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The British Mandate for Palestine in Historical Perspective
Authors: Lewis Bernard
Published: November 2023

All scientific method and therefore all scholarly method is comparative. When you go to see the doctor with a pain in your right arm he also examines your left arm. The same principle is useful in examining a period in history. At first sight, the period of British rule in this country [Israel] looks like a brief passing episode between the 400 years of Ottoman rule that preceded it and the lengthening decades of Jewish and Arab rule that have followed it. Nevertheless it is, I think, an extremely important period, and the study of that period is very rewarding for the understanding of the history not only of this country, but of the region. As I said, all scholarly method is comparative, and it may be useful to compare the record of the British Mandate here not only with what went before and with what came after, but also with what was happening in the neighborhood—with other empires, with previous and subsequent governments, and with other former British territories.
The Emergence of Modern Israel
Authors: Lewis Bernard
Published: November 2023

In the second half of the nineteenth century, when political Zionism was born, the entity known as “the Jews” consisted of several distinct and disparate groups. Two of them were, by the criteria of the societies in which they lived, nations; the rest were religious minorities, with a varying degree of acceptance and assimilation within the nations to which they belonged.
Middle East at Prayer
Authors: Lewis Bernard
Published: November 2023

There is a well-known story, dating back to the early days of the Arab-Israel conflict, about an American representative at the United Nations who found himself involved in a more than usually acrimonious argument between the spokesmen of the two sides. Forgetting for a moment where he was and to whom he was speaking, he urged the Arabs and Israelis to settle their quarrels like Christians. A less frequently cited addendum explains that this is precisely what they have been doing ever since.
At the United Nations
Authors: Lewis Bernard
Published: November 2023

For a few months in 1975 and 1976, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was United States Ambassador to the United Nations. His brief tenure, which forms the theme of this book, attracted to the proceedings of the United Nations a degree of attention which they have not often received before or since. At that time, I had as temporary neighbor a distinguished social scientist from the West Indies, and, as a chorus of condemnation began to gather strength and volume, denouncing Ambassador Moyhnihan for what was described as his offensive and insulting demeanor toward Third World countries, my neighbor took a diametrically opposite point of view. Far from being offended by Ambassador Moynihan’s remarks, he was delighted with them. “For the first time,” he said, “an American politician is treating us as responsible adults.” This, he said, made a welcome change from the normal tendency to treat Third World nations and their representatives as neurotic children or, at best, retarded adolescents to be humored and cared for but not taken seriously.
What Saddam Wrought
Authors: Lewis Bernard
Published: November 2023

After Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait a year ago today, again after the launching of the coalition offensive, and again after the ceasefire, it was said by many that as a result of these events the Middle East had changed beyond recognition, and that nothing would ever be the same again. And then, when a new and different Middle East failed to materialize, the same or other voices were raised to assert that nothing had changed at all.
We Must Be Clear
Authors: Lewis Bernard
Published: November 2023

The attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon has been likened many times this week to Pearl Harbor. The resemblance goes further than the simple suddenness and cruelty of the assault. This too, like Pearl Harbor, is not an isolated act; it is the opening salvo of what is intended to be a war leading to victory. The Japanese assumption at the time was that the United States, despite its wealth and strength, was unmilitary and indeed cowardly, and would easily be frightened out of Asia. A similar calculation underlay the action on Tuesday: that the Americans have gone soft, cannot take casualties and will run if attacked. A similar purpose inspired the action—to expel the Americans, their economic tentacles, their corrupting culture and their local accomplices from all the world of Islam, wherever the frontiers of that world may ultimately lie. The calculation is not at first sight unreasonable. The abandonment of Vietnam, the flight under attack from Lebanon and Somalia, the recent preemptive withdrawal and evacuation because of a (probably planted) intercept indicating a threat of terrorist action, all seem to point in that direction. So too does the anxious, propitiatory posture adopted by spokesmen in addressing the rulers of other countries, including those regarded as friends.
Quantum Enigma
Authors: Rosenblum Bruce , Kuttner Fred
Published: November 2023

