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Originally published in Germany fifty years ago, 
The Gods of the Greeks has remained an enduring work. Influential scholar Erika Simon was one of the first to emphasize the importance of analyzing visual culture alongside literature to better understand how ancient Greeks perceived their gods. Giving due consideration to cult ritual and the phenomenon of genealogical relationships between mortals and immortals, this pioneering volume remains one of the few to approach the Greek gods from an archaeological perspective. From Zeus to Hermes, each of the major deities is considered in turn, with Simon&;s insights on their nature and attributes guiding the reader to a fuller understanding of how their followers perceived and worshipped them in the ancient world.\nThis careful and fluid translation finally makes Simon&;s landmark edition accessible to English-language readers. With an abundance of beautiful illustrations, the book examines portrayals of the thirteen major gods in art over the course of two millennia. Scholars who study the lives and practices of those living in ancient Greece will value this newest contribution. 
 Review 
"Decades after its initial publication in German, Erika Simon's magisterial study of the Olympian gods is still a basic source for Greek religion in all its manifestations. Now thanks to this elegant translation, English readers will have the opportunity to delve deeply into the archaeological and textual sources which inform our understanding of these ageless divinities."--Jenifer Neils, American School of Classical Studies at Athens\n"Shows an impressive mastery of the archaeological and poetic documents from Homer and Hesiod to Pindar and Attic tragedy."-- 
Classical Journal 
 About the Author 
Erika Simon (1927&;2019) was professor emeritus of classical archaeology at the University of W&#252;rzburg. She published hundreds of articles and reviews and almost two dozen books, including 
Festivals of Attica: An Archaeological Commentary. 
Jakob Zeyl is a former professor of classics and assistant dean of arts and sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. 
Alan Shapiro is the Academy Professor and W.H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University and the author of 
The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece and 
Worshipping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens.

The Gods of the Greeks (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Simon, Erika

Arts & Photography

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Techniques for Teachers: A Guide for Nonnative Speakers of English

Wennerstrom, Ann Kristin

Academic Listening Strategies offers strategies for understanding lectures and additional listening practice for students who are currently enrolled in a college or university. The exercises in this text, together with the lectures and short talks on the accompanying DVDs, will provide students with many opportunities to practice effective listening strategies. The DVDs include four entire lectures, as well as several lecture segments and shorter informal talks. Also included are short audio selections of academic speech from the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE). All selections demonstrate actual and authentic speech in university lectures. All in all, more than 4 hours of listening material is offered on the three DVDs. The DVDs support the textbook Academic Listening Strategies (978-0-472-03096-5). The DVDs are also sold with the textbook: 978-0-472-03144-3.   DVD 1: Units 1-2 (15 clips, including one 34-minute lecture) DVD 2: Unit 3 (4 clips, including two lectures longer than 20 minutes and one nearly 15 minutes long) DVD 3: Additional Practice Unit (4 clips, including ond 50-minute lecture)

Academic Listening Strategies: A Guide to Understanding Lectures

Salehzadeh, Julia

Dysfunction in the contemporary Senate is driven by the deteriorating relationship between the majority and minority parties in the institution. In this environment, regular order is virtually nonexistent and unorthodox parliamentary procedures are frequently needed to pass important legislation. This is because Democrats and Republicans are now fighting a parliamentary war in the Senate to help steer the future direction of the country. James Wallner presents a new, bargaining model of procedural change to better explain the persistence of the filibuster in the current polarized environment, and focuses on the dynamics ultimately responsible for the nature and direction of contested procedural change. Wallner’s model explains why Senate majorities have historically tolerated the filibuster, even when it has been used to defeat their agenda, despite having the power to eliminate it unilaterally at any point. It also improves understanding of why the then-Democratic majority chose to depart from past practice when they utilized the nuclear option to eliminate the filibuster for one of President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees in 2013. On Parliamentary War’s game-theoretic approach provides a more accurate understanding of the relationship between partisan conflict and procedural change in the contemporary Senate.

