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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime. New York : Random House, 2000. [ISBN 0-7679-0826-0] ou [ISBN 0-375-50151-7] David Buisseret, ed., Monarchs, Ministers and Maps: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, [ISBN 0-226-07987-2]

future events. Theories are perspectives with which people make sense of their world experience. A theory, by definition, has boundary; once we are aware of it, we ask ourselves if there are other alternative ways of looking at the fact. Early Thinking about Management Sun Tzu: The Art of War China, 2000 years ago 1. When the enemy advances, we retreat; 2. When the enemy halts, we harass[1]; 3. When the enemy seeks to avoid battle, we attack; 4. When…

ityGender and Sexuality The Feminist Revolution The feminists movements, which had its first wave in the ending of the nineteenth century, are the base of the modern society. Women started to seek equality and being active part of the world they lived in. Until that moment, men used to be not only the center, but the whole world. They did and decided everything while women were left aside. Even now, women continue to seek the equality ideal. The Male Supremacy Since we…

form from nothing — further proof that the universe of our senses is just the tip of a vast, largely hidden cosmic iceberg. And finally, the effort to uncover this tiny particle represents the very best of what the process of science can offer to modern civilization. If one is a theoretical physicist working on some idea late at night or at a blackboard with colleagues over coffee one afternoon, it is almost terrifying to imagine that something that you cook up in your mind might…

(ed.). Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and Peripheries. Oxford, Clarendon Press, s/d. CLARK, Stuart. Pensando com demônios: a idéia de Bruxaria no Princípio da Europa Moderna. Celso Mauro Paciornik [trad]. São Paulo: EDUSP, 2006. DEL RIO, Martin. Investigations into magic. P.G. Maxwell-Stuart [ed. e trad]. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. JAMES REX. Daemonologie: in three books. New Bern: Godolphin House, 1996. KEIR, David Lindsay. Constitutional history of…

with old friends after a significant gap is at once heartwarming, invigorating and disconcerting. The pleasure of friendship in play is matched by the arresting realization of the impact of the years. And so with this book. From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, I was very much an historian of British foreign policy, but, thereafter, my contact was episodic. To think again about diplomacy has therefore been instructive. In part, this process of instruction, through reading the welcome…

the intervening years, beginning with the introduction of improved manufacturing, metallurgy, testing, and assessment tools and standards. Pipe manufactured and tested to modern standards is far less likely to contain defects that can grow to failure over time than pipe manufactured and installed a generation ago. Likewise, modern maintenance practices, if consistently followed, significantly reduce the risk that corrosion, or other defects affecting pipeline integrity, will develop in…

por exemplo, enquadrariam-se nesta definição. Igualmente, apenas partes de 1 Enoque, 4 Esdras e 2 Baruque podem ser incluídas como “apocalipses”, uma vez que estas obras contêm outras formas literárias.9 5 AUNE, David E. AUNE, David E. Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean world. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983, p. 107. Esta tripla distinção foi proposta por Hanson em “Apocalypse, genre” and “Apocalypticism”. In: Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. Suplementary…

Visial Line: On the Prehistory of Law and Film Peter Goodrich Downloaded By: [European University Institute] At: 14:38 29 September 2010 A minor instance. A little eruption of images culled from a foundational common law text. Sir Edward Coke, early seventeenth century sage and father of a distinctively English legal tradition devotes the preface of The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England to a graphic depiction of England’s Justinian, the author Littleton whose…

increasing number of educational institutions with early childhood education, especially in large cities of the country is derived from modern life that introduced women into the labor market and promoted changes in family structure. For parents, there is the question whether the school early childhood education is the best option for the child, or remains a tradition formed by the time to leave your child with the grandmother or uncle for example. Early childhood education has a very…