The most successful theory in all of science--and the basis of one third of our economy--says the strangest things about the world and about us. Can you believe that physical reality is created by our observation of it? Physicists were forced to this conclusion, the quantum enigma, by what they observed in their laboratories. Trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics and found, to their embarrassment, that their theory intimately connects consciousness with the physical world. Quantum Enigma explores what that implies and why some founders of the theory became the foremost objectors to it. Schrödinger showed that it "absurdly" allowed a cat to be in a "superposition" simultaneously dead and alive. Einstein derided the theory's "spooky interactions." With Bell's Theorem, we now know Schrödinger's superpositions and Einstein's spooky interactions indeed exist. Authors Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner explain all of this in non-technical terms with help from some fanciful stories and bits about the theory's developers. They present the quantum mystery honestly, with an emphasis on what is and what is not speculation. Physics' encounter with consciousness is its skeleton in the closet. Because the authors open the closet and examine the skeleton, theirs is a controversial book. Quantum Enigma's description of the experimental quantum facts, and the quantum theory explaining them, is undisputed. Interpreting what it all means, however, is controversial. Every interpretation of quantum physics encounters consciousness. Rosenblum and Kuttner therefore turn to exploring consciousness itself--and encounter quantum physics. Free will and anthropic principles become crucial issues, and the connection of consciousness with the cosmos suggested by some leading quantum cosmologists is mind-blowing. Readers are brought to a boundary where the particular expertise of physicists is no longer a sure guide. They will find, instead, the facts and hints provided by quantum mechanics and the ability to speculate for themselves.
Presenting the Enigma
Authors: Rosenblum Bruce , Kuttner Fred
Published: November 2023

This is a controversial book. But nothing we say about quantum mechanics is controversial. The experimental results we report and our explanation of them with quantum theory are completely undisputed. It is the mystery these results imply beyond physics that is hotly disputed. For many physicists, this mystery, the quantum enigma, is best not talked about. It displays physics’ encounter with consciousness. It’s the skeleton in our closet.
Einstein Called It “Spooky”— And I Wish I Had Known
Authors: Rosenblum Bruce , Kuttner Fred
Published: November 2023

In Princeton one Saturday in the 1950s, a friend asked his son-in-law and me (Bruce) if we’d like to spend the evening with Albert Einstein. Two awed physics graduate students soon waited in Einstein’s living room as he came downstairs in slippers and sweatshirt. I remember tea and cookies but not how the conversation started.
Our Newtonian Worldview
Authors: Rosenblum Bruce , Kuttner Fred
Published: November 2023

Quantum mechanics conflicts violently not only with our intuition but also with our scientific worldview established in the 1600s. Nevertheless, physicists readily accept quantum mechanics as the underlying basis of all physics, and thus of all science. To understand why, consider the history.
How the Quantum Was Forced on Physics
Authors: Rosenblum Bruce , Kuttner Fred
Published: November 2023

Physics courses are rarely presented historically. The introductory course in quantum mechanics is the exception. For students to see why we accept a theory so violently in conflict with common sense, they must see how physicists were dragged from their nineteenth-century complacency by the brute facts observed in their laboratories.
Our Skeleton in the Closet
Authors: Rosenblum Bruce , Kuttner Fred
Published: November 2023

In his book Dreams of a Final Theory, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg writes: “The one part of today’s physics that seems to me likely to survive unchanged in a final theory is quantum mechanics.” We share Weinberg’s intuition about the ultimate correctness of quantum mechanics.
Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen
Authors: Rosenblum Bruce , Kuttner Fred
Published: November 2023

The meaning of Newton’s mechanics was clear. It described a reasonable world, a “clockwork universe.” It needed no interpretation. Einstein’s relativity is surely counterintuitive, but no one interprets relativity. We come to accept the idea that moving clocks run slow. It’s harder to accept that observation creates the reality observed. That needs interpretation.
Seeking a Real World
Authors: Rosenblum Bruce , Kuttner Fred
Published: November 2023

Schrödinger told his cat story to show that quantum theory denied the existence of a physically real world, that quantum theory claimed that observation created the observed reality. That claim does seem crazy. Indeed, if someone on trial convinced the jury that he believed that his looking created the physical world, the jury would likely accept a plea of insanity.
Swift, Sterne, and the Skeptical Tradition
Authors: Parnell J T
Published: November 2023

In a recent essay Donald Wehrs suggests that the tradition of fideistic skepticism offers a meaningful context for Laurence Sterne’s narrative and thematic concerns. In so doing he highlights the most significant, and hitherto overlooked, legacy of the Renaissance humanists with whom Sterne’s name is so frequently linked. It has long been a commonplace to see Tristram Shandy in the tradition of learned wit, but the late flowering of the tradition in Sterne’s fiction has never been adequately explained. Similarly, the epithet “skeptic” occurs regularly in discussions of Sterne, from John Traugott’s influential Tristram Shandy’s World in the 1950s to Jonathan Lamb’s recent Sterne’s Fiction and the Double Principle. Until Donald Wehrs’s article, however, skeptic had been used in its modern sense, denoting at worst universal doubt, or at best the kind of philosophical—and, more or less, secular—skepticism associated with Locke and Hume.
Reader as Hobby-horse in Tristram Shandy
Authors: Ostovich Helen
Published: November 2023

The relationship between Tristram and his reader is only superficially what the text calls at one point “conversation” (TS, 2.9.125). It might more properly be called dispute. As writer, Tristram sets upon his reader and draws him about, harassing, upbraiding, riding him like a temperamental jockey trying to manage a recalcitrant horse. This disputatious riding has for its object, not mere domination of the reader, but stimulation and provocation, the equal engagement of writer and reader in the creative journeying through the novel.
A Social Trinitarian Theology of the Human Person
Authors: Mcdougall Joy Ann
Published: November 2023

