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作者通過對思想政治理論課主要課程的課堂教學中實施“合作性學習”的教學組織，以一手的數據材料做支撐，探討課堂教學的實踐創新，進一步優化相關制度設計，調動學生參與學習過程的積極性，實現了師生的有效互動，完善相關課程設計和實施過程設計，形成有特色的合作性學習考核體系。同時，形成對課堂教學的更加深刻的認知經驗，以便於更好地提升思想政治理論教學的有效性。

如何從氣味判斷葡萄酒的優劣？如何挑選搭配餐點的葡萄酒才能兼具美味又不失禮？曼哈頓法國廚藝學院葡萄酒研究總監美國侍酒師協會創始人 ─ 瑪妮．歐爾德透過趣味圖解與專業解說，讓你從初階愛酒者變成品酒達人 特色一 : 侍酒師瑪妮．歐爾德為初階愛酒人推出的品酒速成課程！ 如何描述葡萄酒的口感？瑪妮．歐爾德建議可以從三種感受描述葡萄酒的口感：葡萄酒碳酸化產生嘶嘶作響的泡沫，搖晃葡萄酒時酒滴流下的速度以評估酒重

《漢語聽力教程(1年級教材語言技能類)(第2冊·修訂本)(套裝共2冊)》修訂本聽力理解練習的內容進行了很大調整：替換了很多過時和難度偏大的短文；在題型上，增加了聽力技能訓練和口語表達等功能性練習；較嚴格地控制聽力內容的生詞量，除長篇短文以外，其他訓練內容基本上使用《漢語教程》修訂本出現的詞語編寫。配合《漢語教程》修訂本精簡課數，《漢語聽力教程》修訂本課數精簡為：第一冊30課，第二冊20課，第三冊3

《新編英國文學史教程》的編寫針對現行同類教材語言生澀、內容繁雜的現狀，以知識性和易讀性為宗旨，以我國英語專業本科教學大綱為指導，充分考慮我國英語專業本科學生的英語語言實際水平，兼顧部分高校英國文學課程開設時間較短的現實，把握英國文學史整體框架，以文學發展不同時期為單位，把歷史背景、文學運動、文學流派和作家作品的介紹凝練化、條理化，利於學生在有限的時間裡構建一個比較系統完整的英國文學知識體系。同時，

?There once was a bear, a moose and a beaver who were the best of friends, though they often disagreed.? So when the three friends go canoeing together one sunny day, it doesn't take long for them to start quarreling with one another. First, they can't decide who should get to steer the canoe. Later, they debate how best to get across a beaver dam that blocks their way. But when they can't agree on the proper course for maneuvering through the white-water rapids they suddenly find themselves in, the consequences become truly perilous. It takes a long, uncomfortable night spent stranded on a rock to remind the bear, the moose and the beaver what they often forget: everything turns out better when they work together as a team. As with his other popular books in the Life in the Wild series, featuring these three lovable animal characters, author-illustrator Nicholas Oldland has created a funny romp of a picture book adventure for young children that will be a favorite choice in the classr

The acclaimed author of To the End of the Land now gives us a searing short novel about the life of a standup comic as revealed in the course of one evening's performance--comedy that will lean inexorably toward tragedy. In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of standup. In the audience is a district court justice, Avishai Lazar, whom Dov knew as a boy, along with a few others who remember Dov as the awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually, teetering between hilarity and hysteria, Dov's patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood--his beautiful flower of a mother, a Holocaust survivor in need of constant monitoring; his punishing father, a striver who had little understanding of his creative son. Finally, recalling his week at a military camp for youth--where Lazar witnessed what became the central event of Dov's childhood--Dov

When siblings Adèle and Simon visit their uncle in China, he buys them each gifts for their trip. Simon picks out a hat, a flute, a fan, and other small items, while his sister selects a camera to photograph their journey. As soon as they're packed and ready, it's time to set off with Uncle Sydney to explore! In a series of postcards home to their mother, Adèle describes each of the places they visit and the adventures they have... and, of course, what item Simon managed to lose at each stop along the way. On a silk farm in Shanghai, he loses his scarf. Along the Great Wall, his hat blows right off his head. By the end of the trip, Simon has misplaced all of his belongings! But when Adèle develops her photographs, she and her brother discover that they can see each of Simon's lost items in the background of the pictures.Barbara McClintock's meticulous research and intricate pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations bring this book to life, capturing the essence of each of the culturally

