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Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation Between Text and Practice


Free Download Barbara Hausmair, "Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation: Between Text and Practice"
English | ISBN: 1785337653 | 2018 | 356 pages | PDF | 6 MB
How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States. Covering areas as diverse as the use of space in a nineteenth-century U.S. Army camp, the deposition of waste in medieval towns, the experiences of Swedish migrants to North America, the relationship between people and animals in Anglo-Saxon England, these case studies explore the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity.

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Links Between Air Quality and Economic Growth Implications for Pittsburgh


Free Download Shanthi Nataraj, "Links Between Air Quality and Economic Growth: Implications for Pittsburgh"
English | ISBN: 0833083996 | 2014 | 118 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
This report assesses the evidence that exists for the ways in which local air quality could influence local economic growth through health and workforce issues, quality-of-life issues, or air-quality regulations and business operations. It then extrapolates some of the existing results to the Pittsburgh region.

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The Bridge Between Worlds A Brief History of Connection


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English | May 6, 2025 | ISBN: 180530013X | 288 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
In a world increasingly preoccupied by borders, bridges celebrate the possibility of connection, allowing the flow of goods, people and ideas. Bridges are among our grandest physical structures with the power of transforming lives and economies, but we also stand (or fall) upon the simple arch of bones in our feet. Text is a bridge between writer and reader, and conversation builds bridges of understanding between minds.

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Between Rome and Carthage Southern Italy during the Second Punic War


Free Download Michael P. Fronda, "Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy during the Second Punic War"
English | 2010 | pages: 403 | ISBN: 0521516943, 1107689503 | PDF | 5,2 mb
Hannibal invaded Italy with the hope of raising widespread rebellions among Rome’s subordinate allies. Yet even after crushing the Roman army at Cannae, he was only partially successful. Why did some communities decide to side with Carthage and others to side with Rome? This is the fundamental question posed in this book, and consideration is given to the particular political, diplomatic, military and economic factors that influenced individual communities’ decisions. Understanding their motivations reveals much, not just about the war itself, but also about Rome’s relations with Italy during the prior two centuries of aggressive expansion. The book sheds new light on Roman imperialism in Italy, the nature of Roman hegemony, and the transformation of Roman Italy in the period leading up to the Social War. It is informed throughout by contemporary political science theory and archaeological evidence, and will be required reading for all historians of the Roman Republic.

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Solar Flares and Collisions between Current-Carrying Loops Types and Mechanisms of Solar Flares and Coronal Loop Heating


Free Download Solar Flares and Collisions between Current-Carrying Loops: Types and Mechanisms of Solar Flares and Coronal Loop Heating By Jun-Ichi Sakai, Cornelis De Jager (auth.), Jun-Ichi Sakai, Cornelis De Jager (eds.)
1996 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 9401066353 | PDF | 11 MB
In this volume we compare modem observations of solar flares with results from recent theoretical research and simulation studies on current-carrying loops and their interaction. These topics have undergone rapid developments in the course of recent years. Observational results by X-ray monitoring and imaging spacecraft in the seventies and by dedicated imaging instrumentation in the satellites Solar Max imum Mission and Hinotori, launched 1980 and 1981, have shown the importance of X-ray imaging for understanding the ignition processes of solar flares. Such observations, in tum, stimulated theoretical studies, centered around the flux-tube concept. The classical idea that flares originate by interaction of current-carrying loops was developed and proved to be promising. Concepts on reconnection and coalescence of flux tubes were developed, and their consequences studied. The Yohkoh spacecraft, launched 1991, showed the overwhelming importance of coro nal flux tubes and their many possible ways of interaction. Subsequent and parallel theoretical studies and simulations, differentiating between the topology of interact ing fluxtubes, demonstrated that the mutual positioning and the way of interaction are important for the subsequent processes of energy release in flares and the many associated phenomena such as the expUlsion of jets and the emission of X -ray and microwave radiation. The new developments now enable researchers to understand and classify flares in a physically significant way. Various processes of accelera tion are active in and after flares on greatly varying timescales; these can now be distinguished and explained.

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Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment The French and English Monarchies 1587-1688


Free Download Ronald G. Asch, "Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment: The French and English Monarchies 1587-1688 "
English | ISBN: 1782383565 | 2014 | 288 pages | PDF | 870 KB
France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following the regicide of Charles I in 1649. However, both monarchies shared a common medieval heritage of sacral kingship, and their histories remained deeply entangled throughout the century. This study focuses on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in the two countries between the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the Glorious Revolution. It demonstrates that even in periods when politics were seemingly secularized, as in France at the end of the Wars of Religion, and in latter seventeenth- century England, the appeal to religious images and values still lent legitimacy to royal authority by emphasizing the sacral aura or providential role which church and religion conferred on monarchs.

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