Chapters 2 and 3 of this study have traced the historical development of Moltmann’s trinitarian theology and the corresponding evolution within his concept of divine love. In this chapter and the next, we will step beyond the strict domain of Moltmann’s doctrine of the Trinity and his construal of divine love to enter the broader terrain of the author’s trinitarian anthropology and his theology of grace.
TAME: Teen Anger Management Education
Authors: Feindler Eva L , Gerber Meghann
Published: November 2023

The antisocial behavior of children and adolescents presents a significant challenge to the clinical community. Although the rate of youth arrests for violent and aggressive crimes appears to be dropping during the past decade, the prevalence of conduct disorder among children and adolescents remains high, which indicates that maladaptive aggression continues to be a significant problem (Connor, 2002; Snyder & Sickmund, 2006). Furthermore, aggressive and antisocial behavior problems appear to be stable over time if left untreated (Kazdin, 1995). Although a number of direct and indirect factors are theorized to contribute to the etiology of aggressive behavior and conduct problems (for a brief review see Nelson, Finch, & Ghee, 2005), the cognitive-behavioral model focuses on the cognitive processes that play a significant role in the generation of anger and the sometimes aggressive responses to provocation.
Car Launch
Authors: Roth George , Kleiner Art
Published: November 2023

Car Launch: The Human Side of Managing Change is the first book in the new Oxford series, The Learning History Library. It is edited by Art Kleiner and George Roth, both of whom originated the concept of the learning history. These extended "Living" case studies use an innovative format based on "the jointly told tale" to help narrate the story of major intra-firm transitions. The learning history succeeds in balancing traditional research with pragmatic imperatives and powerful imagery.
Setting an Example of Non-Authoritarian Leadership
Authors: Roth George , Kleiner Art
Published: November 2023

Many Epsilon team members commented on the Launch Manager and the Program Manager‘s attitudes. Like many managers, the two Epsilon leaders said that they believed in openness and honesty. These two leaders were credited, however, with acting in ways that showed they believed in the values they were espousing. This was all the more striking because it was in contrast to the conventional approaches to management at Autocue, and specifically to the ways these managers themselves had behaved in the past.
Combining Engineering Innovation with Human Relations: The Harmony Buck
Authors: Roth George , Kleiner Art
Published: November 2023

An innovation developed by the Epsilon team, the harmony buck, has become standard practice at Autocue. Harmony bucks are a part of most new interior programs at Autocue, beginning in 1998 and beyond. The team‘s interviews suggest that large-scale technical innovations like this one are possible because of two factors: a willingness to break established methods and the opportunity to collaborate across functional lines.
Partnerships
Authors: Roth George , Kleiner Art
Published: November 2023

Several Epsilon efforts could be seen as attempts to develop infrastructure to support communication and partnership between functions. Two efforts stood out in participants” minds: The market research clinic expanded the team‘s opportunities to learn from customers and dealers and to pursue cross-functional conversations. The collocation effort showed how physically changing the infra structure is not sufficient in itself. It‘s also necessary to develop new habits and attitudes to help people get the most value from col location.
Remote Sensing
Authors: Schott John R
Published: November 2023

Remote Sensing deals with the fundamental ideas underlying the rapidly growing field of remote sensing. John Schott explores energy-matter interaction, radiation propagation, data dissemination, and described the tools and procedures required to extract information from remotely sensed data using the image chain approach. Organizations and individuals often focus on one aspect of the remote sensing process before considering it as a whole, thus investigating unjustified effort, time, and expense to get minimal improvement. Unlike other books on the subject, Remote Sensing treats the process as a continuous flow. Schott examines the limitations obstructing the flow of information to the user, employing numerous applications of remote sensing to earth observation disciplines. For this second edition, in addition to a thorough update, there are major changes and additions, such as a much more complete treatment of spectroscopic imaging, which has matured dramatically in the last ten years, and a more rigorous treatment of image processing with an emphasis on spectral image processing algorithms. Remote Sensing is an ideal first text in remote sensing for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the physical or engineering sciences, and will also serve as a valuable reference for practitioners.
Historical Perspective and Photo Mensuration
Authors: Schott John R
Published: November 2023

Observing the earth and recording those observations as images is a form of remote sensing that has been taking place for nearly a century and a half. The develop-ment of the first commonly used form of photography is often attributed to L. J. M. Daguerre, who from 1835 to 1839 perfected the daguerreotype. The first known photographs from an overhead platform were taken about 20 years later by a French portrait photographer, Gaspard Felix Tournachon (a.k.a. Nadar). In 1858 Nadar took photographs from a balloon equipped with a darkroom to process the wet plates used in the collodion process he employed.
The Governing Equation For Radiance Reaching the Sensor
Authors: Schott John R
Published: November 2023