First written in response to a JACT survey of over 100 schools, this textbook has become a standard resource for students throughout the UK and for readers across the world who are looking for a clear and thorough introduction to the language of the ancient Greeks. Now revised throughout and enhanced by colour artwork and text features, this revised edition will support the new OCR specification for Classical Greek (first teaching 2016).Written by a long-time school teacher and examiner, this two-part course is based on experience of what pupils find difficult, concentrating on the essentials and on the understanding of principles in both accidence and syntax: minor irregularities are postponed and subordinated so that the need for rote learning is reduced. It aims to be user-friendly, but also to give pupils a firm foundation for further study. Part 1 covers the basics and is self-contained, with its own reference section. It covers the main declensions, a range of active tenses and a

Are you ready to take your English skills to the next level?English for Everyone: Level 4: Advanced, Practice Book makes learning English as a second language easier. More than 700 exercises use graphics and visuals to develop English skills in speaking and pronunciation, reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar.Exercises may include finding the errors in sample text messages, reading comprehension questions, fill-in-the-blanks, word order games, and listening questions.English for Everyone: Level 4: Advanced, Practice Book covers the skills and topics needed for the major global English-language exams, including TOEFL, and uses the same testing methods so you can practice your skills and measure your success.Use this practice book with English for Everyone: Level 4: Advanced, Course Book so you can work with the books together.Series Overview: English for Everyone series teaches all levels of English, from beginner to advanced, to speakers of English as a second language. Innovative

The city of Trolberg has some dark secrets to reveal and Hilda is about to discover them!Hilda may be grounded, but that won’t stop her from heading off an another daring adventure! But everything is thrown off course when her mother catches her and is dragged along for the ride. Furious with each other, the bickering pair find themselves in lost the land of the trolls, forced to embark on a dangerous journey to make their way home. And to make matters even more difficult, Hilda has to do so . . . as a troll? Buckle your seatbelts for a crazy body-swapping adventure!Luke Pearson is the artist and writer of the Hilda series of graphic novels. He has fast become one of the leading talents of the United Kingdom and United States comics scene, garnering rave reviews from theNew York Times and the School Library Journal. He was the winner of the Young People's Comic category at the British Comic Award in 2012 and been nominated for the Eisner Award's Best Publication for Kids and Best Write

《物權法》頒行後，中國出現了不少的實務新問題和理論新動向，要想有效應對這些新情況，就必須再審視物權法的基礎概念和基本規範。本書對物權法的規制物件、債權與物權的關係、物權客體、物權法定、物權公示、物權行為和優先原則進行了深入探討。在探討時，本書運用功能主義的分析方法，既充分尊重中國實證法規範和學理，還有效借鑒德國、瑞士、拉丁法系等他域經驗，並緊密結合中國的物權實踐情況和約束要素，體現了“後物權法時代

2001年，冬子帶著家人搬到苗栗山上，開始過著隱居耕讀的生活，尋求埋藏心中多年問題的解答。2008年，冬子辭去全部教職，潛心深思。 數年後，終於在多年耕讀、浸心自然科學與多次國際長途背包客旅行後，逐漸領悟編織宇宙萬事萬物根基的中庸之道與循環之理，以及二者淬煉出的中經智慧。冬子發現，擁有中經智慧的人容易讓自己過著平安、健康和快樂的生活。至此，終於了解到為何來到這個世界，從事將近一百年地球之旅的意義，

2001年，冬子帶著家人搬到苗栗山上，開始過著隱居耕讀的生活，尋求埋藏心中多年問題的解答。2008年，冬子辭去全部教職，潛心深思。 數年後，終於在多年耕讀、浸心自然科學與多次國際長途背包客旅行後，逐漸領悟編織宇宙萬事萬物根基的中庸之道與循環之理，以及二者淬煉出的中經智慧。冬子發現，擁有中經智慧的人容易讓自己過著平安、健康和快樂的生活。至此，終於了解到為何來到這個世界，從事將近一百年地球之旅的意義，