On Parliamentary War: Partisan Conflict and Procedural Change in the U.S. Senate (Legislative Politics And Policy Making)

Politics & Social Sciences

Wallner, James Ian

Politics & Government

Finalist for the 2002 Norma Farber First Book Award Gifted with a vivid and exact skill, C. Dale Young's writing resembles an intricate anatomy lesson. His powers of observation probe the small energies of the natural world. Again and again the ordinary details of life transform themselves under the delicate pressure of his words--the movement of birds' wings, the color and texture of tropical flowers, the study of the ocean waves, the "scalpel of light" cutting through the beginning of the day. The language of Young's poems evokes an ultimate sense of place through a gorgeous marriage of tone and diction that echoes James Merrill and Amy Clampitt. As he meticulously maps out human passions and emotions, he explores both the surfaces and depths of everything that he surveys. His confident and polished verse unfolds intricate layers of landscape, seeking the order that lies beneath the unruly patterns of our lives.

The Day Underneath the Day

Literature & Fiction

Young, C. Dale

Poetry

With the appearance of big data, open data, and particularly research data curation on many libraries' radar screens, data service has become a critically important topic for academic libraries. Drawing on the expertise of a diverse community of practitioners, this collection of case studies, original research, survey chapters, and theoretical explorations presents a wide-ranging look at the field of academic data librarianship. By covering the data lifecycle from collection development to preservation, examining the challenges of working with different forms of data, and exploring service models suited to a variety of library types, this volume provides a toolbox of strategies that will allow librarians and administrators to respond creatively and effectively to the data deluge. Edited by Kristi Thompson and Lynda Kellam, Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice provides advice and insight on data services for all types of academic libraries and will be of interest to library educators.

Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice

Lynda Kellam

Kristi Thompson

Social Sciences

Magic and the Classical Tradition: Volume 7 (Warburg Institute Colloquia)

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

A series of eight essays on Lucian of Samosata from Warburg Institute

Lucian of Samosata Vivus Et Redivivus (Warburg Institute Colloquia, 10)

Essays & Correspondence

Linear operators in Hilbert spaces play a fundamental role in the formulation of quantum theory. With complete proofs and numerous exercises, this book offers a self-contained presentation of the most important tools and methods from Hilbert space theory, with a particular focus on the spectral theory of self-adjoint operators. It also goes further by describing several applications in quantum mechanics, including the analysis of Schrödinger operators and quantum scattering theory. In addition, the book discusses Mourre’s conjugate operator method and its consequences for scattering theory. Based on a one-year course for advanced undergraduates, this text provides a fundamental treatment of the basic ideas of applied Hilbert space theory.

Hilbert Space Methods in Quantum Mechanics

Science & Math

Amrein, Werner O

Evolution

Designed for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses, 3D Graphics for Game Programming presents must-know information for success in interactive graphics. Assuming a minimal prerequisite understanding of vectors and matrices, it also provides sufficient mathematical background for game developers to combine their previous experience in graphics API and shader programming with the background theory of computer graphics. Well organized and logically presented, this book takes its organizational format from GPU programming and presents a variety of algorithms for programmable stages along with the knowledge required to configure hard-wired stages. Easily accessible, it offers a wealth of elaborate 3D visual presentations and includes additional theoretical and technical details in separate shaded boxes and optional sections. Maintaining API neutrality throughout to maximize applicability, the book gives sample programs to assist in understanding. Full PowerPoint files and additional material, including video clips and lecture notes with all of the figures in the book, are available on the book’s website: http://media.korea.ac.kr/book Key Features <ul>
<li>Presents the theory and mathematics of real-time graphics and its applications to game design </li> <li>Provides boxed MathNotes that can be accessed as required without interrupting the flow of the text</li> <li>Includes homework problems and more than 300 detailed figures </li> <li>Offers ancillary material on a companion website </li>
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Solutions manual available upon qualified course adoption

Computers & Technology

Games & Strategy Guides

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