In the last chapter we encountered the basic concepts of atmospheric propagation and the fundamentals of radiometry. In this chapter we will use these principles to derive an expression for the radiance reaching a remote sensor. This governing equation must describe all the significant paths illustrated in Figures 3.1 and 3.3. To determine the relative importance of each of the terms in the governing equa-tion, we will perform a simple sensitivity analysis (Sec. 4.6) on the final equation. This governing equation represents several major links in the imaging chain that are critical to quantitative radiometric image analysis.
Sensing Systems
Authors: Schott John R
Published: November 2023

In Chapter 4, we derived an expression for the radiance reaching the sensor. In this chapter, one of our goals is to see how we can use imaging sensors to record and measure that radiance. The treatment of sensors is one of the most involved and exciting aspects of remote sensing. Traditionally, the sensor has been the most complex and expensive part of the image chain. It has been the jewel designed to offset, or blind one to, any flaws in the other links. Today the sensor is still a critical and expensive com-ponent in the image chain. However, the user community is placing increasing em-phasis on the processing, storage, and information extraction stages of the image chain (cf. Chaps. 7–12).
Classification
Authors: Schott John R
Published: November 2023

This chapter introduces a number of algorithms that are targeted at analysis of mul-tispectral data. As part of that process, we introduce the basic vector-matrix nota-tion and operations that will be used extensively in Chapters 9, 10, and 11. In fact, the division of the material into these three chapters is somewhat arbitrary. This chapter deals primarily with techniques that have been developed or used initially on multispectral data. However, many of them are also applicable to imaging spectrometer data and could be included in Chapter 10.
Part IV: Chapters 1–8
Authors: Chatterji Bankimcandra , Lipner Julius J
Published: November 2023

“fled towards the city”: here the earlier editions add: “The terrible news that his reign had been destroyed reached the ruler of Birbhum, Asad-ul-jaman, as he sat contentedly on his throne. Then in great agitation . . .” and so on (A[BSP]: 141).
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights
Authors: Labunski Richard
Published: November 2023

Today we hold the Constitution in such high regard that we can hardly imagine how hotly contested was its adoption. In fact, many of the thirteen states saw fierce debate over the document, and ratification was by no means certain. Virginia, the largest and most influential state, approved the Constitution by the barest of margins, and only after an epic political battle between James Madison and Patrick Henry. Now Richard Labunski offers a dramatic account of a time when the entire American experiment hung in the balance, only to be saved by the most unlikely of heroes--the diminutive and exceedingly shy Madison. Here is a vividly written account of not one but several major political struggles which changed the course of American history. Labunski takes us inside the sweltering converted theater in Richmond, where for three grueling weeks, the soft-spoken Madison and the charismatic Patrick Henry fought over whether Virginia should ratify the Constitution. The stakes were enormous. If Virginia voted no, George Washington could not become president, New York might follow suit and reject the Constitution, and the young nation would be thrust into political chaos. But Madison won the day by a handful of votes, mollifying Anti-Federalist fears by promising to add a bill of rights to the Constitution. To do this, Madison would have to win a seat in the First Congress. Labunski shows how the vengeful Henry prevented Madison's appointment to the Senate and then used his political power to ensure that Madison would run against his good friend, Revolutionary War hero James Monroe, in a House district teeming with political enemies. Overcoming great odds, Madison won by a few hundred votes, allowing him to attend the First Congress and sponsor the Bill of Rights. Packed with colorful details about life in early America, this compelling and important narrative is the first serious book about Madison written in many years. It will return this under-appreciated patriot to his rightful place among the Founding Fathers and shed new light on a key turning point in our nation's history.
Introduction
Authors: Labunski Richard
Published: November 2023

After the Constitution was Written in the summer of 1787 and the Con- federation Congress forwarded it to the states, delegates at many of the ratifying conventions became alarmed by the planned transfer of power to the new federal government. They worried that the states would no longer exist as independent sovereignties and would instead become subser vient to a potentially oppressive and unaccountable central government.
The Philadelphia Convention
Authors: Labunski Richard
Published: November 2023

As James Madison Waited to sign the Constitution in the historic Assem bly Room where he had spent almost every day of the last four months, he knew that he and the other convention delegates-who had come from twelve of the thirteen states and were some of the most distin guished citizens of the new republic-would never again be together. Although not sentimental, the shy and soft-spoken statesman from Or ange County, Virginia, must have allowed himself at least a few mo ments to appreciate what had been accomplished in the State House in Philadelphia during the long summer of 1787.
The Reluctant Candidate
Authors: Labunski Richard
Published: November 2023