2001年，冬子帶著家人搬到苗栗山上，開始過著隱居耕讀的生活，尋求埋藏心中多年問題的解答。2008年，冬子辭去全部教職，潛心深思。 數年後，終於在多年耕讀、浸心自然科學與多次國際長途背包客旅行後，逐漸領悟編織宇宙萬事萬物根基的中庸之道與循環之理，以及二者淬煉出的中經智慧。冬子發現，擁有中經智慧的人容易讓自己過著平安、健康和快樂的生活。至此，終於了解到為何來到這個世界，從事將近一百年地球之旅的意義，

從物競天擇到生命演化的生物學入門科學和藝術在這本小冊子中碰撞出火花。它喚起了我們對自然的美好與巧妙的理解與敬畏。 ★ 哥倫比亞大學、史蒂文斯理工學院人文藝術學院推薦科學通識讀本 科學家 × 藝術家 夫妻聯袂創作本書由哥倫比亞大學生物科學教授羅伯特．波拉克與藝術家妻子艾咪．波拉克聯手創作，用49幅藝術創作圖說達爾文的演化論，從適應、天擇、基因編碼、突變……詮釋各種不同的自然演化

Liz deals with some unfriendly competition at the beach and tries to rescue a baby octopus in the eleventh book of The Critter Club series.Liz and her family are at the beach! Liz loves building sand sculptures, so when she sees a flyer for a sand castle competition, of course she enters. She thinks she’s found a new friend when she meets her neighbor Tommy, who is also competing, but Tommy’s not so nice. He teases Liz about the castle she’s building and he laughs when one of the pieces caves in. Then Liz’s castle gets ruined overnight! It’s the day of the contest judging, and Liz no longer has anything to enter. Did Tommy destroy Liz’s sand castle? Plus, Liz finds a baby octopus that needs help! Will she be able to get the octopus back in the ocean and swimming again?With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The Critter Club chapter books are perfect for beginning readers!

The story of everyone’s favorite classroom pet is now available in Spanish!You can learn a lot about life by observing another species. That’s what Humphrey was told when he was first brought to Room 26. And boy, is it true! In addition to his classroom escapades, each weekend this amazing hamster gets to sleep over with a different student, like Lower-Your-Voice-A.J. and Speak-Up-Sayeh. Soon Humphrey learns to read, write, and even shoot rubber bands (only in self-defense, of course). Humphrey has friends, adventures, and a cage with a lock-thatdoesn’t- lock. His life would be perfect, if only the teacher, Mrs. Brisbane, wasn’t out to get him!"Humphrey's views underscore the importance of knowing the full story before making judgments, and his presence makes a positive difference in the lives of the people he meets. All in all, a winning book that will appeal to children who like tales about animals, school life, and friendship."?School Library Journal

【本書特色】★全美優良教師在與學生教學相長的過程中，淬鍊出自己從孩子身上看見的動人故事，與生命感悟。★《優秀是教出來的》作者隆‧克拉克　大力推薦★陳怡光（保障教育選擇權聯盟總召集人）、彭菊仙（親子教養作家）、張美蘭（小熊媽）（親子教養作家）　齊聲按讚★每章後面皆附「重點筆記」和「你可以這樣做」的建議方法。★教育工作者可以從中學到如何將熱情、創意與活力帶入課堂，並重新找回工作的喜悅與意義；為人父母者

Emily and her winged horse face a war of Olympic proportions in this second book of the Pegasus series.Emily, newly recognized as the Flame, is living in Jupiter’s palace on Mt. Olympus. Her friends, Joel, Paelen, and—of course—Pegasus, are there as well. The only person missing is Emily’s father, who is still being held prisoner by the CRU back in the human world. Emily wants to go find him, but Jupiter won’t allow her to leave. However, Emily does have access to a winged horse…Determined to rescue her father, Emily and her friends make plans to sneak away from Olympus and back to New York. Then Cupid, Emily’s sort-of crush, decides to come along as well. It will be hard enough to hide a winged horse from the prying eyes of the CRU, but a winged boy as well? And when the gruesome Nirads begin a new invasion, old grudges are unearthed, new enemies are discovered, and Emily and her friends become entangled in a conflict more dangerous than they ever anticipated.

