Beyond and Before

Beyond and Before
Title Beyond and Before PDF eBook
Author Paul Hegarty
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 166
Release 2011-06-23
Genre Music
ISBN 0826444830

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A brilliant new survey and intelligent exploration of progressive rock, from its origins through to contemporary artists. Nicely illustrated, it includes rare photos of artists like Kate Bush and Genesis.

Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel

Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel
Title Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 361
Release 2020-11-23
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004443282

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The four kingdoms motif enabled writers of various cultures, times, and places, to periodize history as the staged succession of empires barrelling towards an utopian age. The motif provided order to lived experiences under empire (the present), in view of ancestral traditions and cultural heritage (the past), and inspired outlooks assuring hope, deliverance, and restoration (the future). Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel includes thirteen essays that explore the reach and redeployment of the motif in classical and ancient Near Eastern writings, Jewish and Christian scriptures, texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, depictions in European architecture and cartography, as well as patristic, rabbinic, Islamic, and African writings from antiquity through the Mediaeval eras.

Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks

Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks
Title Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks PDF eBook
Author Carol S. Lipson
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 274
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 079148503X

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Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and China. The book uncovers alternate ways of understanding human behavior and explores how these rhetorical practices both reflected and influenced their cultures. The essays address issues of historiography and raise questions about the application of Western rhetorical concepts to these very different ancient cultures. A chapter on suggestions for teaching each of these ancient rhetorics is included.

Before, Between, and Beyond

Before, Between, and Beyond
Title Before, Between, and Beyond PDF eBook
Author Sally Banes
Publisher Univ of Wisconsin Press
Pages 403
Release 2007-05-25
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0299221539

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Sally Banes has been a preeminent critic and scholar of American contemporary dance, and Before, Between, Beyond spans more than thirty years of her prolific work. Beginning with her first published review and including previously unpublished papers, this collection presents some of her finest works on dance and other artistic forms. It concludes with her most recent research on Geroge Balanchine's dancing elephants. In each piece, Banes's detailed eye and sensual prose strike a rare balance between description, context, and opinion, delineating the American artistic scene with remarkable grace. With contextualizing essays by dance scholars Andrea Harris, Joan Acocella, and Lynn Garafola, this is a compelling, insightful indispensable summation of Banes's critical career.

Before and Beyond Divergence

Before and Beyond Divergence
Title Before and Beyond Divergence PDF eBook
Author Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 291
Release 2011-04
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0674057910

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Why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China? The authors combine economic theory and historical evidence to argue that political processes drove the economic divergence between the two world regions, with continued consequences today that become clear in this innovative account.

Beyond the Valley of Thorns (The Land of Elyon #2)

Beyond the Valley of Thorns (The Land of Elyon #2)
Title Beyond the Valley of Thorns (The Land of Elyon #2) PDF eBook
Author Patrick Carman
Publisher Scholastic Inc.
Pages 168
Release 2011-07-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 054530234X

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The second dazzling installment in Patrick Carman's masterful Land of Elyon trilogy!Alexa thought her troubles were over when she defeated the man who had threatened to bring down Bridewell from within. But now that the walls around her land have fallen, a new, unexpected threat has risen from outside. Suddenly, Alexa is involved in a battle much, much larger than her own life . . . a battle in which she is destined to play a key role. In order to help good defeat evil, Alexa and her friends must venture farther than they've ever gone before -- confronting giants, bats, ravenous dogs, and a particularly ghoulish mastermind in order to bring back peace.

Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin

Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin
Title Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin PDF eBook
Author David Birch
Publisher London Publishing Partnership
Pages 288
Release 2017-06-15
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 190799467X

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Technology is changing money: it has been transformed from physical objects to intangible information. With the arrival of smart cards, mobile phones and Bitcoin it has become easier than ever to create new forms of money. Crucially, money is also inextricably connected with our identities. Your card or phone is a security device that can identify you – and link information about you to your money. To see where these developments might be taking us, David Birch looks back over the history of money, spanning thousands of years. He sees in the past, both recent and ancient, evidence for several possible futures. Looking further back to a world before cash and central banks, there were multiple ‘currencies’ operating at the level of communities, and the use of barter for transactions. Perhaps technology will take us back to the future, a future that began back in 1971, when money became a claim backed by reputation rather than by physical commodities of any kind. Since then, money has been bits. The author shows that these phenomena are not only possible in the future, but already upon us. We may well want to make transactions in Tesco points, Air Miles, Manchester United pounds, Microsoft dollars, Islamic e-gold or Cornish e-tin. The use of cash is already in decline, and is certain to vanish from polite society. The newest technologies will take money back to its origins: a substitute for memory, a record of mutual debt obligations within multiple overlapping communities. This time though, money will be smart. It will be money that reflects the values of the communities that produced it. Future money will know where it has been, who has been using it and what they have been using it for.