Among James Madison’S Many Admirers, few seemed as devoted as John Dawson. Known as “Beau” for his elegant attire, the redheaded Dawson wrote a steady stream of letters to Madison between 1785 and 1812. Dawson cared so much about his relationship with Madison that he of ten began his correspondence with an expression of regret, or even pique, if he had not received a response to his previous note. A week after the Philadelphia convention ended, he wrote, “On my arrival in this town [Fredericksburg], on the last evening, I was much disappointed in re ceiving no letter from you.” He hoped that “our correspondence will be more regular” and said that any information Madison could provide about Congress’s activities would be considered “a matter of first conse quence to me.” He sometimes informed Madison of his travel plans so Madison would know where to send the next letter.
The Virginia Ratifying Convention
Authors: Labunski Richard
Published: November 2023

On Shockoe Hill in Downtown Richmond, Alexander Maria Quesnay de Beaurepaire built what he hoped would be a grand academy of arts and sciences. Quesnay, a French soldier who arrived in 1777 at the age of twenty-two to help the American colonies win independence and served as a captain in Virginia, had deep affection for the United States. After the war, he envisioned centers of learning and culture-similar to the academies of Europe-throughout the new nation. His Richmond acad emy would attract scholars from around the world who would teach music, art, fencing, foreign languages, geography, arithmetic, and the physical sciences. More practical crafts would be taught as well, includ ing embroidery, needlework, and writing. To help support the academy’s educational programs and enrich the cultural life of Richmond, Quesnay arranged for the building to also serve as a theater. He wanted the great plays of the day to be performed by local and touring companies for the five thousand inhabitants of the growing city, who had few opportuni ties for such enlightened entertainment.
The Ratification Vote
Authors: Labunski Richard
Published: November 2023

Over the Weekend, James Madison had become ill. He wrote to Alexander Hamilton that the “Heat of the weather … has laid me up with a bilious attack: I am not able therefore to say more than a few words;’ Madison was probably suffering again from severe stomach discomfort. He would have had a difficult time leaving his boardinghouse room and was likely weak from diarrhea and dehydration. The already shy Madison would have been humiliated if he returned to the convention in this condition and his fellow delegates and the audience saw him frequently get up from his seat and exit the floor. This was not good news for supporters of the Constitution. If the frail Madison were to be seriously ill during the Richmond convention, it could affect the ratification vote.
The Anti-Federalists Fight Back
Authors: Labunski Richard
Published: November 2023

In the Final Days of the ratifying convention, Patrick Henry told his fellow delegates and the hundreds of spectators packed into the galleries that he would accept defeat gracefully. He pledged to be a “quiet citizen” who, having fought the good fight against what he was convinced would be a dangerous federal government, was now ready to accept the new system. He expressed the same sentiment to Anti-Federalists attending the meeting organized by George Mason on June 27 at the state capital building and in letters to friends and supporters.
Congress Proposes the Bill of Rights
Authors: Labunski Richard
Published: November 2023

The Congressional Session was taking its toll on Madison. The long de bates in the House chamber, followed by evenings spent writing letters to friends and political figures throughout the country, were exhausting him. He told his father in the first week of July that “the business goes on still very slowly;’ and “We are in a wilderness without a single footstep to guide us.” Recognizing that so much of what the First Congress was do ing would set a precedent, Madison wrote that “it is ... necessary to explore the way with great labour and caution. Those who may follow will have an easier task;’
Paradigm Lost
Authors: Stoesz David
Published: November 2023

Seeing, therefore, that Arms, like Letters, require intelligence, let us consider now which of the two performs the greatest mental labour, the man of letters or the man of war; for this will be decided by the end and object at which each is aiming-since the purpose which has the noblest end in view must be the more highly valued. The end of the object of learning .I am speaking of the humanities, whose aim is to maintain impartial justice, to give every man his rights, to make good laws, and to see that they are kept. That is certainly a lofty and generous aim, and highly praiseworthy, though not so much as the profession of Arms, whose aim and object is peace, the greatest good which men can desire in this life.
Introduction
Authors: Gruen Erich S
Published: November 2023

Judtth R Ginsburg 28,2002. At her death she left behind an unfinished manuscript of monograph length on the younger Agrippina. She had been working on this study intermittently for several years, making trips to Rome to conduct research, and writing in the interstices amid teaching obligations, extensive engagement with her university and her profession, and commitments to social justice. She strove mightily in the last months of her life to bring the monograph to completion. But the ravages of a dread illness dictated that she fall short of that goal. Ginsburg’s important book Tradition and Theme in the Annals of Tacitus ( 1981) holds its place among the finest studies of that subtle and devious historian. She offered a tightly reasoned, nuanced, and original interpretation of Tahitian techniques that shed new light not only on the historian’s practice but also on the devices with which he shaped (and distorted) our understanding of Rome in the early Empire. She demonstrated convincingly that Tacitus used the annalistic form of composition to his O\\’n ends, remaining within its framework to give the illusion of conventionality, while manipulating it so as to provide a vehicle for his idiosyncratic reconstruction. The second major study, on Agrippina the Younger, which would encompass analysis not only of Tacitus’s portrait but that of the other literary sources, as well as the artistic representations, has been long awaited. Ginsburg’s many personal, political, and academic commitments-and her own drive for perfection-delayed publication.
Agrippina in the Literary Tradition
Authors: Ginsburg Judith
Published: November 2023

