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Pro WPF 4.5 in VB: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4.5

Apress, 2012

The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a modern graphical display system for Windows. It’s a radical change from the technologies that came before it, with innovative features such as built-in hardware acceleration and resolution independence, both of which you’ll explore in this chapter.

WPF is the...

Homicide in the Biblical World

Cambridge University Press, 2004

Homicide in the Biblical World analyses the treatment of homicide in the Hebrew Bible and demonstrates that it is directly linked to the unique social structure and religion of ancient Israel. Close parallels between biblical law and ancient Near Eastern law are evident in the laws of the ox that gored and the pregnant woman who is assaulted, but,...

Masks of the Universe: Changing Ideas on the Nature of the Cosmos

Cambridge University Press, 2003

In Masks of the Universe, Edward Harrison brings together fundamental scientific, philosophical and religious issues in cosmology and raises thought provoking questions. Philosophical issues dominated cosmology in the ancient world. Theological issues ranked foremost in the Middle Ages; astronomy and the physical sciences have taken over in more...

Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7

Course Technology PTR, 2010

It was early 1977 and I was lost, deep in an underground cave system. I’d been exploring it for hours, sometimes walking upright but often crawling through tight passages, marveling at its vast caverns of intricate stone formations, and occasionally even stumbling across ancient bits of treasure: coins, some silver bars, a large and...

Tales of the Barbarians: Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of newmythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to theAtlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographictheory to ancient material.

* Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge atthe turn of the millennia, and the creation of new histories in...

Reciprocal Frame Architecture

Architectural Press, 2008

Simple and beautifully illustrated introduction to the use of reciprocal frame structures in architecture

In structural terms reciprocal frame structures are 'three dimensional assemblies of mutually supporting beams'. But behind this definition lie some breathtakingly beautiful and complex structures at the heart of...

A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

The essays in A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism explore rhetoric as a practical art of deliberation and judgment, best taught and learned through concrete examples of argument, interpretation, and criticism. Historically and in our own time scholars have shown that rhetoric can very well be theorized in the strong sense that...

Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery (History of Mechanism and Machine Science)

Springer, 2007

This book presents an innovative approach for the reconstruction design of lost ancient Chinese machinery. By combining the creative mechanism design methodology with the mechanical evolution and variation theory, all feasible and appropriate designs that are consistent with the science theories and techniques of the subject’s time period can...

Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia

Cambridge University Press, 2001

'... will occupy and entertain specialists for some time to come ...' Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies

'Thomas Allsen's book is a very compact and informative account of the cultural changes which took place during the supremacy of the Mongols. Allsen is able to share with the reader his impressive knowledge of...

Jesus and His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, and Atonement Theory

Baylor University Press, 2005

This is a brave book. With due awareness of the historical traps and with a mastery of the recent relevant literature, McKnight here asks the crucial question, How did Jesus interpret his own death? His answer, which hearkens back to Albert Schweitzer, does full justice to Jesus' eschatological outlook and makes good sense within a first-century...

Asianization of Migrant Workers in the Gulf Countries

Springer, 2019

This edited volume contains sixteen chapters by eminent scholars on one of the largest migration corridors in the world i.e., between South and South-East Asia and the Gulf region. Asia’s trade and cultural contact with the Gulf date back to ancient historical times. Since the 1970s, the economic rise of the Gulf Cooperation...

Atlas of Egyptian Art

American University, 2001

This enchanted tour of Egyptian art by one of its early explorers is one of the most beautiful modern works on ancient Egyptian art. Prisse d'Avennes' monumental work, first published in Paris over a ten-year period between 1868 and 1878, includes the only surviving record of many lost artifacts.

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