改變你對「今天」的觀念！每一天的每一分鐘，活得毫不保留，不留退路，絕不後悔！在人生中的第20,000個日子，羅伯‧史密斯把自己關進一家飯店，靜心規畫未來的日子。然後，他寄了一封電子郵件給48位至親好友，徹底改變了他們的人生！一旦你體驗這本書，往後的日子不再是一成不變！大多數人都以「年」為單位來計算自己活了多久，要是改以「天」來計算，我們的想法會出現什麼樣的改變？在人生中的第20,000個日子，羅伯

培養學生查找專業文獻，用英語進行寫作的能力，激發學生在調查研究過程中的好奇心和想像力。由於是針對文化產業管理專業的學生，專業文獻主要選取的是和文管相關的一些英文期刊論文。每一個面對論文寫作任務的人都會面臨相似的困難，本書從入手研究，查找資料，圖書館的使用，題目的確定，開篇，收尾，摘要，內容，引文格式等方面進行了此類問題的解答。本書配以時效性的例子和實用性的練習做支撐，提供了專業論文的寫作指南。Ch

An adorable book and toy giftset featuring The Snowman and The Snowdog. The Snowman flies again...One winter's night a little boy is taken on a breathtaking and magical adventure beyond his wildest dreams when the Snowman and Snowdog has built come to life and take him over the rooftops and across the sea to the North Pole. This giftset includes a picture book and an adorable plush Snowdog. This new adventure is based on the original character and story by Raymond Briggs. Raymond Briggs is one of our most respected and beloved artists. Born in Wimbledon in 1934, he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and went on to produce a treasure trove of work. He has created characters that are now icons for generations of children, including Fungus the Bogeyman, Father Christmas and, of course, the beloved Snowman. His original Mother Goose was published in 1966, it won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award in 1967 and is now back in print over 40 years later. Raymond lives in Sussex.

本書的編寫，基本以兩課時口語課的教學量為一單元形成章節，以內容的由易到難形成大體序列，文本內容涉及學校生活、家庭生活、社會生活等方面。每章的基本結構為：第一部分：熱身：通過看圖說話迅速引導學生進入英語語境與思維模式。第二部分：聽說訓練：通過一段原汁原味的聽力材料訓練學生對細節及主題的理解，又以聽力材料中選取的重點詞匯及語法點為核心，組織小組討論和進行團隊遊戲。在口頭討論、團隊活動中強化對重點詞匯及

What would you say if you knew there was ONE solution to every man's most vexing problems?- Bigger muscles? Easy.- Less fat? Check.- More intelligence? No problem.- Eating pizza, burgers, drinking beer and being strong, fit and lean? Of course. - A wild sex life? Yes, there's drugs-free fix for that too… The solution is in this book. Written by health pioneers and advisors to key influencers, including Tim Ferriss and Gary Vaynerchuk, Man 2.0 presents a unique 4-week diet and fitness plan to make you look and feel like the man you want to be. Clear and simple, the authors' game-changing plan is the culmination of 10 years of work and research into the science of natural hormone optimisation. It involves a combination of intermittent fasting, carbs and calorie cycling, macronutrient manipulation, a targeted fitness regime (no more endless exercising) and a weekly overeating day. Within the first week you will feel better in terms of brain functioning, energy and sex drive; within two yo

Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That's why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity.” Lepore starts that history with the story of a seventeenth-century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg and ends it with an American who, in the 1970s, began freezing the dead. In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences. Lately, debates about life and death have determined the course of American politics. Each of these debates has a history. Investigating the surprising origins of the stuff of e

In 2012 Disney will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Snow White movie, a beloved classic and an important milestone in film history. This book, created with the Walk Disney Family Foundation, run by Walt’s daughter, is a catalog of never-before-seen art and behind-the-scenes stories.In 1933, Walt Disney was a rising star in the world of animation, just beginning to become a household name. Ambitious new ideas emerged from the Disney studio on a regular basis, and the film world waited eagerly to see what the creative young filmmaker would do next. The answer surprised them all: a full-length animated feature film, based on the traditional tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The production took three years and the talents of many of Hollywood’s top artists . . . and, of course, created one of the best-loved classics of all time. This book, based on a ground-breaking exhibition of both familiar and never-before-seen art from the Walt Disney Animation Research Library, walks t