The Literary Record On Agrippina The Younger Is Shaped With Calculation to produce a portrait-or portraits. The product may intersect or overlap with history, but it is not to be confused with history. This entangled relationship between report and design arises most conspicuously and powerfully in Tacitus. But it clings also to the accounts of Suetonius and Dio Cassius, and to the interlocking narratives generated by those authors, our principal literary sources. EC] We will go a long way toward dispelling the power that the Tahitian account of Agrippina has over us by recognizing that a number of literary and rhetorical features of the historian’s narrative make it extremely problematic to take the picture of Agrippina that emerges as an accurate reflection of the historical woman. We need to acknowledge, in other words, that Tacitus’s Agrippina is largely a literary construct that serves the larger ends of the narrative of the participates of Claudius and Nero.
Agrippina and the Power of Rhetorical Stereotypes
Authors: Ginsburg Judith
Published: November 2023

Much of what Hilliard ascribes to the rhetorical stereotypes with which politically active women of the late Republic were fashioned may be true of the rhetorical construction of Agrippina and her predecessors. We can agree that the allegations against imperial women that have made their way into the historical tradition probably had their origin in contemporary political polemic and that at least two motivations underlie these negative portrayals: to cast opprobrium on the men with whom these women were associated and to discourage aristocratic and imperial women from challenging the male monopoly of the Roman political system.
God on the Hill, Temple Poems from Tirupati
Authors: Rao Velcheru Narayana , Shulman David
Published: November 2023

The devotional poems of Annamayya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India. Annamayya effectively created and popularized a new genre, the short padam song, which spread throughout the Telugu and Tamil regions and would become an important vehicle for the composition of Carnatic music—the classical music of South India. In this book, Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman offer translations of nearly 100 of Annamayya’s poems. All of them are addressed to the god associated with the famous temple city of Tirupati—Annamayya’s home. This deity is sometimes referred to as “god on the hill” or “lord of the seven hills.” The poems are couched in a simple and approachable language invented by Annamayya for this purpose and fall into two major categories, the erotic and the metaphysical. The erotic poems, usually in the female voice, sing of the complexities of the god’s love life. The metaphysical poems are sung in the poet’s own voice and explore the relationship between the poet and his god. Though a small sample of Annamayya’s surviving corpus, the selection in this volume suggests the scope of both genres. Rao and Shulman’s elegant and lyrical modern translations of these beautiful and moving verses are wonderfully readable as poetry in their own right. The Afterword enriches the reader’s understanding, providing historical context and returning us to the poems themselves with a deeper appreciation.
Freedom’s Orator
Authors: Cohen Robert
Published: November 2023

Here is the first biography of Mario Savio, the brilliant leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion in American history. Savio risked his life to register black voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1964 and did more than anyone to bring daring forms of non-violent protest from the civil rights movement to the struggle for free speech and academic freedom on American campuses. Drawing upon previously unavailable Savio papers, as well as oral histories from friends and fellow movement leaders, Freedom's Orator illuminates Mario's egalitarian leadership style, his remarkable eloquence, and the many ways he embodied the youthful idealism of the 1960s. The book also narrates, for the first time, his second phase of activism against "Reaganite Imperialism" in Central America and the corporatization of higher education. Including a generous selection of Savio's speeches, Freedom's Orator speaks with special relevance to a new generation of activists and to all who cherish the '60s and democratic ideals for which Savio fought so selflessly.
Descending From Leadership
Authors: Cohen Robert
Published: November 2023

In the aftermath of the FSM’s victory on December 8 and in the opening months of the spring 1965 semester there were no outward signs that Savio’s days as a political leader were numbered. His eloquent speech at the FSM’s victory rally, celebrating the new birth of freedom at UC, was followed by a successful cam- pus speaking tour, sharing the inside story of how Berkeley students pioneered new forms of campus activism. The most important symbol of victory was Sproul Plaza itself, now a free political space and rallying point for many causes. Among those causes was the final local campaign of the Berkeley student movement in civil rights: demonstrations against racially discriminatory restaurants in Oakland’s Jack London Square. Students rallied in solidarity with the freedom movement in Selma, Alabama, and Savio would Participate in the second Selma march. Vietnam gradually emerged as the dominant issue, as students launched civil disobedience actions against the war—with Savio among those signing a pledge against military service in Vietnam. For the remainder of the 1960s Berkeley would be known as one of the world’s most politically engaged campuses.
Battling Back
Authors: Cohen Robert
Published: November 2023

