This is the first modernized and edited version of the 1622Othello. By taking this earliest published version of Othello as abook in its own right, Scott McMillin accounts for the mystery ofits thousands of differences from the Folio version by arguing thatthe Quarto was printed from a theatre * reflecting cuts andactors' interpolations made in the playhouse. McMillin explainsthat the playhouse * was apparently taken from dictation by ascribe listening to the actors themselves, and thus reveals howOthello was spoken in seventeenth-century performance. Thisedition, which consists of a detailed introduction, quarto text,select collation and textual notes, is an important book forscholars in Shakespeare and Elizabethan-Jacobean drama, with wideramifications for other Shakespeare textual studies and forstudents of early theatre history. · The first modernized and edited version of the 1622 Othello ·Accounts for the mystery of why the Othello Quarto differs from thebetter-known Folio version on thou

Albert Einstein has quit his university teaching position and works six days a week as a second-class clerk in a patent office. With a wife and a newborn child, he’s struggling for money and isolated from academia. Yet out of this upheaval will come the basis for his greatest work, and one of the most spectacular discoveries of all time--the Theory of Relativity--leading the scientific community to refer to 1905 as annus mirabilis, or "the miracle year." In this fascinating account, renowned science writers John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin delve into the year that brought the world into the nuclear age. Covering Einstein’s scientific achievements--the completion of a doctoral degree and the three papers that form the basis of the Theory of Relativity--as well as his tumultuous personal life, the Gribbins present the historical context that led to this,the most famous equation of all time, and that changed the world as we know it. 作者简介： MARY GRIBBIN trained in psychology at the Unive

Most people think of yoga as a solitary activity that isinherently therapeutic. While that is generally true, yoga posesand breathing practices can also be prescribed for specific healthproblems—often in combination with dietary advice taken fromAyurveda, traditional Indian medicine. Yoga Therapy is an essentialguide for yoga teachers, advanced practitioners, and anyone whowants to make therapeutic use of yoga. A. G. and Indra Mohanprescribe postures, breathing techniques, and basic Ayurvedicprinciples for a variety of common health problems, includingasthma, back pain, constipation, hip pain, knee pain, menstrualproblems, and scoliosis. Yoga Therapy is one of the few books that shows yoga teachers howto put together appropriate yoga sequences and breathing techniquesfor their students. Mohan details how to correctly move into, hold,and move out of poses, how to breathe during practice to achievespecific results, and how to customize a yoga practice by creatingsequences of yoga poses for a particular pers

Studying the dynamics of a large number of particlesinteracting through long-range forces, commonly referred to as the'N-body problem', is a central aspect of many different branches ofphysics. In recent years, significant advances have been made inthe development of fast N-body algorithms to deal efficiently withsuch complex problems. This book is the first to give a thoroughintroduction to these so-called 'tree methods', setting out thebasic principles and giving many practical examples of their use.No prior specialist knowledge is assumed, and the techniques areillustrated throughout with reference to a broad range ofapplications. The book will be of great interest to graduatestudents and researchers working on the modelling of systems inastrophysics, plasma physics, nuclear and particle physics,condensed matter physics and materials science.

The Discovery of Islands consists of a series of linked essaysin British history, written by one of the world's leadinghistorians of political thought and published over the past threedecades. Its purpose is to present British history as that ofseveral nations interacting with - and sometimes seceding from - animperial state. The commentary presents this history as that of anarchipelago, expanding across oceans to the Antipodes. Both NewZealand history and the author's New Zealand heritage inform thisvision, presenting British history as oceanic and global,complementing (and occasionally criticising) the presentation ofthat history as European. Professor Pocock's interpretation ofBritish history has been hugely influential in recent years, makingThe Discovery of Islands a resource of immense value for historiansof Britain and the world.

The Rhineland region includes the core regional economy ofwestern Europe, encompassing Belgium, Luxemburg and parts of theNetherlands, France, Switzerland and Germany. Throughout historythere have been tensions between this region's roles as a frontierand as western Europe's economic core. Michael Loriaux argues thatthe European Union arose from efforts to deconstruct this frontier.He traces Rhineland geopolitics back to its first emergence,restoring frontier deconstruction to the forefront of discussionabout the EU. He recounts how place names were manipulated tolegitimate political power and shows how this manipulationgenerated the geopolitics that the EU now tries to undo. Loriauxalso argues that the importance of this issue has significantlyaffected the nature of the EU's development and helps condition afestering legitimation crisis.

How do our feelings for others shape our attitudes and conducttowards them? Is morality primarily a matter of rational choice, orinstinctual feeling? Joseph Duke Filonowicz takes the reader on anengaging, informative tour of some of the main issues inphilosophical ethics, explaining and defending the ideas of theearly-modern British sentimentalists. These philosophers -Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith - argued that it is ourfeelings, and not our 'reason', which ultimately determine how wejudge what is good or bad, right or wrong, and how we choose to acttowards our fellow human beings. Filonowicz draws on contemporarysociology and evolutionary biology as well as present-day moraltheory to examine and defend the sentimentalist view and tochallenge the rationalistic character of contemporary ethics. Hisbook will appeal to readers interested in both history ofphilosophy and current ethical debates.

This book investigates the causes, course and consequences ofthe shift in West German chemical technology from a coal to apetroleum basis between 1945 and 1961. It examines the historicalunderpinnings of the technological culture of the German chemicalindustry; changing political and economic constraints ontechnological decision-making in the post-war period; and theactual decision-making process within five individual firms. Byaddressing a wide variety of broader issues - including the originsand impact of the division of Germany; the effects of theWirtschaftswunder, or economic miracle; European integration; andthe changing role of the West German Federal Republic in theinternational political order - this book explains how West Germanindustry regained and then retained a competitive position in worldmarkets.

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The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus,Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but nevermore so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and RomanNovel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast ofexperts in the field. The emphasis is upon the criticalinterpretation of the texts within historical settings, both inantiquity and in the later generations that have been and continueto be inspired by them. All the central issues of currentscholarship are addressed: sexuality, cultural identity, class,religion, politics, narrative, style, readership and much more.Four sections cover cultural context of the novels, their contents,literary form, and their reception in classical antiquity andbeyond. Each chapter includes guidance on further reading. Thiscollection will be essential for scholars and students, as well asfor others who want an up-to-date, accessible introduction intothis exhilarating material. · Comprehensive, sophisticated critical