作者無私分享累積多年的數位教材實務製作經驗！完整說明自製數位教材的發展方式與應用！學校、企業、公部門不同專案實際操作學習一次到位！送！價值數萬元的數位教材課程與模版！自製數位教材最佳學習手冊＊將繁雜的內容以表格或圖解呈現，協助您快速理解與記憶。＊每章皆設計重點掌握或隨文提醒，以加強說明重要觀念。＊價值數萬元的光碟內容：相關數位教材作品、數位教材模版、教學數位課程、Course Master自製教材

In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily and psychic transformations do nothing but reinforce the permanence of identity. But as a result of serious trauma, or sometimes for no reason at all, a subject’s history splits and a new, unprecedented persona comes to live with the former person - an unrecognizable persona whose present comes from no past and whose future harbors nothing to come; an existential improvisation, a form born of the accident and by accident. Out of a deep cut opened in a biography, a new being comes into the world for a second time. What is this form? A face? A psychological profile? What ontology can it account for, if ontology has always been attached to the essential, forever blind to the aléa of transformations? What history of being can the plastic power of destruction explain? What can it tell us about the explosive tendency of existence that secretly threatens each one of us?Continuing her reflections

《基礎科技漢語教程:聽說課本(上)》著重講解科技漢語中常用的詞語和語法結構，以及常用的功能－意念項目及其表達法。在課堂教學中，要突出聽說訓練，培養、提高學生口頭表達科技語言的能力。該書具有如下特點1.注重實用性和針對性，選取現代科學技術領域內的語言材料作為教學內容，以滿足學習理工專業的外國留學生的實際語言需要。2.通過聽說、閱讀和聽力等課本，對聽、說、讀、寫四種語言技能分別進行專項訓練，全面提高學

"Giordano Bruno was a monk, poet, scientist, and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for his belief that the Earth orbits the sun and that the universe is infinite. This alone could have got him burned at the stake, but he was also a student of occult philosophies and magic. In S. J. Parris's gripping novel, Bruno's pursuit of this rare knowledge brings him to London, where he is unexpectedly recruited by Queen Elizabeth I and is sent undercover to Oxford University on thepretext of a royal visitation. Officially Bruno is to take part in a debate on the Copernican theory of the universe; unofficially, he is to find out whatever he can about a Catholic plot to overthrow the queen. His mission is dramatically thrown off course by a series of grisly murders and a spirited and beautiful young woman. As Bruno begins to discover a pattern in these killings, he realizes that no one at Oxford is who he seems to be. Bruno must attempt to outwit a killer who appea

2010/12/02 蘋果：魯比尼：台幣升值壓力重 (點選可見相關閱讀) 本書揭露末日博士魯比尼是用了什麼方法來預言二○○九年的這一場經濟危機，這些方法讓他得以在其他經濟學家察覺危機將至以前，就精確預見了危機即將到來。本書也讓危機重新成為經濟研究的前線與核心，亦即作者所獨創的「危機經濟學」：危機絕非例外，而是常態；不只新興經濟體會爆發危機，先進工業化經濟體也會。危機──指缺乏堅實基

From the foreword by Dr C. H. Dodd: 'Those who are hardy enough to put their hands to the fascinating but elusive task of Bible translation soon become aware of a host of problems which must be settled one way or other in the course of the work. Questions cannot be either evaded or answered out of hand. That they are no new questions we may learn from this book. The controversy between Erasmus and Luther was essentially the same as the controversy between Jerome and Augustine centuries earlier; and indeed the main issues may be said to have been raised as soon as the Septuagint made a bid for acceptance as the equivalent of the Hebrew Scriptures. All this we may read, set forth with learning and penetration, in Dr Schwarz's book. A study of it will be illuminating to the translator, salutary to the critic and profitable to anyone interested either in the art of translation in general or, particularly, in the enterprise of making the biblical writings accessible in the vernacular to the

The spellbinding novel from one of the world's best-loved authors, Paulo Coelho, recounting the story of Brida, and her pursuit of wisdom.This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic, and has taken courses in astrology, tarot, and numerology, but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach her about the world.Her teachers sense that Brida has a gift, but cannot tell what that is.Meanwhile, Brida pursues her course ever deeper into the mysteries of life, seeking to answer questions about who she is. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest and teaches her about overcoming her fears and trusting in the goodness of the world and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the music of the world and how to pray to the moon. She seeks her destiny, as she struggles to find a balance between her relationships and her desire to become a witch.This enth