Politically, the early and mid-1970s were fatal for the New Left and barren for Savio. The student movement went into a tailspin from which it would never recover. Although the massacre of students at Kent State by the National Guard in May 1970 sparked a record number of student demonstrations, by the following fall the memory of that tragedy as well as the bloodshed at Jackson State chilled the political atmosphere. Students now realized that death could be the price for antiwar protest. The winding down of U.S. ground troops’ role in the war due to Nixon’s Vietnamization program, followed finally by the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 and Saigon’s fall to Communist forces in 1975, combined with the recession and the lack of radical leadership in the wake of the implosion of SDS to further impede campus activism. At this time, when the declining New Left so badly needed leadership, it could not turn to Savio, one of the Left’s most gifted leaders. He was in too much personal pain even to consider playing a political role. His bouts with depression worsened to the point where he spent extensive periods as an inpatient at a Los Angeles psychiatric institution.
Bodies Upon The Gears
Authors: Cohen Robert
Published: November 2023

You know, I just want to say one brief thing about something the previous speaker said. I didn’t want to spend too much time on that because I don’t think it’s important enough. But one thing is worth considering. He’s the . . . nominal head of an organization supposedly representative of the undergraduates, whereas in fact under the Kerr directives it derives its authority, its delegated power, from the administration. It’s totally unrepresentative of the graduate students and TAs. But he made the following statement, I quote: “I would ask all those who are not definitely committed to the FSM cause to stay away from demonstration.” All right, now, listen to this: “For all upper division students who are interested in alleviating the TA shortage problem, I would encourage you to offer your services to dePartment chairmen and advisers.” That has two things: a strikebreaker and a fink!
An End To History
Authors: Cohen Robert
Published: November 2023

Last summer I went to Mississippi to join the struggle there for civil rights. This fall I am engaged in another phase of the same struggle, this time in Berkeley. The two battlefields may seem quite different to some observers, but this is not the case. The same rights are at stake in both places—the right to particpate as citizens in democratic society and the right to due process of law. Further, it is a struggle against the same enemy. In Mississippi an autocratic and powerful minority rules, through organized violence, to suppress the vast, virtually powerless majority. In California, the privileged minority manipulates the university bureaucracy to suppress the students’ political expression. That “respectable” bureaucracy masks the financial plutocrats; that impersonal bureaucracy is the efficient enemy in a “brave new world.”
Bobcats at Home
Authors: Hansen Kevin
Published: November 2023

We are standing in a lush, mixed conifer and hardwood forest in northern Vermont, just a few miles outside the small town of Jericho. Above us stretch the branches of beech, birch, maple, hemlock, and red spruce. Springing from the rich, black soil beneath our feet is a mixed understory foliage of witch hobble, as well as saplings of yellow birch, sugar maple, striped maple, and American ash. Dappled sunlight falls all around. As I gaze up into the canopy, Susan motions to a cliff face a few yards away. This vertical slab of gray, metamorphic schist is broken by fissures and ledges and is covered with patches of green moss and lichen. These rocky outcrops occur frequently in this part of what is called the Northern Forest.
Introduction
Authors: Keane Catherine
Published: November 2023

Writers of satire strike many different poses, ranging from conservative to transgressive, constructive to malicious. Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, the verse satirists of ancient Rome, use particularly diverse and colorful methods to practice their moral and social criticism. Such inconsistency of authorial perspective and agenda might be said to obfuscate, or even to preclude, a coherent generic theory; it has certainly fueled a long scholarly debate about satires essential nature. As a literary form, satire challenges readers on many levels, even prompting questions about its own historical origins and rhetorical aims. Indeed, more so than with other genres, we tend to feel more comfortable when we shift from talking about satire as literature to describing it as a kind of social practice. Satirists expose, perform, attack, punish, and instruct. In other words, they mimic society’s existing methods of criticism, correction, and entertainment in creating their literary texts. Models for the satiric procedure have been identified, by the Roman poets and their readers alike, in theatrical performance, in physical violence, in legal process, and in teaching.
Language, Writing, and Literature
Authors: Bertman Stephen
Published: November 2023

In 1890, inventor Thomas Edison invited the three most famous people in England to record their voices for posterity on his recent invention, the phonograph. The three people were Queen Victoria, Prime Minister Gladstone, and the poet Tennyson. The queen declined, the prime minister sent some one else to read his message, and Tennyson-who had always been fascinated with science-agreed, and proceeded to make a whole series of recordings on the primitive wax cylinders of Edison’s “talking machine.” Regrettably, Tennyson stored his records in a box near the heating pipes of his home, and so the waxen hills and dales made by the running needle long ago melted into inaudible plains. But on some tracks still, beyond the hiss of hardened wax, the poet’s voice can still be heard, boldly declaiming his spirited verse.
Architecture and Engineering
Authors: Bertman Stephen
Published: November 2023

