together with the works of Goldmark, Zemlinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Smetana, Fibich, Janácek, and others are treated in Volume IV, The Second Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony, covering the period from roughly 1860 to 1930.

The American Republic, by Orestes Brownson, was first published in 1865, when the nation had just emerged from a civil war that had come harrowingly close to shattering its very existence. In the period immediately before and during the war - as in just about every other period of his life - Brownson had carved out for himself a unique, and seemingly contradictory, niche as a pro-Union, anti-abolutionist, anti-slaveholding journalist. In this magisterial work, Brownson presents his views on the nature, authority, origin, and constitution of the American state in light of the problems posed by secession and reconstruction. The resulting volume, as Peter Augustine Lawler urges in a penetrating introduction that compares Brownson's analysis to that of Tocqueville, is one of the more original and important works of American political theory ever to have appeared.

Attualmente docente di Storia alla Princeton University, Peter Brown affronta nei tre saggi qui raccolti l'emergere nella tarda società romana dei poveri come classe sociale distinta, nei confronti della quale la Chiesa cristiana dichiara di sentirsi particolarmente responsabile. Attingendo a fonti greche, latine, giudaiche, l'autore descrive la condizione dei poveri in epoca precristiana e la natura delle loro relazioni con la Chiesa.

This book focuses on the changing nature and methods of warfare with particular emphasis on land warfare. Topics include the impact of factors related to the conduct of war, such as generalship, tactics and strategy, quality of soldiers, weaponry; the impact of technological change, from communication to industrialization; and the relationship between state, society and warfare.

Professore all'University of California, Berkeley, Peter Brown mette a fuoco in questo libro uno dei punti chiave della società e della sensibilità dei primi secoli della cristianità, ricostruendo i rapporti tra i fenomeni della superstizione e lo stabilirsi delle pratiche mortuarie e del culto ai santi. Il testo è strutturato in sei parti: Il santo e la tomba, 'Un luogo elegante e privato', Il compagno invisibile, I morti eccezionali, 'Presentia', 'Potentia'.

The era of late antiquity--from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth--was marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, and the creation of art of enduring glory. In these eleven in-depth essays, drawn from the award-winning reference work Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, an international cast of experts provides essential information and fresh perspectives on this period's culture and history.

In three magisterial essays, Peter Brown, one of the world's foremost scholars of the society and culture of late antiquity, explores the emergence in late Roman society of 'the poor' as a distinct social class, one for which the Christian church claimed a special responsibility. It is the story of how a society came to see itself as responsible for the care of a particular class of people -- a class that had not previously been cared for -- and of who benefited from that shift in interests.

In his characteristically elegant and lucid prose, Brown seeks to recover the pre-Christian status of poor people, the actual nature of the relations between the Christian church and the poor, and the true motivations -- sometimes sincere, sometimes self-serving -- behind Christian rhetoric of love for the poor. He draws not only on the standard Greek and Latin sources for the later Roman Empire, but also on Jewish sources to document the interactions between Middle Eastern provincial societies and classical Roman traditions. Brown gracefully illuminates a crucial transition from classical to Christian culture: the emergence of a new understanding of what society -- and the Church -- owes to the poor that continues to resonate.

An exam-based text written primarily for the senior undergraduate. * Covers the mandible and middle third of the face * Focus on practical techniques and clinical information * Suitable for both senior undergraduates/ Fellowship candidates

Fare del passaggio dalla religione pagana a quella cristiana il nodo essenziale per comprendere la trasformazione nel mondo tardoantico, da Marco Aurelio a Costantino, tralasciando le consuete speculazioni di storia politica e sociale: è questa la scommessa lanciata dall'autore nel suo saggio, che è un testo di metodologia storica. Sommario: ringraziamenti, introduzione, un dibattito sul sacro, un'età di ambizione, 'gli amici di Dio', dai cieli al deserto: Antonio e Pacomio.

This classic biography was first published thirty years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery recently of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine has thrown fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The 'short nineteenth century', characterised by the growth of nationalism and revolutions, both political and economic, saw the emergence of a Europe of nation states and great industrial power. Peter Browning provides an incisive and lively account of four countries: Italy, France, Russia and Germany. For each, he identifies the main political and economic factors that help explain its development and assesses the role of national leaders such as Mazzini, Napoleon III, Nicholas I and Bismarck. He outlines the main historical debates about the four countries and sets their development in the context of the 'long nineteenth century'. The book contains a range of visual and written primary sources which help develop skills of interpretation and evaluation, providing a better understanding of the period. Revolutions and nationalities includes an additional document study section on Italian unification.

Explains that conditions on Earth and other planets facilitate simple lifeforms, and that complex plant and animal life maybe more rare than historically predicted.

Arthur is in top form as he competes at a Middle Ages fair. Arthur fans who are ready to read on their own now have a new chapter book to add to their collection. This book features a longer adventure with Arthur, D.W. and the rest of the gang. Illustrations.

Arthur and Francine are a square-dancing duo in gym class. When Muffy tries to switch partners (she's saddled with Binky Barnes!), Francine refuses to trade. Francine complains that Francine doesn't want to share Arthur. Binky puts two and two together and spreads the word-Arthur and Francine are in love! Is it true?!