First published in 1951, Professor Knowles introduces his subject with these words: 'On three decisive occasions at least - at Clarendon and Northampton in 1164, and for a third time in the autumn of 1169 - the bishops were called upon as a body - at Clarendon in association with the Archbishop, at Northampton and in 1169 in dissociation from him - to take their stand at a crisis of policy. Had they resolutely and unanimously opposed the King in 1164, or as unanimously fallen in with his wishes in 1169, the course of English church history would have been notably different.... Concentration on the actions and words of the Archbishop alone, and the virtual relegation of his colleagues to the position of a chorus, if not of a conspiracy, has helped, in almost every account, to throw his figure out of historical perspective. It is only when we watch the attitude and consider the opinions of the other bishops, both before, during, and after the great meetings of 1163-4, that we can see how

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This is an account of English politics in the 1660s, the years immediately following the Restoration of Charles II, after the Civil Wars and Interregnum in the course of which the monarchy had been abolished and Charles I executed. It is the first detailed study of Westminster politics in the 1660s for over twenty years, and the first ever in-depth study of the legislation of the 1660s. Dr Seaward shows how these drastic and dramatic events had changed perceptions and attitudes in British politics. He analyses the policies followed by the Restoration government (and in particular those of Charles II's chief minister, Clarendon) in attempting to restore royal power, and the effect of the Civil Wars' legacy of partisan bitterness on relations between government and parliament. The book also describes the breakdown in those relations, which occurred in 1666–7 and during the earlier crisis in 1663, and attempts to discover why relations were soured so quickly after the euphoria of the Rest

This reader is designed for an intermediate-level Chinese course in which students not only develop proficiency in the Chinese language but also gain some knowledge of Chinese culture. It consists of twenty-two lessons, which are arranged according to their level of difficulty. Each lesson contains a core text and a reading text. The contents of the texts cover a wide variety of topics, including Chinese language structures and characters, Chinese customs, proverbs, holidays, social phenomena, religions, poetry and geography, as well as Chinese folklore. A list of questions for group discussion follows the text in each chapter to help students further explore issues related to Chinese culture and to their own lives. Grammar notes and exercises for relevant grammatical points are introduced after each core text to enhance students’ skills of reading, comprehension and writing. The grammar notes are all explained in English and illustrated through sample sentences in Chinese with Engli

Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation. "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New York Times Review of Books hails as "a distinguished achievement." If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once the timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles

Kaiser Wilhelm II, Queen Victoria's eldest grandchild, took over the running of the powerful German Reich from Bismarck and within a couple of decades had led it into world war and collapse. How did the Kaiser come to have so much power? Why was there no one to help him steer a less disastrous course? This book analyses these crucial questions with the help of a wealth of new archival sources. The book begins with a character-sketch of the Kaiser which provides new and alarming insights into his personality. It then looks, crucially, at the Kaiser's friends and favourites, the neo-absolutist culture of the court and of Berlin court society, and at the nature of his relationship with the court on the one hand and with the administrative 'pyramid' in Prussia and the Reich on the other. The book makes clear that these bureaucrats and diplomats had neither the means nor the will to oppose the overwhelming determination of the Kaiser and his close friends and advisers in directing the polic

This book is concerned with the ionosphere and the magnetosphere, and the theory of their effect on radio waves. It includes accounts of some mathematical topics now widely used in this study, particularly W. K. B. approximations, Airy integral functions and integration by steepest descents. The subject is divided into ray theory and full wave theory. Ray theory is useful for high frequencies when the ionosphere is treated as a horizonally stratified medium. The discussion of the magnetosphere, whose structure is more complicated, includes an account of whistlers and ion cyclotron whistlers. The book has been planned both for final year undergraduates and as a reference book for research. It is suitable as a course book on radio propagation for students of physics or electrical engineering or mathematics. Some of the topics are presented from an elementary viewpoint so as to help undergraduates new to the subject. The later parts are more advanced. Because the subject is so large and h