Through architecture and engineering, humanity leaves its mark upon the earth. Over the long course of time, however, the forces of nature and the destructive bent of man conspire to erase that mark, leaving only its remnants for the archaeologist to trace. This is especially true in a land like southern Mesopotamia that lacks stone, where structures could be built only of clay. Indeed, in all of Iraq there is not a single ancient monument still standing intact that dates to Sumerian, Babylonian, or Assyrian times. Unlike the Egyptologist who gazes at the pyramids of Giza and the columned splendor of Karnak, the student of Mesopotamia must sadly contemplate foundations in the dust.
Models of Food-Web Evolution
Authors: McKane Alan J , Drossel Barbara
Published: November 2023

While it is often possible to model the nature of the dynamics with which constituents of a fixed network interact with each other, it is frequently much more difficult to specify the range and nature of the topologies and interaction strengths of possible networks. Here we argue, in the context of food webs, that it is necessary to go beyond simply studying dynamics on a network with a fixed number of constituents and fixed interaction strengths, and to couple this dynamics to processes connected with the construction of the network. This could include dynamics for the introduction and deletion of constituents and for the changing of interaction strengths, depending on the states of the local constituents. In the case of food webs, where the constituents are species and the interactions are predator-prey relationships, this involves going beyond conventional population dynamics to include mechanisms which allow for the introduction and extinction of species and changing of feeding preferences. We review a model of food-web evolution that we have been involved in developing over the last few years, which encapsulates this philosophy. We also discuss a variety of other models that have been put forward.
Paul’s Embittered Enemies
Authors: Ehrman Bart D
Published: November 2023

Not only was Paul a divisive figure for the first three centuries, but he continues to divide people today. I enjoy giving talks to groups of all sorts, and over the years I have given a number of lectures on Paul—both the Paul of history and the Paul of legend. I have spoken to some religious communities for whom Paul is a four-letter word, who see the apostle to the Gentiles as the one who perverted the simple gospel of love and faith proclaimed by Jesus into a complicated, guiltproducing, misogynistic, and anti-Semitic doctrine of wrath and atonement.
Mary: The Residual Questions
Authors: Ehrman Bart D
Published: November 2023

Like many of my friends who are scholars of the New Testament and early Christianity, I get asked to do a lot of lectures around the country. Over the past few years I’ve been struck by what seems to pique the interest of a crowd— whether they are church people committed to their beliefs in Christ or secular audiences interested in Christianity as a cultural and historical phenomenon. If I’m giving a lecture on Peter or Paul, there will always be a few interested souls. But if I’m talking about Mary, the throngs will flock in. Mary is the hot topic of the day; Peter and Paul seem old and tired by comparison.
The Sacred Place—Cemetery, Church, Camp Meeting Ground
Authors: Neville Gwen Kennedy
Published: November 2023

In A Society where mobility is the rule and individuals find themselves propelled away from their families into personal lives aimed at fulfillment and achievement, it is not surprising that one of the objects of nostalgia is the permanent fixed place, the location to which one might return “home” for a time in order to become refreshed. Few American Protestants, in fact, have such a permanent home base. Their own parents have moved about in response to job opportunities, corporate demands, personal ambitions, or preference for different locations, and their grandparents were the children either of immigrants or of pioneers. Sacred places form the focus for summer pilgrimages by Protestants in the shape of cemetery or church homecomings and camp meetings at rural camp grounds. The Cemetery Association Day Just as the Worthy family will gather in honor of a common ancestor each June, so the Martin’ s Crossing Cemetery Association will hold a homecoming. On the Sunday morning of the homecoming the older men of the association arrive early and start cooking barbecued chicken for the main course of the noon meal.
The Paths Diverge
Authors: Marsden George M
Published: November 2023

The people facing this crisis were “Victorians.”1 Their culture was dominated by a Protestant middle class which combined an at least formal reverence for their religious heritage with a deep concern for morality, respectability, and order. The leaders of this culture believed that they had a mission among the poor at home and among the heathen abroad (in the words of President McKinley) to “uplift and Christianize.” The Victorians placed great value on both rationality and sentiment. Their era, characterized by the desire for order in society, was a technological one-an age of statistics, standardization, professionalism, specialization, and tremendous industrial expansion.
Prologue: The Paradox of Revivalist Fundamentalism
Authors: Marsden George M
Published: November 2023

Fundamentalism was a mosaic of divergent and sometimes contradictory traditions and tendencies that could never be totally integrated. Sometimes its advocates were backward looking and reactionary, at other times they were imaginative innovators. On some occasions they appeared militant and divisive; on others they were warm and irenic. At times they seemed ready to forsake the whole world over a point of doctrine; at other times they appeared heedless of tradition in their zeal to win converts. Sometimes they were optimistic patriots; sometimes they were prophets shaking from their feet the dust of a doomed civilization.